For graciously congratulating the Governor?  For planning to obliterate her chances?  For seeing through the choice?

For now, I'll be nice.

Congrats to her, and I'm pleased that this will be an historic election regardless of which side wins.

/nice

for an attempt at graciousness.

Rec'd for being kind.

......

And now, on to the election:

http://www.ktva.com/ci_10026165

Lawmakers will hire someone within a week to investigate whether Governor Sarah Palin abused her power in firing Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. The legislative council approved 100,000 dollars for the investigation that will find out whether Palin was angry at Monegan for not firing an Alaska State Trooper who went through a messy divorce with Palin's sister.

See ya on the trail, Sarah!

Larry Kudlow of CNBC's "Kudlow & Co." asked her about the possibility of becoming McCain ticket mate.
Palin replied: "[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P .slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we're trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/ap_o n_el_pr/cvn_mccain_veepstakes

More recently, she has come under the scrutiny of an investigation by the Republican-controlled legislature into the possibility that she ordered the dismissal of Alaska's public safety commissioner because he would not fire her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.

Nice to see McCain pandering to all 5 PUMA's.

Hey, let's vote for her because she is a woman!

No sexism there!

And she's already won over her first voter.  Surprise! Surprise!  Why it's our very own Darlink'

Speaking as a lifelong Democrat who has marched FOR a woman's right to choose:

Palin's stance on abortion will NOT keep me from supporting a McCain-Palin ticket.

I will take my chances on the abortion issue because I believe Barack Obama presents much greater dangers to the country.

Funny how an anonymous blogger can be a lifelong Democrat just by saying so.

being on ticket as the final missing piece to the anti choice peoples dream, I dont know whether to be shocked or impressed with such a pick. The experience argument is dead, but this is hardball politics.

Andrew has the right perspective on this.  I only hope we can get enough undecideds & leaners to pick up on it:

he more I think about it, the more staggered I am by the pick. It's totally about electioneering (misguidedly, I'd hazard, but I don't know enough about her to know yet) and fundamentally unserious about governing.

The first criterion for a veep - and I'm simply repeating a truism here - is that they are ready to take over at a moment's notice. That's especially true when you have a candidate as old as McCain. That's more than especially true when we are at war, in an era of astonishingly difficult challenges, when the next president could be grappling with war in the Middle East or a catastrophic terror attack at home. Under those circumstances, we could have a former Miss Alaska with two terms under her belt as governor. Now compare McCain's pick with Obama's: a man with solid foreign policy experience, six terms in Washington and real relationships with leaders across the globe.

One pick is by a man of judgment; the other is by a man of vanity.

She may be a fine person, but she's my age, she has zero Washington experience, and no foreign policy expertise whatsoever.

McCain has just told us how seriously he takes the war we are in. Not seriously at all.

Emphasis added

how this will play in Alegres Cavern

It's Democratic Christmas in August.

This is what we can expect when McCodger stamps his foot, making a decision on his own and ignoring the advice of his campaign managers, who are no doubt right now talking themselves away from the nearest window.

1.  If he looked old before, wow, does he look old next to Governor Palin.

2. McCain just took the heaviest hammer he had, the "experience argument" off the table.  Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.

3.  The day of the announcement, every other story about her has the word "scandal" in it.  Was she vetted?  This was the most qualified person in the party?  The most qualified WOMAN in the party?

4. Is this choice honestly supposed to draw disenchanted Clinton voters?  An anti-choice, under qualified former beauty queen?  Really?

5. with all the GOP rhetoric around national security and international affairs, and McCain with one foot on a banana peel, this is the person McCain is going to bring in to back up the war on terror?  

Wow.  I can't wait for the Palin/Biden debate.  

And Gov.Palin is one of the foremost authorities in the country on oil services, drilling, and energy exploration. This is about drill/drill/drill, not gender.

I'm a bit taken aback at how much I appreciate McCain's choice.  It was certainly a maverick pick bound to piss off people like Romney and the like, and basically throw the national Republican party to the wolves (we knew they were doing that, putting all the eggs in the presidential basket, but we didn't know to what extent).

I have always liked Palin and the sort of honest conservatism she stands for (she's not crazy like, say, Michelle Bachmann), even while I think her policies are a disaster.

We're better off for having an opponent of her calibre.  It will be unfortunate for me personally to witness Joe Biden tearing her apart in debate.  

I'll get over it.

...IMO, it was a smart choice regardless of the inexperience factor. McCain weighed the advantages and disadvantages and saw that there were more advantages for putting her on the ticket. Plus, the move is stealing the Democratic convention thunder, Romney wouldn't have.

I'm sure there will be some that will vote McCain solely for the fact that McCain has a women on the ticket just like there are some who are voting for Obama soley for the fact that he's AA, but I don't think the majority or Americans will base their vote on race and gender.

anymore to see this kind of thing:
You are, perhaps, more compelling than the first woman to appear on a national ticket.

What a great backhanded slap! to Geraldine Ferraro - and completely uncalled for, not to mention irrelevant to the discussion, as well.  Seems like Democrats just continue down the path of kicking women out of the party via gratuitous insults.  Keep 'em coming, if that's your intent!  Well done!

The Sympathy Vote will be the theme for the rest of the campaign.

How can you say anything about McCain (POWPOWPOWPOWPOW!!!)?

How can you say anything about Palin? ("just your average working mom!!!)?

I'm sorry, I don't dislike either of you, but this is an actual, you know, election for two most powerful people in the world.

Thanks for coming out, enjoy the experience.

I like the tone set by this diary.  A lot of people need to watch themselves a little more closely, cause even if you think she's a totally underqualified beauty queen who was picked just for her looks or whatever, you need to find a better way of expressing that thought.

Now that the primary is over, some Obama supporters need to come to terms with the reasons why some stuff from the primary came across as sexist and offensive.  For that matter, some Clinton supporters need to come to terms with the reasons why overly dismissive attacks on Obama's experience came across as offensive.  Of course, the people who really need to learn these lessons are the Democratic spokespeople in the media, but I despair at the thought of them ever getting it.

Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?

Hillary got picked for her strength and accomplishments and because she knew world leaders.

Picking Palin is an insult to me as a woman.