Palin views on oil, polar bears may be liabilities HAHAHAHhA

[briann]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_palin_vulnerabilities

Here is what Yahoo put on their webpage right after Palin was announced!

By SHARON THEIMER, Associated Press Writer 58 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Democrats are probably cobbling together the campaign ad right now: "John McCain's running mate is for big oil and against the environment," a somber voice intones as cute baby polar bears scamper across the screen.
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If McCain hoped to stop Democrats from getting much mileage out of the oil issue in this presidential election, he picked the wrong vice presidential candidate.

His choice, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, comes from a state whose lifeblood is oil. Palin favors opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development, something McCain opposes. Her family even gets one of its paychecks from the oil industry: Palin's husband, Todd Palin, earned $46,790 last year as a facility operator for BP Alaska in Prudhoe Bay.

Oil and natural gas and the jobs they create are part and parcel of life in Alaska: "If you are not for opening ANWR, in the state of Alaska, you couldn't get elected dogcatcher," says former Alaska state Rep. Ray Metcalfe, a Republican-turned-Democrat who supports Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and anticipates Palin's critics will probably zero in on the oil drilling issue.

But that live-off-the-land culture is largely foreign to voters in the lower 48, who are paying high gas prices without the benefit of the oil royalty dividend checks that Alaskans get each year. Eligible Alaskans received $1,654 each in 2007.

Palin is so pro-energy that she actually praised Obama earlier this month for calling on the United States to work with the Canadian government to build an Alaska natural gas pipeline.

"I am pleased to see Sen. Obama acknowledge the huge potential Alaska's natural gas reserves represent in terms of clean energy and sound jobs," Palin said in a press release put out by her office, though she wasn't entirely in favor of Obama's energy plan. She questioned his proposal to impose a windfall profits tax on oil companies to provide a taxpayer rebate, saying such taxes prevent oil companies from investing more in domestic production.

Democrats could also accuse Palin of picking on polar bears.

Palin opposes the Bush administration's decision to list polar bears as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. Alaska sued Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne earlier this month to try to overturn his decision.

Palin argues there isn't enough evidence to support a listing, and she fears it will harm oil and gas development in prime polar bear habitat off Alaska's northern and northwestern coasts.

Ethics could be another issue. Palin has fashioned herself a good-government maverick in the style of McCain, but Democrats could go after her on that, too.

The Legislature is investigating her firing of the state public safety commissioner. A legislative oversight committee wants to know if the commissioner was dismissed because he refused to fire a trooper who went through a messy divorce from Palin's sister. The investigation is expected to wrap up around election time.

Campaign contributions Palin collected earlier in her political career could also provide fodder for Democratic campaign ads, tying her to an Alaska Republican political scandal from which she has tried to distance herself.

Palin raised at least $4,500 for her unsuccessful 2002 campaign for lieutenant governor from executives of VECO Corp., an oil services contractor at the heart of a massive influence-peddling investigation. Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens is accused of accepting more than $250,000 in home renovations and gifts from VECO executives and failing to disclose them on his annual financial statements; the senator says he is innocent.

Palin received $500 each from nine VECO executives in December 2001, including then-CEO Bill Allen, who last year pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges and agreed to cooperate in the corruption investigation.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

The donkeys will be stupid for doing this. Attacking Palin for wanting to drill for oil domestically would be tantamount to giving her a free campaign commercial! 

[RationalThought110]

Palin had Alaska sue the Bush administration.

Since Obama has no record, he's pathetically trying to accuse Palin of being "the same as Bush."

[cjd]

After watching some of the DNC this week its plain to see that the party has nothing positive to offer and just complains on and on about 4 more years of Bush.  I laugh to myself each time I hear that because the Democrats in Congress have done nothing but sabotage every positive thing President Bush has tried to do. If anything its their foot dragging and crazy policies that have got us to where we are today with the price of oil. Early in Bushes first term he tried to open up more oil production in Alaska and he was stopped dead by Democrats and left leaning Republicans. I think McCain made a good choice Palin  puts some life into the ticket. She has run a government office for a few years now and she seems to be well liked by the people who put her into office. Obama and Biden did not look happy yesterday when they show a clip of them commenting on Palin. I wonder why?

[Baltimore]

This yahoo article is better and has some great points. The conservative base is electrified. As one can see in the Obama campaign you need an electrified activist based to get the word out on your candidate.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080831/pl_politico/13016