Karl Rove says Wasilla "is the second largest city in Alaska"!

[rainbow4321]

Using the (false) info in trying to fluff up Palin's resume!!

http://libertystreet.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/karl-rove-thinks-wasilla-is-the-second-largest-city-in-alaska/

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http://www.maps-n-stats.com/us_ak.html

Top Alaska Places

Anchorage - Population: 260283
Fairbanks - Population: 30224
Juneau - Population: 30711
Seward - Population: 2830
Sitka - Population: 8835
Ketchikan - Population: 7922
Valdez - Population: 4036
Wasilla - Population: 5469
Homer - Population: 3946
Kodiak - Population: 6334

[Cha]

1. rove should be in prison orange not out lying to his country

about some small town mayor.

[trueblue2007]

23. Karl Rove is PRESIDENT of the Liars club

doncha know!!

[verges]

28. No he's not.

He's lying about that too!

And you believed him!

[darius15]

2. Big fucking deal. It's Karl Rove

Did you expect any better?

[texastoast]

12. No. It's just a tasty tidbit

To send out in rebuttal to the RW bullshit I receive.

Ahhhhhhh.

[mcctatas]

3. Even if it was true...

isn't that kinda like saying "my kid is the second largest player on his pee wee football team"?

:shrug:

[billyoc]

4. There are more people in my apartment building.

:rofl:

[ellacott]

7. Funny

:)

[spanone]

5. more proof that karl is an evil mental midget

[Renew Deal]

6. More people work in my building in NYC than live in Wasilla

Now that's some perspective.

[MadrasT]

19. So your super is probably more qualified to be VP!!

:rofl:

[Renew Deal]

25. Yes, the building manager has EXPERIENCE!

:rofl:

[progressiveforever]

8. If Rove's lips are moving, he's lying

[Stephist]

9. And It's Really Close To Russia So She Knows Foreign Policy.

:o Are Republicans really this stupid or are they counting on us really being that stupid?

[muffin1]

16. Yes, they do think we are that stupid.

Also, she's managed a family budget, so she can handle the Federal Budget. Heard that gem today. A lot of people will be out there nodding along, eating it up. I'm truly amazed at the number of people who take everything at face value.x(

[RoccoR5955]

10. Rove may be a strategic genius, but this proves...

...that he is underestimating the intelligence of the American public, and their use of the Internet. A simple search could find this fact out.

Somehow, I think that the repugs have some October surprise up their sleeve, or they are just conceding defeat this time around.

[Kali]

17. they may be planning to let us clean up their fucking messes

[FatDave]

31. And blaming us for them

Remember, the housing bubble is all Clinton's fault.

[medicswife]

11. Yeah, plus she is the Commander in Chief of the Alaska

National Guard

And she's a life long member of the NRA. So, that means that Wasilla is the second largest city in Alaska.

:sarcasm:

[TechBear_Seattle]

13. Eighth largest city in the state, and fewer than 5,500 people

The second largest city in the state has only 30,224 people. Crimeny, Seattle's football stadium holds more than twice that many people.

[Union Thug]

14. My ex-wife lived in Wasilla for five years...

Podunk doesn't begin to describe it.

[AlCzervik]

15. Rove has "His own numbers".

[Morning Dew]

18. BFD KKKarl

Palin garnered a mere 9,000 more votes in the whole STATE of Alaska than Gavin Newsom got in the 2007 San Francisco Mayoral election.

[underpants]

20. and...uh Tim Kaine was mayor of Richmond VA “the 105th largest city in America,”

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/rove-plain-ready /

Earlier this month, Karl Rove repeatedly argued that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine (D) would not be “capable” of being Vice President. He complained that “he’s been a governor for three years” and said Kaine was mayor of only the “the 105th largest city in America,” referring to Kaine’s tenure as mayor of Richmond, VA. “It’s not a big town,” he quipped.

Yesterday, however, Rove argued just the opposite with regard to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R). He explained on Fox News that Palin was a good choice as McCain’s vice presidential nominee because she was “mayor of the second largest city in Alaska”:

ROVE: She’s a populist, she’s an economic and a social conservative, she’s a reformer, she took on the incumbent governor of the state Frank Murkowski — Republican — beat him in the primary, won an upset in the general election. She’s a former mayor. She’s the mayor of, I think, the second largest city in Alaska before she ran for governor.

Watch it:

Kaine was indeed mayor of the ‘the 105th largest city in America.’ While there, he governed nearly 200,000 people and managed a bureaucracy of over 8,000 employees. By contrast, Palin was mayor of Wasilla, AK, a town of just over 8,000 people that currently employs just over 100 individuals and — contrary to Rove’s claim — didn’t even make it into the 10 largest cities in AK while she was mayor.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/29/rove-plain-ready /

[Erin Elizabeth]

21. Wow. I don't know why but for some reason

I thought there were more than a quarter of a million people in Anchorage, at least. I thought there were a couple million there.

[roguevalley]

29. we are pushing about 680,000 or so people in the whole state. about

nearly half live in or around Anchorage, about 47% or 241,000.

My town is only a little smaller than Wasilla.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. Even if what the Pig was saying were true

the second largest city in Alaska has a mere 30,000 people. That doesn't merit being called a city. It's a small town.

[SoCalDem]

24. and here is one of the fine businesses of wasilla

[bleever]

26. Karl should get ready for his close-up

at the Mug Shot Saloon.

He's heavily invested in Palin as part of his stay-out-of-jail strategy.

[blonndee]

32. OMG, that so reminds me of the "Road House" from Twin Peaks.

The place where all the coke dealers and hookers...hooked up with their clients.

[blonndee]

27. This is about like being the mayor of Muleshoe, Texas.

West Texans and Eastern New Mexicans, am I right?

[medeak]

30. OMG It's smaller that Sitka!

that's a one road town. Was weathered out there and taken in by city councilfor the night (very friendly folk if you buy them drinks)