MCCAIN IS SENILE!!! Worst pick ever!!! Why didn't he pick someone competent!!

As mayor and governor, she compares favorably with the gaggle of lawyers/ lobbyists and Congressmen and women that line up every four years to get a chance at presiding over Cesspool,DC. Let's face it, the 1st and 3rd most liberal voting records haven't ever and aren't starting to work across party lines-- they just took their own Party on a sharp turn to the Left. BHO came out of the most one party presincts in the World-- South Chicago.
Thank god she is not a senator, and she is not a lawyer.

She represents a damn site more 'change' in 'business as usual' in DC than one Senator's pick of another Senator who's been in Washington even longer than McCain.

Consider:
Palin gained much of her prominence as a whistle-blower. After she was appointed by Governor Murkowski to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, she started bucking the Republican Party leadership over ethics lapses. She blew the whistle on state GOP Chairman Randy Ruedrich when he was a fellow oil and gas commissioner. In 2003, he was forced to resign his regulatory post and pay a record $12,000 fine. She and a Democratic state lawmaker filed an ethics complaint against the state attorney general, Gregg Renkes, who resigned under fire.
www.csmonitor.com/2006/1206/p02s01-uspo.html

That's a HUGE Plus for an American electorate desperate to get rid of the 'business as usual' crowd!

From what I've been able to see of her so far, she's ALMOST enough to make me vote McCain/Palin, but I'm almost certainly going third party again this year, because McCain still tops the ticket, and he's still as much of a party hack as Obama/Biden.

I, as a woman, am thrilled at this HISTORIC milestone. The Republican party lists Condi Rice and Colin Powell as prominent, HISTORIC appointments. Also in consideration, as Palin has been for over a year, were Bobby Jindal, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Carly Fiorina, and Meg Whitman. Wow, I guess maybe the Republicans are the ones who are the more forward-thinking, after all.

FlaLady:

This is exactly the problem with this situation. Standing in a room with a man, an African American, a woman, a Muslim, a homosexual and a robot from the future sent to destroy us doesn't make all of them forward-thinking. Forward-thinking makes someone forward-thinking, not putting your arm around some tokens (you're one of the good ones!).

Voting gender and race instead of policy is pretty sad.

Quick! Attack and Trash the woman before people have a chance to find out anything about her, and make up their own minds!!

They might decide they like her if we don't get on this PRONTO!!

Its very sad that there are women like FlaLady who obviously doesnt realize when they have basically just been-thrown a bone. She has no experience, is anti-abortion and your comparing her to Hillary Clinton? Haha You republicans are blind, must be the bright light of God in your eyes.

FlaLady,

There is nothing forward thinking about McCain's gimmicky VP selection. He's showing complete disregard for our country by choosing a token who 'might' help him win (not to mention a pretty face for the media to pounce on)--not someone who is qualified for the office. It's quite the insult. I'm hopeful Americans will respond by electing Barack Obama our next president.

Ok, got it. The comparison to HRC is insulting because Palin built her career on her own strengths while HRC obtained her political career based on who she was sleeping with at the time.

After the Republicans have successfuly made people around the world hate America, they now want foreigners to ridicule America.

This pick is a joke. McCain must think that at 71 or 72, he's going to live forever.

She was a major 2 years ago in a town with 5000 people.

I voted for Romney at the primary here in Florida and I'm insulted he didn't pick him instead.

She was a major 2 years ago...

I wasn't aware that she had been in the military.
I'd put that in her plus column.

Hmmm...that's why they vote against equal pay?

This is tokenism at its finest. (Buchanan called her a "girl" and Limbaugh a "babe.")

My dear, wake up.

Learn how to spell and you'll go far. That "scratching" sound you hear emanates from the heads of millions of sentient and completely dumbfounded voters who will never understand McCain's judgment with respect to this critical choice...so, what's next to help our economy and position in the world, Senator McCain? Bake sales?

I think he is desperate.

How many people-- especially women-- are going to vote for a woman who is anti-choice and a friend of big oil? AND she doesn't give a rats ass about polar bears-- losing animal lover's votes.

Really, the talk of McCain being "not all there" is really reinforced by this choice.

Plus, if I were one of the Republicans who'd had some experience and was on the "short list," I'd be plain insulted.

I don't THINK the American people are this stupid, but you never know.

Sure, Palin has more executive experience than Obama and Biden, being the governor of Alaska.

But that also mean that Palin has more executive experience than the 72 year old that picked her.

