Closing Arguments: The Palin Effect Today

NO, she is not a drag on the Republican Ticket!!!!!

She has energized the Republican ticket!!!!!No wonder the Democrats are so against her

Frankly, Govenor Palin is the reason that John McCain is as close as he is today. She has ignigted the conservative base. Her main nemisis is the news media with questions such as this. She has been far more vetted, as has “Joe the Plumber” than Barak Obama. I would request that the news media do its job and research all of the facts and let the voters make the decision. As it is, we are not being provided with all of the facts from the mainstream media so we have to turn to the internet and other sources to get all of the facts.

Sarah Palin is a “loose cannon”. They
always give her a prepared speech
for good reason. I could not vote
for McCain because she wouldn’t
be qualified if something happened to him.

My wife and I think Palin’s a joke. For choosing her as his running mate, McCain deserves to lose. We pray to God that Obama wins, or else our country is in big trouble. After the last eight years of sheer hell our country has gone through, how can anyone even think of voting for the Republican ticket?

Sarah Palin is the MAIN reason why I am voting for John McCain. I’m sick of the negative remarks the main stream media makes about her and I’m convinced they are doing this because she is a conservative woman who is opposed to abortion. I’d vote for her to be president if she runs. I believe she is qualified, has integrity, and is capable of selecting the right people to work under her. So NO I DO NOT think she has been a drag on the republican ticket! She’s a major plus!!

Yes, she has become a drag on the McCain campaign–she’s evolved into a joke! There’s no substance there! Please get real about this woman (coming from another intelligent, political, caring woman).

Sarah Palin could never be a drag. She is a very informed and a bit of fresh air in politics. Pelosi should be so smart.

No–she has added to the Republican ticket some real interesting facts that someone needed to say. Good for Sarah!

Yes, I think that McCain is regretting his choice of Palin. She’s had a taste of fame and it’s about her now, not him. I don’t trust her for a minute.

Sarah Palin is the major reason that I will not vote for John McCain . . . a monumental demonstration of McCain’s bad decision making and disregard for the American people. Yes, she is a drag!!!

Palin is an inspiration to this campaign…she is a “real” person who understands the issues that the average (not political) person deals with in this nation. She loves God and is not ashamed to stand up for the Truth – FINALLY we have an educated, enthusiastic, and capable individual who does not allow anyone to intimidate nor cause her to compromise her stand! God Bless Sarah and God Bless the USA!!

I think after a few weeks of excitement for the GOP, Sarah Palin has only brought grief and misery to the McCain campaign. Not only is she still unknown, but how many times have they had to defend her in such a short period of time? More times than I can count. I don’t doubt that she is a wonderful person and mother, but those qualifications don’t necessarily make a great national leader.

Absolutely, she has become a drag. She is a puppet for what is put on the teleprompter and it terrifies me to think that she could become the next president if, Heaven forbid, something should happen to McCain should he be elected. She brought new life to the party at first, but her true ability has since been revealed and it is truely controlled by who is working the strings.

According to this evening’s NITELINE the question regarding SP….go online and vote….it is impossible to vote….again a skewed media….thanks for the attempt for your network to “appear” non partisan….

Sarah Palin is a great add to the ticket and provided a way for McCain to reach back to the conservative base (McCain was not any conservative’s choice to offer for a presidential candidate!).

Palin was chosen solely to jump-start the republican campaign. I don’t believe she has what it takes to run our country. Now Hillary Clinton, I believe, has what it takes! My first impression when I heard who McCann had picked to run with him is “the man has gone senile!”

Hard to imagine how ANYTHING could make McCain’s campaign any draggier than it already is.
PALIN IS A JOKE.
McCAIN IS A JOKE.

Sarah Palin has NOT become a drag on the Republican ticket. The only thing that has become a drag in this election is the overtly biased media and the fact that there is no longer reporting of the news in a fair and balanced way. ABC is the worst.

Yes she is a drag on the republican ticket. He chose her to try and get the women who were supporting Hillary Clinton…the problem is the women are too smart to fall for that AND Hillary Clinton was actually qualified to run the country!

Drag? More like concrete blocks causing McCain’s campaign to sink and drwon in this political ocean.
Insiders in McCain’s camp state she has gone rogue and wack job. These are people who are committed to McCain and I think we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.
She doesn’t have the qualifications. She doesn’t have what it takes to be VP. She is the one of the major factors driving me to vote Obama.
So, yes she is drag because my vote will be the proof.

Yes, Palin is a drag on the Republican Party. She’s clearly out of her league and doesn’t realize it.

Sarah Palin is a joke; she knows nothing about the American issues regards economy, energy, healthcare, how to plan to win our allies back after Bush initiated all this hate abroad. She would not know one thing about keeping America safe and free of terroism. She needs to meet her family especially her Downs son and start a family relationship with them. How could a mother put her family aside to feed her huge EGO. I do not respect her. And, why is she so negative and sarcastic? America does not need someone like her running any part of our great country

What has Gov. Pailin brought to the ticket and what has she brought to the republicans? She has been a mayor of an Alaskan town w/abt 5000 inhabitants and governor of Alaska, w/over 600,000 inhabitants, the 48th ranked State. What results have occured in her 20 months in office? She has violated the Ethics law according to the Legislative committee, she has started the “gas line” which will be in litagation for years w/the Indian tribes, and she has been shunned by the Achorage Alaska paper, which endorsed Obama. I have never heard her discuss one policy in an indepth, intelligent, objective manner. Her contributions have consisted of short cynical, guilt by association poorly stated sentences. She is an embarassment to republicans, to Americans, and to the judgment of McCain.

Not only is she a drag on the Republican ticket but also an insult to the integrity of the American people. However, unfortunately she has apparently attracted the attention and admiration of many folks who are more committed to the party than they are to the future of the nation, or they are prime examples of the failure of our educational system.

Sarah Palin has been quite an asset to the republican ticket…I can not believe people would vote for Obama…..we know very little about this man..I think to many people it’s about winning…you need to stop and think..our nation was founded one nation under God…and faith should play a big part in your dicision…we live in the greatest nation in the world ..because God has allowed us to be just that…John McCain is a good honest and faith driven individial…..my prayers are with him…if he is not elected…God help America…….

Sarah Palin is great and can only help McCain! What a shame she is so well vetted by the media when Barack has been treated with kid gloves and he is the Presidential candidate. He has done a great marketing job and like all salesman really offers nothing.

