Palin Myths Dispelled »

Posted By GregD 1 year, 2 months ago in News

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I guess someone must have finally told Gov. Sarah Palin just what it is that the vice president does. (Side Note: Apparently they do not teach civics at Wasilla High School or the University of Idaho.) I’m assuming she already knew the basics: If McCain dies, she’s in charge.

The Anchorage area blog goes on to debunk myths on Palin's political ideology, her beauty pageant status, her experience, intelligence, and whether or not you can find naked pictures of her on the internet (Note: you can't). Read on to the bottom of the full story, where the quote of the day on the proposed veep comes in via Twitter, the microblogging platform.

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    miklkit1 year, 2 months ago

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    This is a good article with lots of links. Solid.

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    Grrr1 year, 2 months ago

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    I liked this one from the feed at the bottom:

    “Overheard: Rush Limbaugh summed up Sarah Palin this way: ‘Guns, Babies, Jesus.’ That about sums it up.”

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    Dobes_Rule1 year, 2 months ago

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    Here's the BIG myth debunked FTA, "She’s not a substitute for Hillary Clinton. In fact, apart from the biological similarities and a penchant for unfortunate hairdressing decisions, there’s not much they have in common." Priceless...

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    catkil1 year, 2 months ago

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    So who heard of Obama before he decided to run for prez?

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    nikkibabe1 year, 2 months ago

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    Bill Maher actually told what a VP does in a Republican Administration:

    1. Start Wars
    2. Out the identity of any covert CIA operative who the VP does not like
    3. Cozy up and defend the oil lobby and industry
    4. Torture any prisoner who does not sing VP tunes
    5. BIG ONE. Shoot people in the face and claim it an accident.

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    wryteronthestorm1 year, 2 months ago

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    You guys forgot the most important myth: Word is (and I'm still trying to verify it), she once chewed gum while in class!!! (GASP!!!). I love going to liberal blogs to see how TERRIFIED (the libs have gone from scared, very very scared, to TERRIFIED) those who worship Obamamessiah have become since McCain named Sarah Palin as his VP choice. She's a class act that has energized the republican party, more importantly the conservative faction of the party. She's pro life; a woman that doesn't talk the talk, but "walks the walk" by carrying and giving birth to a darling baby that has Downs Syndrome. She's respected by many, but more important HATED by the liberals. She'll make a fine VP, and many many women voters who once mistakenly voted democrat, will help put her there.

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    piscesbarb1 year, 2 months ago

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    I WAS TOLD HER HUSBAND WORKS FOR BIG OIL,BP AS A MATTER OF FACT

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    selectfpr1 year, 2 months ago

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    The single biggest disaster of the Bush Cheney era, was the demise of intelligence and competence in favor of ideology.
    In his desire to appease the far right on the right to life and other social issues, McCain has chosen the same path, ideology over intelligence and competence. He has chosen to potentially sacrifice all of our lives for the "right to life".

    John McCain claims to be a maverick. Not much of a maverick when he just totally caved in to the far right.

    Sarah Palin claims to be a reformer. It's not very difficult to be a reformer in the most corrupt state in the nation. How impressive to run against the Bridge to Nowhere.

    Its 3am, the phone rings, John McCain is 74 years old and in intensive care. Thankfully we have Sarah Palin to answer the phone. The country and the military can rest easy. We are very proud of the judgment of John McCain.

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    rickbar1 year, 2 months ago

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    I give McCain a lot of credit for picking a Washington outsider for VP. Just what the country needs. After listening to Obama for 16 months talk about change, he picks Biden, a Senator for 36 years. He obviously needed someone with experience, since Obama has none, and what better way then to picks a flip-flopping politician like Biden who actually got 8000 votes in the primary. Even the Dems weren't crazy about that pick if you look at the polls. And when Obama says he is pulling the troops out of Iraq in 16 months, no matter what his commanders on the ground say, I get very scared. It stinks of Bush and that, "I know better than everyone" attitude.

