Draft LTTE re RW Palin Talking Points

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Voters - Don't be fooled by the rhetoric. Let's try to rely on facts as we make our decisions this November.

Several delegates at the Republican convention recited their talking point that Sarah Palin is Governor of " our largest state". They are talking about land mass. According to the US Census Bureau, there are only 670,000 people living in Alaska. By comparison, Connecticut has 3,500,000 residents and Rhode Island, which is our smallest state based on land mass, has 1,067,000 residents.

In addition to being Governor for 20 months, Palin served as mayor of a town with a population of 5,500 - approximately the same as Bethany, Essex or Killingworth based on Connecticut Department of Health statistics.

The other talking point I've heard a lot is that she is "not running for President." Technically, this is correct, but we have to consider the Vice Presidential candidate's qualifications to step into that office at a moment's notice. That is the most important duty the Vice President will ever have to perform.

[WinkyDink]

1. She wants to REMOVE that "largest state" from the Union! She is a TRAITOR to the Party of LINCOLN!

How's that?

[Bill219]

2. How about just bringing up this quote

When Rove was talking about the reasons why Tim Kaine would not be a good pick

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/10/ftn/main4336134.shtml


"I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice," Rove said. "He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president; that is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will on the margin help him in a state like Indiana or Missouri or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities of president."

Rove singled out Virginia governor Tim Kaine, also a Face The Nation guest, as an example of such a pick.

"With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years, he's been able but undistinguished," Rove said. "I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America."

Rove continued: "So if he were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, `You know what? I'm really not, first and foremost, concerned with, is this person capable of being president of the United States? What I'm concerned about is, can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia, the 13 electoral votes in Virginia?'"



Is this not exactly what McCain has done by picking Palin