VP- Wrong- Oh. It's the Beauty Queen

Oh. I was wrong, but was I?

According to Wikipedia :

According to ABC News, McCain was originally thinking of selecting Lieberman, but was told that the Republican base would never accept Lieberman because of his moderate-to-liberal social views.

Going further, I heard that McCain was told that if he nominated Joe Lieberman, the convention would explode. Darn... that would have been must-see TV!

Palin has an interesting background.
First Alaskan Governor born after statehood granted (1964)
First Beauty Queen nominated for VP (Miss Alaska, 1984)
Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner

She was appointed as chairman to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, where she chaired the Commission from 2003 to 2004, and also served as Ethics Supervisor.[19] She resigned in protest over what she called the "lack of ethics" of fellow Republican members.[20][6]

After she resigned, Palin exposed the state Republican Party's chairman, Randy Ruedrich, one of her fellow Oil & Gas commissioners, who was accused of doing work for the party on public time and working closely with a company he was supposed to be regulating.

Shortly after she was elected Governor, Palin rescinded 35 appointments made by the previous Governor in the last hours of his administration, including that of his former chief of staff James "Jim" Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority. This chief of staff, later pleaded guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into the previous governor's re-election campaign.

One blotch on her record. Sounds like partisan politics to me.

On July 11, 2008, Palin dismissed Public Safety Commissioner Walter Monegan.
However, the fired commissioner alleges that his termination was simply a family political feud.
The former commissioner alleges that he was dismissed because he didn't want to to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, a state trooper who was involved in a bitter divorce and child custody battle with Palin’s sister. The trooper admitted using a Taser on his 10-year-old stepson. Palin said that she heard him threatening to shoot her and McCann’s father.

The trooper was disciplined, but this seems like a clear-cut example of her cutting her own ethical standards to support her family.


Hmmm.. More republican politics...???