And there lies the big difference between "lack of experience" at the top or bottom of the ticket.

Ther was a 19 month, hard fought Democratic primary season, where, although the vote was split, at least 18 million voted for Obama to lead the ticket. Palin was the choice, maybe not of one man, but of a very small clique.

The Republican's are already embarrased over Mcain. I can't believe that American's are so dumb as to accept that this Republican ticket is the best that they can do. Although i never overestimate the idiocracy of the evangelicals who Mcain ran to, then ran from, and is now running to again. Mcain says that "Obama would lose a war to win the presidency" but Mcain is giving up his reputation, and his "country first" idealism, to win. Its sad.

And its highly amusing watching people who support the Mcain ticket, people who are smart, and have excellent reputations, forcing thmeselves to talk up this pick. I truly believe that they are either embarrasing themselves, or trying to dupe the American people.

Sorry, i forgot to ask a particular question.....

Can anyone tell me why a woman firing an automatic weapon is a visual symbol of good for the republican party, or conservatives?

Is it only this Canadian that finds that wierd? The media, specifically CNN, seems to be running pictures that the republican party gave them. Palin with a gun. Palin with people in army fatigues. A Palin close up with perfect white teeth and her mouth open.

She was a one term mayor of a town with three stop lights, and before that a city councilor. Really, do southern Americans, the republican's base, buy this as Mcain's best judgement as to who could run the country if he we're to have to go to the hospital for a week? or worse.

But she is the best choice! That's how bankrupt the Republican party is.

Actually, I think the appointments of Janet Reno and Madeline Albright by CLINTON shattered some glass ceilings first.

If you want to call the Republicans attempting to give the appearance of letting go of some of their 18th Century values and joining the rest of in the 21st "forward thinking" thats wonderful. However most Democrats call it common sense.

Flalady,

Do not assume that blacks are voting for Obama because of race. Many of them have never supported another black candidate running for president because they were not qualified. I am glad Barack Obama is not DC business as usual. (Black people who think he is going to do things for them once he gets in office have got another thing coming. I speculate that a certain group of people are going to start comparing him to Clarence Thomas once they don't get their way.)

On the flip side, the Republican party may have chosen Palin for the sinking ship because she is a whistle-blower and they want to get her out of the way. What better way to dispose of her political career than place John McCain's loss squarely on her shoulders and send her back to the world of being a soccer mom? Art of War, anyone?

You know, if you want to vote Dem then vote Dem.. if you want to vote Rep than vote Rep... at the end of the day it's US that have to make Washington do the things they promised. I want to see some hard evidence that these candidates have a plan of action... we cannot afford 4 years of wasted time just getting a plan together. By the people for the people... Dem or Rep we must unite.

The closer someone is looking into this Republican VP-pick
background,the more it becomes
evident that this person is as
"unqualified as they come " !
>If it seems like Sarah Palin day, that’s because the McCain campaign decided to do the bulk of its news dumping during the holiday. On top of her husband’s D.U.I., her daughter’s teen pregnancy and her own state trooper issues, we now know about this bizarre nugget: Sarah Palin and her husband, according to the group’s chair, were once members of the Alaskan Independence Party, a political party that seeks a vote on Alaska’s secession from the union
In addition there is also her first " support for Alaska`s
bridge to nowhere " ....then
denied revelation .....events
which should provide every responsible thinking citizen
with only one obvious choice :

*********** Elect ************
>>>Barrack Obama President

comes November4.with Biden VP!

What is a feminist again? I thought it was about supporting women... The far left Feminists will be left out in the cold and exposed for what they are.... Hateful small minded party hacks.

Sara Palin will take the stage tomorrow night. All you liberals better get a good nights rest because its the last one your gonna have for a long time. America and the world are gonna love her!
Only one thing can defeat Obama and thats your momma. Eat that liberal media

"More than anything, Palin is the perfect gimmick for today's news cycle. " And it is unfortunate that the media continue to "play to the hype", and not continue to cover the real issues that really matter to the American people! You know: the economy, stagflation, housing meltdown, falling wages, etc.! Maybe the media should refocus both their own and the public's attention to what really matters! If I want "personality" I'd go see a movie, these people are not coming to visit my house - they are attempting to get the job of PRESIDENT OF THE USA-so it doesn't really matter what his/her personality is!

The far left Feminists will be left out in the cold and exposed for what they are.... Hateful small minded party hacks.