from what I read the license was for a netting operation. Her sister started it then quit midway and Sarah Palin took over the operation. After doing so she didn’t change the name on the license. So there was a license but the name hadn’t been changed properly. Which in my mind as a hunter/fisherman isn’t quite the same as NO license. Someone hunting or fishing with no license in place at all is a poacher.

Have we been alerted about her overdue library books yet?

earmark to his wife’s hospital (which resulted in a 160% pay raise for her). Or Biden’s corrupt son who was involved with millions of misdirected earmarks from his father…

I don’t know about her flagrant disregard for the law, but as far as her foreign policy experience…all Sarah needs to do is take a 2 week tour of Europe an the Middle East and she’ll have just as much foreign policy experience as Barack Hilton.

We’re Doomed! Dooooooooooooomed!

At least, that’s how the lamers at Kos and other places will paint it.

The more bile they spew, the angrier they get, the better McCain’s chances look. The average person is getting turned off by this stuff.

Sarah and her family are coming off more and more like regular people. Contrast that to Obama bin Biden

nothing energizes evangelicals than a bunch of liberal bashers beating up on someone who clearly leads a life convicted in thier relationship with our saviour

I remain critical of Sarah Palin’s selection — and yes, even more so of the reaction by some here at RedState — but this is getting ridiculous.

Perhaps I have forgotten the old trusim that no matter how wrong the Right can be, the Left and the MSM (but I repeat myself) always finds a way to be much worse.

that with each new revelation about Monica Lewinsky and the other bimbo eruptions, his approval ratings went up. If the MSM wants to go down this road with Palin, they shouldn’t be shocked when her approval ratings do the same.

The NYT, Daily News, and others have become nothing but trash tabloids over this private family matter. Can you imagine what their reaction would have been if this had happened to Chelsea Clinton? And they wonder why their subscription rates continue to plummet.

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I think this is the real question here. When did we give the government the ability to license and regulate every aspect of our lives? If I own property, I own the animals on that property. Why can’t I hunt/fish them at will? Property is not private when you have to ask permission to use it.

If you ever decide to shoot your spouse, don’t miss and hit a moose out of season. Alaska takes fish and game laws SERIOUSLY.

The two things most likely to make you contribute to the State Treasury or give up some of your liberty are violating fish and game laws and DUI.

Alaska has draconian DUI laws and many cities just use it as a cash cow with enormous enforcement efforts, far beyond what they devote to other crimes. Here in Juneau, the majority of the population lives in the Mendenhall Valley or “out the road” and the majority of the bars and restaurants are downtown, ten or more miles away and only one road to get you there. You WILL NOT make it from town to the Valley anywhere near bar closing time without seeing a cop in your rear view mirror. And now that we have a mandatory seat belt law, all the cops have to do is say they believed that you were not wearing your belt and they have probable cause to stop you. They they’ll find a way to make you blow.

Unless you’re both quite large people, you can’t share a bottle of wine at dinner with your spouse and drive home legally with the BAC limit at .08. So, if you get popped, it’s costs, a healthy fine, a mandatory three days in jail on the first offense ramping up to serious time and a felony with permanent licence revocation on the third DUI. It has actually become quite common to see middle aged men, construction worker types and such, riding bicycles to work and the grocery store because they cannot get a license.

The penalties on fish and game laws can be equally draconian ranging all the way to five and six figure fines, incarceration, and forfeiture of EVERYTHING you have with you at the time of the offense. The State Troopers have an amazing assortment of airplanes, boats, vehicles, gear, and weapons that they’ve confiscated for F&G violations. You’ll be out in the boat fishing and you’ll see some scruffy-looking old Whaler coming up near you – you’d be paying attention to one of the Troopers’ blue go-fast boats if you saw one, and suddenly the Whaler puts out a blue light, the Trooper takes off his Helly so you see the uniform tunic, and he’s wanting to see licenses and to inspect your gear and catch. There’s better not be more lines than licenses, the gear better be legal, the catch better be the right species and size, the escape hatches on your crab pots better be the right size, and on, or you’re going to be out some serious money and potentially lose the boat and gear.

we can not have a VP who shows blantent contempt for government bureaucrats. Man these attacks are only making body blows on Palin in the minds of the drive-by’s.

UFOs took her while fishing with her sister. McCain, bad judgement.

NO QUALIFIED PRESIDENTIAL AND VP CANDIDATE RUNNING!