I’m so over people putting Sarah down!!!! If it wasn’t for her, I don’t , know if I would have voted for McCain, because he is so DRY!!!!!!!!! She brings life to his running. She is a great Christian and that effects a lot of people in the wrong way because they know that is something to fear if you don’t live right!!!!!!!! Thank God for Sarah for what she has done with the party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way is Palin a drag, and just because she is down to earth and doesn’t talk in circles. She calls it as she sees it, trying not to be unkind while being honest. I too am in prayer for our country, and the elections.

BIG NO! She certainly helped Sen. McCain’s campaign. She is an asset to the party, with her down to earth personality, wit, and charisma. I was there when she visited Fort Wayne, IN and people (about 15,000) braved the cold weather, waited more than 4 hours to see and hear her speak and it was amazing to see how she energized the voters. She is smart. FYI, This is the biggest event where such a big number of people convene in our small city in such a short notice, 2 days.

I had given up on John McCain, then he picked a woman from Alaska for a running mate. I thought he was Crazy.
The more I hear from her the more I like her. She has more administrative experience, than Obama. He has none. It has taken her a while for her to find her voice. I only wish she was running for the office.

I hope she runs in 2012. She might break 40% in that general election… or maybe not. She will NEVER have broad appeal. The age of folksy know-nothings winning the presidency is over (and not a moment too soon…)

I don’t think that Governor Palin is a drag on the Republican ticket, she is a breath of fresh air and is qualified for the VP position. How about people question Obama and the change from $250,000 to $200,000 for no new taxes. Am I the only one that heard that and saw that?

I like Sarah Palin. Her simplicity is a breath of fresh air. Although she makes me feel good about being an American I conceded the arguments made two months ago by Nightline and CNN. An energising individual, but lacking in the political expertise to be a viable vice-presidential candidate. Her role as vice-president would be limited. Now the same news pundits tell me she is conniving and positioning herself to assume titular head of the Republican party. Is she a fast learner!?! Thank you for your insight in changing false perceptions. I commend you for promoting her. Get behind her as you have for Obama and she will be president in 2012.

NO WAY! Sorry democrats I really feel as though you are in panic mode, you have been since John selected Sarah as his running mate! She has brought such a momentum to the ticket, I’m tired of people (really media) wondering if she’s qualified or not, I mean, shall we mention how no one on this earth new who Obama was before last year? He has had zero executive experience and coming from a college student studying political science, his plan WILL NOT WORK. Sarah Palin has been very mistreated by the media (especially ABC) they always seem to focus on the few flaws she has, can we for once get a report on the many things this amazing women has accomplished? So my response to this question is, NO she is not a drag on the ticket, McCain and Palin will pull a victory on Tuesday.

She is an embarrasment in her own right and McCain showed very poor judgement in his choice. She certainly doesn’t speak for American professional women, mothers and would not represent our country with her flirty style – how nauseating. This is not SNL for 4 years!

No Handicap! A great Asset to the ticket! And a positive catalyst, possibly turning around an ill conceived and executed campaign! The biased media may even fail in their biased campaign manipulation.

Ignore my last post. I shouldn’t have drank all that cough syrup before posting…Real Texans LOVE Sarah Palin ant think she’s great! It’s the democrat elites that are quick to tell you that they are so much smarter than the rest of the country that have a problem with Gov. Palin!

I think Palin has been a great part of this election, Shame on ABC for pushing Obama on the nation your coverage and web site is very Obama. I think the media has tried to elect Obama. Mcain / Palin should have as much or more of your coverage. Why is there so many questions not ask or answered about Obama. My vote is for Mcain / Palin. I Hope and pray Americans will see the true Obama BRFORE TUESDAY…..

she’s a joke!The TRUE Republican base will never let her see the light of day in 2012.They’ll blow her away in the primaries.Take it to the bank!!

Not only is she a drag on the McCain ticket, she’s a strike against all the advances women have made in our society over the last 50 years.

No Palin has not become a drag. Your biased and negative reporting has. Palin is a breath of fresh air and has hugely helped McCain. She reprsents true change and McCain picking her shows that he is listening to what Amercians want. I wish you people in the media would go back to reporting unbiased facts instead of letting letting your personal opinions come forth as news. Your reporting of Palin has been sexist and discriminatory. And where do you get your polls, they sure do not reflect the majority of people I know.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

This is the REAL BEECH SARAH PALIN
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

Barbara Bennett, aren’t you talking about OBAMA in his flashiness?

sarah palin is unqualified obnoxious and not too very intelligent – that hockey mom mumbojumbohas played itself out – i dont hate her and i really do feel somewhat sorry for her – she is so way over her head in this – how in the owrld can any objetiove man or woman think she could or should be one step away from the president of the us ? nice looking woman – but 6 years and for different colleges ? come on ! do the math !

Sarah Palin is definitely a plus for the Republican party and the Presidential ticket. She is straight forward and honest. She walks her talk. What a refreshing idea! For this she has been maligned by the biased news media. She and McCain have the vote of this retired professional woman and mother.

I just have to say, according to the Obama/Biden campaign, The Bush administration, would be the reason McCain/Palin would not get elected!!!!

sarah palin is unqualified obnoxious and not too very intelligent – that hockey mom mumbojumbo has played itself out – i dont hate her and i really do feel somewhat sorry for her – she is so way over her head in this – how in the world can any objective man or woman think she could or should be one step away from the president of the us ? nice looking woman – but 6 years and for different colleges ? come on ! do the math !

Palin is a huge asset…but raising questions about someone seems to be the way the media runs people down. So,why has Obama not provided a hard copy of a birth certificate and documented his educational record…could he be hiding something ?? So little scrutiny for a president. Shame on the DNC and MEDIA !

CandiceK:
Thanks for your support and delivering my list of talking points – just don’t forget to keep under wraps that I don’t have any real experience either, and please don’t mention any of my controversial friend (Ayers, Wright, Resco), and keep it between us regarding my belief that we should spread the wealth around (from each according to his ability, to each according to his need), and finally e-mail the LA Times and tell them not to release that video of me looking spathetic to the PLO until after the election. I’ve got to keep the winds of change a blowin’ before anyone gets wise. Thanks for your support and send more money – love BO

I don’t think Sarah Palin is a drag at all to the ticket. I am a single mother of three children; Palin is hard working and represents the average american person. I’m sick and tired of this network always finding some way to look down on the republican ticket, I’m going to stop watching this network and switch to one that delivers the facts without being biased. Especially George Stephanopolis or however you spell his name, please please please replace him! McCain and Palin will take the white house I’m positive.

