Lawton Criticizes Palin Pick
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Whew… this is hilarious. Wisconsin Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton had this to say about Palin.
Lawton says Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin doesn’t have the experience to be president if she had to step in for McCain.
But take a look at Lawton’s resume before she became Lt. Governor (one heartbeat away from running the state).
Barbara Lawton was born on July 5, 1951 in Wisconsin. She graduated from Waterford Union High School, summa cum laude from Lawrence University and earned a master’s degree in Spanish from UW-Madison. In 2008, she received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Lawrence University and an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Milwaukee Institute of Arts and Design. She and husband Charles “Cal” Lawton have two children, Amanda and Joseph, both graduates of Green Bay East High School and Macalester College, and four grandchildren. The family lived in Green Bay for over 30 years; their permanent home now is near Algoma. She took office as Wisconsin’s 43rd lieutenant on January 3, 2003 and was re-elected in 2006.
Barbara Lawton’s route to becoming Wisconsin’s first woman elected lieutenant governor started with a different kind of public service. As a founder of the Greater Green Bay Area Community Foundation and the Multicultural Center, as an advisor to Entrepreneurs of Color, in service on various Boards, including that of the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College Foundation, and as a consultant to businesses expanding internationally, she is firmly grounded in community. Her thinking and action on the important issues of the day reflect her confidence in the people as this state’s greatest resource.
How is Lawton qualified to run Wisconsin?
Glass houses and all that.
This all coming from a woman who is best known in the Capitol for her mass emails inviting people to her crappy art shows in her office. Nobody wants her free food enough to go to those things. Most leggies and staff have plenty of locally-produced crap on their own walls.
...founder of the Greater Green Bay Area Community Foundation and the Multicultural Center, as an advisor to Entrepreneurs of Color…
In other words, she was a community organizer. That was her qualification. And more importantly, she wasn’t Kevin Shibilski, which is all that Chuck Chvala cared about when he enlisted her to run for Lite Guv. So basically, she was Chuck Chvala’s bitch and did his dirty work in offing an political opponent.
Posted by Recess Supervisor on August 29, 2008 at 1713 hrs
This Garvey-ite is aware Doyle never wanted her as his LG, right?
Posted by Kevin Binversie on August 29, 2008 at 1744 hrs
Hey Barb! The guy at the top of your party’s ticket is a lightweight in terms of experience. Pot, kettle. Kettle, pot.
Posted by Peter on August 29, 2008 at 1759 hrs
....BUT….her husband’s family is wealthy.
So she qualifies.
Posted by dad29 on August 29, 2008 at 2007 hrs
Guess Barb and Johnny Mc have something in common.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2039 hrs
Is Lawton qualified to be Governor of Wisconsin. Yes. Is she qualified to have her finger on the nuclear trigger. No. She simply does not have the experience. Neither does Governor Pallin.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2206 hrs
I’m stealing this line from another poster on a different site, but I think it was very good and unfortunately true:
“Women and minorities are “pioneers,” “trailblazers,” and “history makers” if they are also liberals. If they are conservatives, they are merely tokens, ciphers and hypocrites….”
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2218 hrs
Sarah Palin, thanks to her views, is to feminism as Clarence Thomas is to African American advancement.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2230 hrs
I’m definitely opening a can of worms here, but what “rights” don’t woman have that others do, Keith? And what interest does Palin - in your opinion - does she have in restricting rights of women. In other words, why do YOU think she would want to roll back rights given to women in this country (setting aside for a moment that generally liberal believe that government grants right whereas I (as a conservative) believe that rights aren’t given, but inherent to the human condition)?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2244 hrs
If Sarah Palin is token, then it’s a trick we learned from the Democrats, when they trotted Geraldine Ferraro out there in 1984.
Remember that one? That was a race the Democrats were never competitive in and ended up losing by 18. Talk about token - Democrats put a woman on the ticket when they knew they were going to get blown out of the water.