Pres. Bush will have another 4 years in WH by default.

With the treasure trove of real and disturbing information on BHO, the Obamedia chooses to get up into the female reproductive systems of Sarah and Bristol Palin. Or breathlessly report they don’t know anything about Bristol’s husband-to-be. They derisively pound on Palin’s small town roots, and call her a “beauty queen”. I don’t know if I will be able to watch any media at all for the next couple of months. Perhaps when Fox News does something about Alan Colmes in the wake of his disgusting blog posts that critique Sarah Palins prenatal care (somehow blaming her for Trig’s Down Syndrome because he is to stupid to know what causes it)- I’ll watch that show again.

RCP and Memorandum look like the National Enquirer roundup.

Is there some serious inside info that Palin will be dropped from the ticket?

How does the New York Times keep getting away with it?

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We will not see Governor Palin’s like again on the national stage. She and her family are already paying a high price for representing conservative reform. If we do not vigorously defend Palin (and, by extension, McCain’s judgment in selecting her), we will have sucker-punched her, her children and her husband by exposing them to the hateful slanders of the left. And we would have proven ourselves unworthy of good governance.

So, just like Mr Kilmer has said:

Give to the campaign. Give until it hurts. I’ll be sending my third check since last Thursday. If you think money’s tight now, just you wait until Obama and Biden are done with us.

Get your bumper stickers, buttons, yard signs and lapel pins and post them with pride. Be seen supporting our candidates: the great undecided middle need this visual reminder that there is an option to Obama, and that everyday people around them are making that choice.

Volunteer at local McCain/Palin Victory Centers. You can find a center near you at McCain’s website (www.johnmccain.com). An hour a week for the next six to eight weeks is better than sitting through four or eight years of Obama’s vacuous oratory, isn’t it?

Talk around the watercooler. Again, the undecided middle needs to hear, reasonably and respectfully, why Obama is such a mistake, and also why McCain and Palin are the best choice for our country.

And, finally…

Don’t pay attention to the polls this week. Just don’t. Yes, we’re all thrilled, and most of our conservative friends are thrilled, too; but we were mostly going to vote for McCain anyway. The Palin pick has solidified the base, and that won’t necessarily result in immediate poll swings. McCain’s polling numbers won’t rise if we don’t get to work.

This is all quite humorous. The DNC Propaganda wing, fomerly known as the “press” is already dredging the bottom on the cesspool and it’s only September 2nd.

Question: If the newspapers and liberal network news outlets are so in touch with America and are producing a product that Americans want, why are they all losing readers and viewers?

Palin will come out swinging at the Convention. Just wait.

Democrats are really domestic insurgents and saboteurs.

I went one mile an hour over the speed limit yesterday… does this disqualify me from running for dog catcher?!?

by the media’s coverage of presidential and vice presidential candidates. At one time, I thought that the media’s job was to be unbiased with regards to stories, you know, “just the facts”. I believed their job was to report, not make (or in this case, make up) news. I was terribly naive.

Obama, a presidential candidate, has not been vetted as thoroughly by the press as Governor Palin, a VP candidate, has been. It just doesn’t make sense. I am starting to understand how blacklisting worked in Hollywood: destroy or ignore.

I poo-pooed the idea that the press was being misogynistic with regards to Hillary’s campaign but I am starting to think I was wrong about that, too.

John McCain put one over on the press and they are not happy about it. It must have made them very angry to be caught off guard. How dare he put a competent woman with executive experience on the ticket, a historic event on par with the Democratic ticket.

As a moderate, I disagree with Governor Palin on many issues but I am still jazzed about her as the VP choice. The press and their blatant nastiness and bias is strengthening my resolve to become more involved in this election.

that the AP reference to McCain’s team discovering the fishing violation is meant to mock the supposed inattention paid to the other more substantial issues surrounding her candidacy. That’s my guess.

Given the immensely distracting firestorm that we are currently witnessing just as the GOP convention gets underway, it’s a little hard to believe that this was all foreseen by the McCain campaign.

He’s stuck with her now, for better or worse.

Dems’ #1 admits to smoking weed and doing coke.

Reps. #2 fished without proper documentation.

Obviously the opposition has the high moral ground here….(not).

Remember in ’88, ’00, ’04 the Dem had bigger bounces and we all know what happened. I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s big speech and Thursday.