Sarah Palin is the second best candidate running. It won’t take her anytime to absorb the details of being in WAshington politics. She is wonderful on the campaign trail. I watch her on C-Span all the time.

She and her husband are terrorists and could benefit from the Annenberg Challenge themselves. Neither finished college.
HERE ARE THE REAL PALINS
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

Obama is a huge asset…but raising questions about someone seems to be the way the media runs people down. So,why has Palin not provided a hard copy of a medical records and documented her educational record…could she be hiding something ?? So little scrutiny for a president. Shame on the RNC and Fox and Lumbaugh !

I don’t put ANY stock in your polls because they are slanted to your bias toward the other candidates. Sarah Palin is very impressive and will go far.

Palin has got more going for her than Obama, McCain, and Biden combined.
It is plain scary to think that even though Obama does not know how to salute much less honor the American flag that he could become commander of one of the worlds most powerful armies.
Hitler was elected to power by promising “Change.”

The Palins are Terrorists!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

Sarah Palin is the reason my husband and I are voting for McCain. She is a breath of fresh air. We need her in the White House. She is not ashame of our flag as is Obama. How can a President who doesn’t respect our flag think that he can lead our arm forces. Obama said he didn’t want to offend any one by saluting the flag. Does he thing he can be president and not offend anyone? Our prayers & voices are with Sarah & John. GGGooooo Sarah!!!!

No! There was an article in today’s Washington Post entitled, “McCain Chief Loyalist Has New Role.” Reading it gives insight to the confusion within the campaign. However, the loud anger against the Republicans since so many dislike the president is the biggest reason that McCain has such a tough time. The real smoke screen is the media choosing the president for us and telling us all how to vote. Instead, there should have been better reporting to compare the statements of each campaign with fact. Not enough honest reporting this election.

Here’s a page to take a look at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21121.htm

Now Penelope Tryon, lets see this documentation that you must have that says that Obama doesn’t salute the flag and is ashamed of it. You don’t and you can’t. Palin is unfit. Isn’t she the one married to the fellow who wants Alaska to leave the Union? It sounds like Palin the bimbo and her useless husband are ashamed to be Americans and I bet they don’t salute the flag or recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Holy Crap!!! you want these anit-americans in the white house? When’s the last time you saw McCain or his wife wearing their american flag lapel pins? NEVER!!!!

I can’t believe anyone would think she is a drag to the Republican party. What I do find myself wondering is why all the major news broadcasts except FOX don’t tell what is really going on with Obama! If he is elected, people will get a change alright, but definitely not for the better. Has anyone looked at the people he has been associated with?–Not just one radical–first there’s that minister from Chicago that is such a hater of the whites (kWhich Obama listened to for 20 years or so), then the association with his “acquaintance” Mr Ayers, now this guy that was the speaker for the PLO when it was pushing for the elimination of Israel. I think the LA Times is in big business not letting the American People know what is on that tape-and then let the people decide. Oh yes, I guess it is also O.K. with lots of folks that literally hundreds of thousands of the unborn will be aborted if he is elected. God will definitely punish us more. And then there are the gays and lesbians! It seems to me that the design of humanity was a natural thing-1 man and 1 woman. This country has really become sick!

Since when saying that he can’t raise his arms is an insult? He can’t raise his friggin arms above his arm pits. He wasn’t tortured. You need to read the transcripts of those who were there with him. They say he sang like a bird.

No, Sarah is not a drag on McCain. She and disastrous Obama are the only reasons I would even think twice about voting for pathetic McCain. Why am I not surprised that major media that will not even mention Obama’s extremely questionable citizenship, would even ask this question. I bet if she gets a favorable reaction to this “poll” you somehow will “forget” to mention it. It is truly amazing what liberal spin has done.

Sarah is a breath of not only fresh air but unabashed candor. Nice. How amazing in politics to just hear it…just have someone say what is on their minds. Not some hidden programmed agenda. She is totally real. Totally easy to relate to. She took on the good ol’ oil boys in Alaska and refused to play the backroom games. She stood her ground. I say she is one tough cookie. An asset!

After the initial wow factor of Sarah Palin, American’s have started to realize that her views are too extreme. That is why her popularity is decreasing.
However, I believe the real problem with the Republican campaign is their continued focus on fear and negativity. If they could find a candidate who was truly intelligent and had great ideas that appealed to the masses, perhaps we would see a campaign focused on issues and a more positive message. I cringe every time I see the Republican commercials that slam any American who does not happen to agree with them. I don’t see that happening on the Democrat side.

Palin is not the drag, McCain’s constantly slamming Obama is. McCain is constantly putting down Obama and telling lies on his campaign stops. McCain just keeps getting angrier and angrier. He’s like a loose cannon already, cause he thinks he’s not winning in the polls. Hey him and Palin are typical republicans, give a tax break to people making over $500,000 a year, Palin is just George Bush in a shirt, abusing her power to fly her kids around at tax payers expense and firing anyone who pisses her off.

All you neocons need to head back over to Fox or get on the hold line to talk to Lumbaugh. But, darn it all, you are always on here praising the liberal media. Go Obama!! A real citizen of the United States of American, with a real college degree.
Let’s see, it took Palin 5 colleges to get her degree and McCain graduated almost the bottom of his class. Oh, My!!!! Is this the new brain trust?

Wake up you guys! The only reason you think Sara Palin is a joke is because the media has told you that she is. Of the last 69 stories of Palin on NBC, CBS and ABC in the last month, ONLY 2 WERE POSITIVE STORIES.How is that possible???? http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081030/pl_politico/15103
Use your own minds folks. Don’t believe what the biased media is telling you about Sara Palin and don’t believe what they say about their new Messiah, Obama. They must think you are just stupid sheep. Well, stop counting sheep and WAKE UP before it’s too late!

In the words of Amy and Seth on Weekend Update…Really, Brenda, Really? You don’t see that happening on the Democratic side? Huh…Really? Really? Don’t be mislead.

she is the reason i will not vote for McCain, she has made women in politics look like a joke, too bad she wasn’t up against Hillary, she would be running home to Alaska with her Joe 6 pack and kids.

Joe, Joe, mainstream media. Not AM radio. Stay with us Joe.

………it’s all the same to me,BUD

Everyone should read this article about Sarah Palin in the New Yorker by Jane Mayer, title “The Insiders”
She is definetly a lying two-face Washington Insider!!!!!!!

most definitely yes, frankly she scares me and I pray to god she doesn’t get elected.

