Beware the Barracuda

the GOP can attempt to hide her all they want, people will learn about her and her views and will find out that she isn't any different from any other politicain out there, a mouthpiece for whoever is guiding her (the far right it would seem).

The left does not have any need whatsoever to address Palin. The VP just does not really matter to the folks that will decide this election. The political middle. Palin will continue to be Palin and who really cares, except the MSM?
The press at the Weekly Standard, The National Review and all of those liberal newspapers like the Wall Street journal had better wake up and do their jobs. Lake JaneMS said by gum!
The reason republicans love McCain is because he is just one more war profiteer, making his millions and buying his treasure houses with his money soaked in the blood of America's youth.
As a 100% disabled war veteran I have witnessed the republican war profiteering first hand. These folks only oppose abortion so that more folks can die and get dismembered so they can make a profit from it. That is the real republican agenda. War without end, for no reason except to profit from killing our military service members for profit.

you don't "trip" on ice, you slip on it. Hmmmm..........

You don't trip on ice, you slip on it.

Attack Palin on abortion? Does Obama really want to go there? He will open himself to his abortion problem: Infanticide. Somehow I think Americans will be more disgusted at leaving babies to die vs. having women carry a pregnancy to term. But hey that's just me and I admit I don't fall into the same ideology as Josef Mengele.

Attack Palin on abortion? Does Obama really want to go there? He will open himself to his abortion problem: Infanticide. Somehow I think Americans will be more disgusted at leaving babies to die vs. having women carry a pregnancy to term. But hey that's just me and I admit I don't fall into the same ideology as Josef Mengele.

Well if you want to talk about abortion, let's talk about the Born Alive Act that Obama voted against. It had the same federal language and was passed 98-0 in the senate. Obama was against this act b/c he said it was too cumbersome to the mother who had already made her decision to abort the child. So Obama thinks that a baby who lives through a botched abortion should be left to die with no medical treatment.

My friend Fineman you are part of Hussein campaign.You lost this election the day you decided that Hillary Rodham Clinton could ony clean your shirt.By doing so,you chased away reliables Democrat like me who never voted for a republican before and will do t this time around.Please go right ahead and treat Gov Palin the way you did to Clinton,It will only make a democrat like more resolved not only to vote for Mc ,but run some ground games for him.

Howard/Newsweek were very high on my list of respected journalists for many years and then the Democratic media revolution took place and truth is journalism is so difficult to discern. If you do not read the real truth about Barack Obama from other sources than Obama himself and the TV and print outlets you will see that IMPORTANT questions have not been investigated about Obama's Marxist leanings and early acquaintances such as Bill Ayers, a domestic terrorist ; and you must, must read anti-American filth spewing Rev. Wright 's sermons. He was Obamas "minister" and mentor for 20 yrs. Please do your homework.

Obama uses pretty words to describe his "change" but it's nothing but Marxism and empty platitudes dressed up in a pink tu tu with rhinestones glued on.

If the JOURNALISTS in this country really were doing their job; Howard are you listening? then they would report on the REAL Obama. Not the one Obama wants you to think he is.

Obama scares me death and the Democratic lemmings blindly willing to vote for him amaze me.

I love my country and can proudly put my hand over my heart, unlike Obama who holds his arms down his sides so I'm begging you to investigate Obama.

He is not who he says he is.

This "analysis" is reminiscent of financial experts telling us two weeks after the fact why the stock market crashed. But you obviously still don't get it. "[C]areful not to come off as heavy-handed"??? Biden is an overrated (by the left, but not even Dem primary voters) windbag. She is at an entirely different level; if he is lucky, she will not absolutely eviscerate him. Real people don't take him seriously. Conservatives prayed that the Dems' "change-agent" would pick a hack like him as a running mate. The abortion-on-demand segment of Hillary's supporters flatter themselves thinking she is a pander to them. When she goes to Western PA (OH, MI, etc.) to "hang with the fellas" who will decide this election, she won't have to do foolish things like chug shots of whiskey or embarrass herself on a bowling alley. Maybe she'll share hunting / fishing pics, war stories, etc. I don't think it will work now (it's too late to rescind the hatred on one side or her history-making performance on the other), but the best advice available to lefties is to ignore her & go after McCain. Then maybe she won't hurt you.

The idea that any male politician has to put on kid clothes when confronting the self-anointed Pitbull in Lipstick is absurd. Worse, it???s sexist. Palin is a tough mouthed politician and if she???s going to hide behind the ???Oh all the big brutish men are picking on me??? victim argument, she will lose all respect. Joe Biden should treat her like any other politician, and if women want equal pay for equal work, then women must expect equal treatment. Take off thegloves and punch away ??? after all, this is a woman who???s all elbows on the basketball court and who shoots wolves from helicopters and can field dress a moose ??? if she can???t take tough questioning from a man, she should go back home and run her state of 600,000 and let her husband go back to working a real job.

Agnes -- Here's a news flash. THe governor is not a member of the Alaskan legislature. The Governor has a full time job. If you look at your own state, you'd undoubtedly see the same thing

The idea that any male politician has to put on kid clothes when confronting the self-anointed Pitbull in Lipstick is absurd. Worse, it???s sexist. Palin is a tough mouthed politician and if she???s going to hide behind the ???Oh all the big brutish men are picking on me??? victim argument, she will lose all respect. Joe Biden should treat her like any other politician, and if women want equal pay for equal work, then women must expect equal treatment. Take off the clothes and punch away ??? after all, this is a woman who???s all elbows on the basketball court and who shoots wolves from helicopters and can field dress a moose ??? if she can???t take tough questioning from a man, she should go back home and run her state of 600,000 and let her husband go back to working a real job.

Let me get this straight, the Alaskan Legislature is only in sesssion for 90 days. Does that mean that Sarah Palin only has 6 months experience as governor? She left the town of Wasilla in debt, by building a sports complex. She is neither experienced or a fisclal conservative. Coming from a state that is dependent on oil revenues and federal money, she has no experience dealing with real economic issues.

I think people Mr. Fineman quoted are wrong in saying that Biden has to be careful in going after Palin.
The Biden people are just putting that out to lower expectations of him.

Everyone is comparing this to the Rick Lazio vs. Hillary Clinton senate debate, when he 'Invaded her space.' But that was a Republican man attacking a Democrat woman. The left leaning press is not going to care if a Democrat man goes after a Republican woman.

If Biden went over and gave Palin a noogie during the debate; the left and the press would love it and say that she had it coming. And the right wouldn't complain because, contrary to popular belief, the right generally believes that women are strong, capable, and can handle themselves. The last vestiges of sexism are primarily on the left, not the right.