It's her fault for talking.

I listened to the her introduction and she has a command for speaking and she sounds very down to earth. I couldn't view it as I'm listening on xm but her family history is very blue collar and should resonate with working families. She had very little political background when she began her trek to governor but her own personal story just screams americana. I'm not gonna quibble over her voice but she sounds like an average mother would sound in a movie. Overall, I enjoyed her introduction and I'm actually excited about this new blood in the mix.


her role per nick airs(sp) exec dir Repub gov assn. : reaching out to voters and firing up the republican base, not attack dog

Just got off the phone with a buddy who was able to watch it. he liked it and said that I probably will too. Really excited to hear this thing.

Pessimist? I'm not a democrat.

I'll give you the rundown:
1. She said hi.
2. She mentioned her son is going to be deployed.
3. She listed some of her accomplishments in Alaska and a bunch of accomplishments of the state which have nothing to do with her.
4. She mentioned her son is going to be deployed.
5. She mentioned Hillary wayyyyy too directly. It came off as desperate.

Overall: She made it quite obvious that while she may be a model mother and potentially a good school board candidate....second in line the president of the United States?

Just....like....no.

What McCain did with this pick is somehow make Obama/Biden the safer pick of the 2. Women loved Hillary because she was qualified. They KNEW Hillary. It wasnt risky. Palin is not like that, and making such a blatant attempt at women almost dissmisses them as people; its as if McCain thinks just because he uses a woman, hell get votes. We dont know anything about Sarah Palin. McCain clearly thinks that if a fresh faced Obama can sweep the party off its feet, his VP can do it too. The problem is atleast image wise, Obama was ready. Palin clearly isnt, its obvious from that speech. Honestly what did anyone find impressive about her speech?

The vp debates between Biden and her WILL be a joke. Foreign policy, national security, the economy...aye

I understand that as shes just been revealed as the vp, there will be excitement, but in coming weeks I dontsee it working out too well.

McCain completly overshadowed Obama's speech of last night with this pick, now all the talk is about Palin, this story took all the thunder away from Obama in the news, i think McCain's camp is very happy right now.

Yeah. In both of my classes this morning, all the talk was about Palin not about Obama. And considering I go to a pretty conservative college, the people I have talked with that were worried about mcCain seemed to really like this pick.

Obama would've won Alaska without Palin, on Mark Begich's coattails.

Obama is finished. (Thank God!)

But that's to be expected. He could accomplish the same thing by picking practically anybody, whether it's Lieberman, Romney, or Huckerbee. The timing dictates the news coverage, not necessarily the pick.

Obama got a fair coverage. It's not as if his speech will be forgotten in the weeks to come anyway. This week is supposed to be about the Reps. Wait until the Dems hit back.



I think Palin is a disastrous choice.

It would be expected if he would have picked one of those 3, believe me, the news people would still be talking about Obama, but with Palin its diffrent, i havnt heard one thing about Obama's speech last night since McCain's pick was leaked, not one time.

Too bad Tina Fey's no longer on SNL...she could do a PERFECT Palin.

Here come the rationalizations...

Here come the rationalizations...

That's EXACTLY what I was thinking!

The more I thought about it, the more I agree. If Palin had been a man, McCain wouldn't have him within 3 miles of his VP's shortlist. There is clearly an attempt to counter the fact that Hillary not being picked by Obama and try to make Biden or other Dems harder to unleash attack, but I think it's pretty short-sighted and will backfire eventually.

Three things I got from her speech:

-She's not utterly charming; a bit likable, yeah, but she does not have the personality to overcome her lack of credentials
-She's using her son's service in Iraq in place of McCain and his son in order to prop up the ticket's military credentials. But once again: when it comes to Iraq, Obama has the upper hand morally because he opposed the war while McCain did not, and when it comes to war experience credentials, nobody was going to add anything to McCain's credential fronts anyway.
-Her reference to Hillary Clinton made it even more obvious that she's positioned as a kind of successor to Clinton. But once again: those Democratic voters who went with Clinton are not going to support a pro-life candidate if they are worth their name. And Palin is walking a dangerous line in associating herself with Clinton, who is not the most popular person among Conservatives.


Worse than all this, though, is the fact that her utter lack of experience, again, completely undoes the argument the McCain team has been weaving around Obama. McCain has to answer all those who are going to ask him now what all his talk was worth when he is willing to cast it all aside to pick this inexperienced woman. And what argument does he have? None.


I think Democrats should be happier about this choice than the Republicans.

Especially short-sighted if he wins the election. Then we have a vice president, and potentially a president, who has absolutely no qualifications for national and international politics whatsoever, besides an undergraduate minor in Politics (majored in Journalism).

I never gave crecedence to the experience garbage. I think Obama is fully qualified to run the country, and I think McCain is as well.

I give even less cresedence to the experience of the VP, so for me, that's a non issue.

Essentially this comes off as a desperation move, not a confidence move, and McCain didn't really need to do it when he had come all the way from behind to now engage Obama in a great battle. This is different from Ferraro in 1984.

The problem is that McCain's pick moves this beyond an issue of experience; we're talking about blatant hypocrisy here.

I'm surprised the mood on here is so "crying for Clinton votes" and "desperation move."

I really think her nononsense attitude with pork barrel spending and ethics really molds well with McCain. Does picking a woman pander a bit to some of the lost voters who are searching for a candidate? Sure, but I still think she fits better with McCain than any of the other candidates.

Romney would have made sense, but I think Palin is even better. When I read up on her earlier this morning after the rumors of her as a possibility, I found myself hoping he did pick her, because I would have been dissapointed with anyone else.

Honestly, she feels like a breath of fresh air. We need change, and I honestly think she can bring it. The main reason I was strongly considering Obama is because I thought he had a better chance of changing Washington than McCain, but then he picked Biden ... and McCain picked Palin.

I find myself favoring McCain again. Ugh, I'm a mess, I need to figures things out already!

Oh come on. McCain is an old man who has been fighting in Washington for years, he's served in war and politics, he has far more experience. He would be a fool if he didn't attempt to point that out as a positive.

His experience didn't just dissapate here, he still has it!