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Palin will cast vote in Wasilla

Posted: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 6:44 AM by Domenico Montanaro
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From NBC's Savannah Guthrie
Palin will cast her vote in the presidential election from her hometown of Wasilla before flying to Phoenix to join McCain for Election Night, according to a campaign official.

"Gov. Palin will return to Anchorage next Monday evening," McCain-Palin spokeswoman Meghan Stapleton said. "She will vote Tuesday morning in Wasilla before departing for Phoenix to join Sen. McCain for election night. ... Gov. Palin is very excited to return home to vote. Gov. Palin launched her public service career from Wasilla, and she will return there to cast her vote."

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I wonder if she's going to vote for Obama, too?

                               Obama/Biden '08/'12!
Regime Change 08

Al the Tank commanders pal.
The real question is whether she'll vote for Obama, whom she liked a lot before she was pegged as Veep. And will she vote for her Godfather Ted Stevens?
And this is news because...

Palin is an embarassment and she can thank her party for it!  
Well THANK GOD that's cleared up!!

Thanks for your investigative work Sherlock!
Cool...while she's there...she can stop in at her favorite consignment shop, and trade in some of her high dollar dud's for some soccer mom attire.
6:44 a.m.?  Wow.  You guys are up even earlier than my kids....

http://thepajamapundit.com/
Obviously, I've been a staunch supporter of Obama; but from a pragmatic standpoint, of course she should vote for Ted Stevens.  She gets to name the interim Senator if he wins and resigns.  I am surprised they aren't making a bigger deal out of it today.

PS.  Obama's new ad today is really good.  I can't wait for the 30 minute spot tonight.  Bring it on!
Someone in the campaign better be sure and explain to Sarah that her name is the one UNDER John McCain's since she's only the VP candidate.  Otherwise she won't be able to find herslef on the ballot.
So.... is she going to vote for Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted felon?
Ms. Palin ought to vote Absentee instead of wasting funds to fly home and then fly to Phoenix for announcement of Sen. McBush and her defeat at the hands of the Democrats with the OBAMA/BIDEN MANDATE!!!!

VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN '08/'12... my wife and I already did!

A RABID REPUBLICAN, VIENAM-ERA VET, FAT, OLD, PREJUDICED WHITE GUY NOW FOR OBAMA/BIDEN
 The "Dizzy Diva" is going to try too operate the voting machine and vote. "Puppet Palin" may confuse herself into painfully thinking that it is a Multiple Choice Test, and cheat. Since the "Puppet Palin" will be back home figuring out how to vote. Maybe the independent investigator can keep "Dizzy Diva" there up in Alaska. "Puppet Palin" can try to honestly explain "Housegate," "Travelgate," and other issues concerning ethics violations. Don't hold your breath Alaska!
Why is there no investigative coverage on Sarah Palin's 2.1 million dollar free home? Does Sarah Palin go scott free because she is a female politician?
.Could we propose that Ms. Palin stay in Wasilla...We would certainly call her back to the lower 48 if the need presented itself...I am thinking she can stay put for a long time.  Alaska needs her!!! We don't.
CAN'T YOU JUST KEEP HER THERE!?!?!  SHE'S SOOOOOO ANNOYING???  I'd love to see Karen, from 'Will and Grace' Imitate her....her iritating voice is exactly the same.....last night I tried to watch her speech, but had to change the channel.  Her 'S' sound...every time she says "YESSSSSSSSSSSS" after every frickin' thing she says, is soooo annoying!!!  My daughter thinks she's a "Slytherin" - the evil wizards in Harry Potter....

I'm beginning to agree,,,,I actually thought I saw a snakes tongue in her mouth when she was spewing all that bullsh** last night...

I'm sooo over her....gag me with a moose antler!!
We are all excited that Sarah Palin will return to Wasilla.
Don't come back!
Perhaps she can start her new national party from 'the base' called the "We are all Americans except you Party".
Or, better yet
the "More American than you Party" or
the "Better American Party" or
the "Confederation of the Bitter (not better) parts of America Party"
or the I'm an American, What are you Party".
Either way, she and the base can lick their wounds for forty angry years, this currenty Party is over.
please help me understand, if Anchorage Alaska is not backing Palin, if they have had her for Gov. and aren't convienced she is ready for the white house, why are there so many people who have JUST heard of her not convienced? I think there would be so many issues between Palin and, well everyone else if she is V.P. McCain made a bad decision with his V.P pick, it seems he made bad decisions picking his campaign team and he made bad decisions siding with G.W.B. Are we going to continue to let him make bad decisions for us? Well maybe we are, we said that G.W.B maybe the worst Pres. this country has ever seen, HOWEVER, even after he hasn't done anything right over the past 8 yrs. he comes on T.V. and says "Give me $700B and i'll get us out of this mess. We scratch our heads as we hand him the money. We knew about the loan but who they are paying is a secret!! He got us again and now he has already put in his TWO WEEKS NOTICE and he'll be taking a pretty good chunk of that money with him. Guess he could use this money to help prop up the leaning stack he made from the high oil prices. AND BY THE WAY, MCCAIN AGREED WITH THIS GUY 90% OF THE TIME....4 more years guys? Please!
When you are done voting Caribou Barbie why do you just remain. You Betcha!  A new dawn is coming. Thank YOU! The nightmare of the 8 long years of the Shrub will be up along with the robber barons called the gop and their right wing fascist leaning idealogical garbage that has become their hallmark of divide and conquer. McCain you were once a mavarick in 2000 now you are nothing but a vindictive and angry man who hitched your wagon to the supply-siders who have caused this economic fiasco, hate mongers and fundunmentalists religious fanatics. Goodby and good riddance.
Just asking...

