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I thought Gov. Palin did a great job. I like how she talked about what she did in her own state in her job. People need to know that. In her interviews asking her about newspapers… I don’t care about that, questions that should have been asked were things like what have you done in your state, tell us about your reform bill, tell us about your breaking the monopoly on these oil companies, tell us about the pipeline you negotiated but sadly those are the things that the MSM doesn’t want us to know about.

I love how she talked in terms of the war and about not pulling out until the generals and the people on the ground there say we are ready.

I love her calling out on Biden how he disagreed with Obama up until 5 weeks ago.
As far as how she sounded folksy, I have been looking around the net seeing her in meetings and conferences and she doesn’t sound that way when serious business it being done. You know General Patton was a well educated man but he spoke to his troops in the way that he knew he would come across to them. I think she knows when to do both and I think it showed as she was mixed between the two.

I would love to see the media give her credit for awesome things she has done as governor of her state in the short time she has been in office but sadly they are not about to do that. On Fox last night they even had one of the guys that she beat out in in the governor’s race who fully supports her and said she has done a wonderful job as governor and that he thinks she would make a wonderful VP, again you aren’t going to see that in MSM.

As far as Biden, sure I think he did great, he has been around the block, I also thought he sounded “know it all at times” which translates to me as he is been there and is a part of the whole darn mess. He also rattled off votes and bills and that to me only says, “blah, blah, blah” most people don’t know what I’m talking about anyways but it sounds good.

I would also like to say that I’m in awe of someone who can take a beating like that in the press, the internet and those Hollywood peeps and still come out there and stand up and face those people. She truly comes across to me as someone who wants to make a difference in the world and that her heart is in the right place and looking at her record as governor I see someone who doesn’t just talk about it but gets it done.

Old media dinosaurs have NOT asked Sarah Palin about her actual accomplishments
Posted by: Bill Dyer at 1:50 PM

(Guest Post by Bill Dyer a/k/a Beldar)

In considering Sarah Palin’s fitness as a vice presidential nominee, it’s absolutely crucial to distinguish between mere tenure in office and actual accomplishments while there. In their televised interviews with her, however, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric have almost completely ignored Gov. Palin’s actual record in office. So, too, have most of the old-media sources who’ve been writing about her. They’d far rather dig through a dumpster or watch videos of a guest pastor from Kenya speaking at a church Gov. Palin has sometimes attended than talk about Gov. Palin’s day job as chief executive of the largest state in America.

(There’s yet another important aspect to her candidacy that the mainstream media has ignored almost as resolutely, which is her courage and determination in campaigning as an underdog reformer, taking on deeply entrenched and ethically challenged members of her own party in Alaska. Arguably that’s her most important accomplishment of all, given how much of a cesspool Washington has become. But let’s set that aside for the moment.)

Gov. Palin is now finishing up her second year as Governor of Alaska. Even added to her years as a city councilman and mayor, or her service as chair and ethics officer of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission, that is not a very long record. But length is only one dimension. How deep is her record?

The answer to that question is critically important. Joe Biden has been a senator, as Gov. Palin points out, since Gov. Palin was in grade school, so of course he has a long record. With that seniority has come committee chair positions, first on the Senate Judiciary Committee, then on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But on closer examination, neither as a committee chairman nor a legislator has Slow Joe Biden particularly distinguished himself. His greatest legislative triumph has been in championing revisions to the bankruptcy code that dramatically changed the slope of the playing field to favor his home-state credit card companies in consumer bankruptcy proceedings — an accomplishment much disdained, in fact, by the Hard Left. So what, by contrast, has Gov. Sarah Palin done in her dramatically shorter tenure as a state chief executive?

If you only know three things that Sarah Palin has accomplished as Governor of Alaska, it should be these three:

Gov. Palin is a proven fiscal conservative who used her line-item veto to slash hundreds of millions of dollars in spending from the state budget. In considering this accomplishment, keep in mind that the Alaska Legislature is controlled by the GOP, meaning that the funding she cut had already been approved by legislators of her own party. Nevertheless, she made her vetoes stick. Consider, too, that because of the current high price of crude oil, Alaska is enjoying record budget surpluses. It’s harder to practice restraint in times of plenty. And look at her entire record over time (more than as revealed by her position on a single bridge): Although Alaska has traditionally been more dependent than other states on federal funding (since the federal government owns such a large portion of the state’s property and resources), even the often-critical Anchorage Daily News admits that Gov. Palin has “increasingly distanced herself from earmarking” since 2000, and that her having done so over the past year has been “the leading source of tension between Palin and the state’s three-member congressional delegation.” Actually exercising fiscal discipline in a time of plenty, at both state and federal levels and against the will of the members of her own party, is a better predictor for how she would actually govern on a national level than ten thousand campaign promises.

