If people do their home work they will find she will destroy his campaign as the maverick. In less than 5 minutes I googled and found that after 6 years as mayor, taxes increased 38%, she tried to ban books at the public library, she slashed funding for teen mothers. And my favorite is, she could not even run a car wash. If McCain had any good judgment he would dump her faster than his first wife.

I think she does both, Jack. Being so divisive, she solidifies BOTH the Republican base AND the Democratic base. Another George Bush, for sure (claiming to be a uniter while doing everything possible to divide the country). Hopefully, the Independents will come to the rescue and get us OUT of this horrible cycle by voting for Obama. THEN we can end all this divisiveness once and for all and bring the country together as one.

Please mention the backlash from community organizers around the counrty against Palin’s speech last night. It shows how very little Palin understands about the prblems of the rest of America. A big warning to Americans: please don’t let yourself be carried once again by the cultural war tha Sarah Palin (through the courtesy of her speech writersssss who are former Bush people) is launching again. This election is about bigger things: the economy, the country’s future, your children’s future. IT IS NOT ABOUT little things.

Jack did u Notice how she………how she used the “Agent of Change” Theme….she’s definitely going to end up hurting him, the idea of them keeping her away from the press is Ridicuolous……Let the games begin…

Maryland

Jack, I gritted my teeth and watched her speech last night. So after giving Karl Rove’s speech, which was condesending, rude and down right hateful, she didn’t say a word about the state of the economy, people losing jobs, homes, banks closing etc., Parades her Pregnant daughter and her boyfriend around like the GOP is now the poster people for teen pregnancy. The GOP can’t run on anything else, so they decided to bring out a very shrill woman to try and make this election about abortion and patriotisim. But they failed, alas she didn’t wear a FLAG PIN!

Helps if you are a dyed in the wool Republican. She’s not a maverick.. she’s a hard core, straight line Republican who doesn’t hold one Democratic thought or belief as her own. She is preaching to the choir.

Hey Jack, When they panned around the convention last night as the masses aplauded did you notice something missing. You could count black america on 1 hand. The speakers were all white and the delegates 98% white. Iowa is tired of that. The rest of america is tired of that. Barack is rapidly unifying the masses while McCain is unifying the GOOD OLE BOYS as evidenced by the Old White guys speaking last night.

Heck Jack I am still in shock, after donating to Obama’s effort to dethrone Hillary, I have taken down but not thrown away my Obama signs. with 63 days and a wake-up till we vote I am sitting on the fence for now.

Both - she helps him at the conservative core of the party and hurts him at the fringes - the farther away you get from the core, the less likely people are to buy the “ain’t she sweet” song. I for one don’t want someone in the Whitehouse who’s “just like every average American” - I expect and want better.

Sarah Palin proved that she is an embittered woman who can only ridicule and and criticize her opponents. Sure, she will help the McCain ticket attract people just like her! Sadly, there are a lot of them out there!!! I was embarrassed by her.

Louise Indiana

McCain’s choice of Palin as his running mate has validated his lack of an agenda toward addressing the issues and change this country needs. She can read canned speeches and attempt to tell what most far right think is a joke about pit bulls with lipstick however I am from Florida. Pit Bulls are illegal in Florida, the soccer and hockey moms who have seen the damage and mauling these animals have done to young soccer players don’t get the humor.
The only joke will be the results of this election. FYI, these animals are euthanized when caught post attack mode.

hi jack
this speech she gave might hurt McCain because he can read well from the teleprompter and it will make it look like she belongs on the top of the ticket.
clearwater,fl

As an avid Hillary fan, I accepted our party’s decision to back Barack Obama, mainly because she entreated us to do so.

After the last 24 hours of watching the Republican convention and after hearing from Gov. Palin, attacking Obama (with her lackof experience), I IMPLORE Senator Clinton to ramp up her campaigning on behalf of the Democratic ticket - I can’t help but believe that Hillary is as true a patriot as any of us and WE NEED her to actively, passionately continue the cause and help us all elect Obama.

Please, Hillary and Bill, step it up and go full on! We need to have you vigorously out there, dispelling the lies that the Republicans are spewing.

Thank you - I will meet you out there on the trail.

Jamie Owen
Newport Beach, CA

I watched her acceptance speech and was pleasantly surprised. I have never voted republican in my life; however now, I have to choose between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin because I wouldn’t vote for either one of the Presidental candidates. So Sad.