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    Sperry1 year, 2 months ago

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    Iraqi government AND Bush agree we should get out...so did you mean to say "'no matter what John McCain says?"

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    dwlamblin11 year, 2 months ago

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    Amazing how some want to know every single little detail about a potential VP, but don't give a rip to find out about a potential PREZ?!?!? What does anyone really know that is substantive about Obama? The media is carrying him without holding him accountable for ANYTHING!

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    bayliner291 year, 2 months ago

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    We must support Palin as McCain's pick! Her voice alone will shatter Hillary's glass ceiling.

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    buddyr301 year, 2 months ago

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    This post sounds like another page out of Obama'a play book. Probely written by one of his campain workers.

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    boater21 year, 2 months ago

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    Well we have had decades or centuries of old political "no hows" and the job is not getting done. In fact the lot of them should be tried for treason against the citizens. Palin brings a new and refreshing change. You want change, then you have to get rid of the slime in DC now; both dems and repubs. At least McCain has the foresight and guts to start the process.

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      boater21 year, 2 months ago

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      Well we have had decades or centuries of old political "no hows" and the job is not getting done. In fact the lot of them should be tried for treason against the citizens. Palin brings a new and refreshing change. You want change, then you have to get rid of the slime in DC now; both dems and repubs. At least McCain has the foresight and guts to start the process.

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      GIR1 year, 2 months ago

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      She's as creepy as she looks.

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      focustwo1 year, 2 months ago

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      If anyone has been watching Kudlow & Co. on CNBC, which I watch a lot, they know who Sarah Palin is and have been hearing about her for months as a possible VP selection. And no, I don't live in Alaska; have never been there.

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        jkarle11061 year, 2 months ago

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        Well, one thing about her is she has actually worked at REAL jobs in the PRIVATE sector. She has also actually run a government, (city & state) efficiently, without benefit of deficit spending, rather than debated methods of governing from on high as a pampered and catered too Senator. Biden has NEVER, in his entire adult life, ever drawn a paycheck from the private sector. Oboma did for less than two years before going to the public trough. McCain has not had a long history in the private sector either. McCain did, however, command men in combat. That’s real up close and personal, and takes more leadership and personal integrity than all the “Public Service” BS jobs.

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        wildone2251 year, 2 months ago

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        I'm rather disapointed at this article. Though everyone has a right to there own opinion, it's disgraceful that something like this was posted on the AOL homepage. It's dreadfully biased, and based off of little or no facts.It's simply written by a bunch of scared liberals, who (falsely) accuse the Republican canidates, so people won't realize corrupt/inexpierenced the democrats are. It's sad that many young americans won't search for the truth on their own, and assume this is correct.

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          1eyedpilot1 year, 2 months ago

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          Is the GOP having another HARRIET MIERS moment?

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          brkababy1 year, 2 months ago

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          Mamafig, if you really ARE a "mama" then why would you applaud someone who is in labor for the fifth time traveling many hours by air and driving an hour to a little hospital to have a pre-term baby who she already knows will have special needs? Sarah Palin gives "mamas" a bad name.

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            mamafig1 year, 2 months ago

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            I find it truly amazing that all you people want to rip her apart, she is smart, ambitious and I think she will prove that she can deal with it better than the others, especially since no one seems to want to talk about Obama and his ties to the Reverend which personally, scare the crap out of me. He belonged to a prejudice church filled with hatred for "people unlike themselves" for over 15 years, brought his children there over 50 days a year to listen to the hatred, asked the reverend for his feelings on becoming president, consulted with the reverend on his book, chosing sermons from it and naming it with him, he probably consults the reverend when he should eat, drink and have relations.....do we not think that the "reverend who believes farrakan should get some kind of peace prize, will not be sitting his butt in the white house with a grin on his face, giving our president his advice. We are fools that we cannot come up with something better than this and be sure that if it was a white guy who had relations with a radical like reverend white, he would not be on the ticket today.....shame on america for not demanding more...remember 911, remember those men who flew planes into buildings kiling over 3000 people, lived here , assimilated here, had families, lives, jobs and NO ONE KNEW UNTIL IT WAS TOO LATE....

