What is Palin's public record in office? Did she clean things up?

Question

Or is the disposition of her family and children more important?

Answer 1

Both are important to her. And she can do the job. hang in there baby election day is coming. SOON.

Answer 2

Its so great she has an 80% approval rating for her performance as governor of Alaska.

Answer 3

Yes McCain and Palin in 08 the winning ticket

Answer 4

Ron Paul '08 - I laughed!

btw - anyone who compares Palin to Biden is total moron and clearly knows nothing about politics - stick to what you know best -- the farm.

Answer 5

Watch this video and you will see what is important to Sarah Palin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnYb-eyYh...

Answer 6

Well let's hope that she cleans it well.

Answer 7

I hear she cleans a mean cigar.

OMG you people have zero sense of humor!  GOSH.  Lighten up.

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

That can tell you everything she has done in her career.

Answer 9

Of course not. She cleaned nothing up in office.

When she was on the ethics commission she got the leader of the Republican party on some silly charge. But that's it.

Her actions as governor show the opposite - vindictive and petty.

Answer 10

Apparently the family comes 2nd or even 3rd.  Palin's public record seems to require the use of lawyers.  Never a good sign.

Answer 11

The public records matter above everything else, and although I am diametrically opposed to most of the ladies political views She impresses me.

But her accomplishments should not be overrated, nor her executive pedigree. She's been the mayor of a rather small town and is in her first elective term statewise ( traditionally approval is high then ).

A lot of the change she accomplished seems to be legislative in nature and not a one woman executive accomplishment.

But she shows promise .... a good sign.

The disposition of her family and children is as far as I am concerned irrelevant to her potential qualifications as VP.

But you should grant the Dems the right to snicker for a moment

and then drop the issue ( or non - issue ).

We had the same over here when the minister in charge of road safety

( and just starting a don't drink and drive campaign ) got done for DUI.

Everybody loves it when a politician gets caught in an embarrassing situation as they usually have this " better than thou " slightly snobbish attitude.

Answer 12

Hockey Mom's keep a clean house.

Answer 13

Yes she has cleaned things up, up here.  She has done a good job.  

Answer 14

She has done a very good job as Governor, her approval rating is 80%, not bad. I am sure her family is very important to her, don't you think women can do both?

Answer 15

Yeah she really cleaned things up. She was in a party that wants Alaska to secede from the country.

Answer 16

Yes

And if you disagree, simply look it up

Answer 17

Palin has more experience in office than Obama, and a better track record.

Paln has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined.

She's the only one to have balanced a budget.

She's the only politician I've seen give herself a paycut when money was tight.

Like McCain, Palin has exposed and eradicated corruption when she's found it. As opposed to Obama who has been involved in questionable things, shrouded in mystery and littered with unsavory characters.

Palin was in Rwanda and Zaire gathering information to help put an end to the genocide during the Clinton adminitration while Obama was registering people in Chicago to vote.

Palin has had to deal with Russia and Canada on issues important to Alaska and the United States. How many foreign negotiations has Senator Obama had again?

Palin has major experience in the energy industry. She understands the geopolitical ramifications of various policy decisions.

There's no way to criticise Palin's experience without making Obama look even worse.

The Republican VP is better qualified than the Democratic candidate by a considerable degree.

One short quote from WSJ:

"For starters, we'd say Governor Palin's credentials as an agent of reform exceed Barack Obama's. Mr. Obama rose through the Chicago Democratic machine without a peep of push-back. Alaska's politics are deeply inbred and backed by energy-industry money. Mr. Obama slid past the kind of forces that Mrs. Palin took head on. This is one reason her selection -- despite its campaign risks -- seems to have been so well received by Republicans yesterday. They are looking for a new generation of leaders."

McCain's surprise choice suits me just fine! White House here we come!

That's right Pianopianopiano. No comparison. Palin has a record of cleaning up corruption. Biden's record for cleaning up Washington in all his years? ZERO

Obama's record doesn't look any better, but in all fairness he's new.