So let me ask you, Keith, did the nomination of Geraldine Ferraro advance the cause of women? Are you going to tell me that Ferraro wasn’t a desperation pick chosen by the Democrats solely because she had a vagina?
Cue PSA: “I learned it by watching you…”
Posted by Recess Supervisor on August 29, 2008 at 2327 hrs
How is Palin a “trailblazer” in light of the fact that Mondale had a woman as his runningmate in 1984? This means that the Republican Party has now caught up to where the Democrats were six Presidential elections ago.
McCain has abandoned the “experience” card by picking someone even less experienced than Obama. Sorry, folks, but serving as mayor of Podunk, Alaska, for a couple years and then as Governor for less than two years doesn’t cut it in the experience department.
This is going to be fun to watch. McCain’s stunt will either be spectacularly successful or a complete and utter failure. At the moment, it’s too early to tell. It will also be interesting to learn the degree to which her background has been vetted.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2329 hrs
You can claim all the rights you want, but if the government doesn’t protect them they don’t mean squat. But again, the conservative habit of living outside of reality.
By the way, didn’t McCain deliver up a ton of fodder for the Daily Show?
As for Jack Cafferty at CNN—
Democrats had a great convention, and now they get Christmas. This is a joke.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 29, 2008 at 2332 hrs
You liberals realize that every time you focus on Palin’s experience you are placing the laser beam on your Messiah… don’t you?
Really, go for it. Enjoy. I want to see Obama run against our Veep.
And don’t give me the Krauthammer analysis. He may not be comfortable with the Palin pick, but he thinks that the Democrats are wondering how they managed to choose Obama the day after the convention.
I think you kids are just having a bad day.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0026 hrs
I can’t believe the likes of Keith, Wally, et al, kiss their mothers with the same mouths that suggest because Palin is a woman she isn’t qualified, but rather is a mere token.
It doesn’t change the fact that Palin has actually governed the very same types of people that Obama thinks cling to religion and guns when Government doesn’t grant them every wish He thinks they should have. She hunts and fishes and Obama complains about the price of arugala at Whole Foods in Chicago… Tell us, please, tell us all, how Senator Obama relates to everyday Americans…
A lifelong blowhard and failed presidential aspirant opposite a Main Street mayor. I can’t believe the left is attacking Governor Palin so aggressively because she doesn’t tote and fetch the liberal fantasy that women should behave in a manner that is consistent with the feminist block… Let the race begin…
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0032 hrs
What an amazing pick by McCain!! Gov. Palin brings in a distinguished record of executive experience, running a successful and popular Government in Alaska. An ideal ticket is one where 1 person brings in the Washington experience/foreign policy/national security experience and the other brings in executive/administrative experience. This can be seen from all winning tickets in the past few decades. The republican ticket is the perfect ticket now. She has a record of clean governance, bipartisanship and reducing wasteful spending and is an ideal choice for McCain’s VP.
For all those who wish to raise the ‘experience’ question - do you honestly believe that Gov. Palin is too inexperienced to be President (a post for which, btw, she is NOT running for) despite being the Governor of Alaska for nearly 2 years and a mayor for many years before that, while Sen Obama is experienced enough to be President (a post he is running for)? If you honestly believe Palin is inexperienced, there is now way you could support Obama. Palin brings in executive experience, McCain and Biden bring Washington, foreign policy experience - what exactly does Obama bring in? Neither of the 2.
Also, it is incorrect to see the choice of Gov Palin as a gimmick to pander to the women voters. While that is a bonus, the most important point is that she would be an excellent person for the role of VP in McCain’s administration, with the executive experience, to help him run the country effectively. None of us know too much about her, but whatever little Ive heard so far is immensely impressive. I request all voters to give her a fair chance, do some research and find out about her, and you will see that her candidacy is no gimmick.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0615 hrs
As someone who grew up and lives in Green Bay let me say this about Barbara Lawton. She has never created any type of private sector job, she has never held a private sector job, doesn’t have a clue how a business operates and as far as all of her accomplishments, in my day rather than an “organizer” we would have called her a “busy body” and told her to mind her own business. This is not an accomplished woman, she got to where she is because she married into money (C.A. Lawton Foundry). Sort of reminds me of another highly regarded Dem woman who never achieved anything on her own but hooked herself to a rising star (Hillary anyone).
