Choice

“It will fall to the next president to nominate hundreds of qualified men and women to the federal courts, and the choices we make will reach far into the future.”... 

Choice

McCain Family Recipes

As the culinary heiress of the McCain family, Cindy McCain’s creativity has graced the tables of several of the McCains’ family homes - demand... 

McCain Family Recipes

Equal Pay

Working women have a lot to balance in our day to day lives - our careers, our children, balancing the household budget, childcare, and more, all while making sure the... 

Equal Pay

John’s Story

Republican politicians of the late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Centuries have run their candidacies as the standard-bearers of Family Values in America,... 

John's Story

Endorsements

Q: “How much support do you think he has among the base of the Republican Party?” A: “I don’t think he has any…I think holding their nose... 

Endorsements

Straight Talk Flashback: 1986

“Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she... 

Straight Talk Flashback: 1986

With Respect and Deference

According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace — in an appearance I did with her this morning on Joe Scarborough’s show — the American people will learn all they need to know (and all they deserve to know) from Palin’s scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads. [Jay Carney, TIME Magazine]

And Sunday morning, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told Fox News that Palin won’t take questions from reporters ”until the point in time when she’ll be treated with respect and deference.”

Your next Vice President of the United States, Sarah Palin. Ready for that 3am phone call whenever the heck the McCain campaign says she's ready.

Sarah Palin has more experience eating mooseburgers than Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, and Madeline Albright combined.

According to the McCain campaign, voters can learn “all they deserve to know” from Palin’s views in the two hard-hitting, policy-laden interviews she’s given so far: People Magazine and the debut issue of the Wall Street Journal’s weekend “magazine” (which is totally original, and absolutely nothing like the New York Times’ weekend magazine).

So as a public service, here at the Women for John McCain Policy Center, we’ve done our best to deduce our next vice president’s positions on the important issues at stake in this election:

Does Sarah Palin feel it’s hypocritical to be running on a ticket that promises Maverick™ reform™ and change™, while practicing Karl Rove style attack politics, lying about her support for the “bridge to nowhere”, lying about her record of earmarks, pork-barrel spending, and lobbyists, lying about her opponents’ records, or stonewalling the press and ethics investigators

“Conventional running is my sanity,” Palin says. Having recently given birth to her fifth child, the governor is trying to get back to her old… routine.

What does the unplanned pregnancy of her unwed teenage daughter, Bristol, say about her support of abstinence-only sex education? And what are her views on teenage sex?

Palin keeps dumbbells at home. [...] “It’s the best upper body workout you could ever have,” she says. 

Sarah, voters have expressed concern over your complete lack of any relative experience or stated positions whatsoever on national security, foreign relations, Federal politics, the economy, and many other issues. What do you feel is your weakest area?

“I guess my biggest pitfall is breakfast. I know it’s the most important meal of the day but I still haven’t bought into it. I hate to admit it, but a skinny white-chocolate mocha is my staple in the morning.”

While Hillary Clinton supporters complained that criticizing the laugh or clothing of a very experienced candidate with unassailable expertise and experience in a wide variety of domestic and international issues was sexist because it demeaned the candidacy of a women who deserved serious consideration on her own merits, the McCain-Palin campaign says that any question asked about Sarah Palin for any reason by any reporter is by definition sexist. Sarah Palin is a woman. That's good enough for Women for John McCain, and it should be good enough for anyone.

Sarah Palin is a mother of five, and helped her husband Todd on his fishing boat. She's also a former part-time local sportscaster, not to mention a hockey mom!

Barack Obama has stated that he believes in the United States’ continued support of a secure and undivided Jerusalem, but that as a humanitarian and a statesman, a modern leader can’t callously ignore the plight of the Palestinian people; a lasting peace must involve real talks addressing the grievances of all parties involved. At the same time, the increasingly heated ideological rhetoric from an Iranian government in clear pursuit of nuclear weapons technology is escalating an already tense situation in an historically struggling region of the world. What does Sarah Palin envision for a Middle East policy that will navigate a lasting and meaningful peace in the tempestuous seas of an increasingly dangerous geopolitical climate, as America heads into the uncharted waters of this century’s changing global paradigm?

