From the Official Sarah Palin Fan Club - By Peter AndrewConservativeAmerican.org
During the 2008 campaign, we all got tired of hearing coastal media liberals saying Sarah Palin was “not qualified” to be Vice President. Reasons cited included the fact she was a woman and that she came from Alaska. Their amazement that anyone smart could be in Alaska was insulting and the insult was personified in liberal actress Tina Fey. The liberals lamented, “Alaska was too far away. Alaska is too small. No one actually lives in Alaska. Her state budget must be teeny tiny…how could she be qualifed? Alaska is not on the East coast, is it?”
Let’s look at some facts like state populations, budgets and size. While these things don’t guarantee brilliance, they do speak to the job that Sarah Palin has as Governor of Alaska and they put to rest any ridiculous assertion that, because she is from Alaska, she is less than bright, uninformed (as Baba Wawa said on ABCDEmocrat News), or somehow unqualified for national office.
First, let’s look at the size of her state. Sarah Palin is in charge of more geography than any other governor. It is the largest of the 50 states by far. It’s nearly three times the size of Texas and makes California look small!
Source: AlaskaHeritage.com. If we superimpose Alaska over the contiguous states (image above), Alaska would stretch from Georgia to California! From Alaska Heritage:
“Check the Chart [Alaska Heritage.com] created below to see how many of your states could fit inside Alaska. Area: Land 570,375 sq miles (1,477,268 sq km), or Land and Water 656,425 sq miles, Alaska is one-fifth the size of the Lower 48 states combined.
States Ranked for Total Area & Size Comparison with AK
Rank
State
Total
Sq miles
Size Comparison
1
Alaska
656,424
1 Alaska= 1 Alaska
2
Texas
268,601
1 Alaska= 2.44 Texas(s)
3
California
163,707
1 Alaska= 4.01 California(s)
4
Montana
147,046
1 Alaska= 4.46 Montana(s)
5
New Mexico
121,598
1 Alaska= 5.40 New Mexico(s)
6
Arizona
114,006
1 Alaska= 5.76 Arizona(s)
7
Nevada
110,567
1 Alaska= 5.94 Nevada(s)
8
Colorado
104,100
1 Alaska= 6.29 Colorado(s)
9
Oregon
98,386
1 Alaska= 6.65 Oregon(s)
10
Wyoming
97,818
1 Alaska=6.70 Wyoming(s)
11
Michigan
96,810
1 Alaska= 6.76 Michigan(s)
12
Minnesota
86,943
1 Alaska= 7.53 Minnesota(s)
13
Utah
84,904
1 Alaska= 7.71 Utah(s)
14
Idaho
83,574
1 Alaska= 7.83 Idaho(s)
15
Kansas
82,282
1 Alaska= 7.95 Kansas(s)
16
Nebraska
77,358
1 Alaska= 8.46 Nebraska(s)
17
South Dakota
77,121
1 Alaska= 8.48 South Dakota(s)
18
Washington
71,303
1 Alaska= 9.18 Washington(s)
19
North Dakota
70,704
1 Alaska= 9.26 North Dakota(s)
20
Oklahoma
69,903
1 Alaska= 9.36 Oklahoma(s)
21
Missouri
69,709
1 Alaska= 9.39 Missouri(s)
22
Florida
65,758
1 Alaska= 9.95 Florida(s)
23
Wisconsin
65,503
1 Alaska= 9.99 Wisconsin(s)
24
Georgia
59,441
1 Alaska= 11.01 Georgia(s)
25
Illinois
57,918
1 Alaska= 11.30 Illinois(s)
26
Iowa
56,276
1 Alaska= 11.63 Iowa(s)
27
New York
54,475
1 Alaska= 12.01 New York(s)
28
North Carolina
53,821
1 Alaska= 12.16 North Carolina(s)
29
Arkansas
53,182
1 Alaska= 12.31 Arkansas(s)
30
Alabama
52,423
1 Alaska= 12.48 Alabama (s)
31
Louisiana
51,843
1 Alaska= 12.62 Louisiana(s)
32
Mississippi
48,434
1 Alaska= 13.51 Mississippi(s)
33
Pennsylvania
46,058
1 Alaska= 14.21 Pennsylvania(s)
34
Ohio
44,828
1 Alaska= 14.60 Ohio(s)
35
Virginia
42,769
1 Alaska= 15.30 Virginia(s)
36
Tennessee
42,146
1 Alaska= 15.53 Tennessee(s)
37
Kentucky
40,411
1 Alaska= 16.19 Kentucky(s)
38
Indiana
36,420
1 Alaska= 17.97 Indiana(s)
39
Maine
35,387
1 Alaska= 18.49 Maine(s)
40
South Carolina
32,007
1 Alaska= 20.45 South Carolina(s)
41
West Virginia
24,231
1 Alaska= 27.01 West Virginia(s)
42
Maryland
12,407
1 Alaska= 52.75 Maryland(s)
43
Hawaii
10,932
1 Alaska= 59.86 Hawaii(s)
44
Massachusetts
10,555
1 Alaska= 62.00 Massachusetts(s)
45
Vermont
9,615
1 Alaska= 68.06 Vermont(s)
46
New Hampshire
9,351
1 Alaska= 69.98 New Hampshire(s)
47
New Jersey
8,722
1 Alaska= 75.03 New Jersey(s)
48
Connecticut
5,544
1 Alaska= 118.04 Connecticut(s)
49
Delaware
2,489
1 Alaska= 262.93 Delaware(s)
50
