The GOP's Natural

Indeed. They attack Obama for inexperience but think it's OK to have an even less-experienced person in a VP slot with an above-average chance of becoming president suddenly. Looks more like quota hiring than breaking a glass ceiling.

Palin also has lots of hypocrisies in the whole story about Alaska. Here's a state that talks a great game on self reliance yet is #1 inb the country by a good margin in federal spending per person.

She talks about how taxes are bad, yet her state government is basically financed by taxing oil and oil companies rather than people (who, BTW, are addicted to the Permanent Fund Dividend checks).

And all the stuff like the Bridge to Nowhere came from her OWN PARTY. And from GOP-leaning voters who kept voting the likes of Sen. Stevens and Rep. Young into office based heavily on how much spending they brought home.

This entire election cycle is a nightmare. McCain is not Bush, but as far as domestic policy is concerned he and the republicans appeal primarily to white, straight, rural voters; and white wealthy conservative voters. Governor Palin exceeded expectations last night, but we already know Obamas deficits, and her outreach was not comprehensive.
Obama has little foreign policy experience, and his domestic policy appeals primarily to urban, elites, young, and minorities. Urban and suburban middle class democrats are left wondering what do. Hillary called us invisible. Now we really are.
After Bush gay bashed his way into a second term, I was looking forward to 2009. Now I've suspended my optimism to 2013.

I want to thank Sarah Palin for an outstanding speech! She energized the Reublican base and gave the media a taste of what a force she will be....for the republicans. I also want to thank her for energizing the democrats because now, the gloves are off baby - her mockery of community organizers, liberals, and pretty much the workers and middle-class of America will now stand up to the smug and shameful display that was put on at the RNC. I mean Americans should ask themselves if that's what they really want to see for the next 4 years - seems a heck of a lot of what we had to deal with for the last 8 years if you ask me. Sarah Palin is just George W. Bush with heels and lipstick.

I continue to be alarmed at McCain's decision to select Sarah Palin as his VP. Not because of her seemingly complicated personal life, but because I think that Palin is not the only member of the McCain-Palin ticket who doesn't know what a VP does on a daily basis. Is he choosing her to be his trusted confidante like Mondale (or Gore)? Doubtful, since he is investing the energies of experienced Republican party members to educate her on the nuances of international and domestic policies. Is he choosing her to take on some administrative bureaucracy issue (reducing government inefficencies) like Gore? Scary, if he is since her credentials show that she wants to reduce funding for unwed mothers, yet build grossly inappropriate hockey complexes (yes, she is a hockey mom!). Tell me that he didn't choose her to be Dick Cheney to his George W. Bush; I can't take another 8 or even 4 years with a Machiavellian VP pulling the puppet strings - although she does profess to be a hunter, I think that shooting Republican party members while on a hunting party isn't in their best interest either. So why? It seems clear that this was another maverick choice by McCain that wasn't fully thought through or, at the very least, only thought through until inauguration.

IIt's almost a week, and Gov Palin still hasn't answered any questions, other than she can read a pre-programmed speech, to her choir.
The GOP treats the electorate, as if it's dumb. And judging by the comments, to a degree, they're right.
If Sarah Palin was anything but a puppet, she would've demanded to asnwer questions from the Media. Instead, she's letting her strings be pulled, by her puppet-masters.

Well of course she looks poised - she's a former beauty queen (do they know how to work a stage and crowd or what?) plus she has the whole RNC staff writing her material. Let's see how she does when - make that IF - the press actually gets to ask an unscripted question on, say, the economy or foreign affairs, e.g. the crisis in Georgia.

Sarah Palin took her gloves off...let the fight begin. The speech was a well crafted no issue Rovian attack speech against Barack Obama. What was surprising was her jibe against Michelle Obama after the McCain position of keeping the families out of it. I reckon that is back in play....the prescription drug addicted Cindy McCain, the adulterous Cindy and John McCain, the promiscuous 16 year old daughter of Sarah Palin who preaches abstinence but failed to convey her message to Bristol her own daughter. Palin's statement about Iraq war as God's will....does she think that George W. Bush is God. Her attempted removal of books offensive to her religious beliefs form the Wasilla Public library. Her indictment on misuse of her gubernatorial office for firing the Alaska Commissioner of Public Safety, her firing of the Wasilla Police Chief to receive campaign contributions and the list goes on.

For those who think we are currently giving out money to China, take a hard look at our foreign trade deificits and our unbalanced federal budgets. There is no way Obama can do worse than Bush and McSame! No way! Palin believes that global warming is not "man made" as the arctic melts away on her states north borders. Palin believes creationism should be taught in public schools...nothing wrong with teaching creationism or intelligent design in churches where it belongs! This country was formed in part on the basis of religious freedom and we don't need a dimwit like Sarah Palin to force religion down our throats.

I quite honestly was not impressed. Sarah "Token" Palin (or the Stepford Veep, as I like to call her) recited a rehearsed speech written for her by Bush's speech writer. She attacked Barack with gusto but never once spoke about how she empathizes or helped the working class in Alaska. People in the lower 48 have lost their homes to foreclosure, have to decide between filling their gas tanks with just enough gas to get them to work, how will they buy groceries, etc. It's all good and well that she sold the state's private jet, but does she plan the same thing for Air Force One? Maybe she can funnel the proceeds from sale of that plane to help people who have to travel to work by car as there is no public transportation as an alternative. Or maybe she can send the chef at the White House to prepare meals for the homeless within blocks of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Berate Obama all you want about being a less-than-thou Community Organizer, but I appreciate the fact that Obama understands what's going wrong for the working class. His solutions may not all be the best, but in rehab a person is taught that the first step is understanding there is a problem. John McCain just doesn't get it.

As a dissapointed Hilary voter I was uncertain still about who I was voting for. I watched the Democratic convention and felt good about what I saw and heard but was still unsure but after watching Palin's disgusting performance last night there is no doubt in my mind who I should be voting for. The disrespectful way she mocked Senator Obama was too much for my taste. I understand that politics will get tough but she was downright nasty. I also found it in bad taste for her to be complaining about the media's treatment of her when she was complaining about Hilary being a whiner. If McCain thought that he could get Hilary's voters with this woman he is dead wrong. She did get the republican base going but she also got the democratic one fighting together again.