Does the fact that Palin is an outdoors enthusiast (hunter/fisherman) and NRA Lifemember help your decision?

Question

Will it make you more likely to vote the McCain/Palin ticket. It has sealed my vote for them.

Answer 1

No.  I am already decided to vote for McCain, even before the VP pick.  But, I am impressed immensely with Sarah Palin, and I am even more impressed by the selection of her as VP candidate.  BTW, I, too, am a member of NRA.

Answer 2

Obama's record is so extreme that it had already turned me into a single-issue voter, but this doesn't hurt.

Also a Life Member.

Answer 3

Palin on the ticket is the funniest thing I've seen since someone forwarded me the link to the Deuce Diaries:

http://www.thedeucediaries.blogspot.com

Answer 4

WHAT THE h**l HAS HUNTING AND FISHING Got to do with the economy 7 the war??

Answer 5

I happen to be a NRA Life Member.

Answer 6

I was already voting for McCain, but it's certainly nice to know!

Answer 7

I didn't know she was an NRA member. its all coming into focus why McCain picked  her, i wasn't voting at all this time and i'm still not but its good to know whos on the chopping block.

Answer 8

to the first answer, the funniest thing I saw was Hillary Clinton for president.

This is actually a viable option for VP

Answer 9

I was already going to vote for her, but it's nice to see that a badass woman similar to me is going to be VP

Answer 10

So you're voting for McCain because the bottom of the ticket fishes and has a shot gun?  That makes absolutely no sense.  If you found out that Obama fishes and has a gun would you switch your vote back?  That would be the logical thing to do, given your position.

Answer 11

It sure does.  She is a real sports person.  She doesn't set around and promise the world to every body to get votes.  If you like to hunt and fish.  You had better vote for her.

Answer 12

Absolutely! AND

Palin's "...articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking..."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/31/b...

AND NOT a Lawyer!

Answer 13

Yes. Shows me she has the skill/will to  feed/defend herself and her family if she had to. That skill will go beyond just her family to the nation..

Answer 14

Absolutely.  Most of us here in the West, who enjoy our hunting and fishing, like the idea of an outdoorsman (or ..woman) in a leadership position.

Sarah B:  People who get out of the house once in a while know there is more to life than the economy and the war.

And Chronos:  If Obama got out and hunted or game-fished, he would have an entirely different perspective on life than he does as a guy who organizes rent strikes, so, yeah, maybe.

Answer 15

Yes it does. Teddy Roosevelt was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. Because of him we have the national park service and strong conservation programs.

Answer 16

I doubt it makes McCain any more enthusiastic about the NRA than he was before.  It doesn't change anything for me.

Answer 17

why would this be important to VOTE  for any person. only dead brains do think so .this is so typical of the stupid americans which

think this qualifies a person to run for office  POOR usa

Answer 18

Sarah Palin's wildlife policies reflect junk science and cripple the eco-tourism industry

Like many Alaskans, Palin believes that bears – and all Alaskan wildlife, exist for the sole purpose of serving humans. Sarah Palin, and the Alaska Board of Game whose members make decisions about most wildlife, are actively trying to cripple the bear viewing/eco-tourism industry in Alaska.

Several weeks before the controversial Katmai Preserve hunt, Palin posed deliberately next to a dead bear to a make a point – that she will do everything in her power to make sure bears and other wildlife are mercilessly shot for pleasure in Alaska. Palin supports the aerial hunting of wolves and bears, and even spent $400,000 of state money to fund a media campaign to try and convince Alaskans to support aerial shooting (even though Alaskans have voted against it, twice!).

In the past two years, bears habituated to bear viewing have reportedly been shot at bear viewing sites around the state – as a statement to bear advocates that Alaska is about shooting animals, not understanding them.

The Alaskan government consistently ignores decades of scientific research that has proven that predators actually keep prey populations healthy. The Alaskan government is wiping out entire populations of predators -using cruel practices such as baiting, trapping, and aerial shooting, in the name of boosting dwindling moose populations. This is just plain ignorant, since biologists have known since the 60’s that wolves and bears do not negatively impact prey species such as moose and caribou. Anyone who has taken ecology or biology 101 knows this is established fact. What is threatening moose and other prey species is over hunting by humans, and a large number of yearly road-kill fatalities. The impact of habitat destruction, climate change, and a decrease in predation also contributes.

If you find Sarah Palin as ignorant and offensive as I do, LET HER KNOW. The majority of people who visit Alaska do not support sport hunting and the destruction of wildlife! Most tourists come to Alaska to view wildlife, not to slaughter it. The best hope for Alaskan wildlife is for the tourists who fund the economy to make their wishes known loud and clear – that they do not support archaic policies which are destroying the Alaskan ecosystem. Alaska is the last place in the U.S. where humans have not gobbled up and destroyed the natural world. This unique place on the planet needs to be protected, and not allowed to continue to be nothing but a place where animals are trapped, and shot and skinned, and stuffed, and hung on a wall, or used as a rug to wipe your dirty feet. Tell Sarah Palin that bears are not rugs!

Answer 19

That figures.

What makes you think she'd look twice at you?  How shallow and gullible you uneducated lot are.

Is that gun in her pants what turns you on??

Guess when you aint got a brain you vote for McCain and his arm candy.

Answer 20

No.  Social conservatives and gun nuts are a net negative for me.

Answer 21

  No.  Voting for a President for only 1 reason shows that you do not take your voting seriously.  You do know that the NRA support terrorist owning guns.