Rhode Island
1,545
1 Alaska= 423.56 Rhode Island(s)
Governor Sarah Palin is in charge of an area of our planet that is larger than many countries! She is the leader of an area which is more than twice the size of France. Maybe we should check with Alaska before we take military action instead of worrying what the French will think of us! It’s nearly three times the size of Spain. Alaska is seven times the size of Great Britian. It is nonsense to suggest this woman does not know what she is doing! if we use the state’s size as a criteria, she is more qualified to be President of the United States than any other governor.
Now people will say, “yes, it is big, but size does not matter. No one lives there!” Okay, let’s now look at population in terms of if she would be qualified to be President of the United States. The following information if from the US Census Bureau as of July 1, 2006.
By population, Alaska is the 4th smallest state, ranking 47th out of 50. Interestingly enough, it has more population than former Governor Howard Dean’s Vermont. I think I remember Howard Dean running for President once. Yes, yes…it is coming back to me now. No one said Dean was “uninformed” just because he was from a smaller state in both size and population. No one questioned Howard Dean’s qualifications because he was “just” from Vermont or “only” a man! The obvious difference is coastal liberals live in Vermont. Of course they thought he was qualified, he is one of them! Heck, they even made him chair of their national party!!!
Senator Joe Biden…let’s see, he ran for President too, didn’t he? Yes, yes he did. His state is 45th in population compared to Palin’s 47th. It has fewer than 200,000 more people than Alaska. No one questioned Joe Biden’s qualifications coming from such an “insignificant” state (no, I don’t believe Deleware is insignificant, I am merely demonstrating the double standard of the liberals gone coastal). No one said he was too dumb to be President or too uninformed to be one heart beat away from the oval office. Yet he made far more gaffe’s than Sarah Palin.
Democrat Bill Richardson, also a presidential candidate, comes from a state that is 36th in population. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her former President husband, Bill, came from Arkansas. Arkansas was 32nd in terms of population, not a large state by any means. No one questioned Richardson on his qualifications. No one said he or either Clinton had a “lot of hubris” (like Charles H. Hubris Gibson told Sarah Palin on ABCDEmocrat News) just for thinking they might be qualified to be president. (Man that Gibson guy gets my blood boiling. What an unfair piece of slime!)
If size does matter and you’re looking at the state’s populations as your only consideration, the top two democrat candidates for President would be Rod Blagojevich (have heard that name before too) of Illinois and David Paterson of New York. On the Republican side it would be Rick Perry of Texas and Charlie Crist of Florida (obviously the Governator is not able to run for President…thank God for small favors!). Romney, Pawlenty, Palin and Jindal would all be far behind if this was the determining factor in intelligence. Obviously it is not that factor, but the liberals insisted anyone from that far up north simply could not be qualified, eh.
Okay, so size of the state and even how many people live there doesn’t matter, right? What about the size of the “business” they are the CEO of? Let’s look at expenditures by state and see if Alaska is a real state after all, or just some small Mom-and-Pop “business”-state. The following information is from the National Governor’s Association and the National Association of State Budget Officers. It was released just this month.
The Governor’s Assocation report says states realize how important it is to have budget reserve balances to address fiscal downturns. Under Sarah Palin, Alaska increased the state budget reserve by 47%. That put her second behind only Rick Perry of Texas. Wisconsin had the worst state budget reserve.
