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The Note: Palin Delivers -- But Too Late for McCain?

October 03, 2008 8:45 AM

ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Friday's Note:

ST. LOUIS -- Where’s she been? (And where can she still take him?)

Take that, Tina Fey: You betcha Gov. Sarah Palin is back -- darn right (wink) -- and it might matter yet. She may not have been a clear winner Thursday night, but the McCain ticket has got a different story to shout out on Friday -- even if all Palin did was square-dance over the bar she had lowered herself.

She did more than that, actually, and that gives Sen. John McCain the narrowest of openings. In a political world that’s falling apart for the GOP almost by the hour, Palin (plus a House vote Friday that puts the bailout package out of its miserable turn in the news cycle) can buy a little time.

Maybe she doesn’t want to talk more about global warming, or about what vice presidents do, or about who’s commanding US troops in Afghanistan. Perhaps she isn’t entirely clear on where her running mate is on everything (it’s only been, like, five weeks). Maybe (definitely) she really, really wants us to think she and McCain are “mavericks.”

But Palin returned to the source of her popularity Thursday night at Washington University in St. Louis -- the folksy, aw-shucks, look-who’s-running-for-vice-president appeal that reminds us that shortly before she was a drag on the ticket she was a phenom in her own right.

Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.

Sen. Joe Biden may have turned in the better debate performance. But it was Palin’s night regardless, and she’s still a force and a factor now. If this is still a race, John McCain will have some company for it yet.

“By surviving her encounter with Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. and quelling some of the talk about her basic qualifications for high office, she may even have done Senator John McCain a bit of good, freeing him to focus on the other troubles shadowing his campaign,” Adam Nagourney writes in The New York Times.

Nagourney continues: “It was not a tipping point for the embattled Republican presidential ticket, the bad night that many Republicans had feared. But neither did it constitute the turning point the McCain campaign was looking for after a stretch of several weeks in which Senator Barack Obama seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the race.”

Does this mean we get to talk about the presidential candidates again? “One debate will not erase doubts that have been building about Palin's capacity to serve as vice president, but the effect of the encounter may shift the focus away from the sideshow that Palin has become and put it back on the two presidential nominees and what they would do for the country,” Dan Balz writes in The Washington Post. “Republicans had a positive reaction, as if a weight had been lifted off McCain's shoulders.”

Palin was “poised and confident, speaking colloquially in a way that could appeal to independents,” Bill Lambrecht writes in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “She was fluent, if not brilliant, on foreign policy. And even if she didn't actually answer some of moderator Gwen Ifill's questions, many voters may not have noticed and others probably won't hold it against her.”

On style, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos gives Palin an A and Biden an A-; both get Bs on accuracy.

Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.

ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.

October 3, 2008 in Biden, Joe, McCain, John, Obama, Barack, Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Democrats, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (232)

The Note: Expectations Low -- Can Palin Soar?

October 02, 2008 8:56 AM

ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Thursday's Note:

ST. LOUIS -- Maybe Sarah Barracuda knows her head fakes.

Might the stumbling, halting performances have been the best thing that could have happened to Gov. Sarah Palin?

Surely she can clear the bar Tina Fey set for her. Certainly she’s been studying up on issues that move beyond Alaska’s proximity to Russia. Naturally she’ll find a way to ease in some zingers that she knows better than most will be the soundbites people remember. (And if all else fails -- blame the refs.)

It’s a face-off of a peculiar sort on tap for 8 pm CT (9 pm ET) Thursday: Palin and Sen. Joe Biden will be measured on their interactions with each other, but mostly they’ll be measured against themselves. And, sorry, Joe, most of the public is tuning in to see only one of the two candidates on stage at Washington University in St. Louis.

This is the Palin-Biden debate -- though really it will be Palin’s night, the single biggest opportunity for the nation to see its celebrity candidate doing something close to approximating the work she’d be presumed to have to do should she win.

Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.

