Palin is an absolute embarrassment. Truly atrocious. If she didn't have a vagina she would be NOWHERE.

I concur. Shit like that works in nowhere, but when she starts appointing a guy who owns the local Mailboxes ETC as Chief Economist on a national stage, she ain't gonna last long. As corrupt as Republicans may be, I have to hope they can call her out onto the carpet to answer for this.

Either way this crap falls it is going to be entertaining. She loses and goes back to AK and heads start rolling for the non-support as VP candidate. She wins, we are screwed and have to watch this B*** self destruct in front of the world.

I hope America says "thanks but no thanks" to her.

I once waved at the Queen of England while standing on a street in Paris. So I "met" a foreign head of state, and I've been outside of N. America. Definitely, I'm qualified to be VP! Now if I'd only gone to high school with the local mayor.

Former Palin backer Carney says that Palin "had absolutely no management skills and couldn't manage the city on her own."

Can that go in an Obama campaign ad, please?

Dear TheraP,

I love your comment (as usual) but I have to disagree this time that she would be home with her kids if, as slick wrote, "she didn't have a vagina"! Oh wait, silly me, no doubt we're talking multiple virgin births here.

Ms. Palin seems like an energetic, well-intentioned person but I doubt that she is Vice Presidential material. There are more people in L.A. County than in Alaska for goodness sake. She's little more than young, pretty, female fluff--offsetting the elderly presidential candidate. Her main qualification as I see it is that she's an American citizen.

I love science fiction and watched an Apollo launch back in the '70s, so that means I can run NASA. Cool!

what's the difference between the Bush administration and Sarah Palin ... lipstick!

They're still building the road up to where the bridge would have been rather than give the money back to the federal taxpayers.

Can you swim? Or better, walk on water?

I know it is a "cute " statement to say she was for it before she was against it, but where is there ever been any statements shown that she did not support the bridge? Everything including her statement she made when killing the bridge show support for it. Just because she had to kill it doesn't mean she didn't support it.

Saying she was for it before she was against it gives her the out to say she was against it.

Don Siegelman was sent to prison for just such a crime, although the charges were later found to have been invented by Karl Rove and prosecuted falsely by corrupt Republicans. I assume Sarah Palin will now go on trial for this crime?

Oh, never mind. IOKIYAR.

The last ime I was fishing in the mayor's orifice I got stuck in some sort of fleshy barracuda jaw.

Democrats Beware!

While it feels great to point out how absurd a choice Palin is and how the Republicans have made a terrible decision, this is exactly what they want you to do.

They chose Palin to energize their base, the ones that don't think about complex issues affecting the country, but instead make their decision based on perceived similarities.

Think back to when she was first brought into the public sphere. All the right-wing talking pointers kept saying how female Democrats that supported Clinton were switching en masse because of Palin even though the numbers weren't there to support it. They even explicitly say that the more people attack her, the more attention and sympathy (they hope) she will get.

Forget Palin and everyone who cares about her. If you really want to win the election, do everything you can to get the message 'four more years of Bush' across. Tax policies, lobbyists in the campaign, there's just so much content there that you can use to hammer McCain, that Palin shouldn't get any attention.

That's about all she brings to the campaign anyway.

Her management skills haven't improved in the governor's office. Here are a couple of excerpts from a chat the Washington Post hosted with an Anchorage Daily News reporter the day McCain announced his choice of Palin:

Washington, D.C.: Why don't reporters and legislators [in Alaska] have a high opinion of the governor?

Gregg Erickson: It is clear that she has not paid much attention to the nitty-gritty unglamorous work of government, of gaining consensus, and making difficult compromises. She seems to be of the view that politics should be all rather simple. That often appeals to the wider public, but frustrates those who see themselves as laboring in the less glamorous parts of the vineyard....

One example: The Republican chair of the Alaska State House Finance budget subcommittee on Heath and Medicaid says he can't find anyone in Palin's executive office who cares about helping bring that budget under control. He is furious with her about that.

So Palin as governor is skimming along on the surface, buffing her image by claiming a couple of high-profile but debatable accomplishments (like the natural-gas pipeline, which may or may not actually get built), while devoting as much energy to rewarding cronies and punishing opponents as to actually governing.

Which suggests that Palin the VP candidate, who fields a Charlie Gibson question about Israel and Iran by repeating the same rote answer three times, is a case of what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Don't expect a learning curve with her -- just because she's never thought about foreign policy before, that doesn't mean she'll go any deeper than it takes to get a passing grade in the VP debate.

The chat is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/08/29/DI2008082902052.html