“My ideal fantasy is to be running on a hot dusty road just wearing running shorts and some kind of top that wicks away sweat.”

Some estimates suggest that if H5N1 Avian Flu becomes a pandemic it could kill more than 300 million people. In an era of constant and rapid international travel, what steps should the United States take to protect our population from global pandemics or deliberate biological attacks?

“Right now I’ve been running in Nike Air Structure Triax. And I always wear sunglasses. My kids tell me to put them on so I don’t freak people out when they see me with a goofy hairdo and no makeup.”

Rising food prices are a significant worry for Americans, with 73% of consumers in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll citing higher grocery bills as a concern, and nearly half saying food inflation has caused a hardship for their households. What does Sarah Palin propose to help middle class Americans cope with staggering inflation of staples like bread and milk?

“Nothing. I just drink water.”

Sarah Palin enjoys salmon fishing and moose hunting, and her husband is a champion snow machine racer.

Sarah Palin enjoys salmon fishing and moose hunting, and her husband is a champion snow machine racer.

With a worsening housing foreclosure crisis and spiraling economic indicators at the forefront of voters’ minds, does Sarah feel that the McCain-Palin ticket empathizes with working class families worried about the looming threat of homelessness?

“I have this inherent craving to be outdoors. It’s a way of life here. When I go running I see a mamma moose and a baby moose. It’s never boring.”

Many voters are concerned about the prospect of a 72 year old, four-time cancer patient President selecting a vice president after, reportedly, only one day of vetting. Do you feel that voters have valid concerns that you were a cynical, politically-based ploy to pander to crass and shallow identity politics, one who may not be ready to assume the office of the Presidency, much less the role of Commander in Chief, with zero experience on foreign policy, national politics, Congress, the Federal judiciary system, defense, the economy, and a host of other national and international issues? 

Absolutely. Yup, yup… It’s like, ‘Hold onto your hats!’ 

After eight years of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, what does America need from its elected leaders over the next four to eight years?

“A long, hot shower.”

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“As long as I draw breath…”

While it may have looked that way on television, John McCain's nomination speech at the convention wasn't a return of the infamous "lime green backdrop".  

While it may have looked that way on television, John McCain's nomination speech at the convention wasn't a return of the infamous "lime green backdrop".

In his historic nomination speech last night, our next President of the United States, John Sidney McCain III, outlined his vision for our nation’s future.

“In the end, it matters less that you can fight. What you fight for is the real test… I fight for Bill and Sue Nebe from Farmington Hills, Michigan, who lost their real estate investments in the bad housing market.”

As Women for John McCain, we’re proud to support the only candidate in this election who promises to fight for families stricken by the real estate investment portfolio crisis in our country. While the unemployment rate hits a five-year record in an economy that’s lost 605,000 jobs this year alone, and with a snowballing housing foreclosure crisis threatening to throw single-residence families out on the street, as America’s multimillionaire debutante heiresses, we’re heartened to know that John McCain promises to fight for us - families with multiple real estate investment properties, plural

“I’m grateful to the President for leading us in those dark days following the worst attack on American soil in our history… We were elected to change Washington, and we let Washington change us. We lost the trust of the American people when some Republicans gave in to the temptations of corruption. We lost their trust when rather than reform government, both parties made it bigger… We lost their trust, when we valued our power over our principles.” 

Rather, it was a patriotic tribute to our troops at Walter Reed!

Rather, it was a patriotic tribute to our wounded troops at Walter Reed!

We’re proud to stand by John McCain and Sarah Palin, our Republican nominees who promise to take back Washington from the disastrous governance of the Republicans.