And with a fresh round of national and state-level polls showing some Obama separation -- and some Palin drag -- there may be no better chance for the McCain-Palin ticket to jump back into the ballgame.

(What does it say about the McCain-Palin team’s confidence that the conservative noise machine was trying to drown out the moderator before a question has been asked? And when will Team McCain get introduced to the Google?) 

This is star power, fading:

“Skepticism about Sarah Palin has soared since she entered the national political stage, with six in 10 Americans now doubting her qualifications for office and fewer than half convinced of her grasp of complex issues,” ABC polling director Gary Langer writes of the new ABC News/Washington Post numbers. 

“In advance of her debate against Joe Biden tonight, Palin now looks more like a drag than a boost to the GOP ticket: Thirty-two percent of registered voters say her selection makes them less likely to support John McCain for president, up from 19 percent last month,” Langer writes. “Just 35 percent say Palin has the experience it takes to serve effectively as president, down a dozen points since early September; 60 percent think not, up 15.” 

Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.

ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.

October 2, 2008 in Biden, Joe, Bush, George W., Clinton, Bill, McCain, John, Obama, Barack, Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Democrats, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (77)

Biden Rips McCain for Saying Fundamentals of Economy are "Strong'

September 15, 2008 5:49 PM

ABC News' Matt Jaffe reports: Barack Obama's vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden ripped into Republican candidate John McCain Monday for saying that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong."

Arguing that McCain is "divorced" from the economic realities of the country, Biden used McCain's own words earlier in the day Jacksonville against the GOP nominee.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I believe that’s why John McCain could say with a straight face as recently as this morning and this is a quote, 'the fundamentals of the economy are strong.' That’s what John said. He says that 'We’ve made great progress economically in the Bush years",' Biden said in St. Clair Shores, Michigan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, I could walk from here to Lansing, and I wouldn’t run into a single person who thought our economy was doing well, unless I ran into John McCain."
 
Biden frequently uses similar language on the stump, but Monday he blamed the current state of the nation's economy on American voters' faith eight years ago in a Republican candidate's promises, urging them not to make the same mistake again.

"Remember those promises. Remember what he said," Biden said about President George W. Bush. "Remember the promise to reach across the aisle? To change the way things were done in Washington, to change the tone? To restore honor and dignity to the White House? You know, we saw how that story ends. A number, a record number of home foreclosures. Home values tumbling. And the disturbing news that the crisis that you've been facing on Main Street is now hitting Wall Street, taking down Lehman Brothers and threatening other large financial institutions. We have seen eight straight months of job loss in America. Nearly 46 million Americans without any health insurance. Average incomes down, while the price of everything from gas to groceries is going up and up."

The Delaware senator also accused McCain of making American workers into "economic scapegoats."

"Don’t tell me those people, the people who played by the rules, who are the heart and soul of this country, don’t tell me they deserve to be treated as the economic scapegoats that the McCain campaign is treating them - these people worked hard, these people did everything they were supposed to do, these people are ready to work hard again, our job is to give them jobs so they can work hard again," Biden said. 

Biden noted that McCain had surrounded himself with advisers like his former Phil Gramm, who said months ago that America had become a "nation of whiners."

"They’re the people John McCain chose himself, chose to be surrounded with getting economic advice on the subject he says he doesn’t know much about. Well let me tell you, tell that to my friend, tell that to my friend Billy who flew jets in the Navy, worked 20 years for the major airlines, they went bankrupt, wiped out his pension. The CEO got a golden parachute. Don’t tell me he’s a whiner. And by the way, if you knew Billy, don’t dare tell him because he’ll knock you on your know what if you tell him he’s a whiner," Biden said. 

The McCain campaign hit back Monday, arguing the Democratic ticket is the "most partisan ticket" in presidential politics.