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0646 hrs
Dear Publius, it isn’t the fact that Palin is a woman which makes her thin in the resum department. She was the mayor of a suburb the size of Richland Center (or smaller!), and then, in late 2006, she became the Governor of the state which ranks 47th in population. She has ZERO foreign policy experience; who knows if she has been outside the United States.
It was your fossil candidate who brought up the “experience” issue. “Experience” wouldn’t be an issue unless he raised the issue. Now, having raised it, do you honestly think that it isn’t a fair issue here?
Do you honestly think that Palin’s husband would be the candidate, if he had the college degree and had been the mayor in the family and she was the “commercial fisherman” in the household?
This is going to be great fun to watch. As I posted originally, this is either going to be a spectacular success for McCain or a world-class failure. Too early to tell, folks.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0657 hrs
Is she qualified to have her finger on the nuclear trigger. No. She simply does not have the experience. Neither does Governor Pallin.
And neither does Sen. Obama, and he’s running for the top spot.
Posted by hsgbdmama on August 30, 2008 at 0743 hrs
Barbara Lawton is not and never was qualified to be governor. But she was chosen in an election. Wisconsin’s lt. gov. candidate is not appointed by the gov. candidate.
Geraldine Ferraro was an affirmative action pick. She admits it. And how well did it work out?
And what does this have to do with Palin? It’s okay because the Democrats have been stupid too?
She seems really likable. I think I would love her as my friend, even though we would disagree on many issues. But vice-president? We simply don’t know her well enough right now. And maybe this will have been an inspired choice for McCain. I guess we will soon find out.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0751 hrs
If Obama wins - Lawton probably will be our gov for a few years. Doyle will get tapped for a spot in the O administration.
Lawton is a hack. Just another reason not to vote for O
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0804 hrs
It was your fossil candidate who brought up the “experience” issue. “Experience” wouldn’t be an issue unless he raised the issue. Now, having raised it, do you honestly think that it isn’t a fair issue here?
You been living under a rock, wally? It wasn’t McCain that first raised the experience issue, it was Hillary and your blowhard VP nominee.
As others have already pointed out, bringing up her experience only very effectively highlights your candidate’s lightweight resume. I think you should go for it. It’ll be McGovern all over - Recreate ‘68 indeed!
As for Lawton, does anyone really care what the lt. governor thinks?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0936 hrs
You can fantasize all you want about Obama’s lack of experience.
But editor of the Harvard Law Review, making a difference on Chicago’s south side when he could have gone off to Wall Street, years of accomplishment in the Illinois State Senate, accomplishment in just a few years in the US Senate (just ask Lugar and Hagel) and knocking it out of the park on his Middle East trip beats being an Alaskan point guard, aspirant for ESPN, PTA president, part time mayor of an Alaskan hamlet and governor of a state with a population smaller than Milwaukee lays out a clear difference.
BS all you ant but the facts are loud. And your attacks on me about being anti-woman are idiotic. There should be some criteria for the highest office in the land and there and tens of thousands of women who could have filled this spot ahead of Palin.
In a week after the novelty wears off the American public will wake up to the buffoon McCain is and the election is over. The 80,000 who were at Invesco and the 38 million who watched that fantastic speech will agree with me.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0936 hrs
What a great pick and what a contrast to some of the people that write on this blog, and the culture in the state Capitol epitomized byr RS, Kevin Gilkes, Steve Krieser. She actually fought for the common good and the benefit of the citizens of Alaska. Read her history, if she debates Biden she will eat him up.