What a difference a day makes. Despite the media’s attempt to question her commitment as a mother, she will be a huge help for McCain. And, yest, she has more executive experience that Obama and Biden combined. I thought she would have a hard time following the masterful performances of Huckabee and Guiliani last night, but she rocked! Finally conservatives have someone who can deliver their message as well as Obama does for the liberals.

If people actually listened to Palin, she will hurt McCain. Her views are too naive and extreme. My Republican wife said they (the McCain camp) must think women are really shallow if they can put up this woman with no tested experience and extreme views and expect to get their votes. I think my wife is right (and NOT shallow).

BillD
Champaign, IL

Sarah Palin may help McCain secure the religious conservative vote, but her hardline anti-choice views will probably alienate the majority of US women who may not be particularly pro-abortion but do not want to see their options erased. If disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporters needed a good reason to not stay home or cast a protest vote on election day, McCain just gave them one.

I really think in the long run she hurts McCain’s bid for the White House. John McCain has run on a platform that preaches bring people together and unity. What I witness last night was anything but bringing people together. She has excited both bases. Those Hillary Clinton supporters that felt left out by the Democratic Party now see that the Republican Party is not for them. Palin runs as a Social Conservative with strong moral values and deep religious convictions. I wonder if she thinks that speech she gave last night is pleasing the person she worships?

It hurts McCain, though he is presently enjoying the spectacle. The question for most of us is WHERE IS MCCAIN’S IDEALISM NOW? NONE! PALIN, last night, showed up for duty as a FOOT SOLDIER IN KARL ROVE’S DARK ARMY of division. Until most members of the media get it in their head that McCain has thrown his idealism and the maverick past down the window, we are in trouble–because they are not doing their job. They should have seen what is happening, and called it like it is. Clearly, we know now that Palin and McCain are no reformers but partners marching to the same Karl Rove tunes that have been played by Republicans in Washington and throughout the country most menacingly in the past 20 years. After Palin’s big speech, what next? And does it (should it) matter? Palin has not answered specifically to many allegations or scandals swirling around her nor has she addressed any of the real issues of this campaign. Instead, she comes blazing with negative attacks and pleading that she be considered fit for the job simply because she is a woman who is your “average hockey mom.” With that any woman can be Vice-President or even President. Left behind in this calculation are women who are truly qualified for the job—K. Baily Hutchinson, for example, on the Republican side! To add insult to injury in this gamble, Palin felt able to compare her competency and background with that of Obama–a Harvard-educated lawyer chosen by his Party (not by one man) who served eight years in the Illinois Senate, is serving in the Senate as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, has managed a very successful campaign and is received enthusiastically within the United States and around the world. I can’t believe it. The only way Palin is better than Obama is gutter talk! Because Palin delivered a good speech written for her by Bush-Rove divisive dark operators, that suddenly eliminates the concern we should all have about her qualification to be a potential Commander-in-Chief? If the media caves with feelings of guilt, we are done as a democracy and the most powerful nation on earth. At its best, the media stands as a sentinel of freedom. This campaign should be about facts (see the AP fact check on the RNC, Sep. 4/08), truth and issues, not personalities and personal attack. An uneducated electorate wielding a vote is a danger to democracy. That is why we have often elected the wrong people, for the wrong reasons and times.

Sarah Palin is a lot better looking than Dick Cheney…but it ends there. She seems to be all show and no go. I definitely would NOT want her a heartbeat away from the presidency!

Is it me or is that new stage a big middle finger to the American public?

Let me put it this way Jack, when I saw the pick I almost fell out of my chair laughing at what may be dumbest pick in the history of politics. It’s like the Republicans have given up on trying to lure the votes of intelligent people and are not even hiding the fact that they count on the uneducated and uninformed to be swayed by image and ideology.

He hurt his own chances of winning just by running. But she definitely puts the cherry on the Sundae! What a joke. I just gave Obama some more money this morning, as I’m sure many others are doing after the pit bull was let out last night. Barack, baby, don’t let them jerk your chain sweetie.

She helps with the base of Conservatives and Evangelicals. Other than that, she will be a hindrance. She is not qualified to run this country in time of war! She is inexperienced and hasn’t traveled abroad. Plus, she is very hypocritical to get on stage promising help for special needs families when she reduced the same benefits in her own state. All of the sudden, now that she has a baby with special needs, she grew a heart? Plus, having 2 small children myself and feeling protective and guilty whenever I leave them, I find it very difficult for her to raise her family under those circumstances and WHY would you? It certainly will not benefit her 5 kids or the special needs baby. I find her ego and inexperience a MAJOR turnoff! It’s obvious that she needs to spend more time with her family…not less!

