McCain Selects Sarah Palin for VP

Posted August 29, 2008, 10:43 a.m.

Senator John McCain (R-AZ), presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, announced today that he has selected Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his Vice Presidential running mate.

This selection lays the groundwork for an historic election. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL), the Democratic Presidential nominee who is mixed African- and European-American, would be the first non-white President. Governor Palin would be the first female Vice president and is only the second female VP nominee by a major party (following Representative Geraldine Ferraro [D-NY 9th] in 1984) .

Palin, a gun-owning, ‘hockey-mom’ mother of five (including one newborn with Down syndrome and an oldest son being deployed to Iraq in the United States Army), is known as a reformer who rose to the office of Governor in Alaska following a series of political scandals in that state. She quickly ‘cleaned house’ and initiated a series of major political and ethical reforms. Palin has maintained consistently high approval ratings in Alaska, and is considered a social conservative (more in-line with the Republican base than McCain, who is considered a moderate).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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