Gov. Palin kept her campaign promise to revamp the state’s pre-existing severance tax on oil & gas production, replacing a structure negotiated behind closed doors by ethically challenged predecessors and the big energy companies with one negotiated in full public view — and then rebated part of the resulting surplus directly to tax-payers. Severance taxes are a kind of property tax charged on a one-time basis, at the time of production, on subsurface assets (like oil, gas & minerals) which can’t be quantified and taxed through regular property taxes. There was widespread resentment and distrust over the version negotiated by Gov. Palin’s predecessor with the three big energy companies who’ve traditionally ruled the roost in Alaska (ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, and BP). The new version negotiated and passed with Gov. Palin’s support was thoroughly disinfected by the sunshine of public scrutiny. Although it’s not a “windfall profits tax” — indeed, the base rate only went from 22.5% to 25% — it did permit the Alaskan people to share in a larger portion of the current high prices for oil by raising the additional, progressive portion of the tax from 0.25% to 0.40% on revenues between $32.50 and $90/bbl. Above that, however, the new law actually cut taxes by dropping the rate on revenues above $90/bbl to 0.1%. With the resulting budget surplus, after contributing to the state’s fund for that future day when its oil & gas wealth is exhausted, she pressed for and got legislation to rebate a healthy chunk directly to tax-payers on a per capita basis, trusting them to spend the proceeds from this sale of the state’s commonly-owned resources rather than trusting government to spend it for them.

Gov. Palin broke a multi-year stalemate over the financing and construction of a cross-state gas pipeline that will deliver cleaner, cheaper natural gas to Alaska’s own population centers (Alaskans themselves pay some of the nation’s highest energy prices), while also delivering gas to the energy-hungry Lower 48. To do this, she had to break the monopoly power of the big energy companies by opening the project to competitive international bidding. Not only has a development contract with a Canadian company now been signed on better terms than had previously been discussed, but the former monopolists — finally spurred by competition — are cranking up their own plan that would not require any taxpayer investment. How precisely this will shake out remains to be seen, but Gov. Palin’s vigorous action — calling special sessions of the state legislature and injecting herself directly and vigorously into the process — has ended the deadlock in ways that seem certain to benefit consumers. By this accomplishment, Gov. Palin has done more to advance the cause of American energy independence than any other politician — of any party, and at any level of state or federal government — in this century. But the national media have generally ignored this accomplishment.

It’s no accident that Gov. Palin remains immensely popular in her home state, notwithstanding the widespread derision of the national elites. Her actual accomplishments in office are vastly disproportionate to her time spent in office, but her constituents value the results she’s gotten.

And isn’t that what we want? Should we want politicians who have been in office a long time without getting anything done? Should we want the kind of “wisdom” shown by Slow Joe Biden, who opposed the nominations of both Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, and who proposed that we subdivide Iraq into three parts (each to be dominated by a different foreign interest)? Should we prefer someone like Barack Obama in the top job as POTUS, even though he has no longer tenure than Gov. Palin and conspicuously fewer actual accomplishments?

Will Gwen Ifill ask any meaningful question of either Gov. Palin or Sen. Biden about their actual accomplishments in office tomorrow? Will she ask Biden about the bankruptcy law changes? Will she acknowledge Gov. Palin as a demonstrated fiscal conservative and crusader for energy independence?

I’m not holding my breath. But if the media won’t help educate Americans about Gov. Palin’s accomplishments in office, then each of us should!

— Beldar

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Lynn Forester De Rothschild one of Hillary Clinton’s biggest supporters and friends in now behind the McCain-Palin ticket. Mrs. Rothschild brings great points as to why she has switched sides.

I saw this on Fox News but nothing about it on ABC but I’m not surprised!

Gov. Sarah Palin is passionate about energy and oil. To put it in simple terms, oil is an enormous factor in our economy. We are paying more at the pump and that translates into paying more for groceries and any other item we buy because fuel must be used to transport these things.

Gov. Palin recognizes the need for us to be energy independent of other nations, not depending on other countries for our energy needs, lowers the prices at the pump and also if we are using American resources we will be putting our American dollars back into our U.S. economy, buying domestically will stimulate the economy and it will create jobs here at home. Palin understands that and is determined to make a difference both with domestic drilling and alternative fuels.

*In the first half of 2008 we spent 172 billion dollars on foreign oil. Read more about that here.

In my opinion, Charlie Gibson, not taking Gov. Sarah Palin serious when she says that energy does have to do with forgien affairs, is a joke.

I don’t think most of us can wrap our minds around what energy (oil) actually means to us. If heaven forbid we were cut off from our supplies, life as we know it would cease to exist, at this point in time.

While Charlie Gibson, mocks that, and pigs & lipstick are at the top of the news, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez has told our US ambassador to leave his country and Russia delivered a bomber plane to Chavez.

Venezuela has some of the largest oil reserves outside the Middle East and despite Chavez’s clashes with the Bush administration, is a major supplier to the United States, which is its biggest customer. – Yahoo News

Imagine, no oil, you are not going anywhere! No Walmart, no soccer or hockey games, no anything. Well, not true but you’d be walking or riding a bike.

This one reason should be a huge deciding factor when you are voting. Gov. Sarah Palin has the vision to make sure this country is independent of other countries that don’t exactly want the best for our country. Not just with drilling but with other alternative methods, as well.