Drake disappointed she couldn't speak at GOP convention

Anchorage has several schools where free and reduced lunches are the majority, can't speeak about Fairbanks as I have never been there but I can for Anchorage........you are so funny when you get confused!

this forum is about Thelma Drake, not Sarah Palin, as such I am talking about Thelma's bad decisions. ANd you say I talk non-sense!

the point is with no help to Thelma Drake. We cannot overlook the fact that Drake did not vote in favor of the bill becaudse she said Bush was going to veto it. Now that is just lame!

The strategy worked though, didn't it? We got through a new GI bill that everybody on both sides (and the House and the Senate and the President) seems to love! I am not a politician because I hate "the art of the possible" and that it involves so much gaming, but sometimes the games work! Cheers, MGM

Not that I am watching this or anything..but Poor Thelma. I did get a chance to meet her opponent on July 4th when he spent the day at MT Trashmore getting the word out. She was there with bright red pumps and a too short skirt and spent all of 15 minutes there. I wish there was more active campaigning on behalf of Nye because even personality wise, he is the polar opposite of Thelma. She lost my interest with not voting for the new GI Bill because she knew Bush would veto it. That was the tip of the proverbial iceberg for me. Too much siding with Bush.

Rapid City, South Dakota? Is the advertisement only running there? Haven't seen it here. And that news is definitely not out of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Amazing you found that headline--do you read all of the national papers daily, did it happen to be on Google, or did you find it some other way?
Unless that was a direct quote from John McCain, directly quoted in the Rapid City paper, I will reserve judgment until I see that ad for myself (do you have a link to Youtube or anything?). Thanks, MGM

You are confusing The Who and The Order of vetting of multiple people with a very last minute & terribly superficial vetting of the candidate that could end up being the president.

Pregnant daughter
Husband member of Alaska succession party (AIP)
She courted same Alaska succession party
Trooper Gate
She tried to fire librarian with her attempt at book banning
JM met her twice & calls her his "soulmate"
Lying about her non-support of the bridge to nowhere

She has her own Reverend problem with the AIP director: "The fires of he** are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government," Vogler said. "And I won't be buried under their da** flag,"

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/512560.html

RAPID CITY, S.D. - John McCain conceded in a new television commercial on Tuesday that "we're worse off than we were four years ago," and said he is the candidate best positioned to usher in an era of change.

"Washington's broken. John McCain knows it," says the commercial, which is implicitly critical of both President Bush and Barack Obama.

Well, that's progress I guess. At least he's flip-flopped into reality this time.

Thank god for small favors.Who wanted to hear Thelma Drake anyway?

I try to gived you room for your non-sensical rants but you need to know something. She was a govenor of Alaska. The votes you are describing were made at the national level. Where exactly are these Alaskan "inner cities?"
Shouldn't you have an actualreason before you attack someone in a public forum?

So you've got an inside source in the McCain campaign telling you the order in which he vetted everyone??? Amazing, because no one in Alaska even suspected till the plane left Juneau the evening before. The Palins actually got to the Midwest and stayed under an assumed name without the press getting hold of them. Where does your information come from? Cheers, MGM

One less windbag we get to hear speak. Especially one that represents this area. Although I am not a supporter of hers I do agree with voting no on the minimum wage hike. Its not really the governments responsibility to force private companies to pay inferior workers more than they are worth. Minimum wage increases just make the cost of labor go up and is passed on to the consumer. When my pay increases at work it is because I earned it. With more money comes more responsibility. Have you noticed as the minimum wage goes up so do the prices of fast food but the level of service is just as crappy as ever. The same can be applied to Mrs. Drake. Voting yourself a pay raise twice means twice the responsibility yet we still get the same crappy service from her. As for the Demoncrats. I wonder how much more of my money a President Obama will need to pay for socialist programs like crappy schools, universal health care, and welfare. This year I'm going Libertarian. The other parties are more of the same.