If the Republican Party wants to define itself as the party of the religious right, and people who don’t care about a leader’s intelligence, experience, ability to get the whole country to pull together, or suitability for the task as long as they’re “like them”, then Palin hasn’t been a drag on the ticket at all. She’s exactly what that substantial portion of the Republican Party wants.
Of course, that’s why the Republican Party has just turned itself into a fundamentally irrelevant political power for at least the next 8-12 years.
There are plenty of people who have fundamentally conservative beliefs, who have far more experience and leadership ability and the ability to appeal to a broad swathe of Americans. If McCain had had the foresight to choose one of them as a running mate, this might be a real horse race at this point.
Can anyone who has heard Palin’s extraordinarily empty-headed responses to actual live questions (as opposed to the canned platform speeches she so ably delivers) truly believe that this is the best leader conservative America has to offer? Do you really want to elect someone who has burned every possible bridge with the Democrats and the center? How could she possibly be an effective leader?

Palin in not a drag for republicans. Sisterdearest09 should read something less slanted/biased.

I think Sarah Palin in great. She has almost as much experience as President Bill Clinton and George Bush did when they were elected. She is a proven reformer. I for one was pleased with John McCains selection. I am a female senior citizen for what it is worth. The media has beaten the Republican Party down with their reporting.

Barak Hussein Obama has no qualifications to be President of the United States of America..look at his resume, or lack thereof, a great speaker that promises everything to everybody..sounds a bit like Hitler, Castro, Stalin, Mussolini, etc. great orators that capture the masses with eloquent talk, no real substance and a hidden agenda…Osama Hussein Bin Laden Obama as President? Wow are we really this ignorant????

A must see. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/14/151519/61/145/630389

Sarah Palin is definitely not a drag on
the Republican ticket. I first heard
of her the day before John McCain chose her for his running mate. I was elated that he chose her, and I have not been disappointed at all. I’ve talked to
mom’s at soccer games, and to dad’s at
cubscout meetings–we all like her
straight talk, her strength, and her
obvious intelligence. It’s easy to see
why the democrats and the liberal media
try to discredit her. She has come out of left field; she has the ability to make real, beneficial change in Washington. I applaud John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin.

….OK bored and BUD…….that makes sense and I’ll assume the opposite is true also. Anyway,will you endorse Sara in 2012?

Look from what I know of the far right she fits right in.
The rest of us do not like her, but the Far right is not known for making well though out decisions They are typically Knee Jerk in reaction, have an end times mentality, and therefore see no future. The attempt to bring forth the second comming of Jesus is their compelling drive.

Sarah Palin has not won over the left wing, Hollywood and the media. Is that a surprise? If the Republicans had nominated a saint or the real messiah, the MSM would have attacked him while getting thrills and chills up their leg over Nobama.
Governor Sarah has done her job–she has energized the Republican social conservatives and dramatically increased the contribution$$$ and participation of Republican women. Watch them turn out the vote…
BTW Does the MSM remember Harry Truman? The same criticisms of lack of experience and parochial viewpoint were leveled against him, yet most historians today would agree that he turned out to be a better President than most and certainly better than the Democrats who have followed him.
The truth is that we don’t know if Sarah would make a good President, but her track record of accomplishments certainly exceeds Nobama’s. No one has yet answered the question that the media refuses to ask–what has he ever accomplished? Nothing there but a nice voice, a pretty face and the rest is vaporware…
Americans led like sheep off the cliff of Democratic Socialism at the very time that the Europeans are abandoning it. They can see that our unemployment rate is much lower and our incomes are 30% higher–why doesn’t the MSM ever point that out? If we elect Nobama and he implements the economic policies that he talks about when he lets his guard slip, we will rapidly leave the ranks of high productivity/high growth economies. That’s the inevitable result of resisting the economic forces of gloabization. We protect 20 million niddle-aged union members at the expense of 300 million consumers. Sure works for France and Italy, no?

@Sara
I totally agree w/ your comment.

Merci Beaucoup DNoyes

Mina – just in case you missed it the first time I wanted to offer this pearl of wisdom to you too – When someone wants to shape a political opinion, who better to consult than John Cleese? Moron.

Republicans are excited about Palin because she is much closer to true conservative values than McCain is. She is the only reason this race is gettting closer by the day and will allow them to win on Tuesday.

Bill,
There are good reasons to be cautious about Obama, even if you support him, as I do. But the question on the table is whether Palin is a drag on the Republican ticket–not whether you like Obama.
McCain would not have even considered Palin as a VP candidate if she were male. She had no experience that would prepare her for the presidency, and has shown virtually no interest in any policy matters outside of the U.S. border, or even outside of Alaska’s border. She has little education, and apparently no knowledge or even interest in foreign policy, the environment or economics. Can you say with a straight face that if she were a man named Ed Smith and had exactly the same experience and personality and beliefs as Palin that you would have believed him to be the best choice for VP?
McCain made the huge mistake of believing that not only could she charge of the conservative base (at which she’s succeeded admirably) but pull in all the disgruntled Hillary supporters. Obviously that was a grave miscalculation.
Intelligent conservative thought leaders have expressed extreme dismay at McCain’s selection of Palin (Peggy Noonan, Christopher Buckley, and Colin Powell, just to name a few). Do you think it’s their distorted liberalism or a biased press that has made them all declare her unfit to be a VP?
Did you notice that the very conservative Anchorage Daily News–a paper that should know Palin better than any other–has departed from its tradition of endorsing Republicans (including Bush in 2004) to support Obama this time around?
The Chicago Tribune has not endorsed a Democrat for President in its 161-year history until now.
The Los Angeles Times has not endorsed a Democrat since 1972
Overall, 38 of the newspapers that endorsed Bush in 2004 have switched over to endorse Obama this election year. You can’t claim that it’s the liberal media that’s at fault. These are Republican-leaning papers. And every one of them mentions the inadequacy of Palin as one of the reasons why they are endorsing Obama over McCain.
She has extraordinarily high negative ratings in the polls, and that negative rating increases with every one of her pitbull attacks.
Has she been a drag on the Republican ticket? She did succeed in getting the 22% of the country who still tell themselves that Bush is doing a good job excited. But, she’s probably done a better job of driving Democrats and Independents to the polls to vote for Obama than she has in getting Republicans to vote for McCain. I’d call that a drag. Wouldn’t you?

