Smart move..

Now everybody has all but forgotten Barrack and the Temple of Doom..

Moose hunting..hmm

I hope she is as good as she seems to be!

Guns,babies,sports,union,and Jesus......
Hallelujah!

I can't believe they got away with the surprise. I guess Barry O'S reaction was something like
"Oh sh*t"!

Lol..yeah they needed someone to help McCain
defeat the monstrous super messiah Brrrrack, so they whip out the cute Mom with the big stick.

By the way Donnah.. Great Title..Bravo, it should go in your top ten.

How very calculated. I suppose McCain thinks he is going to win over the diehard Hillary supporters... win them over so much they'll switch parties. He must think people are pretty dumb. Also, he has some nerve complaining about Obama's lack of experience: this woman's got no more experience than Obama has, maybe less, since she's only got experience on the state level..
(Side note: as to lack of experience, people forget Abraham Lincoln had only one term in the House, ten years before he ran for president, and Eisenhower had *no* political experience at all, yet they ae by and large considered to have been very good presidents. Incidentally, did you know Eisenhower did not dress himself, handle money or know how to use a telephone? That's how pampered he was as a general.)
McCain is trying so hard here, I'm amazed he didn't choose somebody with cancer on top of everything else. A Down Syndrome baby *and* cancer, plus the years as a POW, now what else could bring in more sympathy votes? Do I get extra points for throwing in a jab at John Edwards? Or at least, does it cancel out the points I losts for defending Obama, AKA Wingflap Ears?

I doubt either of them is trying to win over diehard anybodies. They're both going for the people who are still in play. And you don't have to "switch parties" in a presidential election. I'm a Democrat who would have voted for Hillary if she'd won the nomination.

If McCain was trying to capture Hillary die-hards, he wouldn't have chosen a woman with such an acute pro-choice posture.
I think he tripped on this gem.
She has the all the conservative qualities republican purist want, and complained that he didn't have, the family traits that mainstream woman want,a reform philosophy that McCain agrees with, an executive record, and she plucky.
I wonder how Pelosi is going to feel sharing the podium with her?
heh heh :)

Of course it's calculated. What action, what turn of phrase, what photo-op during a campaign *isn't* calculated to the nTH degree?

The cooters all erupted in unrestrained joy at the announcement.

Starla Darling needs a Quaalude. Entirely too much tinfoil in that paragraph.

Well there is a huge difference between being a governor and casting a few 'present' votes in the Senate.
I like her style..and think she is a good choice, coming from someone who isn't real keen on the women in politics thing, that counts for something..not sure what, but something.

I understand she gave up part of her salary to fulfill one campaign promise, and got rid of the governor's security detail and plane when she made the top spot in Alaska.

Who knows..maybe McCain will go poof in the second year, and we'll have a Calamity Jane POTUS.

Fine by me..I hate all politicians equally.

I was expecting it to be Mitt Romney and that would have been a perfectly fine choice. But this...WOW.
Glad you liked my title, Owen. It really is a new trick from an old dog.
Good boy!

I just read an amusing comment,
"McCain has just given Jesse Jackson his wish and cut off Obama's n--s"
...thought I'd share

Well, the loon Donks were quick to comment on Palin with inferences that being VP would take time away from her ability to care for her baby who needs special attention. I thought it was just rednecks that wanted to keep women barefoot and pregnant. What a bunch of hypocrites!

Looks to me like she could change a diaper, wrassle a moose...sell the jet and just generally rock the world, and fix dinner too.

Are you kidding? That's what her STAFF is for, for heaven's sake!

You're thinking of Cindy, Starla..

Wow, not bitter or anything there are ya Starla? Did your balloon get popped like BO's expected post convention bounce by that choice?

"I suppose McCain thinks he is going to win over the diehard Hillary supporters" , you *do* know what happens when you assume don't you? Anyone that was a diehard Hillary supporter wasn't going to vote Republican anyway no matter how much they despised how she was treated by the Messiah.

McCain's choice was made because she reinforces his theme of being an rebel that fights his own party on corruption and unnecessary government. The fact that she has executive leadership experience and makes hard decisions rather than avoiding them by voting 'present' doesn't hurt either.

That she's conservative, pretty, hunts, fishes and knows which end goes boom is just icing on the cake.
McCain certainly could have done a lot worse ... like choosing and old, unimaginative NE liberal prone to sticking his foot so far up his ass he could tickle his tonsils to be his running mate.

I'm making an informal observation about McCain's choice of ladies.
His wife owns a brewery and is VP selection is an outdoors enthusiast,... I bet one,or both,like football too.
Most American men will be envious. :)

I was kind of betting he would pick Romney. IF he had, it would serve a valuable lesson for Ms. Clinton: "If you can be a gracious loser, sometimes good things come your way."

"I'm a Democrat who would have voted for Hillary if she'd won the nomination."

I've heard this mentioned before and it seems like code for - I won't vote for a black pres.

Let's not play the racism card on Donnah, whaddaya say? Donnah is quite smart enough to find plenty of reasons to prefer one candidate over another, she doesn't need to fall back on something as lame as skin color.
And just for the record, I am a Native American, registered Independent, and nothing would please me more than to go into the voting booth and see this option: "Neither one. You're all out to feather your own nest and you'll say anything you think will help you do the feathering at our expense. By choosing this option, I am on record as saying "I am on to you. You don't fool me."
lol

Let's not play the racism card on Donnah, whaddaya say? Donnah is quite smart enough to find plenty of reasons to prefer one candidate over another, she doesn't need to fall back on something as lame as skin color.
And just for the record, I am a Native American, registered Independent, and nothing would please me more than to go into the voting booth come November and see this option: "Neither one. You're all out to feather your own nest and you'll say anything you think will help you do the feathering at our expense. By choosing this option, I am on record as saying "I am on to you. You don't fool me for a minute.
lol

Go Skydog !!

Last Sunday morning the sunshine..felt like rain.

Fred Thompson gave the speech we were all waiting on
six months ago..too bad.

Damn.. I wish I could have been there to see obama wipe his ass off the floor.