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            GraceNeeded1 year, 2 months ago

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            The Republican conservative women are so thrilled to be able to vote for a woman, they don't care what lack of experience she has! I keep saying that there were other more qualified women he could have chose, but they must have been more threatening to him. He wanted a "yes man" who would soothe his ego, a typical old-school role for women. I am concerned about her lack of foreign policy experience, but as much over her severe conservative attitudes on birth control. I understand she not only doesn't believe in a woman's right to choose in cases of rape, incest or mother's health but also doesn't even believe in birth control. This policy effectively increases poverty in most populations around the world, as we already lose more than all casualties in WWII to death from the effects of poverty each year. More than half of these are children who are sold into prostitution or captive as child soldiers. Millions of children are abandoned on the street and thousands will die of preventable diseases if their parents just had the money or CHOICE of birth control. To hold Gov. Palin's view is more INJUST than the Prochoice view, because you are basically condemning women and children to poverty and death at a younger age.

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            derlying1 year, 2 months ago

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            Sarah Palin is the CHANGE we all need and want. I am VERY impresed by her resume in her 44 yrs especially compared to OBAMAs lack of resume. Obama has been telling us WE NEED CHANGE then he picks a 35 yr DC insider??? thats NO CHANGE. Obama is loaded up with Carter/Clinton aides - thats NO CHANGE. Obama refused to chose a woman to be VP even tho there are many MORE qualified than BIden - thats NO CHANGE. McCain/Palin will bring us CHANGE and NEW IDEAS, LEaDERSHIP and VIEWS which we need. I and my friends will be voting MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!!!!

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            mamafig1 year, 2 months ago

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            AND THANK GOD SHE IS NOT HILLARY CLINTON, I HAVE A FEELING IF HER HUBBY CHOSE TO HUMILIATE HER LIKE MR. BILL, SHE WOULD TOSS HIM OUT OR SHOOT HIM! WE NEED SOMEONE WHO NOT ONLY STATES THEIR CONVICTIONS, BUT WILL STAND UP AND LIVE THEM OUT. HILLARY WOULD HAVE GAINED SO MUCH MORE RESPECT IF SHE TOLD BILL TO HIT THE HIGH ROAD, BUT THEN AGAIN, HE HAD HUNDREDS OF AFFAIRS AS GOVERNOR OF ARK. AND SHE TOLERATED ALL OF THAT TOO, SHE SACRIFICED HER OWN SELF FOR THAT MAN AND IN THE END SHE PAID FOR IT.......SORRY, I AM HAPPY SARA DOES NOT SEEM TO FOLLOW IN THE HILLARY PLAN....
            SHE HAD 8 YEARS TO MAKE HEALTHCARE WORK IN THIS COUNTRY, THAT WAS HER JOB AND HER HUBBY TOLD US IN A SPEECH IN 1993 HOW SMART, ASSERTIVE AND COMPASSIONATE SHE WAS ABOUT HEALTHCARE AND 8 YEARS LATER....NUTTIN! IMAGINE HOW MUCH SHE COULD DO AS PRESIDENT.....STOP VOTING COLOR, GENDER, RELIGION, START VOTING WITH YOUR BRAIN INSTEAD, WE LOOK LIKE FOOLS...

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            kastaylor1 year, 2 months ago

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            I think you are misleading the public but hey that's okay. Once the public gets to know Palin and think for themselves they will see your article as a simple biased piece of crap and dispose of it properly.

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            derlying1 year, 2 months ago

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            Palin LOVES this country, has ALWAYS been PROUD of this country, and does not hang out with known corrupt individuals, felons, etc. Obama can give a speech with teleprompters - just like PALIN can give a great speech and without TELEPROMPTERS. Obama has never ever held an executive role in anything other than drug dealing. Palin has always been a leader since her HS days. I can see why democraps are making up lies about Palin - they are deathly afraid of her and they should be, MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!!!!

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