If we could transplant her culture to our Capitol we might actually have some legislators with balls develop instead of the insipid leaders that we have now.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 0952 hrs
The 80,000 who were at Invesco and the 38 million who watched that fantastic speech will agree with me.
Apparently not. Obama isn’t seeing much of a convention bounce.
Posted by Owen on August 30, 2008 at 0953 hrs
Stay lulled in your sense of security. He has picked up 10 points on the Gallup tracking poll. Heard Andrew Kohut in Denver say he’d rather talk about the poll numbers with the Obama campaign.
Besides, in one week this pick will blow up in McCain’s face.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1056 hrs
Actually, it’s 8 points
http://www.gallup.com/tag/Gallup+Daily.aspx
And that poll seems to be an overestimate if you look at Rasmussen and other polls.
Keep dreaming, Keith.
Posted by Owen on August 30, 2008 at 1104 hrs
I love how the liberals are all for diversity and equal opportunity for all.
Yet when the GOP nominates a self-made, common sense woman from Alaska with a blue collar husband, she is somehow not worthy of joining the club of the “ruling elite” that we must have in place to solve our country’s challenges.
Our unsolved problems in this country certainly haven’t been cured by all the Harvard and Yale educated politicians we keep sending to Washington.
If McCain can successfully make the case we’ve had enough Ivy league lawyers (both GOP and Dems) running things, and it is time for a real change, I think that could be a powerful message.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1126 hrs
years of accomplishment in the Illinois State Senate, accomplishment in just a few years in the US Senate
Please list some specific accomplishments. As far as the US Senate is concerned, he has been running for POTUS longer than he has spent in the actual Senate, working.
What is the ratio of his voting “Present” vs. voting “yay” or “nay” in the IL state senate? How does that compare to his collegues?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by hsgbdmama on August 30, 2008 at 1133 hrs
You can always tell when the liberals are really hurting cause they cry so hard.. Whiners all. The big HARRAH for Palin by the the electorate and the press has overshadowed the Obama speech, well delivered but lacking in content. Impressive attendance of the faithful.
Now we wait for the reaction to both things next Tuesday or so when the electorate will start to pay attnetion to the campaign.
Dukakis, Mondale, Carter all got some bumps from their caucuses but they soon dissappeared.
Will Obama be the disappearing man next week? The contrast with Biden who has lots of experience but little or no judgment and less popularity amongst even his own troops compared to Palin who has been spectacular in office and has brought home the troops to the GOP will show up quite qucikly.
It really gives me a thrill to watch the liberals, who claim to be the party of women and minorities, get thier lunch handed to them by Colin Powell, Rice, Thomas and Palin.
it’s all over Keith, stick a fork in the liberals as they are done.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1240 hrs
Kevin, way up at #2, that’s a funny observation given how far McCain had to go down his list before he got to Palin.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1301 hrs
Dohnal, you are one of my favorite blog commenters.
You were convinced a while back that all the GOP had to do was get someone on the ballot in Wood’s district and Wood’d be toast. The primary’s coming up, how’s that coming?
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1441 hrs
Don’t know have been too busy with newspapers, did they get a candidate? The state chair said that they would.
If they didn’t get a candidate that is bad news.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1618 hrs
Keith,
I know you are deliberately obtuse, so I’m going to try to lay it out simply for you on Obama’s experience:HLR editor - I’ve been on law review, admittedly not Harvard’s, being editor of any law review does not give you any relevant executive experience - particularly if the only thing you published was an article so meaningless that you “forgot about it” until last week.
“Making a difference on Chicago’s southside” - I would have been more impressed if he had gone to Wall Street - at least that would have shown that he could handle a real job.
“Years of accomplishment in the Illinois State Senate” - Great, I’m sure he drafted a lot of important legislation. Please provide me with examples of some of it.
“Accomplishment in a few years in the US Senate” - please see my response to the previous item.
