The media is attached becuase she is a very attractive woman.  You dont usually see former beauty pageant winners running for top goverment positions.  She’s eye candy for the media.  She has zero experience, cmon, her looks are what are carrying her and has everybody interested.

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Steve of Manassas Park
Sep. 3, 2008 at 09:53 PM
Wow, I guess only unattractive women are smart and qualified as we can see by the above statement. She was on a town council, she was a mayor, she was elected governor, she took on corrupt politicians and didn’t care if they were in her own party or not and by the way she won!I am interested in her because when she has a family crisis, she rallies around her family and supports them, in other words she has values and morals. Oh by the way she will be good for the minority vote also, since she is in an interracial marriage (her hubby is part eskimo)and has a mixed race (kinda like Obama isn’t black, but a mix,family. After all thats the only reason why Obama is so popular right? Cause he doesn’t look like the rest of the presidents on the money he wants to take away from us. Palin has just as much political experience as Obama, and she is just a heartbeat away from running the country, unlike Obama who is the one with little experience and wants to run the country.

John,

Good comment.  And have you noticed how panicked some of the respondents below are about Palin?  Winston is sure she’ll be off the ticket soon.  Right.  And Linda has resorted to foul language.

What is really coming through is the anger of liberals that “the one” has been outflanked by someone who will identify with Americans all across the country, and hard-working women specifically who took great offense at how the Obama-crats treated Hillary..

Here’s the bottom line:  It’s turn up the heat from here on out.  Both sides will have some powerful things to say.  We’ll see who is most persuasive.  Right now I say it’s advantage McCain-Palin.

Sarah Palin is the future.  That is why the Dems and the MSM are attacking her so hard now.

Oh, and to Linda - Her children are off limits.  Only if she lies about her family and uses them publicly do they become “red meat”.  Until then, the issues are bad enough.

I am tired of the “experience” complaints for anyone.  It’s funny, actually.  Some of our worstPresidents have had the most experience and our least “experienced” candidate became our most succesful and beloved President (Abraham Lincoln had zero executive experience and only 1 term as a congressman).  Both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were govornors of their states, and Republicans take great glee in saying how awful they were.  George W Bush was govornor of Texas and he will go down as the worst President in American history (hard to beat Herbert Hoover, but GWB does.

Instead, let’s look at issues. 

McCain/Palin belive that drilling will lower gas prices today, if that’s so, why not force the oil companies to start drilling on the leases they already own and refuse to drill on?  Of course, there is an issue of having equipment to do the drilling and the fact that if they did start, gas prices would drop by about $.05 a gallon in 5 years, but that does not seem to be important. 

On the war, they are wrong.  Even now, McCain is against a timeline for withdrawal from a war we won (McCain and Bush both said we did, didn’t they?), even though the Iraqis want us to leave and McCain said we would leave if they wanted us to go.  Why did we go to Iraq in the first place?  If it was to stop terrorists, it was a failure.  If it was to get rid of a dictator that kills his own people, why not go into the Sudan where there are millions being exterminated in Darfur (much worse of a situation thatn Iraq was).  Why did McCain want us to take our eye off of Afghanistan so quickly?  And yes, Bn Laden is on the Afghan/Pakistani border, not in Iraq.

I heard not one word about the middle class last night.  Not one word about health care.  I heard only distortions about tax policies for both sides.

Last, right-to-life.  It seems that R-t-L types only care about a human until the child is born, then the ownership society takes over and the child is on it’s own.  And yes, it is inconsistant to be so called right-to-life and pro-death penalty.

Issues about Palin that worry me - Did she abuse executive power to fire the Director of Public Safety for not firing her ex-brother-in-law?  Does she believe in censorship of books in Public Libraries?  Was she a member of the Alaska Independence Party (cessetion borders on treason and Alask First is not America First)? Does she think that we are doing “God’s Work” in Iraq as she told the Wasilla Assembly of God (ie are we on a crusade in the middle east)?  Why did she lie to America in her first public address last Friday saying she fought the “Bridge to Nowhere” when she really supported it (on the record)?

Too many questions about Sarah Palin’s record.  My guess is that she will be off the ticket in a few weeks.

After reading several of the blog entries, it just reminds me of what I love most about my beautiful country. You have freedom of speech to express your opinion but most importantly you have the freedom to leave if you don’t like here! God Bless America & Sarah Palin!

