One more thing: Just a few months ago she asked during a public interview what a VP does! She honestly didn't know.

Prompt? It's called providing cover. She will open McCain's eyes to the truth. He will be converted. This is such a sham.

Here's the question that should be asked (but won't). If we resume off-shore drilling should it be used to lower gas prices for drivers, or to pay citizens of the states nearest the rigs, like they do in Alaska?

The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to believe McCain meant to pick someone else and named the wrong person by mistake. You know how confused he gets.

Given that Senator McCain's two main talking points, reasons why we should choose him over Senator Obama, have been experience and judgment, this would seem to take those arguments off the table.

I guess the new one will be "I have a woman on my ticket!". Gov. Palin may have just given us a hint of another one; in her speech this morning, she referred to Senator McCain as "John F. McCain".

The Republicans now have a "dream ticket". However, it is probably a dream ticket from the Democratic perspective.

This woman is under an investigation, what will the right wing think about McCain's judgement when they find out that he picked and setup a woman for attack. Her husband also works for BP Oil.

In May 2008. Palin’s Chief of Staff, Mike Tibbles, resigned to “spend more time with his family.”

Tibbles declined interviews about his decision to resign.

After a very brief period of “spending time with his family,” Tibbles signed on to be the campaign manager for indicted Senator Ted Stevens.

Is there more to Tibbles’ departure?

Typical republicanism, to use one another for mutual cover.

In this case of both McCane and Palin, both under multiple scandals, it works to their advantage because scandals always receive positive coverage in the MSM.

Happy McSame Friday everyone.

Oh, this keeps on giving: sucks any free air from drifting to the Cenocratic Convention, or simply Obama.

The one item that gets all others, though, is that everywhere else in the world, people are talking about Putin's comment yesterday on CNN about the all-but-certain involvement of the White House in starting unrest in South Ossetia.

200 dead later, it was all to provide a photo op for Mc Cane as a war president, and the manufactured event caught Obama flat-footed. But McBush looked smug as the potemkin pres. candidate. A bit manchurian too.

As an Alaskan I hope she's only running to put Alaska issues on the national stage.

I think she's cynical enough to know McCain isn't going to win and is using this VP running mate thing as a way to propel Alaska forward.

She's thrown Alaska under the bus when we needed some real governance.

Yes she signed the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, but who is going to pay for it? Where is the funding, the planning? Was it all for show?

I wonder if appointing the former mayor of metropolitan Wasilla, in a lame brained attempt to get women to vote for you, in these dangerous times, if you're 72 years old, could be construed as putting politics ahead of the national interest.

Judging by MP3s of Sarah Palin's past interviews, it's hard to be impressed.

He would have had a better chance with Paris Hilton. McCain is his own worst enemy in this campaign.

Democrats generally and liberals specifically seem to be the most hate-filled, bitter and angry people on the face of the earth. I'm not shocked at the response on this board considering the source. BTW David Bowman, it wasn't 7,000 years ago; it was about 4,000 years ago and the flood put it there. America will never be what it once was, the divide between values and ideals seem to get wider and wider everyday. With the sinful nature of man, I can't blame you for your social values and beliefs. With no belief in God, you have to look out for yourself, because who else do you have looking out for you and yours? From a conservative man from Ohio, I can tell you I wasn't voting for John McCain PRIOR to this announcement. Now I'm voting and trying to convince others to vote McCain. Regardelss of your hopes and dreams, this does inspire the evangelical base of the GOP, and Obama's inaguration is now officially on hold.

At least Palin made it on her own, unlike Hillary Clinton who came to power on the coattails of her husband.

I am so thrilled with McCain's choice. She is clearly the antithesis of all liberal positions. She once said that not only should abortion be illegal, there should be no exceptions even in the case of rape and/or incest. She may have become a squeak more moderate, but maybe not.
She's also one of those Alaskans who eschews the environmentalist perspectives with vigor. (You'd think that would be rare in a place of such jaw-dropping natural wonder but, think again. It's so VAST, a small mind can see a little drilling here and there won't impact much of anything. That's as deep as the prevailing thinking dives for many residents. Ms Palin's mind is among the smallest.)
McCain has hardly used careful consideration in this choice; at least that remains consistent with the rest of his campaign.
Palin is not an offering for the thoughtful sorts.
She fits the superficial agenda, though, and what else has McCain got? Palin is right wing, a moral relativist, a woman, under 50, and a brown noser.
Can't wait to hear more and more about this cutie pie.

"Democrats generally and liberals specifically seem to be the most hate-filled, bitter and angry people on the face of the earth. I'm not shocked at the response on this board considering the source. BTW David Bowman, it wasn't 7,000 years ago; it was about 4,000 years ago and the flood put it there. America will never be what it once was, the divide between values and ideals seem to get wider and wider everyday. With the sinful nature of man, I can't blame you for your social values and beliefs. With no belief in God, you have to look out for yourself, because who else do you have looking out for you and yours?"

So when I run into the man with hate in his eyes, screaming as he foams from the mouth, ranting of evil, baby killers that should be put to death as he shoves a bible in my face and nearly knocks me over as he threatens me when I take a 25 year old cancer patient to a clinic for treatment, I should assume he is a liberal democrat because no holier than thou god fearin' evangelical would do that...or the woman who calls my husband a Christ killer because he is Jewish, or the people that start in on their psychotic rants when confronted with the concept that humankind is in charge of their own destinies; Or the people interrupting a funeral for the serviceman or woman back from iraq in a body bag screaming that it is a just death because of evil homosexual behavior....those people must be liberal democrats as well....and the minister who tells his parishiners to pray for torrants of rain to fall as Obama gives his speech in an outdoor stadium; or the talk show host that calls for rioting to be set off in the streets to burn Denver during the convention...Rush is a liberal democrat too?
And the man in the white house that ordered the murder of 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens and the deaths of over 4100 service men and women by manipulating a war on lies and fear mongering; or the VP that outed a CIA agent and pretty much a death sentence for those working with her inside and under cover in Iran and other countries...those two must be liberal democrats as well....
That lame accusation and claim you are anything but a hate-filled person yourself; That divisive hostility espoused is EXACTLY what is creating the rift in the very structure of this country...The bleed out thay may never heal because people like you keep picking at the scabs to keep the blood flowing. I run into hate speech and nastiness on a daily basis from people claiming that Jesus is their savior and they were "born again",...I have been called everything from the whore of babylon to a succubus by "God-fearin" and "saved" folks who cannot tolerate the idea of a woman that stands on her own and has the power and courage to stand on her own. A woman who does not want or need anyone or anything to do it for me. I count on me and mine and my Universe respects my power and my acknowledgement of that power which comes through me and is for me.....I am one with the universe and it is one with me. AND that universe screams through me to say "no more!!"....that which screams to stop the blood from flowing and the deaths in the desert for more oil and power...that will hold a mirror to the faces of all those claiming to be better and holier and more chosen than others.....
You, the "conservative" are not conservative but are radical....Radical Right and probably more radical than those 'liberal democrats" of whom you speak with such disdain
You do not have the patent on all knowledge. You were not the one chosen by the Universe to be Omnipotent and you are not any less or any more than any of the rest of us.
Humanity may be screwing up but you, sir, are as big of a screw up and as bitter as all the rest.
You just seem to be choosing to be ignore-ant, staring at your own shadow and screaming at it to listen.