“knocking it out of the park on his Middle East trip” - Those of us that don’t live in your dream world don’t know what the hell you are talking about on this one, please elaborate. Did Obama solve the Israel-Palestine dispute and not tell anyone, or are you referring to the fact that since his trip he is backtracking on his claim that the surge didn’t work?
Frankly, PTA president alone gives her more executive experience than Barack (assuming there were more people on her PTA than on HLR). Although the above is tongue in cheek - I think your problem is that you veiw everything through Obama-colored glasses. The average undecided voter is not going to see Obama as having any more experience than Palin.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1753 hrs
Yes, REL, and you see things through your right-wing glasses. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Anyone who thinks that presiding over a “city” of 8,000 people and serving 20 months as the Governor of a backwater state constitutes significant executive experience is smoking something.
Yes, it is true that the “no experience” card was first played by Hillary. But she lost, and McCain took up the banner and ran with it, adopting it as his own. Apparently he is now willing to abandon the issue, as his choice for #2 is even more lacking than Obama in that regard.
As I posted initially, this could be the act that saves the McCain campaign or it could be the dagger that does him in. Too early to tell. But it is interesting to read how the fawning sycophants can switch gears and switch direction without grasping how inconsistent their manifest inconsistency. That’s the beauty of the zealot, of course.
This pick protects McCain from the wingnut wing of the Republican Party. That’s why so many of you are literally peeing in your pants with joy.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1908 hrs
Sorry Keith, but Zogby shows that the great Obama speech has been dissected by the electorate and found to be wanting. Some ask how we can cut taxes for 95% of the people and then spend 837 billion more each year. Magic?
The Zogby poll just announced gives McCain a 3% lead. Looks likethe people like Palin better than sanctimonious BS.Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 1956 hrs
Let the elitists keep talking….
The more the likes of Wally and Keith keep dis-ing small towns and “backwater” states, the more the regular working class folks get alienated.
Sarah Palin was a great choice. She is real. A real working mom with a real working husband with a real family. You know the salt of the earth type - just like most of us hicks in fly-over country. She went to school in Idaho and her husband is with the United Steel Workers. She is a social and fiscal conservative that fought her own party. No shrinking violet here.
Not a lawyer or Ivy league snob to be found.
What a breath of fresh air - its about <bleeping> time!!!!
I was going to hold my nose and vote AGAINST the O-man and his presidential hopeful retread in November. Now, I am excited to vote for McCain/Palin.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 2151 hrs
Guess what gang. I want a president/vice-president who is better than the average person. Isn’t putting the hillbilly in the White House that we have now things would be a hell of a lot better. She is not running for Miss Congeniality.
This was one of the major decisions of McCain’s camplaign. Obama picks Joe Biden, McCain picks Harriet Meiers.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 30, 2008 at 2253 hrs
Keith, I’m not getting the Harriet Meiers reference. I know who she is, but I don’t get how Gov. Palin is like Ms. Meiers.
(And is anyone going to answer the questions I had posted in #28?)
Posted by hsgbdmama on August 31, 2008 at 0621 hrs
I don’t get the Meiers reference, either. The Meiers selection to SCOTUS outraged the conservatives because she was a long-time Bush crony without a clear record as a conservative. Palin has roused the conservative base to heretofore unseen levels in support of the ticket, precisely due to her clear record as a conservative.
I’m sure Keith will explain. He’s so good at educating us.
Although you shouldn’t hold your breath on getting an answer to your other question. That’s the type of query that usually causes the libs on this blog to disconnect from the argument.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2008 at 0726 hrs
You mean you guys actually try to make sense of Kieth’s ramblings? I always thought he was here for comic relief.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 31, 2008 at 0747 hrs
Keith actually confirmed exactly what I said in post 36.
The truly funny part is that he doesn’t understand it. But that’s OK - I hope he keeps talking about us “hillbilly” types.
After all, nobody but an east side snob could possibly be smart enough to be as enlightened as he is.
<giggle>
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