Im ,very impressed with Sarah Palin.  I am an independent voter.  At first I thought Obama had some substance until I heard him talk without a prepared text.beSarah Go!!!!!

Scott,
Palin maybe the shot that the Republicans needed. She is a fine lady and will do what is right for our Country. I can not see her selling us down the drain. She will be a powerful leader and a great asset to McCain.

She appears to be a solid conservative, which is nice. Notice I didn’t say republican, I sstated conservative because she has had to stand for what she belives is right even if it bucks the party line. that is something some republicans haven’t done lately, and it is certainly not what the dems have done. The only time Obama bucks the party line is when he tries to push even farther to the extreme left. Sarah Palin….Now thats change I can believe in!!!!!!

I find it very ironic that the family values party is having a high profile bastard [born out of wedlock] child.  I wonder how her ethics investigation is going to play out, is there an abuse of power?  Haven’t we seen enough of that kind of thing in the Republican party?  Is this Channey in dress?

Scott, it was just a few short weeks ago the Republicans were blasting Tim Kaine as “too inexperienced”, despite being a former mayor of Richmond and current governor of Virginia. Policies aside, experience is experience eh? Apparently not ....

By the simple act of accepting the vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin now has the Religious Right embracing high school sex, teenage pregnancies and unwed motherhood as Republican Family Values.

With this, abstinence-only is out the window and perhaps real sex education and acceptance of contraceptives will soon follow as a plank in the Republican platform.

I think Sarah Palin is what we need NOW! She is articulate, she is not afraid to say what she thinks, she is not a ‘trophy wife’....she is a real honest-to-goodness woman. Not afraid to get dirty…not afraid to cook….not afraid of the ‘good ol’ boy’ crowd! And I just bet that we won’t see her sharing a toast with a group of guys in a bar (remember Hillary??). I am not against having a drink or two…..but, we don’t want someone who throws ‘em back with the boys….we want someone who can talk the talk and walk the walk. McCain/Palin——what this country needs.

The media is attached becuase she is a very attractive woman.  You dont usually see former beauty pageant winners running for top goverment positions.  She’s eye candy for the media.  She has zero experience, cmon, her looks are what are carrying her and has everybody interested.

I’ve been listening to a lot of news the last few days and I haven’t heard anyone attacking Palin. I’ve heard them asking a lot of republican talking heads legitimate questions about her experience and heard a lot of very defensive republicans evade the question and attack Obama.

Personally I like the idea of a fresh, young, spirited politician become part of the process. But I think the question of her apparent lack of experience with national and international issues (and goodness knows the “elite” media have bent over backwards to give republicans to make the case to the contrary) is a legitimate concern.

I think it would be very helpful to the process if republicans would stop being so defensive and just answer the questions without turning every opportunity to make their case into an attack ad against Obama.

This was clearly a desperate attempt to prop up a sinking campaign.  The choice speaks volumes about John McCain’s judgement & his priorities.

John McCain is a 72 year ol man with a history of several cancer surgeries.  He has already outlived his father by 6 years & his grandfathe by 11 years, both of whom died suddenly of heart attacks.  To pick such an empty pant suit as his successor indicates that he will try anything to win an election no matter what it might to to the country, shoulc he win.

I like her alot, also I have cancelled my subscription to the Post this am and wish others would do the same, they are like communist press.

The Republican requirements for President and VP:  anti-abortion, anti-gay, pro-gun.  With the choice of Palin, McCain has certainly diverted attention from the real issues of this election:  economy, war on terrorism, health care reform, crumbling infrastructure, renewable energy sources, global warming, education, and on and on and on.  When so many people have to spend so much time trying to explain, justify and rationalize a nomination - shouldn’t that be telling McCain and Republicans something?

So far , I think that she is a great choice . She has at least twice as much experience as Obama ... that is , two years of running the largest state in the union vs 143 days as a Senator before he ( Obama ) started running for President. There is so much fluff with Obama and the national media that the voters are not looking at the background of these two Democrat wantabes

Paula give me three views that Hillary had you liked adn three views that Sarah has that you don’t like.

Ray, how is being a governor for two years “absolutely no experience”?

I liked Hillary Clinton for her views.  I do not like Sarah Palin for her views.

Seems to be a nice lady with absolutly no experiance or qualifications for the vice president position.