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- Scott Miller

OK. I’m back from a long and much needed vacation, and fired up about the campaign ahead of us!

As I have written many times, if John McCain ended up picking a liberal for a running mate, I would have not been able to support or vote for him as President. Now that he has wisely made the best possible pick in choosing Sarah Palin, count me in with both feet!

Many Republicans, and most liberals, didn’t understand how true conservatives could withhold their support of John McCain. It’s really quite simple… the VP choice was all-important to conservatives because it is about the future of the conservative movement and of the Republican party. The VP nominee will have front runner status in the next presidential election, whether it be four or eight years from now, and Sarah Palin is a very strong, articulate conservative.

Gauging the flailing reaction from the left, it is abundantly clear that they are scared to death of Sarah Palin. Their anti-Palin talking points are some of the weakest, condescending, and pettiest I’ve ever heard directed toward an accomplished woman. Let’s go through a couple of the silliest ones making the rounds in the socialist press:

“She’s inexperienced… just a mayor of a small town in Alaska”

This has got to be the dumbest argument Obamarxist supporters are putting out there…. first of all, she has more executive experience than any of the other three candidates running. She has been running a state, and all the associated beaurocracies, as Governor of Alaska for two years now. Prior to that she was a Mayor… both executive level positions. She also has more executive military experience than Obama and Biden, as she has led their National Guard forces for two years as Governor.

Contrast this experience against the top of the ticket for the libs, and they can’t even come close. Obamarxist has zero, zip, nadda executive experience… he’s never run a thing… not even a little corner store. He barely has any legislative experience to speak of either. He spent a couple years in the state Senate in Michigan – voting “present” more than yes or no – and then started running for the US Senate. Once elected to the US Senate, he was there for a whopping 143 days before he began to run for President.

In fact, even just before he decided to run for President, we have Obama himself on tape saying he’s not experienced enough to be President. Watch this:

So if those on the left want to talk about experience… I say bring it on!

“She’s a mother of five, how can she raise a family and be President?”

Talk about a demeaning and sexist attitude towards women… you know, these condescending comments toward a strong woman put the lie to the left’s claim of supporting women’s issues. They could give a rat’s ass about women’s rights… all they really only care about liberal women’s rights.

Does anyone really think that women with families should be disqualified from running for President, and if so why? Why isn’t anyone asking Obama how he can manage the presidency and raise his two daughters? You never heard anyone question John Kennedy about being able to be President even though he had small children…. give me a break.

“She’s in the pocket of Big Oil”

Of course a “Big Lie”… Governor Palin has spent her career in government rooting out the corruption in Alaska government, some of it due to the influence of oil companies. This from CNN:

The drill-down on Sarah Palin

But while Palin might be a proponent of more drilling in Alaska, she’s hardly a patsy of the oil industry. One theme at the Democratic convention was Republicans’ cozy relationship with Big Oil. As Al Gore put it Thursday night, the industry has been “drilling [the GOP] for everything it’s worth.” But whatever you think of such a statement, it would be hard to say that about Sarah Palin.

Palin reached the Alaska statehouse in 2006 after trouncing incumbent governor Frank Murkowski, patriarch of one of Alaska’s powerful political families, in the Republican primary. The former high-school basketball star, beauty queen, commercial fisherman, and mayor of Wasilla (population 8,471) ran on one big issue: Exploiting her state’s billions of dollars worth of natural gas on Alaska’s terms, not on the oil companies’ terms.

For years, Alaskans have dreamed of the revenue bounty promised by the state’s natural gas resources. But until recently, prices were too low to make shipping natural gas to the lower 48 states profitable. Murkowski had negotiated a deal with the Big Three oil companies of Alaska – BP, ExxonMobil, and ConocoPhillips, which hold long-term North Slope leases – to finance and build a pipeline to get the 235 trillion cubic feet of natural gas estimated to be buried under the North Slope to market. The deal guaranteed a tax cut for the oil companies, and promised that Alaska wouldn’t change those rates for decades.

But when Murkowski brought the proposal to the Alaska statehouse, it was rejected as a sweetheart deal for the oil companies. Several of the governor’s negotiators were later indicted, accused of making back-room deals with the industry. Voters subsequently booted Murkowski from office. You don’t mess with revenues from oil and gas in Alaska, because it goes into Alaska’s Permanent Fund, which sends a check to each resident every year.

Once in office, Palin took an aggressive stance toward the oil companies. Her nickname from high-school basketball, “Sarah Barracuda,” was resurrected in the press. Early in her term, she shocked oil lobbyists when she was so bold as to not show up when Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson came to Juneau to meet with her. Palin, after scrapping Murkowski’s deal, would not give Big Oil the terms they wanted, yet insisted that the companies still had an obligation under their lease to deliver gas to whatever pipeline Alaska built. She invited the oil companies to place open bids to build a pipeline, but they refused. A bid by TransCanada, North America’s largest pipeline builder, was approved by the legislature in August.

The addition to Palin to the McCain ticket has solidified their conservative base, and that was a must for McCain since he’s no conservative himself. But more importantly, it has excited the base, and the importance of giving his base a reason to be excited about his campaign can not be overstated. Nice job John, nice job…

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