McCain and the newely named VP can do no wrong. My comment about Gov. Palin and her family is a concern, but it was not my reason for not voting for them. That decison was made 6 weeks ago. Maybe I'm from the old school, but you have Gov. Palin against sex education in schools and now has a 17 year old daughter pregnant. Something is wrong with this picture!

There is nothing wrong w/ her life or her family. Being a parent doesn't give you VETO power over your kids bad choices. Sure, we try hard to steer and control but you can't fence them in like dogs.

Admit it...it's here, how do you say...feminine aspect?

I love America and Americans. So much in fact that twice I have voted AGAINST raising minimum wage for the average American, yet voted TWICE to increase my own pay.
I love our children so much that just this year I voted AGAINST federal funding to improve our inner city public schools....some of which are in my own area.

Check the facts, she serves her own selfish interests.

Nah, it's okay, Martin. On Sunday CNN interviewed John McCain as he announced the convention would be scaled down until further notice. This was after his teleconference with the four Gulf governors (notice, he attended their teleconference, not President Bush, unless they left that part out). I was pretty proud of him then and thought it gave people a good idea of what they might see if they vote Republican. Cheers, MGM, who thought it was pretty okay of CNN to provide that balanced coverage right then

Mary, McCain SAID that he knew of Bristol's pregnancy before he gave her the nod. That does not make it so. I suspect they did not know before hand. The McCain camp cannot come out and say that they DID NOT know, can they? They would look more clueless with regard to the Palin pick than they do now. And Palin would look a bit less forthcoming than she now does. Reporting has shown that the pick was very last minute, as JM's top choices where "vetoed" by evangelical groups. There have been a few examples where top McCain advisors refused to clarify when JM knew about Bristol, instead giving an ambiguous "last week" as the point in time.

Thelma Drake shouldn't feel sorry for not delivering her/Bush speech. Just let her give Bush her undelivered speech and let him deliver his scripted speech. Same old, same old. Madam Drake, you will not be re-elected. Bush will be gone, therefore, who needs you?

You said it...If Palin has a 5 month-old child with "special needs", and an unwed, pregnant 17 year-old she has enough things to worry about other than being v.p. Cheers indeed! ;)

the big pictures like you posted for the Democrats? As the only local newpaper, you have a responsiblity to be fair and balanced!

At one point I almost decided to vote for McCain, but as time went by, I changed my mind. I think Gov. Palin's life and family have too many unanswered questions, and I don't think she's the best choice to become Vice President of the United States.

What's so urgent back home that Rep. Thelma Drake would leave the Republican National Convention (and her husband)?

....DARN!!!!!!....oh well...silence IS golden!!!

no one wants to hear her talk any way... just another hot-winded right wing politician with their own agenda; politicians are so sleazy I wish there we're real people running for pres.

Bush is good; Bush has been good for the country; Bush policies are good; Bush cannot make a mistake; Bush is the next best thing to God! We need another Bush!

You guys are funny. McCain knew about Bristol Palin's pregnancy and the Alaska state investigation (whose leader says it will most likely not turn up anything) *before* he selected Sarah Palin as his running mate. Do you think if enough Obama voters say she should leave the ticket, she will? Cheers, MGM

No it's not. I don't think we will see anyone stupid enouhg to put a loan officer or realtor up for offcie. On a national level no one is that dumb from either party. Now locally...

Disclaimer: Unless you put a trial lawyer up as your VP while he touts his desire to reduce your health insurance premiums. All the while he is rich from suing your doctors. I wonder who that was?

That would be the end of the Republican party as we know it. I wish he had chosen her. The rubber stamp Drake would make a perfect VP candidate so the world can see what a bafoon she really is.

It's a shame that Thelma won't get a chance to speak at the rnc. Perhaps this will open the door for fellow republican juggernaut ed schrock to make an appearence instead!

Give it to the RNC organizers/GOP, using Gustav to cut Bush, Cheney, Drake and any other sad excuses for Republicans from embarrassing the party even more than it already is. I wonder if Palin drops out if McCain will choose Drake, anything is possible.