GOP continue to make case for Palin but Dems say she's no Jersey girl
By Max Pizarro | September 1st, 2008 - 6:50pmMINNEAPOLIS - Stunned by Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) headline-snatching announcement last Friday that he selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, N.J. Democrats this week re-set after taking a three-day hard look at Palin.
So far, they’re having a difficult time squaring an obscure Alaskan with New Jersey’s hard-edged, ethnically diverse environs, despite Republicans’ best efforts - in the words of State GOP Chairman Tom Wilson - to make a case for why "New Jersey will love Sarah Palin."
"They have Eskimos in Alaska," former Summit Councilwoman Kelly Hatfield said to the suggestion that Palin may not have experience relating to the kinds of ethnic groups whose myriad cultures saturate New Jersey.
As for the fact that Palin’s a woman - a younger, slimmer verison of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) with an attitude to tempt backlash voters over to the GOP after Clinton’s primary loss - Democrats remain unimpressed.
"They’re thinking all we want is an x chromosome and we don’t care whether or not she’s qualified," said Somerset County Democratic Chair Peg Schaffer, who supported Clinton in the primary as a key New Jersey fundraiser and member of the Group.
"I’m insulted by McCain’s choice," Schaffer added. "It drives Hillary supporters who were on the fence straight back to Barack. Her values are antithetical to ours. We’re not in favor of creationism, right to life and gun-toting. She wouldn’t last on my East Coast."
Then there's the "me too" factor.
"We put a woman on the ticket 24 years ago," state Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Mercer) said of the Democrats’ 1984 nomination of Geraldine Ferraro for vice president.
"I salute the Republicans for coming into the 21st Century by putting a woman on their ticket, but certainly they have more women who are qualified," Turner added. "This choice personifies pro-life and pro-gun."
Eager to proclaim Palin a Jersey Girl, Republicans let rip a series of shout-outs last evening, and at their delegation breakfast this morning.
Bellwether congressional district resident U.S. Rep. Chris Smith (R-Hamilton) announced that Palin’s presence in the race means "New Jersey is now in play."
Kathi Fiamingo, mayor of Kenilworth, told PolitickerNJ.com, "I am so jazzed right now. Sarah Palin really rounds out McCain."
Veteran Hunterdon County Republican Chairman Henry Kuhl likewise proclaimed Palin "the best strategic choice" to complement a presidential candidate whose aging, bristling military exterior might not strike responsive chords among female voters.
Though not listed by Strategic Vision's New Jersey presidential polling among those issues that even cracks the 4 percent mark in terms of priorities, the hunting angle works perfectly in rural Hunterdon, though McCain will win the Republican county big anyway, Kuhl said.
For that matter, the same Strategic Vision poll conducted earlier this year, did not rank the abortion issue on a list of chief considerations for president.
But the overall GOP effort to sell Palin as a Garden State natural amounts to a desperate snow job, according to veteran Democratic Party operative Michael Murphy.
"Maybe some people who haven’t come out of the Pine Barrens in 40 years will think ‘Sarah’s our guy,’ but other than that, I just don’t see it," Murphy said.
Turner added that the choice gave the Republicans a jolt last Friday but as the days pass, Palin will prove a bad choice, though "great for us."
"They realize they have no pizzazz and so they launched a Hail Mary pass by bringing on a woman no one’s ever heard of," said the state senator, a longtime supporter of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
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Palin proves McCain a Bush clone
Governor Sarah Palin's selection by John McCain further proves his commitment to the far right-wing policies of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Instead of boosting his maverick credentials, it tells the world that if you thought the Bush-Cheney gang were conservative ideologues, you 'aint seen nothing yet!
Palin is no Jersey girl, that's for sure. She's a James Dobson girl. Dobson's arch conservative Focus on the Family group may be elated by Governor Palin's nomination, but she won't do much to attract the votes of the pragmatically progressive electorate in this state.
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Thou protestesth too much
If she's such a pushover, why are the libs freaking out about her?
Palin is radioactive!
1) Trooper-gate investigation.
2) Flip-flopping on the Bridge-to-Nowhere.
3) Abstinence-only policy blows up in her house: Bristol Palin "ABOUT five months pregnant."
4) Baby-gate: Question about Trig Palin's birth.
5) Member of Alaska secessionist party.
6) Zero foreign policy experience: applied for passport in 2007.
7) Lied about drilling footprint on ANWR.
All this just in 72hrs of being the VP candidate. Its time Republicans understand that Palin is blowing up on McCain like a Vietcong boobytrap and taking anyone who supports her candidacy along with him.
Elitist Much?
"Maybe some people who haven’t come out of the Pine Barrens in 40 years will think ‘Sarah’s our guy,’ but other than that, I just don’t see it," Murphy said.
Nice to know that's what NJ libs think of us...
http://blog.savejersey.com/2008/09/01/what-liberals-really-think-about-a...
What vetting process?
According to the report, "the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice-presidential choice."
"[McCain] had his first face-to-face interview with her on Thursday and offered her the job moments later." The same day the vetting team was landing in Alaska? Has he lost his marbles?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/politics/02vetting.html?_r=1&ref=po...
I am laughing so hard that ...
It so funny to see Democrats outraged over Gov. Palin’s nomination. "I’m insulted by McCain’s choice," “me too factor,” “but certainly they have more women who are qualified," and finally she in no NJ girl. I could quote and quote desperate Democrats trying to explain to Republicans that it was a bad choice. Now, it strikes me that I could make a similar argument that there are many more qualified Democrats who should be nominated for the Presidential candidate instead of Sen. Obama.
FOOLnami
If you want to make a credible argument you cannot use the NY Slimes as a source of your information....
The Dumbs are in a tizzy that their Affirmative Action cadidate, who reads a good telepromter,..will be upstaged by some MILF froma Alaska!!