If we use the budget size data to put Alaska in perspective with other states, you can see that Governor Billy Bob Clinton from Arkansas was far less qualified than Sarah Palin to be President. No one doubted Clinton or his lying eyes! Yes, this is 2007 data, but not much has changed. Clinton’s state is 37th on the list. Howard Dean’s state budget was 47th out of 50 states!It certainly took a lot of hubris (excessive pride and arrogance) for Howard Dean to think he could be qualified to be President of the United States! Palin’s budget size is 32nd on the list. That makes her more qualified than Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton or Howard Dean.
Richardson’s state is 29th, very close to Palin’s. I guess Richardson is just as “uninformed” as she supposedly was. If you rank your presidential candidates by size of the state operation they run, It is Governor Perry of Texaswho should be the next republican nominee in 2012. Romney’s state has a huge budget as does Crist in Florida. Jindal, Pawlenty and Palin again are further down the list.
The blanket false assumptions about Sarah Palin that the liberals, democrats and socialists made were based on nothing. The media ran with all of them and asked no questions. They needed to fulfill the predetermined outcome of their story; the first black president. They couldn’t even get that one right (he is just as half white as he is half black). Still, they blasted Palin and made fun of her every chance they got. Much of that came at the expense of Alaska residents who were thrown under the bus along with Palin. The democrats just viewed that as an expense of doing business. No big deal to insult the few people who actually live in Alaska, right?
If the liberals are going to criticize someone on our side (and some deserve it), it might be good if they had a fact or two to base their comments on. They had no such evidence with Sarah Palin. The internal memo went out that Obama & Biden were scared to death of this woman and the political forces were put in place to destroy her reputation. We have demonstrated here that the attempts based on her being Governor of Alaska were completely baseless. They had no facts and the smears were rooted only in a desire to destroy this decent woman.
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When this whole party started, we didn’t want anymore Kings, Queens or royal families. We did have a President Adams early in our history who had a son that also became President. Then we had a Roosevelt in office so long, we set up term limits. For most of my lifetime, we have had royal families.
BUSH ROYALTY
George H.W. Bush was an ambassador, ran the CIA and then became Vice President under Ronald Reagan. After years in governmental leadership positions, he set up an office in the White House. After 8 years, it was his turn for four more years. Then his son took an 8-year turn. For 20 of the last 28 years, we have had a Bush Royal Family member in the White House. That’s too long. It’s too long for either party to have one family in office. It’s long enough for them to become almost royal. Jeb Bush ws governor down in Florida, might run for US Senate and probably wants to be President someday. Like him or not, that would not be a good idea. That’s enough time for one family. And one of Jeb’s sons, the one H.W. called “the colored one” could have a political future as well.
CLINTON ROYALTY
Billy Bob Clinton ran the White House for 8 years that were among the best economic years we have ever had. He benefited, of course, from Ronald Reagan’s economic policies and tax cuts, but don’t try to tell a democrat that. Once they got a taste of that power, they also did not want to let go. Suddenly they took up a New York residence and pretended to be happily married. Then, with her only qualification being that she married a guy who became President, she became a US Senator. The Clinton Royalty was back in D.C. She was nearly the democrat nominee for President in 2008. Now she stands ready to be in the White House often as the Secretary of State for perhaps 8 years. That will, no doubt, be followed by another run for the Presidency. This is another example of a family that has found tremendous power and has had it so long, it has almost become royalty. Soon the young Miss Clinton will be a candidate for something, somewhere. Enough of this family too.
KENNEDY ROYALTY
The Kennedy’s re-invented royalty in the USA (Camelot). The bought it and stole it. We all know about President John F. Kennedy, then brother Bobby Kennedy. Then Ted Kennedy who drove his political future over a bridge one evening ruining his chances of ever becoming President like his big brother. This family has had tons of power in Washington for more than 45 years now. That’s enough. The Royal Kennedy’s need to respect the wishes of our founders and be done now. Caroline Kennedy now wants to be US Senator. She could take the royal chair of the royal Hillary in the US Senate. That way, if Senator Ted should succomb to cancer, the Kennedy family can still run the Senate. Her qualifications? Far less than those of Sarah Palin, but she will be accepted quickly because of her name, and her coastal liberal status. Katie Couric won’t be asking Caroline what newspapers she reads every day. “And what was the cover story this morning Caroline?” Though she has no qualifications, Charles H. F. Hubris Gibson won’t be telling Caroline it takes a lot of Hubris to think she is qualified to be a US Senator. Gibson dare not, afterall Kennedy is royalty in the USA.