"This is the most partisan ticket in modern presidential politics attempting to repackage outdated and failed policies of the past," said McCain spokesman Ben Porritt. "Barack Obama and his running mate are insistent upon raising taxes which would kill jobs and continue to refuse responsible energy legislation that would reduce gas prices."

September 15, 2008 in McCain, John, Obama, Barack, Veepstakes | Permalink | User Comments (123)

Palin Speaks At Son's Iraq Deployment Ceremony

September 11, 2008 6:48 PM

ABC News' Kate Snow and Imtiyaz Delawala report: Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin said a very public goodbye to her 19-year-old son, Track, this afternoon on a tarmac at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The Alaska Governor was at the deployment ceremony as featured speaker and mother of Track Palin, who is one of the 4000 soldiers of the Army's Stryker Brigade Combat Team of the 25th Infantry Division deploying to Iraq. 

"Don't mind us if we allow for a few tears," Palin said.  "Because we're gonna miss you. We can’t help it. We’re gonna miss you."

She called the fight in Iraq a "righteous cause" and talked of the need to defend America from terrorists.

"You'll be there to defend the innocent," she said.  "America can never go back to that false sense of security that came before September 11, 2001."

"Soldiers, we honor you. Each one of these soldiers is here by choice," she said.

Palin never referenced her own son.  As his mother spoke, Track Palin stood at attention wearing desert fatigues and a black beret, in a formation of some 4,000 soldiers facing the crowd of friends and family.  He was nearly anonymous among the soldiers of his unit—nicknamed the "Grey Wolves."

Once in Iraq, Palin's son will provide security for his brigade commander and deputy commander, said Major Chris Hyde, Public Information Officer for the 1st Stryker Brigade.

Hyde said Track Palin has not sought out special treatment, calling him a "low-key guy" who rarely mentions being the son of the governor.

Like others in the brigade, Palin's son will ride in a Stryker vehicle.

In her remarks to the crowd of soldiers and their family and a swarm of news cameras, Sarah Palin talked about the "choice" each soldier made to join the Army.

“For every soldier who leaves us here today it is a choice that defines you,” she said.

“We are so proud of you. You could’ve chosen an easier, more comfortable path… instead you chose service,” Palin said.

The Republican vice presidential nominee predicted the soldiers would "one day see victory" but said before then, they would have much to endure.

Palin spoke from written notes and seemed to struggle a bit with names of Iraqi cities like Mosul, Tel Afar and others.

"Never doubt that we are thinking of you, praying for you," Palin concluded, "We’ll pray for you as we do now that the Lord will protect you and safely bring you home.  Serve with honor soldiers. Make America proud!"

She then gave a less than forceful "hoo-ah" -- the traditional Army cheer.

Thursday's ceremony marks the second time the brigade has been deployed to Iraq.

In an interview Thursday with ABC News' Charlie Gibson, Palin spoke about her son's decision to join the Army.

"What I know is that my son has made a decision," she told Gibson, "I am so proud of his independent and strong decision he has made, what he decided to do and serving for the right reasons and serving something greater than himself and not choosing a real easy path where he could be more comfortable and certainly safer."

Three of the four presidential and vice-presidential candidates have sons headed to Iraq or who have been there . Sen. Joe Biden's son, Capt. Beau Biden, will also be deployed to Iraq in the next few weeks.

John McCain's son, 19-year-old Marine Lance Corp. Jimmy McCain, just returned from a tour in the Anbar province of Iraq after a six-month deployment, but unlike his running mate, John McCain never mentions it on the stump.

That's in stark contrast to Palin's public highlighting of her son's service, which has led some to question whether she has politicized Track's deployment.

John Nagl, a senior fellow at the Center for New American Security, told ABC News' John Berman that these kinds of public announcements can be a double-edged sword.

"It is the mark of an enthusiastic and proud mother, but it does pose conceivably some risk on the soldier and the unit," Nagl said.

ABC News' John Berman contributed to this report.

