How Palin Came to the Top of the List

So in other words, it was another knee-jerk decision on McCain’s part. Big surprise.
This is a guy who shots from the hip, and who has temperment issues. Bad combination.

Temperament.
He picks a woman under investigation for abuse of power by firing her ex brother in law because he divorced her sister. Vindictive, coupled with John McCain’s temper… not a good thing.
And her Big Oil ties..
His pick says a lot about how he would run the country.

The Obamabots sound angry. On second thought, they just sound worried.

Carrie – who sounds angry?
Or was that just one of those drive-by postings that really has nothing to do with anything posted before it?

McCain’s choice of running mate is astounding on two levels. One, it’s extremely insulting to women that he thinks he can trot out a female and we will become so giddy that we’ll leap at the chance to get a woman —ANY woman— into the White House. I trust we’re smarter than that. Two, I’m appalled that the evangelicals and fundamentalists are such zealots about running our country their way that they are absolutely orgasmic over a candidate who is stupefyingly unqualified to step into the presidency. They are willing to sacrifice national security, the national economy, and national credibility for a right-to-life candidate. McCain is undeniably quite elderly and I cannot imagine Sarah Palin, who has briefly run a state with a population of Memphis, Tennessee, taking over leadership of a country with a population of more than 300,000,000 and a myriad of staggering problems. McCain has pandered to women and kissed the aspirations of the religious right. BAH!

“John McCain, you’re the man!!!!!!!”
I’m offended by this sexist language! Lol, just kidding.

This is a political move that has nothing to do with taking care of the economy, our foreign and domestic policies, nor any political issue that our country is now facing. For John McCain this is about winning votes. Its sad that the Gov. of Alaska has allowed herself to become a pawn in Mr. McCain’s little vote strategy. He has definately taken the one card he’s being playing repeatedly against Obama away. For the during of the campaing his accusations of inexperience and readiness to lead the nation is no longer viable.

Exactly
this shows judgment
yeah good to go with your gut John…
3 of her 5 and a half years (really 4 and a half but whose counting) are as mayor of a town of 9000 people..
I was President of my student council and we had 5000 students…and President of my college student body we had 12.000 people…
can I be on the list?

I guess Palin really woke up Obama and his supporters. I guess all this time Obama thought he had already won the election… and the European trip was his self congratulatory trip.
There is a good chance Obama will have to pack up and move to Europe for good after November, after having spent so much money and gone nowhere.
Perhaps he’ll take his speeches to Europe and find some new tricks there. Many losers here have found good names there. It’s a good idea Mr. Obama rings up some of them and get their advice also.

beck: “I’m appalled that the evangelicals and fundamentalists are such zealots about running our country their way that they are absolutely orgasmic over a candidate…”
I’m not sure the orgasmic reaction has anything to do with her credentials or likelihood to govern in a way that appeals to evangelicals. I think she’s a knockout.
And you can bet that aspect isn’t lost on the McCain campaign. Like I was hinting at above, I’m not sure this pick was aimed at pleasing women as much as men.
Either way, its a terrible reason to pick a running mate. But she is easy on the eyes.

John McCain chose Sarah Palin because he’s a man who knows how to make a bold decision. Barack Obama chose Joe Biden because Michelle told him not to choose Hillary. Thank you, Michelle!!!!!

Congrats to McCain – this is the funniest and smartest thing I have seen in years.
1) turn the dems argument about judgment/experience on their head — if Palin is too inexperienced to be VP, how can Obama be Pres?
2) keep the conservative base from trickling away
3) create a pull for centrist women (Dem or Repub) who might have gone either way. ** All this talk about being demeaning to HRC supporters is short-sighted … there are Repub/Indep women who’s vote will make a difference this year
4) deliver what was promised – change and reform
5) get the media attention … who’s talking about Obama’s acceptance speech now?
Clever clever clever

I am so excited about voting for McCain/Palin 08. I can’t take the smile off my face. I have to go look at it!

McSame has miscalculated this time as he miscalutated when during the early hours of the Vietname’s war he was captured as POW and remained there until the end of that uggly war. This is a demonstration that McSame doesnot understand values women are fighting for. This choice is an anti-choice who will bring down all the fondamental women’s aspirations for freedom and liberty. This is not a Hilary Clinton, this is not a Geraldine Ferraro, this is not a Nancy Policy, chosing Miss Alaska is just a demonstration of lack of judgement from McSame. God save America from McSame.

Bud
I was not just picked to be an aging heart beat away from being the Leader of the Free World.
Palin was…. and shouldn’t be.
…scary precipice Mccain wants to put us on playing tactical election stunts to get himself elected.

It took John McCain and the Republican Party to give Hillary and all her supporters the respect we all deserve.
Gov. Palin is not Hillary but she seems awesome and many of us will embrace her. My respect for John McCain just grows and grows. Tomorrow, as the newness of his pick begins to fade, the story will be how he – not BO – understood the depth of our hopes and dreams. For that, McCain has my vote.
McCain/Palin will be working with a solidly Democratic majority. No one has anything to worry about as far as Roe v. Wade or the Supreme Court is concerned. In fact, there’s a lot to be said about having a Republican President in 2008 (if it can’t be a centrist like Hillary). They will put the brakes on the more leftist leanings of Reid and Pelosi et. al.
This is a good day.

McCain/Palin 08. The maverick did it again! Woohoo.

dl – Ah, the last refuge of the desparate, start with the personality attacks. Stick to facts you can prove (you’re much better there).
* There are people who aren’t impressed by Obama’s knowledge and vision – it’s not a universal truth that he’s right. And, there are people open-minded enough to wait to see what Palin is like before jumping to conclusions.
* Women do wear glasses to see – especially those who have a busy life and don’t have the patience to worry about contacts.
* Unless you’re a close personal friend, you don’t know who McCain likes (apart from Lieberman) or dislikes or why.
Think what you want, but don’t expect everyone to believe it’s gospel.

Sarah Palin went after the unhappy Hillary voters today but last March said she could not vote for her because she did not like Hillary’s whining. Hillary’s experience is ten times what Palin’s is.

I love the spin OBama people are giving Palin’s selection – pointing out how Kay Bailey Hutchinson professes not to know her. Well, Hutchinson is in the Senate – just like the three men in this race. Why don’t they ask one of the 49 other governors in the US about her. Our governors are the ones with executive experience – front lines, meeting daily challenges.
Also, what’s the statistic? Mostly governors get elected to the White House – far fewer senators get elevated to the Presidency – and she’s the vice presidential nominee. She looks like a fast learner.

I can’t help but think Hillary is smirking just a lil bit today. I might even send her another $43.60 in honor of McCain’s dynamic pick.

Kitty
Hillary AND Ferraro are going to trash this pick.
You see Hillary and Ferraro LIKE women…and would like to see them do better.
This woman obviously from her stances …does not.