GORE ROYALTY
Usually we use the term Royal Pain in the ___ for Al Gore, but in this case, we are talking about purple royalty. First his Daddy, then him in the US Senate. Then the White House for 8 years as Royal VP for Royal Billy Bob. He was nearly elected president, but lost fair and square to George W. Bush, another Royal. Seeing a trend here? Gore will not have the honor of his Royal family ignored though and took off on an artificially green horse to ride to save the planet! In reality, Gore’s plan is just a method to fund a massive tax increase to pay for “the earth” which can then be used to create new democrat party government agencies who’s only real purpose is to elect democrats. The monster he would create would be akin to Fannie Mae, Tammy Faye and Freddie Mac. Let’s hope he sits his royal butt down and leaves us alone. We can only hope that for about another month. The Office of the President Elect has promised Gore that he’ll be getting power again soon. Obama has learned he must kiss the royals to win anything. He made a deal with dark side Royal Clintons to win the White House and now has made a deal with the Green Side Royal Gore’s as well.
INSTEAD OF ROYALTY…
How about some new people running for office with names we have not heard of before? How about a woman named Rosemary L. Staufowski from somewhere in the middle of New Mexico? Or why not a man named Anthony J. Kartenmoore from Livonia, Michigan or something? I’ll bet if these people existed they might have an idea or two that would be worth listening to.
With all the mess in Illinois politics, they also have Royal families of the Kingdom of Lincoln. These include the Madigans and the Daleys.
We don’t need royalty in the USA remember? So, in 2012 we don’t want to see any Gore’s, Clinton’s, Bush’s or Kennedy’s on the ballot anywhere. And how about no Madigans or Daleys for governor in Illinois either, Okay?
From the Official Sarah Palin Fan Club - By Peter AndrewConservativeAmerican.org
Someone named Jody “Babydol” Gibson has a post on Hollywood Today predicting a 2012 presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin. Obviously the huge problem with this ridiculous notion is what about Barack Obama? Does this babydol think Obama will just step aside so Hillary can run in 2012? To the contrary his 2012 campaign already is underway. His main campaign objective right now is to destroy Sarah Palin, the woman he fears.
After her nomination to be US Secretary of State, will Hillary Clinton still be able to become President someday? Bottom line: No, probably not.
It certainly seems unlikely that she will have any chance in 2012. Then-President Brack Obama will be seeking re-coronation and that would mean her earliest shot will be in 2016. Madame Secretary Hillary will be 69 years old in 2016. That will make it very hard for her to run and win. Not impossible, but difficult.
Hillary’s Best Route to the White House…
She will be 5th in line to succeed President Obama if she is sworn is as Secretary of State. Hmmmm. So what could she do?
Fox News is reporting Hillary Ramrod Clinton will indeed be named Secretary of State by the man who took everything from her, Barack Obama. She is a scary woman, so this likely is a very good choice. She will be able to add “Secretary” to her list of titles now. It will go along with Senator, mom, wife, first lady and attorney. Maybe now, since secretary sounds a lot more like intern, husband Billy Bob Clinton will finally pay some attention to her. The move does seem to eliminate her as a possible candidate for the White House in 2012. She’ll be “too old” in 2016, as they said about John McCain.
We are learning more now about the hushed up deal Barack Obama made with the Clinton’s to gain their support during the campaign. As we wondered before, if Obama won, why are the Clintons back? ABC News says the Obamanable Snowed Man is going to name Madame Hillary to be Secretary of State! These Clinton’s are hellbent on getting back in power. They will take whatever power they can get and apparently made some super-sized deals (not “value” deals) with Obama. No doubt Hillary Ramrod Clinton is also under consideration for the US Supreme Court. Why won’t these people just go away?
Congress says it is close to reaching a deal on the $700-Billion plan to nationalize the banking and mortgage industry. Let’s hope not! Keep those calls and emails going to Congress, this is nonsense. Such a huge dive into socialism, abandoning our capitalist and conservative principles is NOT the way to go. There are other answers. Key economists are coming out with their own ideas now. We need to urge lawmakers to hold off for a while until they get more options on the table. Some economists are suggesting eliminating capital gains taxes as a way of infusing new money into the market. We’re all for eliminating taxes! Newt Gingrich (who has said some very strange and non-conservative things in the last year or so) says if we’re going to deal in that kind of money, at least make it a loan, not a give-away on the backs of the taxpayer. More people are putting more ideas on the table that do not require letting the democrat-socialists like Barney Frank and Barack Obama run the entire economy.
