Word: gop
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Other attendees agreed that the GOP had made the right decision to suspend the majority of events on Monday...
...feisty point guard on her high school basketball team -- for taking on entrenched bureaucrats. After running a strong race for lieutenant governor as an unknown in 2002, she made her mark on Alaska politics as a commissioner of a state oil and gas commission, when she tried to expose GOP officials with improper ties to the industry, and eventually resigned in 2004 after her complaints were ignored...
...What, on a real practical level here, the GOP has got to do, though, between now and the election, is to convince Americans that it is our energy policy that is best for our nation and the nation's future, that if we are to become energy independent and if we are to become a more secure nation then we had better start supplying our very, very hungry markets across the nation with American supplies of energy. And up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic...
...GOP agenda to ramp up domestic supplies of energy is the only way that we are going to become energy independent, the only way that we are going to become a more secure nation. And I say this, of course, knowing the situation we are in right now - at war, not knowing what the plan is to ever end the war we are engaged in, understanding that Americans are seeking solutions and are seeking resolution in this war effort. So energy supplies and being able to produce and supply domestically is going to be a big part of that...
Sarah Palin will get the most media attention of her life today. But before the Alaska governor ever got into politics - and long before she was the GOP's freshly-minted Vice Presidential candidate - she was a TV reporter. A 1987 graduate of the University of Idaho, she covered Alaskan politics for Anchorage's NBC affiliate. Between 2004 and 2007, after getting into government, she wrote a series of op-eds for the Anchorage Daily News that offer clues about why Sen. McCain picked her in the first place - and what to expect now that she's entered the national...