Ugh! This is so frustrating. More liberal leftist references…huffington post? NPR? Hello!
SO Sara Palin’s not ready to handle a crisis?? Well, hate to break it to you but she’s not running for president.
How about the guy who is actually running for President? DO YOU REALLY THINK OBAMA IS READY TO DEAL WITH A CRISIS? Biden dosent think so, even Clinton in his speech yesterday indicated he didn’t think so either…
McCain. I’ll say it again. McCain. He is the best person to handle any crisis.
By the way…People who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones…

Julie – believe it or not, I have done plenty of unbiased research on all the candidates. You would be wise to do the same instead of just slamming the side that doesn’t agree with you. There have been questions raised on BOTH sides about potential scandalous actions and/or associations. Don’t assume that people who aren’t voting for your candidate are blindly following what the media reports. Accept the fact that the majority of Americans just feel Obama is the better candidate.

The republicans are going to come out in droves to vote for Sara Palin and John McCain. Join teamsarah.org to help get the word out…
The supermarkets are going to run out of tissues for all you weeping democrats when your hypnotizing messiah loses on Tuesday.

Chris,
No I wouldn’t. Palin is certainly not a drag on the ticket, and yes, even an Ed Smith would be fine given the same experience and beliefs. In fact, that sounds very sexist to suggest that it is Palin’s gender that is drawing approval from Republicans. The “conservatives” you mention I would suggest are little more than right leaning moderates looking to continue to be invited to the parties of whomever gets in power in Washington and they are hedging their bets. No real conservative would support Obama or the radical views he offers. McCain is not conservative, but he is the GOP candidate and by choosing Palin for her experience as Governor and her beliefs, not her gender, is why she is great for the ticket.

As hard as I try, I cannot understand how all the anti-Palin sheep can think/claim that Palin is not qualified for VP and yet still believe that Obama is qualified for Pres. It has nothing to do with support from newspapers or high profile people. It has to do with demonstrated experience, of which Obama has none. Palin would make a better Pres than Obama. So, why would you support him. Sort out the important facts and quit getting caught up in the media machine. Palin is only a drag on the republican ticket to those who can’t see the forest because of the bark on the tree in front of them.

@Mina
Actually the comment posted at 2:10am is even better and was created just for you.

Thanks Julie.

Sarah Palin a drag? I think Sarah Palin is fantastic! I think you are the drag. Why does the press try to turn the American people against ANY Republican candidate and treat BO like some god? The man lacks character and I doubt he is even a citizen. His citizenship was given up in order to live as a citizen in Indonesia. Why do you conceal his past and dismiss serious matters regarding BO and try to demonize someone of excellent character like Sarah Palin? Do you really read these blogs you request everyone to voice comments to? If so, why don’t you pay attention to what the majority of American citizens with common sense and brains write to you? Or is this just to fake caring what people think?

As an independent voter, and former officer of the Missouri Young Democrats, I was leaning toward voting for Obama – though I had not yet made up my mind for certain – when Sarah Palin came onto the scene. But after reading about her career and actual administrative experience it became clear that she is the real agent for change. And, now, as the campaigns have unfolded, I’ve learned that she has more *relevant* experience than Obama, McCain and Biden combined. And I think that experience is crucial for this election. She’s balanced budgets, run families, towns and an incredibly diverse state and the vast majority of her constituents LOVE her.
As a result, and due to her way of energizing an audience and communicating with a crowd, I believe that she has been a huge boost for McCain. She seems to be a young, female version of Reagan in terms of her mass-communication skills. I think she’s going to be the reason that I vote for McCain and I know and/or work with dozens of woment who are claiming the same thing…
Take that for what it’s worth – she is and continues to be a huge problem… FOR THE DEMOCRATS.
This election seems to be 1972 all over again, and I think the outcome will probably be the same once the dust settles.

absolutely not. She is fabulous. If it were not for the economy, and the dislike for the current administration, she and McCain would be elected.

No, she has been vetted more than the democratic nominee for president. Where’s his medical records? One written page–not

It depends; neo-conservatives seem to find appeal in cornpone Palin. Progressives view her as an unethical extremist who is embarrassingly not qualified. It’s baracuda party style versus noble intellectual substance.
For the office of vice-president, a heartbeat from #1, people, we no longer have the luxury to afford another dummy just cuz she knows how to chug a cold one after the hunt.
Political leaders need to be smart – really wise. Integrity, consciousness, stability, wisdom and substance are vital and that’s why I voted Obama/Biden.
Republicans have been in power overlong and have lost their way. They’ve trashed our country while distributing all the favors to the wealth class/corporate cronies. It’s time to move the country forward with Democrats leading the way – for, by and of the people.

I originally was a support of McCain, but I believe he picked Palin for the wrong reasons. Not for the good of our nation, but to lock in the conservatives vote. I find it very upsetting when McCain tells voters how good a vice president she would be. I respect McCain, but he wouldn’t be a able to sell me a bridge.

I’m college-educated (MSEE top 12% of my grad class), 42, upper middle-class, married with two wonderful children, own my own home in an affluent NJ suburb of NYC and consider myself successful. And, I’m a person of color.
I think Sarah Palin is exactly the type of person we need in a position of leadership in this country – and I’m voting for McCain / Palin because of her. She is the furthest thing from a detriment to the Republican ticket.
The Presidency is a LEADERSHIP job and she has got leadership written all over her.

No, Palin is not a drag on McCain. She has more executive experience than either Obama or Biden. She has run a city and a state. The city of Wasilla (9000 population) is larger than the company that employs me. Alaska’s state budget is $24 billion and 15,000 in population. As evidenced by study after study for the past two years (e.g. UCLA, Pew Research), the U.S. media is anything but a free press. Instead, it has prostituted itself to the liberal cause, and resorts to character assassinations, deliberate amnesia relative to facts, faulty logical arguments to support a predisposition to anything that even smells “liberal” and consequently has lost all objectivity except for the classified ads. The U.S. press is now a propaganda machine in the same class as TASS during the Cold War. And since they are all in the tank with the Dems, they have lost all credibility with the Great American public. Their circulation is in the tank. IN fact, The New York Times was rated as “junk” (BBB-) by Moody’s this week and GE may have to sell NBC to keep itself solvent. If you want to know both sides of the question, read The Wall Street Journal.