Wildwood Crest, NJ

She hurts him. She shows how out of touch he really is……..So out of touch that he did not properly vet this woman.. he just chose her.. on the basis that she is a WOMAN…..

Palin definitely helps McCain’s chances. She has more executive experience than Obama. She will certainly help bring change unlike Obama’s pick with Biden. McCain hit a home run big time with her as his VP pick.

Palin worked for Ted Stevens . End of story. Reformer my buttocks.

Harrison Township, MI

Jon Stewart on the Daily Show pretty much summed up the GOP last night and thoroughly exposed them for the liars and cheats they are so Sara Palin’s selection can hurt McCain in the end.

On another note Jack you should have enough material from the McCain campaign to write a sequel to that great book of yours.

Jack, Sarah Palin’s pretending to be a poodle, when she’s really a
self-described pit-bull will surely sink John McCain’s ship. She is Dick
Cheney in drag.

if the drip, drip, drip of previously unknown background keeps leaking out, it will hurt him.

The only thing it does currently is solidify the base which he has anyway. It does nothing to bring in the Independents and unless he can do that, he has a major problem.

As a hard-core Democrat and Obama supporter, I hope she stays on the ticket.

If Gov. Palin gets to control the story around her, she will help. If the McCain camp continues to play defense on the issue of his VP pick, they will lose.

Jack,

The only way Palin is helping McCain is by taking the media heat off his back for a while even though it’s to her own detriment. You don’t suppose she was really selected not as the best VP choice but as the sacrificial lamb.

Raising teenagers isn’t easy and my heart goes out to Palin as she and her family deal with her daughter’s pregnancy; however, I don’t think it’s an issue for a Presidential/VP controversy.

What I do think should be addressed is Palin’s decision to join McCain on the ticket knowing the media would consider her entire family fair game in order to get a headline. If this didn’t cross her mind, she gets a “D minus” in life experience and judgment and if she accepted with the knowledge of what was to come, she gets an “F.”

Jack, Sarah Palin’s speech will help John McCain and its base, however, there is no substance in her speech except bashing of Barrack Obama. Is Obama the main focus of the problem facing Americans today? No, its not, we have trillions dollars in deficits, higher record of foreclosures in home mortgages, middle class families can’t afford to fill up their tanks and health care system is out of reach for an average Americans and all that I hear from the incoming VP is attack on Obama. It is an insult to me to hear her speech because it doesn’t give me any hope for the future and at the same time I don’t think Obama’s plan is perfect but at least he laid down some plans to the public and I hope John McCain does the same tonite. Thanks for inviting me to your forum. God bless!

It’s a bridge to no where.

I find Gov. Palin to be likable, and I enjoyed her well delivered speech. Unfortunately, it was right out of the Karl Rove textbook. I’d still like to know what she plans to do for middle class Americans, and the squeeze on them thanks to 8 years of misguided, self-dealing and big bank/corporate oriented “policy”. (Read giveaways.) She did not close the deal for me in any way based on her speech. But I’m listening.
KCLaw in KC

Palin is McCain’s long-shot gamble to help him win the presidency. His first choice was Joe Lieberman, which was talked down in the Republican upper echelan because he is too controversial. It is entirely possible that McCain, if elected, will still look to Lieberman as his unofficial #2 while Palin basically fills the seat.

Jack,
I think she hurts McCain because after the room empties, the lights go out, , and the TV screen is brought back to Wal Mart , she promises more of the same last eight years. This is not what America wants and she can’t hood wink enough of them to get McCain to the promised land on Pennsylvania Ave. . She is just a passing fancy,
Judie
St. Augustine, Fl

. . . .He’s the one who picked the right wing nut!

Well Jack, that depends on what it is you are voting for, a gender, a race or a party, which seems to be the case with most people. I think the real question is this: Is America honest enough to admit its prejudices, smart enough to put them aside, and courageous enough to take a chance on a man who may just make change a reality, not just a pipe dream for the middle class.

Wilmington, North Carolina

What a joke the Republican party has become. Of all the choice McCain could have chosen, he choice a very unqualified VP candidate.