Contrary to popular belief, the sky will not fall on Monday if no deal is reached by then. The Dow was up about 200 today on the hopes that a huge goverment Christmas gift will be coming. While I’m not in the business of offering any financial advice, I would not buy yet. The market may not be happy if we are successful in getting this Bailout bill killed.
Meanwhile, Johny McCain’t says he’s not campaigning now. Yeah right. What he means is that he does not have enough money to keep up with Obama’s ads and perhaps a few day vacation would buy him more time, literally. Let’s get this rumor going (instead of the one saying Biden will step down to be replaced by Hillary RamRod Clinton)…How about John McCain steps down and Sarah Palin replaces him. I would rather have her running this country than the other bozos out there.
Alcee Bigmouth Hastings with pal Billy Bob Clinton
Speaking of Bozo’s did you hear what Florida democrat-socialist congressman Alcee Hastings said? Here it is…“anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.” Hastings shows us once again that there is blatant racism and rampant fear in the democrat party. Supermom Sarah Palin has given all of these socialists annurisms. This guy is off his freaking rocker. The dems are absolutely going nuts over this woman. How fun! Wish we found her months earlier and made her the candidate.
Don’t count on the rumor that Hillary will replace Biden as VP on the democratic ticket. This is not one that will come true. You have to look at from Hillary RamRod Clinton’s position. She wants to be President. She wants to be the first female President. If she takes VP, that won’t help her. She will have to be VP to Obama (who she doesn’t care for at all) for probably 8 years. At that point, she could run again for the top job. She still might not get the nomination and she will be tied to any mistakes the Obama administration makes. If she sits this out, and lets Obama-Biden lose the election, then she gets to run in only 4 years without the baggage of an Obama regime. What if Obama and Biden win though? She could still run in 8 years as in the first scenario, but without the baggage of Obama connected to her. If he does a great job, she can say she’ll continue his great work. He might even endorse her. If he is lousy, she can point to the fact she would have done things differently. This woman has not one thing to gain by being Obama’s VP. He won’t ask her (Michelle Obama won’t let him) and even if he did, she won’t say yes. Put this rumor to bed folks.
You have to love Joe Biden. First he says Hillary Ramrod Clinton would have been a better pick than him, now he says his own television ads are lousy! Listen to what he told democrat party media helper Katie Couric…
This guy is too much fun. I have been so frustrated lately with both candidates, I have decided I like Joe Biden. He brings some much needed humor to this election just by being himself. He probably plagerized the idea though! With friends like him, Obama doesn’t need enemies. Now, John Maver-D-ick McCain will make some comment defending Joe Biden. McCain will say something like, “These campaigns are hard and I’m sure Joe didn’t understand the question. His ads are fair and the media should not draw attention to this.” Then he’ll ad some other smart remark against conservatives just to get me all frustrated again. Hopefully by then, Joe Slip-up Biden will have struck again.
Don’t mess with the Clinton’s. Politicians should know that by now. But, Barack Insane Obama is a rookie. He dared to take away what Hillary thought was rightfully hers. He got the nomination. So, what would Hillary do now? She had two issues.
As another greedy rich democrat, she couldn’t possibly invest some of her own money (okay it was Bill’s millions) in her campaign. Problem #1…she wanted the $12-million back that she loaned her own campaign. Barack could promise to make the problem go away in return for two positive talks at the convention about him from Hillary and Billy Bob. So, that leaves Problem # 2…she still wants to be the first female president.
Sooooooooo, she has to make sure the Obaminator loses in 2008, so she can be the candidate in 2012 instead of him running for re-election. To that end, enter Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild (shown above). As one of Clinton’s best friends and top campaign fundraisers, Lady Rothschild has suddenly come out in favor of Johnny MaverDick McCain. It is a loud and very public signal to other democrat women from Hillary: HIllary wants you to vote for McCain so she can run for the white house in 2012.
These Clintons are very sneaky and manipulative, power-hungry, greedy, democrat-socialists. A fun spectator sport, no?