Wow. Wake up Dem’s. Your rhetoric on Palin is that she is not experienced enough to run the country == she is not running for president! WHY DON’T YOU ASK THE SAME QUESTION ABOUT YOUR OWN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE? The media insist that no one is quite ready to be President and that Obama will learn as he goes..well, then so will Palin learn as she goes. OBAMA has very little experience and is lucky enough to have
money behind him….lots of it. I wonder who he will be obligated to once this election is over? The American people or those who are literally paying his way into the White House. As far as the economy is concerned – 1) The Democrats helped get us into this mess, Barney Frank and his gang 2)our economy goes thru cycles almost every 30 years- regardless of who is president 3)our economy has the unfortunate burden of a costly war – a war provoked when 2000 innocent, civilian Americans were blasted to bits. By the way,there are those that find it very coincidental that a couple months before the election, the economy is suddenly a “disaster”…just in time to blame the Republicans and get Obama in office. Democrats are very
fortunate to have the (liberal)media in your court. Voices representing opposing
ideas/values are cast aside and ridiculed. There are Americans still
out here that will not allow our right to be heard to be taken from us.
Dare to read some of the books out there regarding Mr. Obama (careful, you may be woken out of your hynotic state = yes, Mr. Obama is a GREAT communicator and actor, as is his
wife. Mourn for this country if
Barack wins – America will never, never, be the same.

Sarah Palin is not ready for a news conference, let alone VP. Amazingly, she has be both a drag and a boon for the Republican Party. I am a Republican and I can’t stand it; I am almost ashamed that this is supposed to be the best we could present to the country.

With all respects to Senator McCane, Governor Sara Peilin and of course all of you, I think that the Peilin effect to the Republican ticket has been by all means good. I think that the effect was cooled off by Senator McCain by not falling in sequence with all the energy, momemtum and excitement that created the great choice. I see it as a generic difference in the ticket.

Elementary my dear Chris,
All that verbiage, and yet you’re wrong. Or, methinks you doth protest too much.

Have any of you run for Governor lately?
Until you walk in someone elses shoes
you can only guess/speculate at what life is like for Sarah Palin. She is criticized for not following in “lock step” with McCain = what do you want,
someone who cannot think for herself?
I applaud her for finally breaking free
from the grip of the “machine” and I hope she becomes even more controversial. Obviously, if she were
a Democratic candidate, she would be
treated differently in the
media. Sound bites and “man on the street” footage would be most favorable for any Democratic female candidate. Wake up America before it is too late!

Boy, I do not type fast enough to keep up…
Palin hmm…I don’t care what the reasons that are given now, she was picked to try and get all the women that were disappointed that Hillary was not the nominee in the democratic party to vote for McCain. Palin even joked about it in the beginning. It was a political move. Has she has gotten much of the republican base all pumped up? Yes. Do I think that everyone is honestly asking and saying what they want to about her? No I do not.
Why, the biggest thing is the way everyone dropped the hot potato of abstinence only. Ya know if ya can’t make abstinence only work in your own family, what right do you have to try and force that view on an entire nation?
We can ask a hypothetical question but you never know what you will do until you are really faced with the situation in reality. What would Palin’s answer have been if she had been told that her daughter was going to die if she tried to deliver? Or what would she say if she were told she could loose them both if the pregnancy went to term? Could she stiff upper lip it and let what ever was going to happen happen? How many mothers could? How many mothers would say even though they knew that in all probability their daughter could go on to have other children, that they without changing their minds were willing sacrifice their daughter on the alter of teaching abstinence only? Now yes there are many interventions that take place now to keep both mother and child safe but there are still those situations that occur for which there is no help. Everything is theoretical until life shoves it in your face.
My question is would she be able to stand behind her convictions? I am certain the answer that will come to many is, well of course she would, she has her son in the military, which by the way why is so much made out of that and so little about Biden’s son. But back to Palin. Her adult son chose that. I am asking what would she choose for her minor daughter? Have they talked about it? What has her daughter said? Has her daughter thought about the possibility that she could die in childbirth? These are not questions that are out of line to ask. And I have not heard anyone ask them.
With the information that was provided to her by her parents she felt she was adult enough to have sex and accept the consequences. Why is it that now is she not adult enough to handle people talking about the very real subject that teaching abstinence only fails and failed her? And let us be adult enough to know that talking about the subject of abstinence only is not a condemnation of the daughter. But in the light of having a president (some will say that she is only running as his second, well what is it something like 1 out of 5 of our presidents have come from the death or resignation of the elected president. And what is the average life expectancy for a person that has been treated for melanoma? It is not unrealistic to factor her into the equation of voting for him. And what was it only 3 or 4 days ago that Obama’s life was threatened?) …so do we want a president that would try to force abstinence only on the entire country when it failed in her own family? These are legitimate questions.
Did she intend to get pregnant out of wedlock? I highly doubt it. But then maybe she and he did, maybe they thought he was shipping off to Iraq…fill in the blank as you wish. But then why not get married first? Did she simply fall prey to the passions of the moment? If that is the case did she really think through what it meant to be a mother? Did she choose not to buy a condom because of the way she was taught to think about sex? Does she wish she could be living her life as a non-pregnant teenager? Does she wish she had not gotten pregnant? Which does she wish more that she had used birth control or that she did not have sex? Or is it neither, did she want a child from her boyfriend that was going off to war? That can all be so romanticized in a young mind. Is she getting married simply because it is the politically and religiously correct thing for her to be doing? Or do you think the republican machine or the church is not so callous as to insist on her carrying to term and marrying the father? Or at least paint that picture until after the election.
You don’t think that the Palin family at large was huge opportunity that the McCain machine was just salivating over? To the machine the Palin family provided a poster child not only for abstinence only, but to support the war, appeal to women voters, appease the religious right, appease the right to lifers, appease big oil, etc. all wrapped up in the illusion of a maverick that would fight for the little guy. McCain and the red machine must have just been over the moon. Here was an entire family that oozed potencial political opportunity.
Honestly how long after they announced Palin did the mantra become, “Drill baby drill.” And almost instantly the topic of abstinence only was taken of the table as a subject under the guise of protecting the daughter. Which lead to virtually no discussion about Roe v Wade. Which I ask you to read your constitution and think about what rights go away if it is not presumed that you have a right to privacy. Which is the grounds that Roe v Wade was decided on. If you do not have a right to privacy how do you have the protection form illegal search and seizure? Are your bedroom activities then private? If there is no presumed right to privacy in the constitution what in your life is not subject to scrutiny? Your life not Joe Shmoe down the street, YOURS? But then the Republican Party is the one that served up daily does of fear and brought into being the patriot act. That alone is reason enough for me to vote a straight democratic ticket this election.
Also should a child that does not have the same resources as Mrs. Palin’s daughter be forced to make the same choice? What if another woman choose to raise her daughter differently? What if you choose to teach her daughter as I was taught that sex is best saved for marriage but I (my mother) have seen enough to know that things happen and this is what you do so that you do not irreversibly change the course of your life, so that you do not contract any disease or get pregnant. And yes we even had the abortion talk. Why because I almost lost my mother to childbirth. My father was brought into the delivery room and told you are here so that you can choose if you want your wife or your child to live. They had two options left try to turn the baby or crush his skull and save my mother. The doctor had been pleading with my father to get a vasectomy. He knew this day was coming mom’s deliveries had been hard and she had had three miscarriages. No one but my mother had the right to make that decision but the doctor wanted my dad there in case mom could not make the decision, and mom wanted to know dad’s thoughts. No option should be off the table and that decision is PRIVATE. One that is between the mother, the father if the mother chooses, her doctor and her God.
What did my mother do…we will never know, the doctor was able to turn my brother.
He knew it was the last chance and if it did not work only my mother or my brother would be alive. It was a place and time where there were no other options.
But think about it with a republican house, senate, president and almost a majority in the Supreme Court for 6 years what has stopped people from over turning Roe v Wade?
In my opinion these are the options that exist…1) Roe v Wade really is good law and we have the right to privacy, 2) if Roe v Wade were over turned what would the republican party use to fire up evangelical Christians, 3) that the political fall out from saying Roe v Wade is bad law and the right to privacy does not exist in the constitution is too great.
Personally the constitution does not make a lick of sense with out the presumed right to privacy.
Well it’s too late I type too slow and I am too tired.