Jack,
After that comment about community organizers( “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities” to refresh you memory.) I think that just about anyone with an ounce of humanity who had not already run to Obama will be running to contribute. Geeze finally a woman that makes Hillary look kinder and gentler. Wonder if she could be sent in a Joe’s proxy? Imagine that fight. WOW!

It is six of one and half a dozen of another, Jack. He’s a goner regardless. Pit a young, intelligent, knowledgeable person who wants to help not harm our country and all the people……against an old, not well, out of touch senior citizen who is only interested in coming to the aid of the wealthy and the oil companies, which is mostly one and the same, and it is no contest, regardless of who McLames running mate is.

Palin is a right wing nut case. She will lose the black , pro choice, gay, youth and hispanic votes. She is so flaming red those 18 million Hillary fans will now RUN to the polls to vote for Obama.

I suppose Palin does help McCain if all we Americans cared about was rallying around the flag, fighting the big war on terrorism and now engaging in a cultural war on the eastern elites. Palin and McCain can rant and rave about all that until the cows come home. But, at the end of the day I have to sit down at my kitchen table and figure out how I am going to put food on the table, pay my bills, put gas in my car and hope I do not get sick as I cannot afford too. I have not heard one word offered on stage at the Republican convention that addresses the issues I face at the end of every day at my kitchen table. But with that giant American flag waving behind their podium every night, why would they even care about me and all the other millions of Americans sitting at our kitchen tables staring at our pay stubs?

When did going to Harvard and then going to the poorest secors of our population to help the needy, become something to be derided? Obama could have gone into any number of prestigious law firms and made a ton of money, but he went to the south side to help the disadvantaged. Where does, 9-11 exploiter Guiliani, who’s job approval ratings were the lowest of any mayor pre 9-11, and was having an affair while in office get off being the hatchet man for the Republicans?

Forget about McCain - she hurts all of us. Talk about coming off as an airhead - she did not discuss the issues of real importance or explain her qualifications. Just a bunch of sarcastic insults towards Obama. My response - my largest donation yet to Obama. If you feel the earth shaking - it’s the rest of world laughing at us.

Victoria K. from Cleveland, Ohio

Jack if the voters want a blustery old man who is looking for a fight with anyone or any country accompanied by a female pit bull then she helps. If the voters are looking for solving the problems of the economy, health care and an end to the loss of young American lives in a war that shouldn’t have been started, then she hurts his campaign.

The 2008 model of John McCain needs a lot of help. He is no longer a Maverick. Now he is just the GOP puppet that will do anything to win including putting this woman on his ticket. Palin has more issues than John McCain can explain away, For this reason, he will regret this choice. He is too old for this much drama, he is a military man and being married to one, I know they don’t go for all this. Too complicated, she will hurt him in the end!!!

Palin hurts McCain because she’s stealing his spotlight. She’s becoming the facade for McCain. Two weeks from now, people won’t know who McCain is.

Bill-the-Thrill
Cambridge, MA

I don’t think it will be much help…..if any.

At the moment, with things so excited at the NRC, Palin is ‘just what we need’ and it is all caught up in the over-all ‘hoop-laa’.

I have to wonder, once she is out and about in public to talk about the Republican platform (doubting she beings up the results of the past 8 years), just how popular she and McBush will be.

I hope, as the’ dirt and mud’ are thrown (by both sides), she will be able to deal with it or will she have to hide behind the shield of ‘gender’ when things get rough. If she is going to ’sling’, then she had best be prepared to be ‘hit’ as well.

She may have be mayor and governor in Alaska, but this is national politics and at some point, I believe her inexperience will be clearly shown.

Palin may prove to help or hurt McCain. Two months is a very long time in politics. In either case, it seems hard to imagine, today, that she is the irresponsible, patronizing choice that many in the press were charging before they had any idea who she was.

I used to admire what I thought was objectivity in journalism. Maybe that’s a virtuous ideal we should revisit on occasion.

Sarah Palins speech did nothing for me.I can understand when McCain attacks Obama or Biden or vice versa because they know each others position on the issues.All I could picture during her attacks on Obama and Biden is her sitting in a room as her speechwriter explains to her what each attack is about because aside from the personal imformation, I doubt she had any input on the speech.For gods sake this is a women who when interviewed by her own hometown newspaper didn’t have an opinion on the Iraq war because she was to busy focusing on being governor.Who in America dosen’t have an opinion on the war whether your for or against it.Yet because she can read a speech shes qualified to be V.P.??? Can’t wait to see her on the Sunday talk shows unscripted.