SO many Independents are happy today. We finally know the complete ticket we are voting for, and it’s a great one!!! Mccain/Palin 08 In all fairness, I’d like to thank Senator Obama for of his work to get a woman on the ticket. We’ll never forget you. Now go back to Chicago and leave the governoing to us.

“so Putin comes in and …does she break into her vast knowledge of govrnment histories…her knowledge of our constitutiion of uN agreements” DL, we must be talking about Obama!!! lol

Maybe all the women who wanted Hillary for president are jumping on the McCain/Palin bandwagon because they expect him to croak during his first term (entirely possible). That way they get their woman president, no matter who it is. A Palin presidency would be a far cry from a Hillary presidency. But no matter, at least it would be a woman.

Oh happy day. Oh happy day. McCain/Palin08. In the words of that weirdo DNC chairman Dean, “yee haw”!

This has the republican party motivated and rallying. Next week’s convention is going to be simply outstanding!

The one who made a sad decision here is the Gov. Her judgement does not seem to be the best. As a grandmother of a special needs baby, I do not see her first priority to the country, or Mcain but to the special needs baby. I cannot see a woman or a man who had a newborn special needs baby as having the time or energy to run a country. Their first commitment is to that baby and the immense time and energy required to provide it with the best of themselves. I see this decision as a very selfish one in light of the cir cumstances. Also would not trust McCain to have a lot of understanding as he voted against the funding for autism.

Jim
the difference is
Obama does have a vast knowledge of government histories… knowledge of our constitution and of UN agreements…
duh…
he has on numerous occasions been quizzed up and down on things that most would not even come close to knowing…
remember he was a freakin constituional law instructor remember…
she…a beauty queen who was mayor of a town of 9000 for 3 years and a governor for less then the length of these primaries…
and no experience or education with national, governmental, legal, military, trade…structure or history.
none.

Experience is less important when you have vision, intellect, and years of planning and preparation. People like Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan had little experience in one way or another — but they had years to to plan and think about what kind of presidency they wanted to have. Barack Obama has had a long time to think about the issues facing the nation, and what he plans to accomplish in the presidency.
Meanwhile Sarah Palin most likely genuinely didn’t have any expectation to selected vice president. I seriously question whether she has spent a serious amount of time thinking about the many complex issues facing America.

Now we know McCain does not really put country first, he just wants to get female votes. The vice president is a heart beat away from the presidency if McCain is elected. He chose a governor with even less FP experience tha Obama. Either the republicans have been lying about this war on terror or McCain cares nothing about the safety of this nation. I guess McCain feels if America can get excited about a young AA politician who has not been on the polictial scene that long’ they can get excited about Palin, even though the agenda for both polical parties are so different. Let see if this works for McCain !!!!!!!

CS
How long should we wait?
do you think there was time waiting on Biden?
the difference is Biden could take over adeptly…
Palin would be like asking a student driver to go up in the space shuttle with an aging astronaut and if he suddenly has a heart attack she has to fly and land the ship with out any knowledge of space or how to fly.
You can say all you want about obama but his knowledge of the issues is far and away vast.

Congratulations to the Republicans — better 24 years late than never.
Only the Republicans would consider the mere act of nominating a woman to the vice-presidency a sign of “change” and a “shake-up”.

She’ll best Biden in a wet t-shirt contest or whatever else they run for!
Beware: Obama bin Biden

CS – get a grip. Especially if I had a special needs child, I’d certainly jump at the chance to be VP, with more money, medical care, greater support resources, and a spouse who’s perfectly able to help. Children need love & care, not 24×7 attachment.

Good News! The sale of underwear skyrocketed today as thousands of Republicans crapped their pants when John McCain announced his VP pick! Proof he can stimulate the economy and the bowels!

Excellent choice!
Palin is more qualified than Obama. As a governor, Palin runs everything. Obama is a Senator from Illinois which is just a Representative and all he does is vote on things that other people have put together. And most of the time Obama just votes “present.”

I wasn’t impressed by Palin this afternoon. She will have to do a fabulous job on Wednesday when she addresses the RNC. Will she be able to? I am not sure. I think the experience thing is an issue, either because McCain has been making an attack he really doesn’t believe in over the last few months, or his judgement is once again found lacking.
And I am not kidding. He could be putting a woman with such a thin resume within months of being President. Yeah McCain’s health doesn’t mean he will die, but lets face it its not unheard of for a President to be assasinated. Either experience is important, or it isn’t. Can’t have it both ways.

CS/AW – sorry, addressed my “Get a grip” to CS, but should have been AW

dl
Of course there was time waiting on Biden…he’s been in the Senate 30 years, and was on the campaign trail (telling everyone in the primaries that Obama wasn’t ready).
As for flying the space shuttle, that’s not really a fair assessment. The president would be more like the flight commander, not the pilot. And frankly, all politicians are ultimately only as good as their advisors and staff. Bush as had terrible ones, and rarely showed a pair in realizing that and getting good ones. If a president is a truly the “pilot”, he/she’s going to have a lot of flight crew handling most of the real work.
But also using your example, with Obama the space shuttle is going up with the student driver at the helm and the old senior guy ready to take over. I’d really be hoping that the senior did take the controls.

dll, you, Obama, Biden, and the rest of the Democratic party have to deal with your misogyny and reactionary hatred of women. Until then, we fully intend to vote for progressive thinking men like McCain.

How can anybody be concerned that Palin can’t protect America, when there is no evidence that Obama can, or will. Obama has less experience running anything than the mayor of Wasilla AK has, not to mention running a state.
Running a Chicago neighborhood with federal money offers me no hope the guy can do anything, and Obama’s legislative experience is really weak.
I can’t wait until Biden tries his smarminess in the VP debates. Biden’s legislative experience consists of cashing government checks. Palin will not be a pushover by any stretch.

SARAH PALIN????
A “green horn” governor of one of the least populous states for less than 2 years, with NO foreign policy experience??
A heartbeat away from the presidency???
When McBush’s heart might stop at any time??
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!
John McCain has just shown he has NO JUDGMENT AT ALL!!!!!
Between Palin, Obama’s fantastic speech last night and hurricane Gustov sucking all the Oxygen out of the Republican convention and reminding everyone of the failure of Katrina, it’s over for the evil doers….
GAME OVER REPUBLICANS!!!!
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Don’t you know Hillary is pissed? She’s worked her whole life to be where Palin (if elected) may end up and Palin is two years removed from being a mayor of a small town.

to Valenti and Max,
Just hope you are just as liberal at Pro Choice issues.

pickled herring,
I think your right, Palin can protect America. I mean did you see her in that one picture holding that assault rifle?
That one picture alone will be enough to turn this election….
I mean it is better than the picture of Dukais riding in that tank? Remember that one???
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!!!!!!!
Obama/Biden ’08!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Art, I have no doubt Hillary is pissed, her own party sold her down the river. The republicans acknowledged and embraced a woman, the democratic party ridiculed and beat their woman down.

