President pence. The evening session kicks off. Watch live on cspan, Live Streaming and ondemand on cspan. Org or listen with the free radio app and before the convention evening session, watch cspan for best Convention Speeches by prominent republican politicians, senator howard baker, pat buchanan, former secretary of state colin powell and former secretary of state condoleezza rice. Best Convention Speeches as the stars of the Republican National convention monday only on cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. Up next, Alaska Governor sarah palin accepts the nomination for Vice President at the Republican National convention in st. Paul, minnesota. She and president ial nominee senator john mccain would lose the general election to democrats barack obama and joe biden. [applause] [applause] governor palin thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. [applause] thank you. Thank you so much. Mr. Chairman, delegates,
Listen on the free cspan radio app. For only the third time in u. S. History, a Major Political party is nominating a woman to be their Vice President ial candidate. The first time was in 1984, when democrats chose Geraldine Ferraro. 24 years later, republicans nominated then Alaska Governor sarah palin. Here are their speeches. When nominated, Geraldine Ferraro was representing queens, new york, for three terms as a member of the u. S. House. Earlier, as a Public School teacher, she took night classes at the university to earn a law degree and later work as an assistant district attorney. She went on to lose two primary races th was the u. S. Ambassador to the un human rights commission. Geraldine ferraro accepted the Vice President ial nomination in san francisco. [applause] [cheering] [applause] [cheering] [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the convention [cheering] [applause] ladies and gentlemen of the convention, ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my name is Geral
Cspan. Org. Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 starting in january in a mccain Palin Administration were going to lay more pipelines and build more Nuclear Plants and create jobs with clean coal and move forward on solar, wind, geo thermal and other alternative sources. We need [ applause ] [ applause ] we need american sources of resources. We need American Energy brought to you by American Ingenuity and produced by american workers. [ applause ] now ive noticed a pattern with our opponent and maybe you have too. Weve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers and there is much to like and admire about our opponent, but listening to him speak, its 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. This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars america is fighting and never use the word victory is, except when hes talking about his own campaign. But
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