September 11, 2008 in Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (78)

Will Palin Win Ben Stein's Vote? Stein: 'She Scares Me'

September 03, 2008 6:28 PM

ABC News' Lindsey Ellerson and Nitya Venkataraman Report: Political commentator and actor Ben Stein, in a starring role this week as one of the Republican National Convention's biggest celebrities, told ABC News he has his concerns about Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, but hopes it "works out for him."

Stein, a former speechwriter in the Nixon and Ford administrations, expressed doubt over McCain's VP curveball. "I don't know if she scares Obama, but she scares me -- and I hope I turn out to be totally wrong -- but right now, she's scaring me. He has chosen a very oddball, strange choice and, God bless him, I hope it works out for him.

"What if he wins the election and passes into eternity and she becomes president?" wondered Stein.  "I think it's quite possible that he'll win the election.  Whether or not we will be happy if he passes into eternity and she becomes president is a very big question."

Despite Stein's strong reaction to Palin, he did give her some credit, saying she has "some credentials," just not enough "familiarity with national policy."

Stein may have had Minnesota Gov. and former McCain VP contender Tim Pawlenty on his mind in another reference to Palin when he stated that Palin was "like 52 to pickup, where you just toss a deck of cards up in the air and somebody has to pick them all up. Now the Republicans have to pick them all up, and Mr. McCain basically threw it all up in the air by picking Sarah Pawlenty, now we've got to pick it all up again," Stein said.

Given the busy and newsy week in presidential politics, Stein says being a celebrity at the convention feels like, "everything has been turned upside down."

"Movie stars are not stars," Stein said. "Movie stars are paper mache stars.  The real stars are in Afghanistan and Iraq, and at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.  The real stars are giving their hearts' blood to defend this country and to suppress the terrorism."

Stein also doled out some advice for Palin in advance of her speech to the RNC Wednesday evening, suggesting she be declarative and stay true to her basic conservative values.

"Look here, I am Sarah Palin from Sandpoint, Idaho, I'm not from Harvard, I'm not from Yale, I'm not from Wellesley, I buy my clothes at Wal-Mart ... I don't have a cook, I don't have a chauffeur, I don't have an image consultant ... I don’t have a maid, I clean up the house myself ... But, I know what's right and what's wrong," Stein offered.

Stein recently wrote "How to Ruin the United States of America," with friend Phil DeMuth. The bottom line, he says, is "it's great being in America." 

September 3, 2008 in McCain, John, Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (108)

Conservatives Rip Media for Palin Coverage

September 02, 2008 10:08 PM

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Conservative leaders ripped the media on Tuesday for what they view as unfair coverage of John McCain's running mate.

"Sarah Palin represents everything they hate," said radio talk-show host Laura Ingraham. "Life is the first. Big families. Hunting. Patriotism. Gun ownership. Beating back fat bloated bureaucracy. Holding government accountable. Fighting liberal corruption. Sarah Palin stands for all of these principles that if taken away from the Left, it's over for them. It's over."

"They ought to be ashamed of themselves," said Gary Bauer, the founder of the conservative Campaign for Working Families, while pointing to the press risers. 

The remarks criticizing the media were made at "The Life of the Party," an event hosted by conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly and the Republican National Coalition for Life. The comments about Palin were the latest sign that her selection as McCain's running mate may have reignited the "culture wars."

Ingraham charged that the media would have celebrated Bristol Palin, the pregnant 17-year old daughter of the Alaska governor, if she had chosen to have an abortion. Palin announced on Monday that her daughter was keeping the baby and planning to marry the father.

"Look, the cause of life is the dividing line in our culture and it has been for some time now, for decades," said Ingraham. "Sarah Palin is a woman who dared to cross that line. And if Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, had been the daughter of a Democratic candidate for the presidency, or the vice presidency, and if that daughter had come to her mother, or come to us, the public, and had said, 'look, my choice is to abort the child,' then that daughter, and that political family, would, we all know, be hailed by the same elites who are launching a blistering assault on this woman and her family."