John McCain is grateful to George W. Bush, who had the steadfast courage and unshakeable resolve to ignore the repeated warnings and explicit daily briefings from our intelligence agencies and allow the attacks of September 11th on American soil, standing tough by letting Osama bin Laden run free seven years later, and leading the way in allowing a resurgence of terror groups in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan - and John McCain will never surrender when it comes to following George W. Bush’s courageous example - he’s “not going to change” when it comes to George Bush’s foreign policy agenda. 

John McCain will lead our country with discipline - and that’s why John McCain asks that we discipline the Republican party by sending them back to Washington to clean up the mess they made.

And there’s no better team to take on Washington insiders than a 72 year old Senator who’s been there for a quarter century, and a governor who’s turned the third-smallest state in the Union into the number one recipient of pork-barrel earmark spending in the country - ten times the Federal earmark dollars per person compared to other states.

“We believe in a government that unleashes the creativity and initiative of Americans. Government that doesn’t make your choices for you*, but works to make sure you have more choices to make for yourself.”

* (Some restrictions apply. McCain-Palin 2008 hope you don’t mind us making abortion illegal, with zero exceptions, even in cases of rape or incest, censoring library books that conflict with our personal religious beliefs, listening in on your private conversations, rewriting the Constitution to proclaim the United States as exclusively a “Christian nation”, or tinkering with the “quote, First Amendment”).

“I will keep taxes low and cut them where I can. My opponent will raise them.”

only for those of us who make over $250,000 a year; the other 49 out of 50 households in the country would get a generous tax cut under Obama’s plan. But since John McCain defines “middle class” as anyone making less than $5 million a year, that means Barack Obama wants to raise taxes on the middle class! As the voice of America’s top 0.1% of proud multimillionaire debutante heiresses, we need a president that understands that working-class families must do their part as Americans to support the lifestyles we’ve grown accustomed to.  Take that, FactCheck.org!

“We will prepare them for the jobs of today. We will use our community colleges to help train people for new opportunities in their communities. For workers in industries that have been hard hit, we’ll help make up part of the difference in wages between their old job and a temporary, lower paid one…” 

...if by "troops" you mean "11 year olds", and by "Walter Reed", you mean North Hollywood, California's Walter Reed Middle School, that is.

...if by "troops" you mean "11 year olds", and by "Walter Reed", you mean North Hollywood, California's Walter Reed Middle School, that is.

“What we need to do is enjoy the fact that the old jobs aren’t coming back,” says John Sidney McCain the Third. And as Women for John McCain, it warms our hearts to know that we support a president with a plan that offers these dirty-collar untouchables not thousands of dollars for college in exchange for community service, but community college vocational training to prepare them for the temporary, lower-paying “jobs of today”. 

“I liked to bend a few rules, and pick a few fights for the fun of it. But I did it for my own pleasure; my own pride. I didn’t think there was a cause more important than me… And they broke me… I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else’s… And I will fight for her for as long as I draw breath, so help me God.” 

As Women for John McCain, it doesn’t bother us that John McCain now advocates that the United States use the same torture techniques that “broke” him to offer false confessions in Vietnam, or that Cindy McCain says she “always loved her country” to question the patriotism of others, while John McCain says he “really didn’t love America until [he] was deprived of her company”.

Because John McCain was a POW, and will fight for America until he draws his last breath. Which, with an average US life expectancy of 78 years, could be any day now. 

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Standing on Middle Class Families

Cindy McCain's outfit cost more than most Americans' houses. That's why we're so proud to support one of our own, as Women for John McCain.

Cindy McCain's outfit cost more than most Americans' houses. That's why we're so proud to support one of our own, as Women for John McCain.

As Women for John McCain, our next First Lady, Cindy Hensley McCain, gives us new hope as a shining role model for our next generation of multimillionaire, debutante heiresses. As the Straight Talk Express rolls in to the fourth and final night of the Republican National Convention, one question is at the forefront of voters minds in this election - what will Cindy wear tonight? While Vanity Fair recently tabulated her Tuesday night outfit, and last night’s emergency-dayglo-green number will be a tough act to follow, we’re sure that Cindy’s designer couture this evening won’t disappoint. 

