"The
American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of 'personal discovery.'
This world of threats and dangers is not just a community, and it doesn't just
need an organizer."
“But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the
roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those
Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is
our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s
done turning back the waters and healing the planet?"
"This
is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting, and
never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own
campaign. But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the
crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek
columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent's
plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back
the waters and healing the planet? The answer is to make government bigger ...
take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to
reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy
... our opponent is against producing it."
”change is not a destination and hope is not a
strategy.”
“I never really set out to be
involved in public affairs, much less to run for this office... I was just your
average hockey mom in Alaska... busy raising our kids. I was serving as the team
mom and coaching some basketball on the side. I got involved in the PTA and then
was elected to the city council, and then elected mayor of my hometown, where my
agenda was to stop wasteful spending, and cut property taxes, and put the people
first. I was then appointed ethics commissioner and chairman of the Alaska Oil
and Gas Conservation Commission. And when I found corruption there, I fought it
hard, and I held the offenders to account. Along with fellow reformers in the
great state of Alaska, as governor, I’ve stood up to the old politics as
usual, to the special interests, to the lobbyists, the big oil companies, and
the good-ole-boy network. When oil and gas prices went up so dramatically and
the state revenues followed with that increase, I sent a large share of that
revenue directly back to the people of Alaska. And we are now... embarking on a
$40 billion natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. I
signed major ethics reform. And I appointed both Democrats and independents to
serve in my administration. I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark
spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress... ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’
on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we’d build it
ourselves. Well, it’s always... safer in politics to avoid risk, to just kind
of go along with the status quo. But I didn’t get into government to do the
safe and easy things. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why the ship is
built. Politics isn’t just a game of competing interests and clashing parties.
The people of America expect us to seek public office and to serve for the right
reasons. And the right reason is to challenge the status quo and to serve the
common good. Now, no one expects us to agree on everything, whether in Juneau or
in Washington. But we are expected to govern with integrity, and goodwill, and
clear convictions, and a servant’s heart.” —Alaska Governor and Republican
VP Nominee Sarah Palin
“Unlike Barack
Obama, who thought so highly of himself that he wrote two autobiographies before
he accomplished anything, Mrs. Palin has raised a family, run a business,
managed a city and governed a state. She took on corrupt members of her own
party, toppled a sitting Republican governor and said ‘no’ to Alaska’s
infamous ‘Bridge to Nowhere.’ She is pro-life, pro-family, pro-Second
Amendment and pro-free enterprise. She is the governor of America’s most
natural resource-rich state and is an advocate of oil drilling in ANWR. (Perhaps
she can talk some sense into McCain on that issue.) Oh, and she has an 80
percent approval rating among Alaskans.” —Doug Patton