"The jig is up fellas," she added.

The purpose of Tuesday's "Life of the Party" event, which was held in St. Paul, Minn., was to honor Palin for being a political figure who "not only talks-the-talk, but walks-the-walk" when it comes to putting "life first."

Before being chosen to be McCain's running mate, Palin was scheduled to attend Tuesday's "Life of the Party" event.

The McCain campaign notified Schlafly on Monday night that the presumptive vice presidential nominee would not be attending. Debbie Joslin, a Republican National Committeewoman from Alaska, accepted the "Life of the Party" award on Palin's behalf.

September 2, 2008 in Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (77)

Buyer's Remorse?

September 02, 2008 8:25 PM

ABC News' Karen Travers and Arnab Datta report: We have heard a lot about Sarah Palin in the last few days, but apparently, her name still is not familiar to everyone in the Republican Party.

RNC co-chair Jo Ann Davidson, speaking about the role of women in the Republican Party, said "[W]e are holding a convention that will nominate a Republican woman governor -– Sarah Pawlenty, our next vice president!

Oops -- that should be Palin, not Pawlenty ... as in Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who was also on McCain's short list to be his running mate. (Perhaps Davidson just has Minnesota on her mind -- the convention is in St. Paul).

Davidson referred to the last GOP convention held in Minnesota, "1892 was the last year a Republican National Convention was held in Minneapolis. That was the first Republican convention to seat two women alternates from Wyoming, which you will remember, was one of the first states that allowed women the right to vote."

She continued, "But the 1892 convention here was another first for Republicans. Judith Ellen Foster, the first president of the National Women's Republican Association, and a leader in the women's suffrage movement, became the first woman to speak at a Republican convention with these words, 'we are here to help you and we are here to stay.'"

Davidson then referenced the progress made by women in the party, adding, "her words were prophetic. Ever since that convention, women have been an integral part of the party. And today, 116 years later, we are holding a convention that will nominate a Republican woman governor -– Sarah Pawlenty, our next vice president!"

September 2, 2008 in Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (139)

Graham on Palin: 'Ready to Lead'

August 31, 2008 2:46 PM

ABC News' Ben Newman Reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., made his case this morning that the Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is ready to serve in the White House. “She's tough. She's talented. She's ready to lead,” said Graham.

In an exclusive interview with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week," Graham, a longtime friend and staunch supporter of presumptive GOP presidential nominee John McCain, backed the Arizona senator’s pick. “John McCain is trying to tell the American people I got it… I've picked somebody that knows how to fix government, I've picked somebody that will stand up to powerful people in her own backyard and together we’re going to change this place,” said Graham.

When questioned whether he would feel safe and confident with Palin as president, should something happen to McCain, Graham responded, “Compared to Barack Obama I think she would make one hell of a commander-in-chief.”

In a separate interview on "This Week," Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts disagreed, challenging Palin’s foreign policy credentials.

“[McCain’s] chosen somebody that has zero, zero experience in foreign policy," said Kerry. "The first threshold test of a president, of a nominee, is choosing a vice president, is to prove to the American people that the person that you have chosen can fill in tomorrow."

Kerry also suggested Palin was not qualified to take over office should tragedy strike McCain. “I'm sure she is a terrific person,” he said. “I'm not attacking her. I think John McCain's judgment is once again put at issue because he has chosen somebody who clearly does not meet the national security threshold, who is not ready to be president tomorrow.”

Graham claimed, however, that Palin's executive experience as governor trumps the experiences of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama. “She's been a governor. She's been in charge of the National Guard. What has Senator Obama done in terms of managing a war? His judgment when it comes to matters of war had been terrible.

Contradicting suggestions that former supporters of Hillary Clinton, Obama's rival in the hard-fought Democratic primaries, will flock to the McCain-Palin ticket, Kerry claimed the policy differences between the two women makes it highly unlikely.

