Palin’s experience in Alaska is worthless considering the fact that Boston is more populated than the entire state of Alaska. Many of these responses are polarized and do not focus on the issues. Palin was not the best possible candidate, she was actually one of the worst. A better choice would have been Romney, a man who is very knowledgeable about economic issues. This is even more important with our current economic crisis. A McCain/Romney ticket could have won the election. Moving on. Palin’s “mavericky”-ness is nonexistant. Someone who follows 95% of party policy is not a maverick. Palin is far out of her depth as the possible VP and maybe President of our country. If she had been brought in to D.C. and trained, she might have been a possible candidate and force to be reckoned with in the next election. Unfortunately she has been drawn in to a setting where she is like a fish out of water. It is essential to realize that she has helped the McCain campaign by polarizing this election even more. By guarding her against interviews and being angered by even possible insults, the Republican party has set her up as a trophy of sorts.

Palin helps McCain in the sense of providing a more conservative side to his campaign as well as being able to win over many woman voters. And just because McCain is in his early 70’s doesn’t mean he is going to die soon. Neither of them are idiots and it was a smart move for McCain to select her as his VP.

She is not only more experienced than Obama but she is a competent, intelligent and a values-orientated woman. The media has to do a better job investigating all the scandals involving Obama. Seems the main stream media act as shills for the Obama campaign – that’s unfortunate.

the way i see it, you have to decide who you support based on their vice presidents. because your either voting for a man who is a heartbeat away from death or a man who is a gunshot away from death. that’s why this election is palin v biden.
so if you believe that palin helps mccain, then mccain must win, but if she doesnt, he can’t win.

I don’t see how any woman can be for Palin. Everything that women have work for for hundreds of years will be lost. I am more of a feminist than Sarah Palin, and im a guy. Her only purpose was to get excitement going with the base Republicans. She has done this, but this choice is an abomination. Worst pick since we voted for Bush a second time.

palin appeals to every minority group in which Mcain does not. so obviosly, yes she does. this does not change the fact that oth john Mcain and sarah palin are going to be the downfall of america as we know it. if Mcain wins in ’08, i elect that we all move to Canada and indulge in free healthcare and clean, non-polluted air.

@HHS 4 life! love the site though, good job:

Yes, she is just like a normal person–not fit to run a country. Don’t get me wrong, she has some views I agree with. But I think her lack of experience and general ignorance is impossible to ignore, especially since she has a very good chance of becoming president if Mccain wins.

In my opinion, Sarah Palin may be good for the country, but not for the Earth. It’s not like humans are the only thing on the planet or the most important. Everything has it’s place and by Sarah Palin not only allowing, but supporting the aerial hunting of wolves and bears this shows her disrespect for nature. They shoot them down in winter when they have no where to run and show up like a target in the snow, which violates many hunters “fair-chase” ethic. She even placed a 150 dollar bounty per wolf as long as they have there left foreleg. Even worse the wolves normally die a painful death. If Sarah Palin can not only allow but support this and I sure don’t want to see what she can do if she becomes Vice President.

Sarah Palin is crazy. She says that the iraq war is “God’s will”. She doesn’t believe in abortion in rape or incest cases. She contradicts herself in the same speech. Basically McCain picked her because he wanted to attract the Hillary Clinton supporters that only voted for her because she was a woman (its true, 33% of the women that voted for Hillary in the primary voted for her solely because she was a woman). But Palin is a complete anti-feminist. She also says that she is a supporter of the environment when she wants to hunt polar bears and passed a bill that allowed people to shoot wolves from a helicoptor. And the supposed “bridge to nowhere” that she said “thanks but no thanks” to is completely false. She supported the bridge and only backed out of it when congress was no longer involved in it, and she kept the many millions that was given to Alaska for the production of the bridge. Also when she was Mayor, Palin gave a list of books (which included Harry Potter) she wanted to be banned to the town librarian. The librarian then laughed in her face and did not ban any books

Sarah Palin is basically nuts. She believes that “God’s Plan” including building her stupid national oil pipeline, and that the Iraq War is all part of “God’s Plan.” Maybe “God’s Plan” should have included giving her a brain. Pipelines don’t come from God lady, they come from greedy oil-dependent countries like the United States.

Don’t just believe me, see for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG1vPYbRB7k

I WILL PREDICT THE FUTURE:

McCain: WIN
Obama: Lose

Sarah Palin hurts and helps McCain at this point. The strategy was to get the unhappy Hillary supporters, as well as the far right evangelicals. But alas, there is no way McCain will get the support of the Hillary voters because of Palin’s anti abortion stance and her Christian right views. This also could hurt moderate McCain supporters who are not against abortion or christian values. Even though there isn’t much Palin can do as vice president, the prospect of a hardline christian in the White house is unsettling to me.

Although this hurts McCain a bit, it was a good effort indeed to gain support from all sides. You can’t please everyone is the lesson here.