Put it this way, if Palin was a man…would she have been tapped?
DON’T THINK SO!

Can you imagine this woman standing up there next to Joe Biden at the VP debate? Biden will shred her on foreign policy and everything else. It will at best be an embarrassment for her and the Republicans!
This “green horn” would truly be just a “heartbeat” away from being president and the American people won’t stand for it. Very, very bad judgment on John McSenile’s part!
Say hello to President OBAMA!!!!!

It’s a bold move, but is it really justified? People should be voting for the party that mirrors their own principles and sense of community. If you believe in the Democratic platform, you vote for Obama. If you tout the Republican virtues, then you vote McCain. It’s not a personality contest. That’s where Americans always screw it up!

SG, Obama was NOMINATED by the voters. Palin was APPOINTED by John Mccain.
Moreover, being black didn’t help Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, did it?

Governor Palin will bring more experience and credibility to the McCain/Palin ticket than Obama can ever hope for with his own thin resume and questionable character traits. America is simply not ready for a socialist president who refused to be fully vetted.
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO OBAMA, NOT NOW, NOT EVER.
I lived in Alaska for 25 years and love to still be there during the summertime. My family members are still there and say Mrs Palin is highly respected.

Senators can hide behind the votes of 99 others. Governors make decisions that cannot be passed to anyone else. That’s why “executive experience” is vastly superior to “representative experience.”
Gov. Palin has managed a state and full staff of thousands – all while raising 5 kids. Her oldest son is going to serve in Iraq, just as McCain’s son is already doing.
Those who assume she isn’t able to handle a national stage/national issues forget that a fancy college transcript doesn’t mean anything in the real world. Your achievements in the real world do.

Hmmm, who was the last Governor we had as president?
Wait a minute…George W. Bush was governor of Texas!! He had “executive experience” too. He even pledged “compassionate conservatism” during his campaign. He was also going to “shake up Washington”.
Ah…8 years later, how do we feel about Georgie?
Yeah, another Republican governor…
THANKS BUT NO THANKS.

Mary, a black man’s vote is worth the same as a white man, a woman, latino, or a gay. The state of Iowa would sharply disagree with your assessment of being an “affirmative action” nominee.
Your bigotry is disgraceful and disgusting. Everyone in this country is an immigrant, unless you can claim you are a native american, so take your racist rant elsewhere.

PALIN IS NOW ON C-SPAN RIGHT NOW GIVING AN INTERVIEW!
Wow what a policy WONK! She knows all about the PTA and the current events in Juno! Dog sled races and everything!
She is telling us all about in her words “her backwards state with no infrastructure.” Also how the only industry there is the raping and pillaging of Natural Resources, like timber and oil…
Also she is just like McBush, she wants to drill here, drill there, drill everywhere!! Now I see why he chose her!!!
You know when she looks straight into the camera, you can see that she has really beautiful eyes as well, too bad they are kind of crossed like that…
She is certainly a FOX, I will give you that McCain – you do have an eye for the ladies!
GAME OVER REPUBLICANS!!!
Obama/Biden 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m still waiting for McCain to say this was a joke.
20 months as governor of Alaska is qualified for VP? There are MAYORS with more executive experience and bigger portfolios.
Country first my ass.

Congrats, Reps, for finally choosing a woman. We did that about 20 years ago.

Eddie– Your bigotry rant is disgraceful and disgusting. Ignoring the facts does not change the facts even for Obama supporters. My family has DNA from a half dozen different nations including native American. So you are off track to say I am a racist. I am a person who believes that the truth and honesty is more important than someone’s political whims. The Obama people do not. OK. I also have worked in the political arena for years before I retired.

Of course the LIBS don’t like Sarah Palin: She’s smart, pro-life, pro-low taxes, pro-gun rights, pro-military, hates pork barrel spending and is beautiful to boot! And she has actually has a list of identifiable accomplishments as the Executive of a state for nearly two years. The LIBS would rather extol the virtues of a Chicago street thug with a forged Hawaiian birth certificate ( Barack HUSSEIN Obama was born in Kenya) who spent just 4.5 months as a junior Senator (most liberal Senator in history) before deciding to run for President. Among his closest confidents, spiritual advisors and friends are the freakiest anti-Americans ever featured on National TV seen and heard cursing our country, spewing their hate of “whitey” and believing that 3000 innocent Americans deserved to be incinerated on September 11, 2001. And that was his preacher! His friends, Bill Ayers and wife, set off bombs in our Pentagon and in police stations and to this day admit they “wish he did more damage and killed more people”. But, Ayers and his wife also published papers advocating for children to kill their parents and for the rights of parents to kill their babies until the age of one. This is the sewage that you LIBS want to stain our White House with?

I love the case that was made for Obama’s experience: he’s been in 26 debates. That cracks me up. Meanwhile, Palin’s run a business, a city, a state, she’s commander of her state’s National Guard, she’s negotiated with foreign governments, stood up to the oil companies while working with them and fought corruption in her state and party. She’s everything Obama pretends to be and more. People are right… there is no comparison.

Palin defeated two Alaska political institutions without resorting to having them thrown off the ballot like Chicago thug Obama.

Palin has as much experience as Obama. In other words to lightweights do NOT make a potiental President, no matter they have D or R next to their name. Better hope John is fit, and Obama has good security for the next four years or we are ALL screwed!!!

Are the Republicans kidding me, with the nod to Sarah Palin as McCain’s VP choice? If the GOP had qualms about the one-term Senator Obama from a well-populated State (IL) and one of the countries largest cities (Chicago area), then the RNC has got to be kidding about a one-term Governor Palin of a “remote” state (AK) from the continental U.S. with no large cities, relatively. This election is a sham, (I just lament the possibility that it could’ve been a Clinton/Biden ticket, alas…).

OK, do American voters really think that a Presidential candidate who’s grandfather, father, himself and his son have military background will end the Military Industrial Complex’s policy of America in Endless War(s), and end the GHB/GWB Iraqi war(s) (that’s McCain…)? Do voters really think that a Vice Presidential choice who’s husband is in the Oil Industry and who’s state citizens get governmental payouts from Oil revenues in Alaska will support the complete move to clean, renewal, homegrown energy sources such as Wind, Solar, Wave, Geothermal, Biomass, cellulosic ethanol and others (that’s Palin…)? Well, I don’t think McCain/Palin will. They will support the status quo. So, if you feel the country is doing well and should continue on as usual, they’re your pair.

She was a Mayor of 348 people..
200 of them Women…
Bwaaaaaaa!~!~!!
GOP are very desperate, very…

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty,
former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge
all called McCain a TRAITOR TO THE GOP…
They are Pee’d at McCain…
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!

