sarah palin

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In case anyone’s wondering: currently I’m registered as a Republican. I helped a friend run for statewide office this election season as his treasurer, running on a platform of parental choice in education. Prior to that I ran for office myself, partly regarding issues of fiscal conservatism. In my opinion Ronald Reagan was the last real President that America has had and I’m very thankful that I got to drive to Washington D.C. a few years ago to pay my respects as his casket lay in state at the Capitol.

I never vote for the party though. I’ve voted for Republicans and Democrats and Libertarians and independents and a lot of people in between since I first registered to vote several years ago (the day after my eighteenth birthday).

I would never vote for Barack Obama. The man’s social spending ideas are a catastrophe waiting to happen. Neither can I ...

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I watched some of Barack Obama’s speech last night. I’m not voting for him. But I could see where a lot of people would vote for him based on charisma and presence.

(Parse that as you will…)

I’m not voting for John McCain either. And so far I haven’t found anyone jazzed about him enough to cast their ballot in his favor. Any man who by all accounts left his wife just so he could have a younger woman, is not a man that I can trust to be President of the United States under any circumstance.

In a sane world, Sarah Palin would be running for President, and I would vote for her regardless of what party she’s coming from. That’s still not enough to entice me to ever vote for McCain though, now that she’s set to be his running mate. But I’ve been following her for awhile ...

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