Answer 18

Political experience

Obama: Worked his way to the top by cultivating, pandering to and stroking the most powerful interest groups in the all-pervasive Chicago political machine, ensuring his views were aligned with the power brokers there.

Palin: Worked her way to the top by challenging, attacking and actively undermining the Republican party establishment in her native Alaska. She ran against incumbent Republicans as a candidate willing and able to clean the Augean Stables of her state's government.

Political Biography

Obama: A classic, if unusually talented, greasy-pole climber. Held a succession of jobs that constitute the standard route to the top in his party's internal politics: "community organizer", law professor, state senator.

Palin:A woman with a wide range of interests in a well-variegated life. Held a succession of jobs - sports journalist, commercial fisherwoman, state oil and gas commissioner, before entering local politics. A resume that suggests something other than burning political ambition from the cradle but rather the sort of experience that enables her to understand the concerns of most Americans..

Political history

Obama: Elected to statewide office only after a disastrous first run for a congressional seat and after his Republican opponent was exposed in a sexual scandal. Won seat eventually in contest against a candidate who didn't even live in the state.

Palin: Elected to statewide office by challenging a long-serving Republican incumbent governor despite intense opposition from the party.

Appeal

Obama: A very attractive speaker whose celebrity has been compared to that of Britney Spears and who sends thrills up Chris Matthews' leg

Palin: A very attractive woman, much better-looking than Britney Spears who speaks rather well too. She sends thrills up the leg of Rush Limbaugh.

Executive experience

Obama: Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of his campaign staff and a vast crowd of traveling journalists

Palin:Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of 500,000 people in her state, and that impact crucial issues of national economic interest such as the supply and cost of energy to the United States.

Religious influences

Obama: Regards people who "cling" to religion and guns as "bitter" . Spent 20 years being mentored and led spiritually by a man who proclaimed "God d**n America" from his pulpit. Mysteriously, this mentor completely disappeared from public sight about four months ago.

Palin: Head of her high school Fellowship of Christian Athletes and for many years a member of the Assemblies of God congregation whose preachers have never been known to accuse the United States of deliberately spreading the AIDS virus. They remain in full public sight and can be seen every Sunday in churches across Alaska. A proud gun owner who has been known to cling only to the carcasses of dead caribou felled by her own aim.

Record of bipartisan achievement

Obama: Speaks movingly of the bipartisanship needed to end the destructive politics of "Red America" and "Blue America", but votes in the Senate as a down-the-line Democrat, with one of the most liberal voting records in congress.

Palin: Ridiculed by liberals such as John Kerry as a crazed, barely human, d**k Cheney-type conservative but worked wit Democrats in the state legislature to secure landmark anti-corruption legislation.

Former state Rep. Ethan Berkowitz - a Democrat - said. "Gov. Palin has made her name fighting corruption within her own party, and I was honored when she stepped across party lines and asked me to co-author her ethics white paper."

On Human Life

Obama: Devoutly pro-choice. Voted against a bill in the Illinois state senate that would have required doctors to save the lives of babies who survived abortion procedures. The implication of this position is that babies born prematurely during abortions would be left alone, unnourished and unmedicated, until they died.

Palin: Devoutly pro-life. Exercised the choice proclaimed by liberals to bring to full term a baby that had been diagnosed in utero with Down Syndrome.

Now it's true there are other crucial differences. Sen Obama has appeared on Meet The Press every other week for the last four years. He has been the subject of hundreds of adoring articles in papers and newsweeklies and TV shows and has written two Emmy-award winning books.

Gov Palin has never appeared on Meet the Press, never been on the cover of Newsweek. She happens to be the first woman and the youngest person ever to be elected governor of her state.

Fortunately, it will be up to the American people and not their self-appointed leaders in Hollywood and New York to determine who really has the better experience to be president.  

Answer 19

She didn't take any c r a p from greedy oil companies...

I think the Bush's had more problems with their family prior to and during his office...