JOM
FOOLnami
If you want to make a credible argument you cannot use the NY Slimes as a source of your information....
The Dumbs are in a tizzy that their Affirmative Action cadidate, who reads a good telepromter,..will be upstaged by some MILF froma Alaska!!
JOM
NJ Dems/ Hypocrites
What about Golan Cipel for Homeland Security in 2002?
Where were all the big mouth NJ Dems on that non qualified selection?
Nobody said a word.....
Yes, I agree about Golan
Yes, I agree about Golan Cipel. American politicians, Republican and Democratic, have been sucking the Israeli c*#k for far too long even at the expense of our own national security interests.
Such a typical Rovian Republican comment about Wasilla and Obama
"Na Na Na Na Na!" That's what desperate Republicans say on TV whenever they are confronted about Sarah Palin's Wasilla experiences, knowledge base and effectiveness as a leader. They immediately deflect attention to Obama and focus on Obama. Period. But that tactic will help Obama win the election. "Take a good look at Barack Obama! Sarah Palin has more experience and knowledge and is infinitely more effective than Obama is or will ever be! Na Na Na Na Na! Sarah Palin has more experience than Joe Biden and Barack Obama put together. She is both a public and a private creationist and Obama is not a creationist."
NJ girl says, "Yeah right! I heard all about the new bridge that McCain and Palin are effectively selling to their base but not the entire country! Much less New Jersey. I'm not buying, "The Bridge to No Where in Alaska: 2" Because the "prequel to the sequel" was a colossal disaster in Alaska!
Expert
All these experts on the Governor of Alaska.
You don't know anything but Dem talking points.
You don't even give her a chance. In 4 days she is smeared and lied about.
How about letting her give a speech?
How about waiting until a debate?
Is this how we judge people now? By sloppy news stories and scandal sheets like the US magazine?
You know even less about your nominee for president...
Awww, did we forget the
Awww, did we forget the Swift Boating of Kerry or the Republican attacks on McCain in 2000. Something about his adopted daughter being an illegitimate child with a black mistress. Or the email rumors about Obama being a secret Muslim. You guys are a bunch of racists bigots.
Whats that Judeo-Christian rule for ethics again? Do unto others, as you would want them to do onto you? You guys are a bunch of crybaby hypocrites. Family values, christian right wing fakes.
Stop crying and learn to take a bit of your own medicine, sissyboy. Address the facts, and stop getting so emotional.
How about she release her
How about she release her medical records instead of put out more crazy unverifiable lies.
What a Rush
If Palin is "our guy" I'M heading straight into the Pine Barrens and I'm NEVER coming back out! For the first time in my life I feel sorry for the Republicans for being saddled with this one. What could McCain be thinking? Three lead articles about Palin in today's Wall Street Journal show that even they're plenty shocked by and worried over Palin's record and political philosophy.
FOOLnami Barry Hussein is TOAST
Barrys resume...
1)Member of a racist religious hate group.
2) Flip-flopping on the surge.
3) Flip flop on drilling
4) Resko Convicted felon and slum lord bought his house for him
5) Zero foreign policy - Obama worshippers think him going to a bodega in Chicago to buy his cigarettes is internaltional experience
6) His experience as “community organizer” an an inner sewer ala –Camden, Trenton and Newark is a joke...his disctrict is still a dump with a high murder rate...so much for hope and change for them
7) Lied about his long term friendship with an anti American terrorist - Ayers
8) And most damaging – HE THINKS JOHN CORZINE – the idiot who single handedly is running this state into the ground - IS A FINANCIAL GENIUS!
JOM...
The Education of Sarah Palin and John McCain
According to the Associated Press and Newsweek Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin attended Five colleges in Six years before graduating from the University of Idaho in 1987. Five college spokespersons told reporters,
"The McCain campaign never contacted us about Sarah Palin's record or requested a background check." On Friday, the McCain campaign did not have an immediate comment on Palin's higher education record. But Cindy McCain volunteered, on another topic, "Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience. Alaska is the closest state to Russia!"
Sarah Palin began college at Hawaii Pacific University, a private school in Honolulu. Then she was known as Sarah Louise Heath and she attended only as a freshman during the fall of 1982. School spokeswoman Crystale Lopez said, "She was in the business program and we're trying to track down someone who knew her."
From Hawaii Pacific, Sarah Palin transferred to North Idaho College, a two-year community college in Coeur d'Alene, and sixty miles south of Spokane. She attended the college as a general studies major for two semesters, in the spring and fall of 1983. School spokeswoman Stacy Hudson said in essence, "We were not able to track down club affiliations or anything significant about Sarah Palin. We located one of her professors but he did not remember her."
Prior to her selection by John McCain, the North Idaho College Alumni Association notified Sarah Palin that she would be the recipient of its 2009 Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award.
From North Idaho College, Palin transferred 70 miles south to the University of Idaho, and she majored in journalism with an emphasis in broadcast news. She attended Idaho, from fall 1984 to spring 1985. University of Idaho in Moscow, Spokeswoman Tania Thompson said in so many words, "Our office was not contacted by anyone from the McCain campaign about, Sarah Palin's VP candidacy!"
In the fall of 1985, Sarah Palin returned to Alaska to attend Matanuska-Susitna College in Palmer. Then she returned to University of Idaho, for spring and fall of 1986 and in the spring of 1987 she graduated with a journalism degree. But she does not appear to have worked for the college newspaper or campus television station. After college, she worked briefly as a sportscaster for KTUU TV in Anchorage.
In a June 2008 interview with the University of Idaho alumni magazine, she explained that her curiosity and love of writing made journalism a natural choice.
"I was always asking everyone the questions, and I still am today!" Sarah Palin told the magazine.
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