Palin in 2006 Alaska Gov. debate

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 10:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1-B-OyQ-KI   Posted on YouTube: September 08, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 09, 2008 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 1153

 
w/ Dem Tony Knowles and Independent Andrew Halcro.

[iconicgnom]

1. Well, for all that, she won. Kinda says a lot about Alaskans.

[Wetzelbill]

2. Halcro sounded the most impressive, I thought

It could be possible that he hurt Knowles in the GE, not totally sure. She didn't seem too impressive to me. Ok, but not great, standard GOP stuff.

[emarch333]

3. The REAL story...

The REAL story here is that two pro-choice candidates ran against each other, the result being that Sarah Palin was elected!

[Wetzelbill]

4. That could be the case

Halcro was a former Republican state legislator, he did get 22,000 votes and Knowles lost to Palin by 17000. Get this, Halcro was considered a maverick who griped against the Republican establishment in Alaska because of their reliance on government funding, lol. He didn't run as a Republican because he didn't think he could beat Palin and Murkowski in the closed Primary system. So I think if McCain was looking to get an Alaska Republican who stood up against pork barrel spending and Party corruption he accidently grabbed the wrong one. Looks like Palin plagiarized Halcro's gig and made it her own story.

[spelldmilk]

5. Why does she get to choose

whose "life" will be valued?
She doesn't support a government sanction of the "taking of life," but what about all the casualties of war? Even if she supports the opinion that soldiers "willingly" participate, then she contradicts her position on doctor assisted suicide. And what about all the civilians that are killed in war, those who did not choose to participate? What about all the civilian children that die classified as "collateral damage"? Why don't they get to choose life? Why don't they have the luxury of considering whether or not they choose life?
She chooses life? Really? Whose life does she have the authority to choose for?
What about the mental health of the victim that must carry the pregnancy to term?
What if a rape victim is a mother and wife? How would that pregnancy effect her children, her husband/partner?
How does she determine whose life has value or worth?
She "would choose life." This makes me ill. Grrrrrr......

[MgtPA]

6. Wonder what her stand is on the death penalty?