Will the McCain Campaign be paying for these trips or do the good people of Alaska get the bill?
Please keep this Whack Job in Wasilla..The lies, the racism, and the idignaty of someone like Palin saying that Obama lacks experience is beyond laughable.

McCain is 72 which means every day Palin is closer and closer to becoming president. Do you guys not see how stupid this is, and how dangerous this is. A woman who has no education, is a creationist, a zealot in relation to abortion, has a teenage daughter pregant, is fighting curruption charges in her state. And lets not mention her disgusting plan to destroy Alaska for Oil.

She neither knows what her role will be an what it should be, she interviews badly and the $150,000 on cloths simply shouldn’t have happened, anyone with any sense about themselves would have said NO. This just shows how curruptable she is and how easily she can be bought by the machine.

And please tell me how and when they plan of ‘cleaning up Washington’? There is a saying ‘don’t bite the hand that feeds you’, neither McCain or Palin have said what their plan is to clean up Washington, this just further increases their lack of organization and planning.

They have been incredibly ignorant in this election, they have continued a very racial and purpose message of HATE and have become as fundamental as any member of Al-Quaida. And the lies, the LIES!!!! All these lies just show you how impossible it will be for them to change anything in washington.

For America to move forward it has to first regain the trust and support of the world, you need the world with you, standing next to you, and understanding that YOU are willing to change, to learn, and to accept that there is a world and thus world opinion. In him for the first time since Bobby Kennedy (well from the Film) I see the American dream, I see the American Hope, and I see America future.

She obviously doesn't care about the energy cost and waste all that unnecessary flying will cause. She could've absentee voted to save the planet from the extra green house gasses she'll cause all for a photo op of her voting in her hick town.  Whatever. Hope she enjoys her last minutes of fame.
Oh one more thing, she may have launched her career in Wasilla, but she's going to end in Phoenix!
And That's News... So Many Of Us Has Cast Our Early Vote Here In Florida. And What A Magnificent Ground Game Obama Has. So Many People White, Black,Hispanic All Helping To get People To The Polls. What A Wonderful Sight.Now Try To Deny Those Votes YOU REPUBLICAN Who Are Trying To Stop People From Voting.
We Will Prevail This Time.
To the pitbull from Wasilla:

SIT!

STAY!

ROLLOVER!!

PLAY DEAD!!!
She can run for Senate (Stevens seat) if she would win you know all the publicity she would garner would be a good parly into the next presidential election with a platform of enough experience ala Baracks' short term . However if Stevens would have an epiphany and decide to drop out for the good of the party she would be responsible to appoint his successor . Providing he wins the election should he win then resign keeping it a republican . If he loses and the democrate wins it would be moot . BTW Chuck Todd is the best !
Must be hunting season,bag a moose,shoot a few wolves from the Palin flootplane they shoot from.Will she be dropping off her 150,000$ worth of laundry to be dry cleaned?Seems like a waste of jet fuel,haven't they heard of absentee ballets.Or is it a cab run to pick up the hole family?
"YOU DEMS BETTER CALL YOUR DEALERS AND CANCEL YOUR ORDERS, YOUR WORLD IS CRUMBLING AGAIN,"
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Allow me to to refute your lie-filled rant: this Democratic household is chemical-free.  It's organic fruits and vegetables for this family.  

And stop yelling, would ya?    
I hope she returns to Wasilla, never to return.  I never want to see this corrupt, nasty politician ever again, but Im sure we have not heard the last of her, unfortunately, she appeals to the radical base of her party.
Great. Y'know  she can see Russia from her backyard! Betcha. (wink wink)
gman,

Your post is right on..Sarah is guilty of everything she is accusing Obama of doing..Isn't that called projection? In case you missed gman's post, here it is again:

"Hey FR, why is it that KO is the only "journalist" to call out Palin on her BS in regard to the socialism claim. Why is it that it is only there that we see Palin saying how Alaska's resources belong to Alaskans. How Alaska reditributes their wealth to it's people. How Alaska is sometimes known as the socialist state. How she raised taxes on oil companies, (she calls that "taking on the oil companies") Why is this hypocrisy not being mentioned?"

Why is the MSM not discussing this?
you know there's nothing she loves more than being able to vote for herself, she's so full of herself.
"Did you know she is head of the first defence of this country. 49th Alaska Military Reserve, and frequently breifed on national security and homeland defence. Our defence missles based in Alaska are our 1st line of defence should we be attacked. I didn't know this ???  Obama and you people say she is inexperienced. Well looks like Obama is a bigger idiot than we thought ! "

A state govenor does not recieve the classified briefings. They are only brief on where their National Guard is being "Federalized" for deployment.

Alsaka has no control on the federal troops stationed there. with a population of under 600,000 the Alaskan National Guard consist of about 5,000 people.

As to her executive leadership - the Alaskan Legislature is only in session from Jan to Apr of the year


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