Palin is not the problem, McCain is.
The so called religious right blackmailed McCain into taking on Palin. James Dobson, the political figure head of evangelicals, said he was not voting for McCain. So once McCain secured the nomination the campaign went to Dobson to ask what they had to do to get his support. He told them to add someone like Palin. So the old gray mare did what he was told. Now, you'll notice, Dobson has flipped to supporting McCain. And that is why Palin was such a surprise, She was anointed by a very small select group of people.
And that is why even Republicans disapprove of her intrusion. Her appointment has been termed cynical and gimmicky by traditional conservatives.
McCain didn't gamble on his campaign, he gambled on our country. McCain's slogan is Campaign First. That is the problem.

PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

We have heard Barracuda's bashing speech thats OK.

What next!

She is going to be tested as never before. Nothing she has experienced in her home town Wasilla.

There are more to come:

1. News Conferences
2. Interviews
3. Oct. 2 debate with Joe Biden
4. Varieties of questions on Campaign Trails.

Reading a speech from a teleprompter, anyone with a right mind can do it.

From there

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform _ not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

Yesterday, I received the monthly newsletter from my union, the BMWED/TEAMSTERS, supporting Obama.

The newsletter contained a two-page pullout and instructions (not a request) to post an Obama poster in a prominent place until November 4, 2008.

As a point of reference, railroad maintenance workers were absorbed the by Teamsters a few years back, a move that resulted in one of the worst contracts I can remember since the early 1970's.

Since then I have witnessed the steady decline of what was once a proud and honorable labor organization.

In the Teamsters, big labor with a history of big corruption is throwing in with the Obama/Biden campaign.

Now, the Teamsters throw big money at Obama and a heavy hand at its members.

And, this is supposed to be "change"?

Anybody But Obama...

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.
Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

I saw something else last night. I saw an American people who have had a belly full of Orwellian, biased, left wing media distortion of the news and who stood up a shouted "enough". Obama supporters tend to be ignorant of history and uninformed on world events, which is why, as Rudy noted, Obama did not even know that Russia has a veto on the UN Security Council. Rudy also correctly pointedout that Obama has voted "present" over 130 times because the sniveling little coward is not man enough to vote "yes or no" on controversial legislation until after others have made the decision and it is "safe" to criticize or accept a decison by hindsight. Palin is more of a man that Obama, who, if elected, will not only be America''s first black president..he will be our first yellow president. Perhaps when Russia invades the Ukraine Obama can defend us by building them a school and sending lollipops?

palin has actual experience running something real. even if it isn't much, its more than barak. hippiefreak, you don't speak for most women that i know, and aren't hippies about love, not hate? hippy -crit?

no talk of issues, just remarks to play up the bitterness between GOP and DNC. She mimics very well what shes told to do - but there was nothing substanial there. She is nothing but a parrot - no leadership shown no ability to inspire only bring down.
and she has left a trail of trouble in Alaska behind her that is coming to bring her down- as well as Mcsame

Thanks but no thanks! No more of it.
We saw the maverick with his fresh new hunting dog; quite fierce and dominating; I am sure he would take it for normal walks and all his future hunting expeditions.

Sarah was interesting but exhibited absolute low standards in her attacks on experienced senior politicians. She brought the game to such low repute and set the future standards of the battle much below par by her vituperative attacks on her seasoned opponents. She was ably supported by the flaunting mayor of New York city who I thought was ridiculously arrogant. According to him, she had the most experience compared to both the democratic candidates put together. If it is the 20-month executive experience that he means, I must say she towers over even her mentor and should be projected as the Presidential candidate instead of the VP. While her accomplishments in Alaska are to be credited, the controversies she has tagged along with her are remarkable too, judging by the short span she has been as the governor. That speaks volumes for a potential VP. So now we have two "trigger-happy" candidates working together in tandem to take America and the world to a peaceful co-existence with the rest of the economically growing powers in the world. Is this is a good omen for America or for the anti-American-rest-of-the-world? Only time will tell.

Americans please wake up. Do you want peace or war?

Sarah Palin's economic record is different from the bhrandon planet of understanding:

While Governor of Alaska, Sarah reduced general fund spending (so far) by $124 million.

Sarah's projection for the future spending is to reduce general fund spending by $150 million.

In essence, Sarah Palin believer in free market capitalism rather than closed market socialism that is part of the Obama/Biden plans for expansion of government.

She hit a home run- out of the park.
There's something about Sarah...that is so appealing.

Many women who supported Hillary- many even crossed Party lines to do so- really believed that it was finally time for gender change in the White House.

Many women, when in the voting booth, will vote for Sarah.

oh and lets not forget she was a pot smoking addict

I have had the privalige of voting for twelve Presidents starting with FDR during my lifetime and they have all been Democrats.....After listening to Sarah Palins' speech last night, consider my next vote will be Replubican with a Capital R. I will finally get to see a woman on the Ticket and yes, I believe she is up to the job even as our President.

I was reminded last night that we have a lot of incredibly talented and powerful women leaders in this country. Barack Obama executed a very clever primary campaign and leveraged the caucus system to come out victorious. I'm just concerned that clever is not good enough to be president.

MARKM "Obama supporters tend to be ignorant of history and uninformed on world events."

There may be an opening for you on Palin's staff. Phrase thinking is in vogue. I'll send you transcripts of Tail Gunner Joe's speeches to get you started.

For the benefit of all of you financial geniuses on the left: I am a worker, I put in 60 hours a week. I make good money, and I will be damned if some filthy politician is going to take away my "excess income" that I EARNED BY MY LABOR. How many of you Democrat cretins understand that raising taxes on business causes AN INCREASE IN RETAIL PRICES FOR CONSUMERS!!Business does not pay taxes, CONSUMERS DO. Taxes are passed on to the public through HIGHER RETAIL PRICES. DO YOU GET IT YET? DON'T ANY OF YOU MORONS REMEMBER "STAGFLATION" WHEN CARTER AND THE DEMOCRATS CONTROLLED THE WHITE HOUSE AND THE CONGRESS? DON'T YOU REMEMBER 18% HOME MORTGAGES, 22% INFLATION AND 12% UNEMPLOYMENT? FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.

Did everyone notice how old McCain looked after Palin's speech?

We need a prez ready for the 21st century, not McCain.

Don't have to worry about him reading this though, He can't use a computer.

How tough is that?