As a moderate Republican and vet, I appalled that McCain would choose this inexperienced Gov of a state with all of 700,000, who doesn’t even know anything about Iraq or Iran.
That is not putting country first
Mitt Romney was the best a most obvious choice. This is someone who is ready to step in should, God forbid, something happens to McCain, He is 72 after all.

Palin speaks!
“The GOP agenda to ramp up domestic supplies of energy is the only way that we’re going to become energy independent, the only way that we are going to become a more secure nation — and I say this, of course, looking at the situation we are in right now, at war, not knowing what the plan is to ever end the war that we’re engaged in, understanding that Americans are seeking solutions, and they are seeking resolution in this war effort, so energy supplies, being able to produce and supply domestically, is going to be a big part of that.”
Brilliant AND articulate!

Two words.
Harriet Myers.

“… McCain hit a home run with this one. …”
Heh. More like he scored an own goal.

Hey Davis:
Our No.2 has more experience than
your No.1!
You’re right. Game Over for Obama!
No one will be able to say
PRESIDENT OBAMA after the election since the title of president-elect
goes to the WINNER! That will be McCain!

lol. The democrats beat down another female candidate.
That’s rich.
What the freak were you Republicans going to do with Hilary…greet her as a liberator? You’re still pissed we didn’t nominate her.

Come on, it’s obvious that these two are a comically bad ticket being sacrified by the GOP, since they don’t want to waste their viable candidates on a Dem landslide year like 2008.

Haha! I love the line “Palin has run a city.” Keep trying to make that “experience” argument, guys. Watching you guys flail is f’n hilarious!

Sure are a lot of GOP shills in this comment box… Try to be less transparent.

Anyone who thinks this is great is more qualified to run for VP than McCain’s choice…which goes from negative to 0 chance…And anyone who is a so called Hilary supporter now going to vote for the Republican ticket because McCain made a “bold” move go jump in the ocean because we don’t need you dragging the country down in deeper into the crapper than we already are…It’s insulting to all Americans for this guy to put the greatest office on Earth one heartbeat or colonoscopy away to someone not even qualified to President of my College…Anyone who calls her a state executive has a very high degree of respect for the cutthroat politics of “Alaska”…Geez what a dumb turd

As a registered independent, the defense of Palin as the supposed next Vice President of the United States makes me laugh. What the heck, are you guys Republican operative paid to post tripe? Or are you really that stupid?
The Republicans have a very deep bench of women with great experience. Senator Hutchinson of TX; former EPA administrator Whitman; Secretary of Labor Chao; Secretary of State Condi Rice.
Palin has been a councilwoman and mayor of a city 3x smaller than my college and Governor of Alaska for 18 months.
THAT makes her qualified to be President should something unforseen happen to John McCain, who’s just turned 72 with a history of cancer?
That’s laughable.
If you’ve posted to this blog in support of Palin, drop the crack pipe and stay off of the internet for a while.
P.S. Mitt Romney would have been the better choice for McCain.

I think Joe Biden was correct. B.O. is not qualified to be President. B.O. stinks.

Palin doesn’t have a lot of expereince but she does have more than Obama and she has 4 years to learn as VP.
She will mobilize the conservative vote because of her stands on theissues and her willingness to do what is right even if it goes against the Reublican base.
Hopefully in 4 years we will have our first woman President!!!!!

paul – how is this a kneejerk decision? lol. she was always on the list, but not considered a frontrunner. also, this “article” is based on rumor and innuendo. there are no official statements in the story from the campaign. i think the logic on lieberman is correct – although he would have attracted tons of moderates and democrats. i thought pawlenty was great but mccain wanted verve. i give him credit for this.

It is clear that virtually all the women who claim they are going to vote for McCain because of this are McCain supporters who would have voted for him no matter who he picked.

Here are the facts:
1) Sarah Palin used her power as Governor to try to get her (former) brother-in-law fired as a state trooper because he was in a messy divorce with her sister.
2) She is against abortion for any reason, even to save the life of the mother.
3) She wants to teach creationism in the public schools.
4) She has said (on tape)that she doesn’t know what the vice president does. She has also said (on tape) that she knows nothing about the Iraq war.
5) Other, more qualified, Republican women (e.g. Olympia Snowe) were not considered for the VP slot only because of their views on abortion.
6) As a 72-year-old male cancer survivor, John McCain’s chances of making it through four years as President are fairly slim.
7) John McCain has shown that he does not have the judgment to be President.

But Pawlenty’s flaw — what cost him the VP — was that he would not have stirred things up. He was safe, and McCain was not inclined to take the safe route.
“Safe”? In what way? Safe from a campaign strategy perspective or safe from a qualifed to be a heart beat away from the presidency perspective – unfortunately both. But, McCain apparently doesn’t give a hoot about the second issue – which is why he finally has pushed this former Hillary supporter finally into the Obama camp.

The idea that many Republicans are comparing Palin to Obama is laughable. Let’s review: a former beauty pageant queen with a degree in communications from the University of Idaho, 1.5 years of experience as governor of a state with fewer people than Dayton, Ohio, and prior experience as Mayor of a village of 6,500 vs. a former community organizer with a law degree from Harvard who has worked as a constitutional law professor, a productive state senator in one of the largest states in the country for 8 years, and a U.S. Senator for 4 years is laughable. And, just for the record, “no experience” Obama has done the following:
Illinois State Senate:
a) Led sweeping, bipartisan ethics reform;
b) Led an effort to expand health care to 150,000 people (that’s 1/5 the size of Alaska);
c) Led an effort to pass the Earned Income Tax Credit;
Senate (and, to those who say Senator Obama has spent all of his time running for President, somehow he has also achieved the following):
a) Passed the most sweeping Congressional ethics reform in history;
b) Led a successful effort to improve the medical care provided to our noble veterans
c) Fought against so-called loyal-vet McCain to EXPAND the GI Bill so that our brave vets have a chance at a better future through education when they return home;
d) Led the fight for legislation to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the hands of rogue states and actors (somehow more impressive than commanding the Alaska National Guard as governor of Alaska where, at best, she’s authorized to deploy them to dig Anchorage out of a big snow storm)
e) has traveled extensively internationally PRIOR to this campaign, and, at this point, has met with the leaders of most of our major allies in Europe and the Middle East;
f) Spoke out against the Iraq War when it was unpopular to challenge the Bush administration (and when Sarah Palin was still presiding over a village smaller than my high school);
h) Challenged Bush and McCain to focus on real threats to our security in Afghanistan and Al-Queda instead of costly, Bush-created threats in Iraq;
i) Developed a nuanced foreign policy based on engagement as a first principle, and force as a last option. After mocking him for arguing for the importance of engaging Iran to reduce their nuclear threat, the Bush administration is now doing just that!
Not only do Obama’s achievements stand up to those of McSame, who voted with Bush 90% of the time, they dwarf those of Palin.
Let’s review here: Former Mayor of a town of 6500 who has been Governor for 1.5 years being compared to Senator Obama, who has been in state and national office for 12 years. Senator Obama has already influenced and helped to shape domestic and international dialogue on U.S. foreign policy, and his positions have been proven right on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran. Laughable comparison.
The Republicans are shocking in their bravado, which is why they nominated Dubya twice! People voted for Hillary Clinton because she had REAL experience and credibility, and McCain insults them by picking this neophyte. Her record of independence from the corruption of her party is admirable; her abuse of her authority to punish her ex-brother-in-law was not, and sounds awfully Karl Roveian.
Ladies and Gentleman, Sarah Palin is NO Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama has my vote. He has a better record on women’s issues than this feaux-feminist, “Trophy VP” nominee, who opposes a woman’s right to chose and saddled up with a candidate who voted against equal pay for women and the Family Leave Act. McCain picked her after meeting/SEEING her ONCE over much more experienced women like Kay Bailey Hutchinson in Texas and Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina. Those two must feel like the disabled wife whom McCain left for his current trophy wife (whom he recently offered to enter in a nude beauty contest in exchange for the the votes of some biker dudes). Women of America, this is a slap in the face. I’d rather wait until Claire McCaskill, Kathleen Sebelius, or a number of other MUCH more qualified Democratic women have their chance (and think Obama will pick one of them as his VP for his second term).