I do think she is competent and if people think she has no experience they should look at Obama first.

And saying that she should stay home and support her family, is a very rude sexist remark. Should all mom’s stay home with their family? We have gotten so far with women’s rights and people still believe this?
Im surprised the Obama supporters or anyone would say such a thing when they are supposed to be the party of equality and anti ignorance.

“Americans will vote for a ticket that puts American interests first. Country First…” Exactly, and that is why Obama will be our next President. John McCain says 100 more years in a War that is putting Big Oil before the American people. WAKE UP….. McCain says we need to ensure that we have VICTORY!!! What does that mean? More lives lost, money spent and an inflating deficit?

“But ALL Americans have that chance, some just make bad decisions, fail to work hard and act like victims.” Please…. How ignorant can you be? Coming from Wayland most people do have a chance but go ask the millions of Hard Working Americans who work three jobs in order to feed their family if they have a chance.. Not all unemployed persons are bums on the side of the road asking for change. In fact, a majority of these people want work but cannot find it. Not Surprisingly there are not enough jobs that pay wages that are reasonable enough to live on.

What is wrong with giving THESE people a chance to live a true American life?

McCain may put America’s interests firsts but it is not the America I know and love. It is the George W.Bush America where Big Oil is in charge and the rich get richer while hard working Americans struggle.

Numbers are not everything Obama/Biden ’08. Just because Palin has been the governor of a small state does not mean that she would have any less experience than a governor of a large state. This is not relative! Both takes a certain level of leadership, perhaps she has a more personal experience because of the size of her State.

From the moment McCain selected Sarah Palin, McCain may likely have picked up a modest amount of Clinton dead-enders who supported her not because of her positions, but because of her perceived experience and gender. It will also help with cultural conservatives who backed Mike Huckabee and held out on McCain, purely because of her impeccable credentials as an extremist evangelical. Beyond this however their was no valid reason for McCain to pick Ms.Palin. The success of this pick is dependent on the media doing its job: asking questions. The list of scandals and questions surrounding Palin is staggering. Her ties to a radical separatist party in Alaska, her support of the bridge to nowhere before she opposed it, her far right positions on abortion, global warming, creationism, her ties to “Jews for Jesus”, the massive pork spending she supported in Alaska. Sarah Palin will hurt McCain if people know who she is and the media does it’s job. This shows the overall incompetence of the McCain campaign and what kind of president he would make. One that makes brash decisions without much backing.

Proud Republican, you sure do have a lot of nerve. Of course Palin has more executive experience! Governor of a state with roughly half the population of Philadelphia (630,000). Mayor of a town less than half the population of Wayland (5,000). Both of those count as executive experience. Obama, Biden, and McCain have no executive experience because they’ve…wait for it…NEVER BEEN PART OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH!!! And don’t pay any attention to the polls. They mean nothing. I’ve never looked at them once. They don’t give you a real clear picture of who is winning. And besides, we still have the out-of-date electoral college. Not the popular vote.
What does Obama have to hide? Nothing. What does McCain have to hide? The fact that his torturers support his campaign? The fact that his fellow POW in Vietnam said that he’s mentally unstable to be President?
The choice of Governor Palin was brilliant for McCain. All of her cover-ups are cover-ups for McCain’s stupidity. If either of them become President, may god have mercy on us all…

Gov. Palin has more chief executive experience than Obama and Biden….even McCain. She is smart, well-spoken, accomplished and conservative. She may be a bit conservative for some, but I’d remind you that liberal views you may be exposed to in and around Wayland are not what most of America believes. As to her helping McCain…well the latest polls show the McCain/Palin ticket is up by as much as 10 points over Obama/Biden. I think the more folks educate themselves about Obama and what he stands for the more Americans will flock to McCain.

McCain is basically saying that he no longer wants to be the president of the United States. He purposely chose governor Palin so that he would lose the election. I think he knew people would know that Sarah Palin has absolutely no quality experience. She was a mayor of a small town in Alaska and then moved up eventually to be a governor for a short time. She has a family that is in desperate need of her and she honestly is being a bad mother by running for this election.
Just think, Sarah Palin will become THE president of the United States of America if John McCain dies soon, which could most def happen in the next 4 years.

Palin has no experience at all. She was a mayor of a small town and a Governer of Alaska for a year or two. I don't know what McCain was thinking when he brought her into the game.

Sarah Palin will probably help John McCain get some of the conservative vote he can’t get because he’s slightly more left-leaning. Then again I don’t want her anywhere near the White House. She’s against a woman’s right to choose, gay marriage/civil unions, wants to drill for oil in Alaska, and not to mention she has no experience. She was Mayor of a town smaller then Wayland (5,000 residents). Plus she has a 4 month old child with disabilities, and a pregnant 17 year old daughter. She’s nuts if she thinks she can be the vice president and take care of her family!