McCain and Palin in Pennsylvania on Sept. 9. Transcript

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GOV. PALIN: (In progress.) Let me introduce to you my husband, Todd Palin. (Cheers, applause.) He’s a commercial fisherman. Todd’s a commercial fisherman. He’s a production operator up in the oil fields up in Alaska. He’s an Iron Dog champion. That’s the four-time champion of the world’s longest, toughest snow machine race, 2,000 miles across Alaska. (Cheers, applause.)

He’s a proud member of the United Steelworkers Union. And up in Alaska, they call him the “first dude.” Todd Palin! (Cheers, applause.)

Thank you so much for allowing us to be here. This is absolutely overwhelming and spectacular. Thank you so much. We know that it’s going to be a hard-fought battle here in Pennsylvania, but John McCain and I, we are ready, and with your help, we’re going to win. (Cheers, applause.)

First, let me tell you something about the choice in this election. Here in Pennsylvania, we just don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they’re listening, and then turns around and talks kind of how bitterly they cling to their religion and their guns when those people aren’t listening. (Boos.) We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Lancaster and then maybe another way in San Francisco.

As for my running mate, I can assure you, I promise you, wherever he goes and whomever he is speaking with, whoever’s listening, John McCain is the same man. (Cheers, applause.)

AUDIENCE MEMBERS: John McCain! John McCain! John McCain! John McCain!

GOV. PALIN: Now, to win, to reform Washington, to help reform our country, Senator McCain and I are going to take our case for reform to voters of every background, in every party, or no party at all. And with your vote, we’re going to Washington to shake things up. (Cheers, applause.)

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See, John McCain is a guy who’s been through a few tough battles before, and he has served America in good times and in bad. (Cheers, applause.) He knows what it takes to overcome great challenges. And for the job of leading our country, he’s the only man in this race who’s got what it takes. (Cheers, applause.)

Remember it was just about a year ago when the war in Iraq looked very bad.

And the consequences of failure would have been terrible for our country, for our troops. Defeat at the hands of al Qaeda in Iraq would have left millions to a violent fate and would have left our own nation much less secure.

Some in Washington at the time said that all was lost. All was lost in the war, they presumed — they assumed. There was no hope for victory. (Boos.) And they said there was no hope for the candidate who had said he would rather lose an election than see our country lose a war. (Cheers, applause.)

But the pollsters and the pundits, they forgot one thing when they wrote him off. They forgot the caliber of the man himself, the determination and the resolve and the sheer guts of Senator John McCain. (Cheers, applause.)

But you all knew better. You all knew better, Americans. The American people understand that there is a time for politics and a time for leadership, a time to campaign and a time to put our country first. (Cheers, applause.)


AUDIENCE: (Chanting.) Country first! Country first! Country first! Country first! Country first! Country first! Country first!

GOV. PALIN: John McCain is a man who wore the uniform of this country for 22 years. (Cheers, applause.) He refused to break faith with the troops who have now brought victory within sight. (Cheers, applause.)

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And as the mother of one of those troops, that is exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief. (Cheers, applause, chanting.)

Now, for his part, our opponent, he still just can’t bring himself to acknowledge the coming victory in Iraq. He couldn’t just the other day in an interview. He says he’s for change, but look there in Iraq. Change happened, and that’s a great thing for America, Senator. (Cheers, applause.)

Here’s how I look at the choices that we have in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change. (Cheers, applause.)

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Americans, this is a moment when principles and political independence and those things that this man will bring to the office — those things that are going to matter a heck of a lot more that a party line –

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AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yeah!

GOV. PALIN: He doesn’t run with the Washington herd. He’s willing to shake things up in Washington, and that is only one more reason to bring the maverick of the Senate — put him into the White House. (Cheers, applause.)

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