Sarah Palin is a hick. She’s a 44 year old grandmother with a daughter named Bristol. Need we say more? She’s a non-issue and we will never hear her name again after McCain loses the election.
John

John McCain’s first executive Decision, Sarah Palin. shows he cares nothing for this Country, is incompetent, and is not ready to lead. With all our economic problems, threats of terrorism, he picks someone with much less executive experience than Barack Obama, who by the way was 10 years in the state senate before being elected to the U.S. Senate (a bio very similar to Lincoln who is considered one of our greatest if not the greatest President we have ever had), and which takes away McCain’s most ardent argument to date that Barack is an empty suit! Is this another Alan Keyes moment when GOP put up Mr. Keyes to run against Barack in Illinois just because he was Black?
In her speech on Friday, they already have Gov. Palin “lying” to the American people that she was always against the Bridge to Nowhere, however recorded information will prove that this is not accurate and that she was for the Bridge to Nowhere, before she was against it!
“According to the Ketchikan Daily News edition on August 8, 2006, this is what Sarah Palin rushed over to tell the voters of Ketchikan during the primary election campaign:
‘People across the nation struggle with the idea of building a bridge because they’ve been under these misperceptions about the bridge and the purpose,’ said Palin, who described the link as the Ketchikan area’s potential for expansion and growth. Palin said Alaska’s congressional delegation worked hard to obtain funding for the bridge as part of a package deal and that she ‘would not stand in the way of the progress toward that bridge.’” AND
according to the Ketchikan Daily News on September 29, 2006 this is what Sarah Palin rushed over to tell the voters of Ketchikan during the general election campaign:
‘Part of my agenda is making sure that Southeast is heard. That your projects are important. That we go to bat for Southeast when we’re up against federal influences that aren’t in the best interest of Southeast.’ She cited the widespread negative attention focused on the Gravina Island crossing project. ‘We need to come to the defense of Southeast Alaska when proposals are on the table like the bridge and not allow the spinmeisters to turn this project or any other into something that’s so negative,’ Palin says”
Taken from Blogger AndrewHalcro.com
Not only is Palin less experienced and less qualified than Barack, she seems to lack the intellectual curiosity, or unwillingness, and depth to probe and understand the important and complexing problems/issues knocking at our door today. For example, “What is it exactly that the vice president does all day?” Palin offhandedly asked CNBC anchor Larry Kudlow in July. And when asked about her stance on Iraq by Alaskan Daily Palin answers “I’ve been so focused on state government, I haven’t really focused much on the war in Iraq. I heard on the news about the new deployments”! Does this show someone who is ready for Prime Time! And, was she truly vetted? Sarah/McCain get ready for she is about to come under the “media” microscope!
McCain’s VP pick also shows a disdain for this country because if something were to unfortunately happen to McCain, Sarah Palin would be our next President of the United States. Can you imagine in her that role? This proves two things in my mind, McCain’s lack of love for this country and that he does not have the judgment to lead this country at this most profound time.
Some in the media call it Historic but in reality Is this decision Historic or Hysterical and a mockery to our political system? Some in the media label it a game changer but is it really a roll of the dice? And should a Presidential candidate play Russian roulette with the people’s business? It is telling of McCain’s character and judgment that with all the problems we face here today, he did not have the People’s interest at heart in this V.P. pick but rather a desire to win for winnings sake and did not think of the consequences of his actions or maybe did not care what it would mean for this country if she were to be sworn in as President of the United States! And, ironically, the very things he accused Barack of being (which he is not) — empty suit, no experience — he got in his own V.P. Pick, Sarah Palin!
In McCain’s/GOP’s calculated ploy to pull Hillary women from Barack without consideration as to whether or not this woman has the ability and experience to lead the United States here and on a world scale shows a lack of sound judgment and it also shows that McCain is NOT READY TO LEAD in the 21st Centruy and is not serious about solving the monumental problems which must be faced — problems which need serious thinking and not strategic games.
McCain’s pick of Sarah Palin, a woman with very little executive experience, a woman who has approved a 26 billion dollar oil pipeline to a Canadian business instead of a business here in the United States, a woman who the Alaskan legislature approved a $100,000 investigation into her motivations in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan, on the allegations that Monegan’s firing was the result of his refusal to fire Mike Wooten, a trooper who is Palin’s former brother-in-law.” has proven to the world how really pathetic the Republican party has become that they will try any trick in the book to keep the power in the hands of big oil and special interest and out of the hands of the people where it belongs.

Word on some blogs from alaska writers is Palin can leave a down syndrome baby after three days( and a pregnancy that never “showed” in the seventh month and was a sursprise to co-workers, and water that broke in CA but never saw a hospital until one speech and hours later after stopovers in Seattle, which surely have better hospitals for a high risk child.)…because she also has a teenage daughter who left high school for several months during the same period. Mono, her fellow students were told. Same daughter holding baby in photo ops. Holding baby in a quite maternal embrace, actually.
The child is fact, regardless of parentage, but leaving any new born, particularly a vulnerable special needs child, if there is any way to prevent it, after three days to go back to work, suggests a level of ambition,and greed only matched by McCain, and a lack of concern for “family values.”
The first months after childbirth, hormonally compromised as they are with a normal baby, are particularly challenging for adjusting to a special needs child. Something doen’t jibe, here.
Also, Parents don’t necessarily know that their baby has down’s syndrome unless they test through blood or amniocentesis–and tests are usually done on older parents in order to create the option of not having a child. Have to wonder how, and more to the point, WHY they knew or when. Of course an unexpected teen age pregnancy could be high enough risk to warrant it….