The people who supported Hillary Clinton are not going to be seduced just because John McCain has picked a woman," Kerry said. "They're going to look at what she supports. The fact that she doesn't even support the notion that climate change is manmade -- she's back there with the Flat Earth Caucus. I think it's almost insulting to the Hillary supporters that they believe they would support somebody who is against almost everything that they believe in.”

August 31, 2008 in Veepstakes | Permalink | User Comments (139)

Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made

August 29, 2008 8:21 PM

ABC News’ Rick Klein Reports: Among the issues Sen. John McCain will have to smooth over with his new running mate: global warming.

In an interview for the September issue of the conservative magazine Newsmax, Gov. Sarah Palin, R-Alaska, said she does not believe climate change is caused by human behavior.

“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made,” Palin said in the interview, which was posted online Friday.

McCain, R-Ariz., by contrast, has broken with his party’s dogma by supporting a mandatory program to cap carbon emissions -- a point of pride for McCain as he burnishes his independent reputation.

Palin’s quote about global warming not being manmade is also at odds with the freshly approved GOP platform for 2008. That language -- adopted by the party this week -- marks the first time the Republican Party’s policy document addresses climate change.

"The same human activity that has brought freedom and opportunity to billions has also increased the amount of carbon in the atmosphere," the document reads. "Increased atmospheric carbon has a warming effect on the earth." 

A McCain campaign spokeswoman, Maria Comella, disputed suggestions that Palin does not recognize the reality of global warming. As governor, she created a new “sub-cabinet” agency last September, to advise her office “on the preparation and implementation of an Alaska climate change strategy.”   

She has also endorsed efforts to learn more about human impacts on climate change.

“Governor Palin not only stands with John McCain in his belief that global warming is a critical issue that must be addressed, but she has been a leader in addressing climate change,” Comella said.

Palin and McCain disagree on another key environmental issue: drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in Palin’s home state of Alaska. Palin is for it, while McCain wants to keep the refuge off-limits.

"It's nonsense not to tap a safe domestic source of oil. I think Americans need to hold Congress accountable on this one," Palin told Newsmax about drilling in ANWR.

August 29, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, McCain, John, Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans | Permalink | User Comments (377)

Bush Won't Attack Obama at Republican Convention

August 29, 2008 4:08 PM

ABC News' Jennifer Duck reports: During the heated 2008 presidential race, President Bush has never attacked Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., by name, and on Friday, Press Secretary Dana Perino told reporters the president has no plans to attack the Democratic presidential nominee when he addresses the Republican National Convention on Monday.

“Do not expect the speech to define the president's legacy.  This is not an opportunity to recap accomplishments of the past seven and a half years.  It will not serve as a farewell to the American people, and it certainly will not attack Barack Obama," Perino said.

One reporter asked "why not" and Perino replied with a laugh, "Because he's got class.”

In May, Bush launched a sharp attack on Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor "appeasement" of terrorists, but the president was careful not to use Obama's name directly while speaking to the Knesset on the 60th anniversary of Israel's statehood.

"Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," Bush said during a visit to Jerusalem.

"We have heard this foolish delusion before.  As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared, 'Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.' We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history."

Perino told reporters Bush didn't stay up to watch the Democratic presidential candidate's acceptance speech, but did catch the coverage today and congratulates Obama on his achievements.

“It speaks volumes for this country that it's an opportunity -- it's the land of opportunity for all people,” Perino said.

Bush also had kind words for Sen. John McCain's, R-Ariz., new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. 

"Gov. Palin’s success is due to her dedication to principle and her roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic, and serves as a wonderful example of the spirit of America," Bush said in a written statement.  "By selecting a working mother with a track record of getting things done, Sen. McCain has once again demonstrated his commitment to reforming Washington."

August 29, 2008 in Bush, George W., Palin, Sarah, Veepstakes, Vote 2008: Republicans, White House | Permalink | User Comments (75)