She is a real political animal. I hope she is a drag — many polls and pundits say so. Even in-fighting –tut! tut! If they cannot do better during the campaign, what might happen later? Fortunately, only the far right has been energized and we won’t have to find out. Palin will be back though. She has a good sense of humor — that’s about all.

Palin is a drag on the Republican ticket when the Party has to reach out to anyone but its neocon and Evangelical/Pentecostal base.
She seems to have energized them and I am not sure if they would have ever come through for McCain alone.
Her views are too extreme to ever make her a serious ‘national’ figure and will drag the Party down permanently if she is chosen to lead it.
As a Democrat, I hope she is chosen.

No, not a drag! Sarah is a woman of great strength to speak out against the liberal agenda. The media has not been kind to her, but then again the media has a liberal slant, and is never kind to republican candidates.

“i can see Russia from my house”
This is one of the most stupid or ridiculous political statement i’ve EVER, EVER heard!!!!!!
oh i forgot….Abstinence!!!Even her daughter proved her that it’s the worst idea EVER, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So yes!!!she’s a drag, yes she’s an embarrassment for the GOP, for women!!!!!!!
I’m still deeply convinced there are other smarter and more experienced women in the GOP than that lady

ABC and Night line should at least be truthful about what they say and not be so bias. John and Sarah are going to surprise a lot of people.

The McCaine and Palin ticket for Republican President and Vice President of the United States is a big Joke. 1) is that John McCaine is told old to be President. 2) Sarah Palin is not ready to be VP or President of the United States. 3) If both get in to the highest office this Coutry is going to be in big trouble. Just because McCaine was in the military he is no MacArthur or Eisenhower because niether were prisoner of war. Since running for President, all McCaine has talked about is his time in hanoi Hilton. Everything we heard from McCaine is the same we heard from George W Bush.

Sarah Palin is a racist and a right wing extremist. She is not only a drag on the republican ticket, she has limited knowledge, exposure, ideas and understanding of issues beyond Alaska. only people like her will ever imagine her in the role of US VP.

To any thinking American, John McCain’s political fate was sealed when he chose Sarah Palin as his running mate. It’s got nothing to do with either her gender or background, it’s simply that she just doesn’t cut it as a potential commander-in-chief, full stop.

Sarah Palin is not a drag – the Media makes her sound terrible – are you afraid for what she stands for – Honesty & Justice, She has more experience in the Gov and done more good for it than Barack ever did. Go McCain & Palin – win! win! win! Can’t stand all the lies Barack is giving out!!

Honesty and Justice Palin stands for, where the hey you been for the last two months????She is as bad as Stevens who just got nailed…My gosh.You are living in a different world then we are.

Nut case is what she is.

When someone says I am voting for Obama because I am old and I thought I would not get to Vote for a black man shows he is being voted for because he is black and thats why he is geting 98 % of the black vote. That would be Okay if he had a brain.

She is a drag on the ticket and for all women, let me count the ways:
1) let her husband run all over her office. What respectable working woman would EVER do that, she single-handedly sets us all back!
2) keeps questioning why we are asking about her clothes and no other candidates? That is because the other 3 purchased their own, there is no question.
3) she was CONVICTED of ABUSE of POWER by a 10-4 Republican topped committee and the ress has all but given her a pass on this. The Obama campaign has stuck to the issues and McCain. They have stayed away from her.
4) she has stolen from her State! A 4 hour presentation in NY turns into an all expense paid vacation in NY at the Essesx House for her and her 3 daughters. Seriously, she is an outsider!
5) Her husband is a member of the AIP, a known terrorist organization but she can’t stop talking about Obama’s associations. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! But she is sleeping with Todd and this is while he was an active member. Ayers was decades away from his bad behavior and a contributing member of society. Her husband was just in her office bossing around her staff and trying to get people fired.
6) she sat in her church, this is undisputed, while the Jews for Jesus representative spouted that the Jews in Israel were responsible for violence perpetrated against them because they were non-believers. This was weeks before she was chosen, when she knew she was on the short list.
I could go on.
She is bad for Republicans, bad for McCain, bad for Alaska, bad for women.

I just want to go on record saying that Sarah Paling is not a drag to the republican ticket. I have some serious questions concerning the kind of campaign Obama has run. Why did he agree to not take public campaign funds and then go back on his agreement? Why do we not have a valid birth certificate as to his place of birth? Why is he tied to so many shady characters? I do not trust him. He is a liar and a cheat. That is not what the American people deserve. He admitted himself that he is not experienced. Bill Clinton said, “Since when do we elect a president based on one year experience in the Senate.” WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER 911.

Palin is McCain’s BEST ASSET.
She’s the kind of woman many of us other women in the world aspire to.
She takes a lickin’ but keeps on tickin’! I am proud of her. She always is the better “woman” no matter who attacks her.
She rocks!
SHE IS THE REASON I VOTED MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!