Are you libs ever going to give up? This ain’t “Desperate Housewives”. This is real life. Have you no shame?
Palin had to have visited a doctor. Don’t you think that if anyone, anyone believed that this baby wasn’t hers that they would have spoken up.
What about the baby in the hospital? Don’t you think her daughter would have been in the hospital.
Good grief!!!
You people are SICK!!!

McCain miscalculated. Women are quite intelligent to realize when someone is ready or not ready to be president. In a recent poll, more women than men are skeptical of Palin’s qualifications to be commander-in-chief:
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/women-more-skeptical-of-palin-than-men.html
McCain also revealed something less than reassuring about his judgment and decision-making processes.
He is a high-stakes gambler who decides based on his “gut” and likes to roll the dice with the future of our country.
Haven’t 8 years of someone with that exact same temperament taught us anything?

Oh, now we are back to the Bush Derangement Syndrome. Bush bad, bad, bad.
For your information, the last 8 years have been the most profitable that I have ever had. I paid less taxes than ever last year, this April got more back than ever before.
Those of you who drink the left wing media kool aid – I pity you.
Back to McCain. Why on earth would he pick a Romney, likely not to get the christian vote, or anyone else who could bring about fodder for the demos? Demos chant “Change, Change, Change”.
McCain is giving us change. Change in the right direction, not the socialism direction.

McCain made a very bad decision by selecting Palin. That’s like selecting a mail room clerk who recently was promoted to a department head; and then promote that person to become the Vice President of a large corporation that is engaged in very sophisticated and comprehensive products, legal matters, research, investors, and development by highly intelligent PhD’s. Can you imagine that mail room clerk sitting in a meeting with these folks making important decisions?
Businesses don’t operate this way.

With this pick McCain has demonstrated he understands how the American electorate view elections. We seem to think elections are a contact sport where everyone is passionately rooting for their favourite team and your team wins the championship on Nov 4 and then it’s all over.
So, I have no doubt the “hurt” Hillary supporters will flock to McCain because they can’t actually conceive the consequences beyond Nov 4th. McCain will be elected (in the same Bush got a second term). And so after Nov 4th America will continue its nascent decline.
Maybe some day things will be bad enough that people like those Hillary supporters will have to think beyond Nov 4th. But, we are not there yet. We will vote for and get the ticket we deserve.
PS. I feel badly for Hillary. This has just made a mockery of her 35 years of public service. It appears all you have to do is just be a woman afterall.

Zorse: Couldnt be the Democratic Congress and Senate as the problem now could it – I suppose you would rather have Pelosi as VP?

Man, Oh Man. I find the Dems comments on Palin hilarious. First, Palin has more executive experience than anyone else on either ticket. Obama has NONE, in addition to having little experience at all. In addition, McCain selected a woman who appears to be a VERY quick study. I think everyone will be surprised by her as this campaign unfolds. In the pocket of the oil companies? Think again. She supported a LARGE increase in taxes on the oil companies in Alaska. People do your homework!! This lady is not a lighweight. Let’s please move on and discuss issues, not personalities.

My goodness!!! A quote from, uh, daily kos? The martians have truly landed.
If she doesn’t have the experience and is not “vetted”, then neither is Bill Clinton. It’s time to negate his whole presidency.
You will be saluting this lady one day.
Palin rocks!

Well, Palin seems like a good, competent person with MORE experience than Obama. Two years in Dec as Governor, after years of service as Mayor vs. State Sen. and less than two years as US Sen for Obama. Unfortunately, she’s Repuglican. Also, as a woman I don’t vote just because someone is a woman. I also wanted Hillary to be that first woman because I believe in Hillary’s desire to do what is best for Nation and Party, but mostly people. Since I cannot vote for Obama, because of the injustice in the Primaries, I will vote for NADAR. At least I know Nadar didn’t brass knuckle his way to be Prez.

Clinton , Number 46.

Obambi talks about change…then picks a dinosaur of the Senate.
McCain actually DID the change!
No more “McSame”…it’s “McChange”!

>>>Let’s see judgement? Biden or Palin.. One breath away from the presidency.<<<
If elected, Obama would be ZERO breaths away from the presidency, and I would rather have Palin's policies than Obama's.

>>>Yeah, well the Palin pick is going to implode, when it comes out that Palin’s youngest child isn’t actually hers at all, but her 16 year old daughters.<<<
This is how you liberals do it! What do you mean, "when it comes out"? If you know it, it's out. Why isn't the drive-by media all over this? Because it's a crock! You made it up! And you posted it here just so your Arianna Huffingtons and similar wonks can now splatter all over the networks, "Some are saying blah blah blah…." Which will be true–a bunch of socialist ideologues making up lies (i.e., you) are saying it. Are you listening, independents? Is this the type of people you want to help elect the next president? Or would you rather go with integrity, with honesty, and perhaps a touch of capitalism thrown in?

>>>Since a higher percentage of sexists live in the same places that racists live (and in most cases are one & the same individuals) McSexist will likely lose a hugh chunk of his McRacist vote.<<<
Olo: If McCain shocks you and wins, will you admit that America is not as racist and sexist as you believe (or perhaps wish) it is? You would have to do that, to be intellectually honest and consistent, wouldn't you?

>>>John McCain’s first executive Decision, Sarah Palin. shows he cares nothing for this Country, is incompetent, and is not ready to lead. <<<
Whereas your vote for Obama shows that you want the government to give you even more of my money. When are we going to stop euphemising Obama as merely socialist, and start calling a Communist a Communist?

>>>What exactly has Obama done in his career that stacks up against what she has accomplished in the time leading up to and during her Governorship? Community organizer? What’s that? State legislator…name a major accomplishment. <<<
OK, here's your answers.
1. "Community organizer" is a euphemism for "rabble rouser.
2. His biggest accomplishment as a state legislator (his answer to an interview question) was oppose the war in Iraq. Of course, the Illinois legislature had squat to say about the war in Iraq, so you may have a point that his accomplishments there may have been somewhat…er…limited.

>>>How can anybody be concerned that Palin can’t protect America, when there is no evidence that Obama can, or will.<<<
They don't need evidence that Obama can protect America. All they need is his promise to make America a socialist country. It's all about redistribution of wealth. Most (not all) people who envy Palin's success are incapable of success themselves, so they want the government to take more of my money and give it to them.

