It's Official...IT'S PALIN

[ntsammy5]

Boy this didn't take long! I like the choice. This will be an interesting campaign on both sides!

 

[corndog]

What a guy, John McCain. He uses women.

He marries Cindy, after dumping his first wife, for her connections and resources to get him into politics.

Now he gives the nod for VP to unknown Gov. Sarah Palin, he does this only to court the women's vote.

Use your heads ladies, John McCain is nothing but a user.

Right. Because a woman can never achieve anything on her own merits.

Your statement is extremely insulting to women everywhere.

/I know, I know. Don't feed the trolls . . . .

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

Some of you OS crack me up.

I love the smell of despair in the morning.

Why is it despair? You have the right to question Biden as Obama's pick. Why is it desperation when we question it the other way around? There's a 50% chance that she will be our VP so all Americans have a stake in it...

 

[Strangeite]

And "community organizer" really pads the old resume!!

Oh, and I forgot that 4 years on the "Committe on Foreign Relations" is nothing.

 

[amyhughes]

"The pick is a definite all or nothing for ol' Maverick...

Many right wing pundits have excoriated her for her windfall profits tax on Alaskan oil companies that redistributed wealth to the citizens of Alaska as a reason against Obama's windfall profits taxes. I don't know why this pick is so exiting. Once fiscal conservatives get to know her, I have a feeling a number of the GOP faithful might not be so enchanted..."

Or there could be those of us within the Republican party that like someone who is for reform...hmmm...shocking I know. That we aren't all sitting in some smoke filled room with our hands in big oils pockets and smoking big tobaccos cigars...

 

[Alaska DogCat]

Sarah Palin is my former neighbor. I lived in the town she was in mayor of for four years and still own a home there. I would see her in the grocery store and run into her at the airport (Alaska has the population of a small city). I voted for her for Governor.

I will not be voting for her for Vice-President.

Sarah has many strengths--but the experience of being mayor of a town of 5,000 or Governor of a state with 600,000 residents isn't the prep I'm looking for in someone a heartbeat away from the presidency. She has been Mayor of a small town and Governor of a state awash in money--hardly the experience one needs to lead the nation in a time of economic downturn and amid threats from around the world.

It's great theater and I am proud to see my former neighbor getting a lot of attention. She is a great woman--a woman of great integrity. She has made great strides in cleaning up the cesspool of sleaze that is Alaska politics. She is not ready to lead the free world.

 

[campingdude]

The pick is a definite all or nothing for ol' Maverick...

Many right wing pundits have excoriated her for her windfall profits tax on Alaskan oil companies that redistributed wealth to the citizens of Alaska as a reason against Obama's windfall profits taxes. I don't know why this pick is so exiting. Once fiscal conservatives get to know her, I have a feeling a number of the GOP faithful might not be so enchanted...

I think her pro-life, anti gun-control stances may help to offest some of her more moderate/liberal fiscal policies she has put into place in Alaska. I do agree this is an all or nothing pick for McCain. A little risky if you ask me.

 

[Dolce27]

She has been Gov. for less than 2 years, and today McCain turns 72. This choice scares me, talk about inexperience!! I guess it just shows how little McCain has to offer that he would make a "surprise choice".

Talk about inexperience.. we can say that about Obama! Even a 2004 Obama said it'd be stupid for him to run for President in 2008 because he'd be inexperienced.

 

[KatheeME]

I don't understand how a proud woman could put herself on the same ticket as someone who voted down giving her the same wage as a man doing the same job....boggles my mind....

I know! I don't get it, but ... oh well, the deal is done, here we go to November ...
Kathee

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

See, that's just rude and disrespectful. Not the "higher road" that the left always claims to take.

You new here?

You've got to admit, that Ann Quayle line was pretty darn good...

 

[okeydokey]

I never heard of her before today, so I guess she needs to make herself known to the country. I can't imagine she has a lot of baggage. Doesn't change my vote one way or the other, but I know people who were waiting for the VP to be announced before deciding and this is not giving them much confidence.

 

[xoprincessmomxo]

What would be wrong with basing one's vote on that?

Well, unless at the moment you're dealing with an unwanted pregnancy, it should not really affect you.

 

[creativeamanda]

What a guy, John McCain. He uses women.

He marries Cindy, after dumping his first wife, for her connections and resources to get him into politics.

Now he gives the nod for VP to unknown Gov. Sarah Palin, he does this only to court the women's vote.

Use your heads ladies, John McCain is nothing but a user.

Can you substantiate any of your accusations?

 

[Zippa D Doodah]

The pick is a definite all or nothing for ol' Maverick...

Many right wing pundits have excoriated her for her windfall profits tax on Alaskan oil companies that redistributed wealth to the citizens of Alaska as a reason against Obama's windfall profits taxes. I don't know why this pick is so exiting. Once fiscal conservatives get to know her, I have a feeling a number of the GOP faithful might not be so enchanted...

As for me, I am a fiscal conservative. But I'm a social conservatve first and fiscal conservative second. Her social conservative stance makes McCain/Palin a complete ticket IMO.

<views subject to change after I read more about her in days to come>

 

[KatheeME]

Well, a quick survey of major news sites seems to point to McCain's choice of Palin as having grabbed the spotlight by a large percentage. NYT, WaPo, CNN.... It's "Palin"

For the moment ... give it an hour or too

 

[Charade]

What a guy, John McCain. He uses women.

He marries Cindy, after dumping his first wife, for her connections and resources to get him into politics.

Now he gives the nod for VP to unknown Gov. Sarah Palin, he does this only to court the women's vote.

Use your heads ladies, John McCain is nothing but a user.

here's another for good measure

 

[campingdude]

Sarah Palin is my former neighbor. I lived in the town she was in mayor of for four years and still own a home there. I would see her in the grocery store and run into her at the airport (Alaska has the population of a small city). I voted for her for Governor.

I will not be voting for her for Vice-President.

Sarah has many strengths--but the experience of being mayor of a town of 5,000 or Governor of a state with 600,000 residents isn't the prep I'm looking for in someone a heartbeat away from the presidency. She has been Mayor of a small town and Governor of a state awash in money--hardly the experience one needs to lead the nation in a time of economic downturn and amid threats from around the world.

It's great theater and I am proud to see my former neighbor getting a lot of attention. She is a great woman--a woman of great integrity. She has made great strides in cleaning up the cesspool of sleaze that is Alaska politics. She is not ready to lead the free world.

This is the problem with the logic I keep seeing on these boards. Will you be voting for Obama who will be president (not VP) and has even less experience than she has. I think of the 4 canidiates he is the least ready to lead the free world.

 

[McRed]

Oh, and I forgot that 4 years on the "Committe on Foreign Relations" is nothing.

You mean he was elected four years ago.....and has spent three of those years running for President full-time.

 

[Laugh O. Grams]

I think her pro-life, anti gun-control stances may help to offest some of her more moderate/liberal fiscal policies she has put into place in Alaska. I do agree this is an all or nothing pick for McCain. A little risky if you ask me.

I agree. Partisan politics aside, why he'd pick someone with liberal economic credentials when he himself has admitted that economics is not his strong suit is beyond me? Plain and simple, if he wanted true economic street cred, he should have picked Romney.

 

[SydneyBristow]

I hope that's not the only reason for your vote.

It's far from my only reason, it's actually not even a reason I considered.