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| John McCain Picks His Vice President! Breaking News |
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McCain makes VP pick.
Sen. John McCain announces Gov. Sarah Palin
as his pick for vice president.
In just two years, Alaska's governor has gone
from small-town mayor to McCain's VP choice.
McCain's veep choice is historic.
In two short years, Sarah Palin moved from
small-town mayor with a taste for
mooseburgers to the governor's office and now
— making history — to John McCain's side
as the first female running mate on a
Republican presidential ticket.
McCain picked an independent figure in his
own mold, one who has taken on Alaska's
powerful oil industry and, at age 44, is
three years younger than Democratic
presidential nominee Barack Obama and a
generation younger than McCain, 72.
McCain passed over many other better known
prospects, some of whom had been the subject
of intense speculation for weeks or months.
She brings a strong anti-abortion stance to
the ticket and opposes gay marriage —
constitutionally banned in Alaska before her
time — but exercised a veto that
essentially granted benefits to gay state
employees and their partners.
"She knows where she comes from, and she
knows who she works for," McCain said in
introducing her to an Ohio rally. "She stands
up for what's right, and she doesn't let
anyone tell her to sit down." He said: "She's
exactly who I need."
Said Palin: "I didn't get into government to
do the safe and easy things. A ship in harbor
is safe, but that's not why the ship is
built."
Palin lives in Wasilla, a town of 6,500 about
30 miles north of Anchorage, with her
husband, Todd, a blue-collar North Slope oil
worker who won the 2007 Iron Dog, a
1,900-mile snowmobile race. He is part Yup'ik
Eskimo. The two have spent summers fishing
commercially for salmon, an enterprise that
once left her with broken fingers aboard
their boat.
Palin, who led the Fellowship of Christian
Athletes chapter at her high school, could
help McCain's standing with social
conservatives who have been skeptical of him.
"It's an absolutely brilliant choice," said
Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University
School of Law and founder of the legal group
Liberty Counsel, who has sought to coalesce
evangelicals around McCain. "This will
absolutely energize McCain's campaign and
energize conservatives."
Palin is "a woman of faith who has a strong
position on life, a consistent opinion on
judges," Staver said. "She's the complete
package."
Four months into her most recent pregnancy,
Palin learned the child would have Down
syndrome, and she said she never had any
doubts about whether she would have the baby.
"We understand that every innocent life has
wonderful potential," Palin said earlier this
year in describing what she and her husband
had confronted. Trig, her fifth child, was
born in April.
Alaska's first female governor arrived at the
Capitol in 2006 on an ethics reform platform
after defeating two former governors in the
primary and general elections.
In the primary, Palin defeated incumbent Gov.
Frank Murkowski, who also had 22 years of
experience in the U.S. Senate.
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