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Sarah Palin I Believe My Family Has The Right Priorities And Knows What Really Matters

March 28, 2012 by · Comments Off on Sarah Palin I Believe My Family Has The Right Priorities And Knows What Really Matters 

Sarah Palin I Believe My Family Has The Right Priorities And Knows What Really Matters, In response to the movie “Game Change” focusing on her historic selection as the GOP vice presidential nominee in the 2008 campaign, Sarah Palin says in an email to ABC News that the film doesn’t matter to her.

“I believe my family has the right priorities and knows what really matters,” Palin emailed. “For instance, our son called from Afghanistan yesterday and he sounded good, and that’s what matters. Being in the good graces of Hollywood’s ‘Team Obama’ isn’t top of my list.”

Palin’s allies have dismissed ”Game Change,” which is based on the book that described the former Alaska governor’s lurch onto the national stage, as a bundle of lies. Her former aide Jason Recher called it a “false narrative cobbled together by a group of people who simply weren’t there.”

Randy Scheunemann, who advised Palin during the campaign, said that “to call this movie fiction gives fiction a bad name.”

Other aides who worked on the campaign – campaign manager Steven Schmidt and top aide Nicolle Wallace – have said the film is a generally accurate portrayal of Sen. John McCain’s selection of Palin, whom they allege was emotionally and intellectually not up for the job.

2008 Mccain Campaign

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2008 Mccain Campaign, John McCain, the senior United States Senator from Arizona, launched his second candidacy for the presidency of the United States in an unsuccessful bid to win the 2008 presidential election. His candidacy, in the works for a number of years, was informally announced on February 28, 2007 during a live taping of The Late Show with David Letterman, and formally announced on April 25, 2007. His running mate for vice president was Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, announced on August 29, 2008.

If McCain had won the election in 2008, he would have been the oldest person to assume the Presidency in history upon initial ascension to office at age 72, and the second-oldest president to be inaugurated. He addressed concerns about his age and past health concerns (melanoma in 2000), stating in 2005 that his health was “excellent.” Had he been victorious in 2008, he would also have become the first President of the United States not to be born in the current 50 states (he was born in Panama within the Panama Canal Zone which was under American control), and the first sitting U.S. Senator since John F. Kennedy to win the presidency. He would also have been the first president from Arizona. His running mate, Palin, was the first Alaskan on a nominated major-party presidential ticket, and the first woman to represent the Republican Party on a nominated presidential ticket.

McCain began the campaign as the apparent frontrunner among Republicans, with a strategy of appearing as the establishment, inevitable candidate; his campaign website featured an Associated Press article describing him as “[a] political celebrity”. He made substantial overtures towards elements of the Republican base that had resisted his 2000 insurgency campaign. However, he soon fell behind in polls and fundraising; by July 2007 his campaign was forced to restructure its size and operations. The tide of Republican sentiment against immigration reform legislation he sponsored also led to the erosion of his lead.

This Week With George Stephanopoulos

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This Week With George Stephanopoulos, George Zimmerman remains in hiding, but his friend and legal advisor each appeared on national television news shows Monday morning and defended the Neighborhood Watch captain who fatally shot teenager Trayvon Martin.

Joe Oliver told Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos that Zimmerman is not a racist.

“This is a guy that you would trust with your life,” Oliver said of Zimmerman.

Oliver said investigators told Zimmerman to not discuss the case, and that Zimmerman, who has claimed he shot Trayvon in self-defense, thought he was doing the right thing.

And because of it, Oliver said, Zimmerman “virtually lost his life now.”

Oliver also appeared on NBC News’ TODAY show, where he told co-host Ann Curry that Zimmerman reportedly cried for days after the Feb. 26 shooting in a gated Sanford community.

Meanwhile, Zimmerman’s legal advisor, Craig Sonner, told Curry that the 28-year-old suffered a broken nose and injury on the back of his head during the altercation with 17-year-old Trayvon.

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