Sarah Palin is a boost to the GOP ticket, despite what “the media” promotes. If you independently dig deep, you find quite an opposite story from what mainstream shares. I can fill a website with details as I’ve got folders full of data. She lives what she believes and states. She follows the intent of the founding fathers. No, she isn’t a career politician for 20-30 years experience, so she’s not going to sound like one, nor is she a liar (oppps! …I meant “lawyer”), like most other politicians.
Our country’s 3 INDEPENDENT branches are run by 1 group of folks, which was never intended by the founders. We are a REPUBLIC, not a “democracy” (or more precisely a democratic republic). Palin represents views consistent with our founders, and our founder’s faith in God. Of course, if the citizenry has faith that “God does not exist”, then they won’t appreciate that our historic strength ultimately comes from God, not man. My opinion… Take God out of the picture and we as a country will (continue to) suffer the consequences. May God bless our country and the election. No, Palin isn’t “perfect” nor is McCain nor Obama. Looking forward, I’d easily have greater confidence in Palin than in Obama based upon faith; By faith, I have nothing to fear.
P.s.- bring on the attacks, liberals! ;-)

Palin is not just a drag on McCain. Palin I snot just a drag on Red America. Palin is not just a drag on Blue America. Palin is not just a drag on rich or poor America. Palin is not just a drag on young or senior Americans. She is a drag on the United States of America. Oh yeah, and according to her own campaign staff – she is a drag on diva’s and whacko’s too.

Bill,
Thanks for your thoughtful comments.
Obviously, you’re a true believer in the conservative message. You must find it very painful to have to vote for McCain/Palin–neither of whom is much of a true conservative! For example, McCain just proposed that the government spend $300,000,000 of the bailout money to purchase toxic mortgages. In what way does that promote accountability either on the part of the banks or of the homeowners? And Palin took over as mayor of Wasilla which had $1 million in debt, and left it $15 million in debt (mostly taken on to build a hockey rink she wanted). She’s certainly no fiscal conservative.
From my perspective, your fears about Obama seem to me to be the product of the McCain campaign’s focus on trying to smear Obama.
If you look into any politician’s acquaintances you’ll certainly find people who may be reprehensible–e.g., Wright and Ayers for Obama. But, you’ve got Palin married to a man who is so unpatriotic he belonged to a political party that wants Alaska to secede from the United States. So why does Obama having attended Wright’s church and listened to his sermons make Obama unworthy of office, but Palin’s choice of someone to be her husband who hates America so much he wants to secede doesn’t tar her with being unpatriotic? If you’re going to damn Obama based on his so-called associations, you should be doing the same with McCain and Palin.
I think you’ve been drinking McCain campaign’s KoolAid about Obama’s radicalism. Since his own campaign decided that the American public just wasn’t going to buy his substantive positions enough to elect him (which they’ve admitted publicly), the only path he saw to winning was to try to scare people out of voting for Obama. That’s when he took the low road and put most of his efforts into making up scary stuff about Obama, and blowing relatively unimportant associations all out of proportion.
As I said before, Obama’s a middle-of-the-roader, and while you’ll never agree with his political philosophy, I suspect that you would consider any Democrat’s agenda “radical.”
In any event, since it looks like Obama’s going to win on Tuesday, we’re all going to have 4 years to see if your fears are justified or not. I’m sure they’re not. All I’d ask is that you and people who share your beliefs at least take a look on your own at what he actually does–not what Hannity or Limbaugh say that he does–and then be honest about whether you still consider him radical. And I promise you to do the same!
By the way, I agree with you that America’s constitution is one of the greatest political documents in history, but I’ve read it and don’t see any provision in there that guarantees freedom from “big government”. If you hate big government, then you must have loathed Ronald Reagan and both Presidents Bush–all of whom expanded our government considerably.
Oh well. there isn’t a government in the world that’s going to be able to satisfy all of its citizens, and Obama’s will be no exception to that rule.
The saddest part of it all is that no matter who gets elected president, he’s going to have a virtually impossible task on his hands–a mini-death spiral in the U.S. and world economy, two wars draining the lives of Americans and weakening our military and draining our national wealth, global climate change, and an incredibly fearful American public. It’s going to take this country more than a generation to recover from the mess that current and previous administrations have made of it, and I doubt that I’ll live long enough to see it.

Sarah Palin personifies ladylike behavior and not only is she “not a drag”, but she has energized this campaign like no other candidate.
BO and Biden are the ones who have made more gaffes than any others. I suspect BO’s erratic comments are not mispoken, however. I believe his slipups are unavoidable because that is his truth coming out. Biden is just a farce!
If you, the media, would simply report the news and not try to “make” the news, we would all be better off. I am sick and tired of hearing your commentators correcting the gaffes for the Dems. Let them say what they wish and suffer the consequences.
Katie Couric should be forced to listen to her own sophomoric interviews 100 times each as punishment for the way she tried to put words into Sarah Palin’s mouth and then,(Couric) ran to McCain and lied about what actually was stated.

Sarah Palin rocks! Just the fact that there are so many blogs about her proves she rocks-no one cares about Joe Biden-even as vp!

If she actually had an education and some brains, it would have worked.
No one knew her. Obama came out in 2004 at the Democratic Convention and made a fantastic speech. Who is Palin. Never heard of her till a few months ago.
She was totally out of her league. McCain should have known better.

With concerns over McCain’s age, the choice of Palin as a running mate was a particularly bad and irresponsible choice. It made me question McCain’s judgment enough that I voted against him. Palin may have rallied people, but what I observed was a frantic reaction to her misleading sound bites with no depth. We don’t need a cheerleader misleading the nation. The thought of her handling foreign affairs with the same lack of finesse should make any reasonable person vote for the other party.

McCain did not and could not speak as well as Obama. Today’s winners have to be able to project their personalities as well as articulate their ideas. Not even close! It was okay to pick Palin but sell the public on why and address the experience and worry over his health. He did none of those things. At this time America needs a confidence builder and has to have an image changer. Obama will deliver that.
I admire Palin for offering her services to her country. Lots of people point and complain but few step up. Also maybe just maybe the real prejudice
in this election process was against women. Hillary was undoubtedly a more deserving candidate than Obama and would have likewise garnered a landslide victory for the Democrats.And like or not she would have a very strong talent group to draw on to help her govern. But was America ready for a woman President? Maybe the males with their egos etc. need to step back and allow women to shape the nation. It’s their turn. How many male Presidents do we need?

Sarah Palin seems to have very low IQ. There is no thinking process in her eyes when she talks. I think she can make a great Game show Contestant or Mrs. Alaska over 40. Her bikini photos show her bottom quite big so she will need to work hard to lose her rear end.
Hope her marriage is good so she can stay at home for a very, very, Very long time.
Dust in the Wind!!!