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Sarah Palin Shows That She's Got It

Posted September 4, 2008 by David Lack

Sarah Palin’s speech last night galvanized the convention crowd and reassured everyone that McCain’s VP choice was well considered. She’s a winner who will ignite a political revolution among women reminiscent of the Reagan Revolution.

I had an intriguing conversation with former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, during which we concluded that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will eventually support expansion of oil drilling off California’s coast in order to increase the flow of funds into the state’s overdrawn treasury. California Democrats won’t be able to resist the new money and will go along with the Governor.

David Lack with Todd Palin at today's RNC luncheon with Cindy McCain and the Palin family.

Gingrich is fascinated by California and is writing a new book about the state in which he explores its status as a near stand-alone economic and socio-political entity. Maybe it’s not the South that will rise again, maybe it’s the California Republic.

I chatted with Karl Rove yesterday afternoon. Rove will be with us at the New Majority meeting in Los Angeles on September 16th. Rove refers to me as the “green builder” because I have been persistently pushing for the George W. Bush Presidential Library to be built green. In fact, I have been steadily introducing to my fellow Republicans the concept of green building as part of the solution to end the outsourcing of energy — what is commonly referred to as “dependence on foreign oil.” Green buildings are more energy efficient. The less energy we use and the more we generate from our own sources here in America, means the less we have to outsource from other nations, many of which are, at best, lukewarm friends.

Today, I’m on my way to a luncheon with Cindy McCain and the entire Palin family.

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Posted by Painful Palin on September 4 at 11:46 a.m.

Mr. Lack, are you also going to send the W. Bush library a slick, overdone proposal and make public presentations on your vision of the building even before they ask for anything?

At least any "library" for W. Bush could be sufficiently powered and cooled by a propellerhead cap with just 10 square cm of solar panel surface area.

Your spin on Palin and fantasies about nonexistent oil royalties to the State are a tribute to your Party.

Posted by tom on September 4 at 1:45 p.m.

Do you think Arnold will change his mind on offshore oil? With Sarah Palin as VP he just might. She's now a powerful Republican and she's pro oil. There's no way Schwarzie baby can stand up to this woman.

Palin will be given a good deal of power in the McCain Administration. She will lead the way on oil and gas development. It will take a strong woman to get this done.

Posted by Robert C. Meltzer on September 4 at 4:24 p.m.

Palin may be pro-oil, but definitely not probigoilcompanies. Read her history. She's faced them down and won much for Alaska.

Posted by binky on September 4 at 10:51 p.m.

Kinda true, Robert C. Meltzer, but I would sum it up this way:

She loves to drill, but also likes to make sure the State gets paid for the privilege.

Nice LATimes article here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition...

Posted by PK on September 5 at 12:59 p.m.

The aptly named Mr. Lack has overlooked something the GOP would like everyone else to overlook as well: The choice of Gov. Palin contradicts the core theme of the McCain campaign: that he's leading a sort of nonpartisan crusade to overturn the Washington elite and give the country back to "the people." In fact, for the last 8 years the Republican Bush/Cheney regime has tried to ensure that everyone working in every agency of government, from the Justice Department to regulatorary agencies, is chosen not for competence or experience, but for a narrow, partisan allegiance to the agenda of the Christian Right. So who does McCain choose? Someone whose entire, if meager, background and experience show her to believe that the goal of political power is to promote her highly partisan, extremist right-wing Christian agenda. There is no greater cynical hypocrite in US politics than John McCain.

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