>>>Hillary’s experience is ten times what Palin’s is.<<<
But it's all BAD experience. It is experience in trying to make this a socialist country. It is an "I loathe the military" experience. It is dishonest experience. It is power for power's sake, now she has $110 million "sticking up for the little guy," and you yourself wanted 8 more years of Clinton exactly why–so they would take more of my money and give it to you?

Senator McCain had a Medical Evaluation that was released, my question is, was there a Psychiatric Evaluation also, and was it released? The Public needs to Know Now!

I was “lukewarm” over McCain, but he hit a home run in my book. The dems are now shaking in their boots….a woman governor with a 90 percent approval rating, vs. “their” congress, who has dipped down to less than 10 percent! Go McCain/Palin!!!!!!!

Sorry. You people who say Palin has experience are deluding yourself. She’s been part-time mayor of a town with a population smaller than that of the place I work for, and she’s now governor of a state that has a population 1/3 the size of the metro area I live in. McCain should have picked our mayor. He’s a Republican and I know plenty of Democrats who cross party lines to vote for him.

This is great! The Dems are absolutely apoplectic about the Palin pick because she embodies exactly what Obama speaks about (speaks about, but has never shown in anyway that he has ever, or could ever, walk his talk)—change, reform, vision, a commitment to the greatness that is America, as opposed to the doom, gloom and dread that the 21st Century Democratic Party espouses—that Dem Convention was awful, and Obama is way too angry when speaking of America. Here’s the scary thing—Palin embodies the qualities and potential greatness of 2 of the 3 greatest Dem Presidents in the past 100 years—Truman and Kennedy. By contrast, nothing in Obama’s past comes close to putting him in the same breath as those two, except one factor, his oratory, which I would say is even debatable. The oratory of Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan is in another league as Obama’s. Guys and gals, go cold turkey on the Kool-Aid. We should be focusing on one thing, and one thing only—LEADERSHIP QUALITIES. Mac and Palin have that market cornered. Like I wrote to my Dem friends when Palin was picked—”Checkmate.”

If I am McCain, I keep on the offense. I challenge the Obama campaign to 4 or 5 town hall debates with Palin and Biden. Let’s see them turn it down—if she is so green, unqualified, inexperienced, out-of-her league, they should jump at the opportunity. But they wouldn’t, I guarantee you, if McCain did throw down that gauntlet—Palin’s a buzzsaw. After digesting her speech yesterday, one thought kept going through my mind—the movie “Rocky”—Rocky is beating the crap out of that slab of meat and being interviewed at the same time—Creed’s trainer is watching it, and it looks like death is coming over him as he r ealizes what they’re in for—he says to Creed “hey Champ, you better come look at this”—Creed brushes him off—the trainer realizes that his Champ is in serious trouble with this “nobody.” And yes, I do know that Rocky lost that fight!

McCain may still win this thing, but it won’t have anything to do with his choice for VP. Palin is likely to draw as much support from women as Clarence Thomas gets from fellow Blacks.
If the pregnancy rumor is true, she won’t even be on the ticket by November. Harriet Myers, redux.

I’m completely baffled at some of the comments here. To those who keep insisting Palin has equal or more experience to Obama; PLEASE explain to me how the hell does a few years as a mayor to a small town and less than 20 months as a state governor has more experience over someone who has worked at the STATE AND NATIONAL LEVEL FOR 12 YEARS? Please, explain in a way I can understand.
No matter how much you try to insist to the contrary: 5 years of experience that doesn’t include ANY national or world involvement trumps 12 years of experience on the state, national, and international levels. I’m sorry, but just saying it over and over again in face of the facts right in front of you WON’T make it true. It will just make you look stupid and ignorant to me.
IF you’re going to vote for McCain/Palin no matter what, it is your vote. It is just appalling about how far people choose to spread lies and insult Obama because they don’t have anything substantial to say.

Wow! Lots of hype and out right made up stuff on both sides. I am a Conservative. Here is how I see it: Obama’s character after all the dust settles; I don’t like. He just doesn’t even like America. McCain, he loves America, but is still an f-ing RINO. Biden, old school DC, I don’t care what train he takes home. McCain is also old school DC. Palin is the first fresh breeze in a long time. I, perceive, on one speech and her published background, that I LIKE Her. She sounds like Superwoman with a screw-you attitude.
I need a McCain/Palin Hat.
Tuck

How does Palin have more experience thatn Obama? That’s an easy one. This election should be about experience and LEADERSHIP. In Palin’s short speech yesterday,she went through a laundry list of all that she has accomplished in terms of LEADERSHIP. No one, not one person, who supports or has spoken in favor of Obama on any news outlet, etc., has been able to articulate ONE ACCOMPLISHMENT. Just 1. Uno. Mike Dukakis couldn’t name one. Cory Booker, Mayor of Newark, couldn’t name one. Kirsten Powers can’t name one. Olberman? Nope. Maddow? Not a chance. James Carville (love that guy!)? Nope. Beckel? Tiki Barber? McCaskill? NO NO NO. J u s t ONE A c c o m p l i s h m e n t.
If you saw the still pics and the video of her in Kuwait a couple of months ago with the troops, she was a NATURAL—in her demeanor, in her confidence, when firing M16 rounds! Contrast those images with Obama when he visited the troops—he didn’t look as bad or out of place as did Dukakis in the tank, but close, very close. McCain saw great LEADERSHIP qualities and experience in Palin. I don’t need my presidential candidates talking about teacher salaries and pandering to every single interest group and victim-identity demographic in his or her party (Interesting–Bubba Clinton didn’t pander to all in his party, and he had a pretty successful 8-year run, other than his soft power diplomacy).

Typical famale bashing just like Hillary. If Palin was a male people would be treating her differently and with more respect. How many governors really have foreign policy experience, none. I never hear anyone saying Biden is from a small tiny state Delaware home of the credit card companies that he helped author bankruptcy reform against its card holders. Palin is getting s*****d by the media and Obama Democrats just like Hillary. Hillary had more experience than Obama but he tossed her aside like many strong females.

Can any of the Hillary supporters please tell me, what exactly did Obama do to Hillary for them to dislike him. I followed the primaries quite closely and Obama showed total respect to Hillary and he won fair and square. I would have supported Hillary had she won the Democratic primaries. Barack had enough delegates to win. He won fair and square. As I recall, Hillary used negative campaigning against Obama (to the Repubs glee), and Obama never- theless continued with positive campaigning. If anyone did Hillary in, it was her husband and the news media, not Obama. So why all the resentment against Obama from Hillary women? Especially since Obama and Hillary hold the same positions on issues.