Cindy McCain
Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000–$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600
Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100

Wow! No wonder McCain has so many houses: his wife has the price of a Scottsdale split-level hanging from her ears. [Vanity Fair]

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Straight Talk™ from a Maverick™ Reformer™

Sarah Palin touted about her record as a Straight Talking, Maverick Reformer, fighting earmarks and pork barrel spending in her nomination speech on Day Three of the convention. Now that's some Straight Talk!

Sarah Palin touted about her record as a Straight Talking, Maverick Reformer, fighting earmarks and pork barrel spending in her nomination speech on Day Three of the convention. Now that's some Straight Talk!

I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of the United States. This was the spirit that brought me to the governor’s office, when I took on the old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to the special interests, the lobbyists, big oil companies, and the good-ol’ boys network.

I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible and by veto if necessary. 

And I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes. 

I suspended the state fuel tax, and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress.

I told the Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

“Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.” Ketchikan Daily News, September 2006

“Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.” Ketchikan Daily News, September 2006

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Sarah Palin: Rewriting History

Last night, the next Vice President of the United States rewrote history, reading a speech by George W. Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully that showed she’s an apt pupil when it comes to learning “at the foot of the master“.

Rudy Giuliani's much younger third wife, John McCain's much younger second wife, and "yup, yup, my guy" applaud Sarah Palin's stellar performance as a the successor to the Dick Cheney legacy, uttering lie after lie about her own and her opponents' records without so much as flinching.

Rudy Giuliani's much younger third wife, John McCain's much younger second wife, and "yup, yup, my guy" applaud Sarah Palin's stellar performance as a worthy successor to the Dick Cheney legacy, uttering lie after lie about her own and her opponents' records and questioning the patriotism of anyone who's not a Republican.

Spending half of her speech talking about her family (which the campaign insists the press isn’t allowed to talk about or ask questions about, “as has always been the tradition of children of candidates”) and the other half on how Alaskan oil pipelines are the solution to all of America’s problems, our next vice president still found time to either commit treason, or lie, about her son Track being deployed “on September 11th” for dramatic effect; proclaim that “it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate” of a candidate that has actually authored one memoir (”Dreams from my Father” is a memoir, “The Audacity of Hope” is about political issues and policy - while no fewer than three John McCain memoirs, ghost written by top McCain advisor and speechwriter Mark Salter, line bookstore shelves), sponsored 820 laws in Illinois, authored 152 bills, and co-sponsored 427 more in the U.S. Senate; lie through her teeth about her opposition to the “Bridge to Nowhere” (which she supported), earmarks and “pork” (Alaska is the #1 state in the Union, per capita, for earmarks and pork-barrel spending), lobbyists and “Washington insiders” (she was Director of a 527 for under-ethics-investigation-of-his-own Senator Ted Stevens, and hired lobbyists to bring in an unprecedented $27 million in earmarks and pork-barrel spending to the fewer than 6,000 permanent residents of Wasilla), while touting herself as a Maverick™ champion of ethics reform (she’s currently under investigation for her abuse of power of the office in the “troopergate” scandal, previously fired the Wasilla police chief for refusing to treat her campaign contributors as “above the law”, tried to fire the city librarian for refusing to ban library books that conflicted with her personal religious beliefs, etc., etc…) and questioning the patriotism of her Democrat opponents (when she’s linked to, attended conventions of, officially addressed as Governor as recently as 2008, and her husband Todd was a longstanding member of, a fringe-politics “Independence Party” that advocates secession from the U.S.A., and whose radical-militia-style-crazy leader proclaims ”I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions” and “the fires of hell are frozen glaciers compared to my hatred for the American government“ - and whose remains were found wrapped in a tarp and duct tape, the result of a plastic explosives deal gone bad.)

