From Seneca Falls to … Sarah Palin?

It shouldn't matter in this day in age in the States what their race and gender are in politics. What SHOULD matter is their experience as well as their view points on issues and whether they should be elected.

After seeing this you have to agree though, McCain and Palin don't appear to be the candidates one SHOULD vote for. http://www.heartofthewolf.org/NoToMcCain-Palin.htm

I was one of those women who voted for Geraldine, she knew what she was talking about. She did not have to be taught what to say, and she had class!! I am now 60, I still vote on the issues. honor and truthfulness, and not just because Palin is a women. I am appalled at what people will believe and support. Do your homework before voting, our country deserves better from our citizens, and so do our future generations. former pta & soccer mom, teacher

You people are dellusional. Wait till McSame and Spalin counts the portion of your health insurance premium paid by your employer as income to you and makes you pay income tax on it, cause that's Mr. Magoo's brilliant helath care plan. Say you make 40K and your employer pays $15,000.00 for your family, which is a low estimate, watch your 40K baloon to 55K and then you have to pay for the WHOLE cost of your policy, if you're even able to secure it, with the measly 5K tax credit he's proposing. Have a preexisting condition? Tough sh_t. Can't find a provider cause your in your mid 50s and just got laid off and are about as desirable as a bag of cold sores to an insurance company, tough sh_t!!!!!

Then we'll see how much you like your pitbull with lipstick and your dottering old fool of a president. Enjoy life without health insurance, morons. Do you people even read their proposed policies?

Palin was picked to take the heat off of Mr Magoo. Plain and simple.

Wait till the debates, people. Without a teleprompter and repeated rehearsals, you'll see these two pathetic choices for what they really are. A hack Gov. of a remote state nobody gives a rat's a_s about and a dying old man with the memory of a goldfish.

Ass for the health insurance thing, don't worry. The dems in congress and the house would NEVER EVER let such an assanine plan become law.

That's why nothing get's done there. All Repug proposals, like the last 8 years of their governance, are reprehensible asaults on all that is good and decent in our country.

I hope Magoo drops dead before the election and statistically, there's a 75% chance he'd die before the end of his first term, anyway but, one can hope.

After 8 years of a dunce in the White House the last thing we need is a housewife in control of the country.

Folks, all of us in nations outside of the US are wondering what's with all this hype? Of course Obama is not going to win His first and most lasting obstacle is his skin color. All those democrats who're switching to support McCain now and scrambling to give a reason. That bilionaire woman said he's elitist! Who's more elitist than her?

The fact of the matter is as I've said before and it probably won't be posted, even if Obama was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ himself and John McCain was Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, the Green River Killer, in other words a combination of all the most vile villains in US history, he would still win. Why, "White privelege", ergo the color of his skin. Come election day that US map is going to be red, pretty symbolic of the bleeding that's going on in America and will only get worse. Everyone else in the world knows it, so I really wish you people would stop pretending that it's not been a foregone cocnclusion from the time the Democrats
chose him.

As the skit on Saturday Night Live said, "Sarah Palin is one heartbeat away from being President." Now that would be truly interesting.

Comment: Sarah Palin is shifting opinions about women in mainstream America. In the last week, I have had two white-haired, confirmed Republican men admiringly tell me that Cindy McCain is a powerhouse, that they like Sarah Palin, and that they like that John McCain is not afraid of strong women.

Compare that to Obama who would not share the ticket with a strong woman and who seems to have sent his wife to stay in a windowless basement until after Election Day.

Mainstream Republican men are embracing the idea that strong men like strong women and that weak men cannot handle them. Thus, I think that Sarah Palin, and Cindy McCain, have done more for women in the last month than the feminist movement has done for us in years.

BTW, McCain pays women on his staff 104% of what he pays men. Obama is somewhere below 70%. Cut through all the garbage words in the media and the blogs and look at behavior and McCain seems like a much better bet as President from a feminist's perspective.

What do women want? Try a little honesty. I am sick to death of John McCain bellowing about regulating Wall Street as though he had nothing to do with the DEREGULATION of Wall Street. McCain has called Phil Gramm his " economic guru. In December 2000, this economic "genius" snuck into a massive spending bill something called the Commodities Futures Modernization Act which made it impossible for Congress to regulate new financial products, especially one called Credit Default Swaps, an insurance product that made the bundling of subprime mortgages into investment vehicles more attractive. Financial institutions offering "swaps" insured investors against losses from buying into the subprime mortgage market. However, with NO regulation, these financial institutions offering the insurance were not required to have on hand money to pay off claims. AIG, for example, was one big offerer of swaps. As the claims poured in, the insurers had to borrow more and more money to pay them, until they collapsed.

The Commodities Futures Modernization Act also included energy trading in its "no regulation" zone. The result was the Enron crisis in which wrecked the California energy industry and cost consumers billions. Gramm's legislative history also includes bank DEREGULATION that broke down firewalls among commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies and brokerages which created a climate for the big mergers that have spread investment risks throughout all financial institutions from savings banks to pension funds.

These have been the policies that McCain supported. He has prided himself on being a DEREGULATOR. The cornerstone of Republican econmic policy has always been the deregulation of the market. The guidling principle has been that "market forces" would take care of everything. John McCain has talked ot having Phil Gramm as his Treasury Secretary, so much does he admire Gramm's financial "expertise."

For John McCain to talk about regulating Wall Street is tatamount to him saying, "Look friends, I've been wrong about economic policy my whole political life. Please don't judge me on what I've done. Just believe that I'm going to do a complete 180 on the economy." It's a bill of goods that's is nothing more than empty campaign drivel. If anyone is tempted to buy into this, they best remember the old adage: Let the Buyer Beware.

