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**Deadman™** · 08-29-2008, 11:07 AM

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DAYTON, Ohio – John McCain will introduce Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential running mate at an event here at noon Friday, senior campaign sources confirmed to FOX News.
Palin emerged earlier in the day as the hot name in the VP sweepstakes after reports circulated that two short-listers — Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty — were out of the running.
Adding fuel to the Palin candidacy was a report that a charter aircraft from Anchorage owned by a McCain supporter had arrived at a small airport outside Dayton, Ohio, where McCain has scheduled a noon ET rally to announce his choice.
FOX News reported the jet flew to Flagstaff, Ariz., on Thursday before heading landing in Middletown, Ohio.
Palin is considered a rising star in the Republican Party. She is the state’s first female governor, the mother of five — and at 44 is its youngest chief executive.
FOX News confirmed Thursday that McCain had made his selection and would appear with his pick at the Dayton rally.
Born in Idaho, Palin moved to Alaska with her parents, to Charles and Sally Heath, when she was 3 months old.
She grew up in Wasilla, just outside of Anchorage, and played on the Wasilla state championship girls’ basketball team. She was crowned Miss Wasilla in 1984 and was a runner-up in the Miss Alaska pageant.
Palin studied journalism and political science at the University of Idaho and graduated in 1987. She eloped with her high school boyfriend, Todd Palin, in 1988 to save money on an expensive wedding. She helped out in her husband’s family commercial fishing business and appeared occasionally as a television sportscaster.
Palin won a seat on the Wasilla City Council in 1992 as a new face and a new voice, and by opposing tax increases. Four years later she was elected mayor at 32 by knocking off a three-term incumbent. At the end of her second term, party leaders encouraged her to enter the 2002 race for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor. Against veteran legislators with far more experience, Palin finished second by fewer than 2,000 votes, making a name for herself in statewide politics. She was elected Alaska’s youngest and first woman governor in 2006.
Sarah and Todd Palin have five children: boys Track, 19, and Trig, 4 months, and daughters Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7. Track Palin ****ed the Army last September and will deploy to Iraq on Sept. 11. Palin gave birth to Trig, who has Down syndrome, in April and returned to work three days later.
Palin will be the second female vice presidential candidate from a major political party. The first was New York Rep. Geraldine Ferrarro, who was Walter Mondale’s Democratic running mate in 1984.
Earlier in the day, sources told FOX News that Romney was not going to be McCain’s choice, even
though the former Massachusetts governor is scheduled to appear at the
Dayton rally.
And Pawlenty told a Minneapolis radio station that he was not going to be in Dayton for the McCain announcement.
“I’m going to be at the [Minnesota] state fair,” Pawlenty said on WCCO.
“I will not be in Dayton, Ohio, so I think that’s a fair
assumption,” the Minnesota governor said when asked if this was an
indication that he would not be McCain’s running mate.
“It was an honor to be considered,” he added.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who like Romney was a rival to
McCain in the primaries, sent an e-mail to supporters on Thursday
evening saying he would not be at the rally. Sources later told FOX
News that Huckabee was not in the running.

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08...ate-on-friday/

I had told myself that I absolutely would NOT vote for either of these candidates this year. There was only one candidate that I thought would sway my vote either way as a VP candidate. It wasn't Sarah Palin. But I have to say, I like the pick. Now, I find myself for the first time considering a major party candidate.

**KingCrash** · 08-29-2008, 11:21 AM

Well it's a pick no one saw coming but doesn't this take the experience issue off the table? I mean how can McCain say Obama doesn't have enough when Palin has less than him and she's just a heartbeat away from the Presidency?

Also, it'd be nice if you pick wasn't being investigated by her own state for getting someone fired just because they wouldn't fire your sister's ex-husband.

ecwfan20 · 08-29-2008, 11:24 AM

Going after some of Hillary's supporters I see. Who don't care what party they belong to, only that it's a woman vp. For the sake of the stock market I hope John wins.

**Deadman™** · 08-29-2008, 11:28 AM

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Well it's a pick no one saw coming but doesn't this take the experience issue off the table? I mean how can McCain say Obama doesn't have enough when Palin has less than him and she's just a heartbeat away from the Presidency?

I never liked the lack of experience argument. At this point the less experience there is doing things the "Washington Way" the more I think I like it. Besides if George W can be president for 8 years, I think she can pull off the VP job.

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Also, it'd be nice if you pick wasn't being investigated by her own state for getting someone fired just because they wouldn't fire your sister's ex-husband.

WHAT!?!?!?!?

A politician did something unethical?

Mr. Body · 08-29-2008, 11:29 AM

I'm voting McCain but this election is over. World rejoice, because Obama will be the next President of the United States of America.

**Skill** · 08-29-2008, 11:32 AM

Biden would kick Palin's ass.

**KingCrash** · 08-29-2008, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Deadman™

I never liked the lack of experience argument. At this point the less experience there is doing things the "Washington Way" the more I think I like it. Besides if George W can be president for 8 years, I think she can pull off the VP job.

I don't like it either, but McCain's used it often against Obama and it takes some of that away from him. But really, who votes for the vice-president? Otherwise Dan Quayle and Dick Cheney would never have been picked.

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WHAT!?!?!?!?

A politician did something unethical?

But it's never good to let that be the first thing we hear about her. Luckily for her she's not the most crooked politician in the state.

**NCIH Damage** · 08-29-2008, 11:58 AM

At this point, it's going to take a lot for Obama to lose.

Americans don't want another Republican.

**ItsWhatIdo** · 08-29-2008, 12:20 PM

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Originally Posted by NCIH

At this point, it's going to take a lot for Obama to lose.

Americans don't want another Republican.

When Bill Clinton basically came out, and endorsed John McCain you think it going to be hard for Republicans to win?

They said that about Bush lats time, and he won by the biggest popular vote margin ever.

Who do you really think is going to vote at Obama? The woman VP just took the Hilary supporters, and especially since Bill endorsed McCain.

This pick is brilliant. I was thinking Condeleeza would have been a good pick, but this works.

**♠ Undertaker ♠** · 08-29-2008, 12:24 PM

I've only twice once in my lifetime and that was for Aaron Russo in 2004 and Ross Perot in 1992 and that was before I started learning about certain things. I won't be voting this time around at all. Yes you could give me that generic bullshit "You have the right to vote so use it" ooohhh guess what, I also have the right not to vote so leave me alone.