The future of the Republican Party. Even if female and minority delegates combined at this year's convention are outnumbered by white male delegates by more than two to one.

The future of the Republican Party. Even if female and minority delegates combined at this year's convention are outnumbered by white male delegates by more than two to one.

While some in the Elite Liberal Cosmopolitan Hollywood Baby Killing Terrorist Appeasing Media may have doubted Sarah Palin’s suitability for the office, with her history-rewriting speech last night, our next Vice President of the United States clearly proved that she and John McCain unquestionably have what it takes to follow in the footsteps of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

Because it’s not “four more years of the same failed policies“. It’s the second coming, and just as Sarah Palin believes, these are the End Times - at least for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, their pathetically weak-kneed, old-fashioned liberal pantywaist insistence on sticking to “serious issues” and “the truth”, fear of divisive, polarizing rhetoric, and their hopelessly boring, disappointingly scandal-free families.

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Day Three at the RNC

 

Delegates are ready for day three of the Republican National Convention, after Fred Thompson fired up conventiongoers with twenty minutes of throat-clearing and subtle allusions to John McCain's POW story Tuesday evening.

Delegates are ready for day three of the Republican National Convention, after Fred Thompson fired up conventiongoers with twenty minutes of throat-clearing and tastefully subtle allusions to John McCain's POW story (which the McCain campaign says the candidate is "reluctant" to discuss) Tuesday evening.

 

John McCain, who introduced his nominee for Vice President of the United States, Friday, touting her opposition to the "bridge to nowhere", makes a national television debut tonight that is anticipated almost as eagerly as her first encounters with the national press. Campaign advisers told the press today that they were working on last minute changes to a pre-written nomination speech that was "too masculine".

Beauty queen and part-time local sportscaster Sarah Palin, touting her clear opposition to the $398 million "bridge to nowhere", makes a national television debut tonight that is anticipated almost as eagerly as her first encounters with the national press. Campaign advisers told the press today that they were working on last minute changes to a pre-written nomination speech that was "too masculine" for McCain's carefully vetted, incredibly qualified, and quite obviously first-choice pick.

 

Fifty Yard Dash Palin, John McCain, Not The Witch From Buffy The Vampire Slayer Palin, The Only Way To Get Around Is By Small Private Plane Palin, Anti Abortion Activist Mascot Baby Palin, MySpace Page Deleted Johnston, Not My Secret Baby Because I'm Pregnant Now Palin, Alaska Secession Militia Nutcase Palin, Experienced In Foreign Policy Because of Proximity to Bering Strait Palin, and Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous meet on the tarmac in St. Paul early Wednesday.

Iron Man Triathalon Shot Put Javelin Palin, John McCain, Not The Witch From Buffy The Vampire Slayer Palin, The Only Way To Get Around Arizona Or Alaska Is By Small Private Plane Palin, Anti Abortion Activist Mascot Political Prop Palin, This MySpace Profile Is No Longer Available Johnston, So Totally Not My Secret Baby Because Like I'm Pregnant Now Palin, Alaska Secession Militia Nutcase Palin, Experienced In Foreign Policy Because of Proximity to Bering Strait Palin, and Patsy Absolutely Fabulous McCain meet on the tarmac in St. Paul early Wednesday.

 

Cindy Hensley DeVil Alice Cooper Cryptkeeper Stepford McCain checks out the teleprompters in a podium 'dry run' Wednesday morning, still wearing a pink cast from a wrist injury caused by shaking hands with a supporter weeks ago, for which doctors dispensed prescription painkillers for the future First Lady.

Cindy Hensley DeVil Alice Cooper Cryptkeeper Stepford McCain checks out the teleprompters in a podium 'dry run' Wednesday morning, still wearing a pink cast from a wrist injury caused by shaking hands with a supporter weeks ago, for which doctors dispensed prescription painkillers for the future First Lady.

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