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GOP Leaders Say Palin is Good Pick for Montana
By Courtney Lowery, 9-02-08
As the GOP convention in Minneapolis kicks off, Montana delegates and party leaders are fired up about Sarah Palin.
They say she's a good play for conservative and independent voters in the state -- and she knows the issues and complexities of policy in a rural state.
Party chair Erik Iverson tells John S. Adams of the Great Falls Tribune that the pick "makes a lot of sense from the standpoint in winning the election" and Rep. Denny Rehberg says in a release, "As a rural western state, Alaska has much in common with Montana, from rural schools and gun rights to tremendous natural resources and Native American issues. Sarah Palin was born in Idaho where she attended the University of Idaho and has spent most of her life in Alaska so she knows her way around the Mountain West and the I-90 corridor. The selection of Washington D.C. outsider Sarah Palin was inspired and will serve as a welcome asset to John McCain's campaign.”
More from Adams' story here.
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Qualificatied by being a Miss Wassilla and the Mayor of Wassilla?
A short stay as Govenor and she is ready to face Putin?
The emerging picture of this poorly-vetted candidate is harrowing -- a veritable warehouse of skeletons.
Palin is associated with this wingnut group, the Alaskan Independence Party, some of whose members want Alaska to secede from the Union. (Wasn't that settled by Lincoln and the Civil War?)
The AIP is affiliated with the Constitution Party, founded by Howard Phillips, and has been the political home to leading theocratic Christian Reconstructionists such as John Lofton, Otto Scott, Joe Morecraft and movement founder R.J. Rushdoony himself. This is the gang that wants to bring back stoning for adultry (watch out, McCain!) and would deny political rights to any and all non-Christians and lots of Christians like Catholics.
Palin is also a strong advocate for abstinence-based sex education (gee, that worked out well for her daughter).
These revelations just keep coming, like Chinese water torture.
Drip, drip, drip, drip, ....
No way, no how, no Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin willingly sat through this sermon.
In order to paint Sarah Palin as a "Manuchurian Candidate" who hates America's allies, I could dig up a bunch of sanctimonious Sean Hannity quotes declaring that if you belong to a church and someone says something stupid there, you are immediately responsible for, and believe every word of what was said.
But I think you get the point.