I've voted mostly Republican for 38 years since I was one of the first 18 year olds to obtain the vote. I've never been as disgusted with a party as I am with the Republican party this year. I am FAR from a liberal... in fact, I attend a evangelical Christian mega-church. I am 56 years old and supposedly the target for McCain's choice of Palin. Beyond those demographics, I'm a senior executive in a high tech company.

Palin would never make it to round two for a job interview in any of the companies I've worked in. She has been caught, repeatedly in lies, uses her sexuality when it serves her purpose (winking, flirtatious behavior) and is clearly undereducated to hold an executive position in a company, let alone the most powerful nation on earth. Her dictatorial body language and snarky and sarcastic demeanor would disqualify her for any leadership position.

I also travel worldwide extensively, and hear what the rest of the world thinks of us. Part of my daily personal education is to read many foriegn newspapers, including the letters from readers. Palin is seen as an even bigger buffoon than Bush. If she were a man, there is no way she would have been considered for this nomination.

Palin's nomination has taken the honestly and painfully earned gains of women in this country back 30 years. I am so very disappointed in McCain and his selection when there are so many other women far more qualified.

"What women want"....You must be kidding. Palin is an aggressive, politician and I question her intelligence. First of all, she considers herself capable of being the President. That should give any thinking American a cold chill for her lack of self awareness. She should read "Leadership and Self Deception" ; she might, just might learn something.

No one is talking about how McCain left his wife after an accident and ran around the country chasing women. I am a product of a POW, a Slave. Will you vote for me and my ancestors where in captivity for over 200 years.

Don't get it wrong Palin believes in Choice she choosed to have a special child. She kills animals and believes in the death penatly. Come on please don't hear or see what you want to see. Just because she is a woman doesn't mean it is a great or best choice. She is a wolf in sheeps clothing...I have great insight and I see that she is not all what she seems to be, none of them for that matter. She just doesn't want to lose to another Black person again and if I am going to vote for a woman...Hillary Clinton would be my vote all day long, not a undercover redneck.

Sarah Palin represents me as a WOMAN! There are women who are conservative and we have a strong voice in Sarah Palin. Hillary never represented me.

Here are a few more thoughts why the liberal women don't like Sarah... it has nothing to do with being a woman. As G. Gutfeld said, SO how can one person create so much bile among folks who claim to be the most tolerant in the universe? I mean, liberals are the good people: They're open-minded, caring and of course, fair.

But somehow, a Republican lady in her 40s is exempt from this treatment. Perhaps, she truly is the devil in a dress, a ghoul that eats children and pollutes the planet and possibly beats Barack Obama, the patron saint of every customer buying wheat germ in bulk at GNC.

But I know the real reason why every single elitist media type is terrified of her. They've never met her. And by "her," I don't mean Sarah Palin. I mean "her", an actual normal woman with a bunch of kids, an average husband and no desire to watch "The L Word."

She's scary to these folks the way Wal-Mart is scary to them: Both are alien to someone who blogs about their chakras. They won't go there, because they've never been there.

To them, hating Sarah Palin is a symptom of larger bigotry against the rest of us, the normal. If they saw her at a party, they would wonder how she got in. She's the anti-Obama, the anti-New York Times, the anti-everything that Tim Robbins loves, which is why I love her ??? and you should too

Great comment but still misses a salient point. Not all us smart gals didn't get the guys. That's what's so intimidating to many about Palin, she's smart and attractive. As a tall, well built ,attractive "smart girl", I had no problems dating in school as long as I "dumbed down" on dates. It was fine to be smart in the classroom as long as I didn't show it off. Thanks to Palin maybe the next generation of attracive smart girls won't have to. BTW I have both an Engineering degree and and a Medical Doctorate, and yes I am happily married to a great handsome smart guy. What little "sexism" I have encountered so far in my life seems to be related not to the fact I'm smart, but that I am smart and attractive. Apparently breaking that stereotype is intimidating.

The Obama Campaign Sinks to a New Low in Decency

The Obama campaign, as it continues to flounder and sink in the polls, has descended to a new low, even for itself.

Recently it has launched a new TV ad in which a mocking narrator alleges that John McCain is so out of touch with the current generation because of his inability to use a computer.

The narrator does not admit that the reason John McCain doesn???t use a computer is because 5 and a half years of torture as a POW in the Vietnam war cause him to experience severe pain by attempting to do many of the day to day menial tasks which most of the American population take for granted.

Obviously the Obama campaign does not demonstrate any appreciation and respect for the veteran and current members of the US military!

The obamabot ship is sinking, and the crew are sure grasping at straws in their pitiful attempt to deceive the voting public. Yes, Obama approved that deceitful ad - it is consistent with his decrepit morally corrupt standards.

Obviously that empty suit has no heart, courage, sincerity, honour, and respect!

Do you expect a presidential candidate to be truthful in striving to win the election?
If so, Obama just doesn???t ???measure up??? in that consideration!

Obama is an unscrupulous do-anything community agitator who has revealed his true previously hidden self!

On November 4, you, the legal American voting public, have the opportunity and ability to cast Obama back to that slag heap of Chicago manipulators who permeate the slum areas of that city.

Rasmussen Reports:

McCain now has a 5 pt. lead over Obama in FLA as of today.

Palin has been attracting a lot of attention simply because McCain is boring, Obama is now a known quantity and everyone is very curious to see what Sarah will say about all of her issues or if she can talk without a professionally written speech. It should also be interesting to see if she wants the issue about someone hacking her emails investigated with the same speed and cooperation given to the investigation of her Troopergate problem.