Since Palin is fresh to the national scene, it will take some time to fully vett her. If McCain wanted to pick a woman, why didn’t he pick Elizabeth Dole? She is a senator, has experience running the domestic branch of the Red Cross and is married to a certified war hero and who has a lifetime of experience. As of right now, I wouldn’t feel comftorble having a complete national neophyte being one heartbeat from controlling the nukes. Think About it. Do you want this person in this day and age of global turmoil to possibly end up being the President? If she can spell potato, she would at least be a couple of notches above Dan Quayle (who had 12 years of national ‘experience’).
Another issue is that some evangelical groups believe that it is a wife’s duty to be secondary in a marriage and obey their husbands. I doubt Palin would prescribe to that philosophy, but it shows how woman are viewed by Republicans that when it is their turn to be historic, this is the best they can do!

Vetting the Bush Way

Shorter John McCain’s deliberations in choosing Sarah Palin: I looked the woman in the eye. I was able to get a sense of her soul.

How true, the election SHOULD be about issues, vision, and capability, not gender, scandal, or ethnicity.
It should also NOT be about picking a dried up 30 year senator just because the top of the ticket has no foreign experience and barely 100 days in national office.
Now, which party has more effectively addressed their top ticket weaknesses?
That is for YOU and I to decide.

Check out: Dailykos.com

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/121350/137 has some interesting points to make about Palin and her ‘eye popping integrity’ that makes Troopergate pale by comparison..

Let me see, dailykos —- total integrity???
I think not. More like Aljazeraa.
McCain blew his pick? Oh, he should have picked an aged wishy washy repug who had bad-mouthed him before.
He should never, never, never picked someone fresh, not from Washington, who supports the Constitution and 2nd Amendment, who supports the right to life, and who will be able to smash Hitlery in 2012.
Right.

He made the decision under pressure, because he didn’t think his top five choices could help him in the election. It speaks volumes about the Republican Party and McCain’s decisionmaking inability.
Of course, he was in a hurry because the campaign set his birthday as the announcement date and said he’d already chosen someone to try to step on Obama’s huge bounce. He chose out of desperation, because the American people don’t like Republicans and Obama was roaring back.

For me as an educated Republican, I was happy to learn McCain spent a few hours with her for the first time before announcing that Bush had selected her as McCain’s running mate. It was a proud moment for me to see McCain following commands so, so, Maverickly…My son said in his last letter to me from Iraq – RESPECT. And that’s what I have for McCain.
And seriously who can argue with me? Just look at the last 8 years. DAMN good years to be an American. Hey I might not be able to afford going to the hospital BUT AT LEAST I HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE IN DEBT! Now where ELSE can you say THAT? And I am comfortable knowing that with McCain at the helm I would be guaranteed that for another four years. So I’m staying with what I know!
Thank goodness Palin is pro-life – because I believe its better to save them in the womb and send them off by the thousands to be murdered for our freedom from that big tyrant Iraq.
And yes its true Palin got 900 votes to win as Mayor of Nowhere, I am hoping she can get that many votes for the good old GOP! But knowing the GOP, they will find a way to add a few zero’s to that number after the real votes are counted.
Passion? Who needs passion in politics? Them Democrats with the silly idea that there is anything to hope for, and believing in unity. Just stay off my yard is all I’m sayin.
McCain = Familiar Pain 08!

Now this is my kinda ticket! MacCain is gonna give that Obama a good ole fashined asswhoopin! I’m a republican from the good ole days and it’s good to see somebody with some commen sense. Palin is the new butt kicker and these Dems are gonna be on the run. This obama fool is no different than that osama running around the middle east with the blood of america on his hands. We gotta get some heros in office MacCain is a HERO! Palin is a HERO and even if she wasn’t locked in a tiger cage back in Nam at least she knows how to fire guns. MacCain and Pallin have BACKBONE people. They have the backbone that the Dems wish they had. The Dems with their song and dance about not drilling in Alaska are full of hot air. We have more oil sitting in Alaska than those OPEC train robbers do the middle east. I say just drill the damn thing. We have the tecknolegy to replace animals with cloning. So what are you worried about people? We are AMERICANS damn it! Stop boo hooing about roe and wade and wipe that starry eyed look of obama off your faces and lets get to work! freedom and liberty is at steak here.

Rethuglicans are now saying, “Thank GOD for Gustav!!” What an utter trainwreck you guys are…yeah, you keep invoking Rotten Ronnie’s “legacy” in the same sentence with Mrs. Palin! Indeed, Mrs. Palin is nothing but James Watt on STEROIDS!! Remember? “We are not concerned with the environment because JESUS is coming soon”?? THIS is how to run the USofA??!!

Who is doing all the smoking around here? McCain doesn’t care about the environment? Sarah Palin is a total environemntalist, she is being called the female Teddy Roosevelt.
Just because someone shoots animals for food, it don’t make them anti-environment. If no one shot them, they would be breaking into your houses for food.
There is so much anti-Palin pain going around, I wonder why?
Palin/McCain – 08!!!

I am an elderly white woman who is voting for Obama.
Why am I not voting for McCain/Palin? Because I don’t agree with her politics.
I applaud her decision to have her last child but I also believe that every woman should have the right to make their own decision on this.
She and a 72-year old man should not be able to tell woman what they can and cannot do with their own bodies.
Plus, she has so little experience. Would you vote for her for president???

Let’s say what it really is people. If you can honestly say that you are a diehard Hillary supporter/democrat, how can you flip-flop for McCain? If you believed in Hillary’s cause that is close to Barack Obama not McCain. The true Democrat it voting for the issues not the individual. The primaries is more so of a time where two or more represent similar causes and try to convince supporters that they are more likely to deliver. This is bigger than Hillary. It is time to get our country back on track.
If you are saying that you rather bet your chips on Palin because she is a woman and you’re a democrat what you are really saying is that you can’t see a black man in the “white house”. You don’t just give up your beliefs because someone who looks different than you agrees with you. That’s not logical.
That’s not politics its hypocrits.

Sarah Palin claims that she is pro-family, yet, she rushed back to work one month after giving birth to a special needs baby. Where was the concern for the baby? What does she know about taking care of a special needs baby. This baby is only 4 months old and she is running for VP! It makes no sense. When will she have time for her 7 year old or her newborn baby. I guess her 17 year old pregnant daugther will also be responsible for the care of her siblings. At the convention, I never see her husband holding the baby. The daughter always has the baby. Sarah Palin’s judgement already seems questionable to me. Bad choice McCain!!

To all the nay-sayers … We’ll see … but I’m TOTALLY STOKED about PALIN.

Palin’s selection is turning out to be almost as a great a debacle in terms of leadership and judgment as the current administration, but she is fine to look at.

I have read through all these posts and for the life of me, how can everyone be so focused on Palin’s qualifications not being good enough for the VP when Obama’s are no better.
Just explain to me how a Senator has more responsibility, more power to be honest than a Govenor.
Is there something about our set-up in regards to goverment I am not aware of?

Glib and incompetent.. just another Bush/ Rove nominee, but wearing lipstick.
Vote Bush/Palin: ’cause Iraq & the housing/credit collapse, were so much fun.