Clearly, this election will not be won by appealing to one’s base alone. But this is precisely what she did. Same old divisive politics of ‘pulling wool over the eyes of the electorate’. Where are the issues addressed here with America’s economy in a recession? Implicit in this strategy is an ignorant electorate. No wonder they do not want the issues raised by the media.

Gov. Palin will ultimately hurt John McCain’s chances as people realize that her record from supporting the Bridge to Nowhere, leaving her small town 22 million dollars in debt, thinks the war in Iraq is one of God’s “tasks” to name only a few.

Anyone with coaching, speech writers and a partisan group can deliver sarcasm and red meat. It is ridiculous that Palin has chosen not to sit down and talk to the press. That is insulting to voters when someone is running for VP. It is mind boggling that the media is not calling her on it.

If I were John McCain, I would be hiring a food tester. This woman is to McCain what Brutus was to Cesear.

It appears she’s energized the far right wing, religious fundamentalist base. That could help or hurt. The more rational Republicans may throw up their hands and stay home - or vote for Obama - after they realize she’s nothing more than a more inexperienced George Bush in a dress. The women McCain was hoping to win over are, by and large, insulted by the notion he thinks any candidate with the female anatomical parts will do.

I don’t think white men are going to take Palin all that seriously, and although everybody talks about McCain’s need to cut down the gender gap by appealing to women, Palin may actually help Obama gain more working class white men. Palin is a lightweight bossy harpy of the kind all too familiar to a lot of white men. In the new economy, they often have her as a boss — nervous, patronizing, loud, micromanaging, quick to fire or threaten to fire, bringing her personal problems and vendettas into the office, forcing you to consider her husband’s opinions, preening and narcissistic and disrespectful of subordinates, competitive with the women and preemptively, aggressively defensive with the men.

She helps within the base, obviously, but otherwise I think she hurts McCain. Sarah Palin last night proved herself to be yet another puppet in McCain’s show. She dug into the same old Republican playbook that’s been used time and time again and I heard no new ideas, no possible solutions to our current crises. Her attacks against Obama were disgusting, offensive, and below the belt in a few cases, even going so low as to mock his former occupation of community organizer. Last night effectively snuffed out any benefit of the doubt that I may have given her. So much for that “breath of fresh air” they were all so giddy about.

She helps McCain and the Republican Party continue to divide and ruin this great country they like to say they put first. She appeals to all of those issues that keep us in our boxes of gender, class, religion, and race. I was inspired by Obama’s ideas and I am discouraged by Palin’s daggers. Unfortunately, I think she helps McCain manipulate America.

The past eight years shows what a greenhorn governor can do to our country. Sarah would be under the control of the neocons puppeteers who gave us Iraqi and four dollar gas. Hopefully we learned our lesson but you never know. We fell for it twice before!

If I didn’t know any better I would swear that Palin is running for president not McCain. After all the buzz about her speech there is almost none about McCain’s speech tonight. After one speech that was written for her she going back into an undisclosed location to be hidden from the media and only to be brought out for special occasions. The McCain people are going to call any questions and criticism of Palin as being sexist. If the electorate falls for this disgusting strategy they deserve what they will get. So much for the straight talk express.

The Republican VP lottery winner proved she is way over her head in regards to national issues. She has no answers to any relevent issues confronting our country in these trying times. Frankly, I can’t tell the difference between her and a pit bull even when she is wearing lipstick………

Palin is a caricature of right wing nut and plays to the base which helps. For anyone who thinks about McCain’s age and health problems and then looks at her as a non-starter for president, she hurts. That’s the real question: if something happens to McCain, can Palin be president?

Anyone with half a brain knows that the answer is NO!

The jury was out whether I would be able to back a McCain/Palin ticket. She is certainly no Hillary Clinton but she has now won my vote. Intelligent, strong and thoughtful. She had the courage to take Obama head on and despite coverage to the contrary she was substantive. Obama and Biden listed a laundry list in their convention speechs—-no actual plans.

I will not be held hostage by the Democratic party on social issues any more. Sexism especially in the media derailed Hillary. Sexism has reared its’ ugly head since Palin was nominated. Enough is enough. McCain/Palin 08.

She helps add fire to the Republican party and gives them something to be excited about since there is nothing else to be excited about. She hurts him as seen in her speech last night. She offers the same empty solutionless rhetoric and personal insults that the Republicans are famous for. Just now its wrapped in a pitbull with lipstick that only leaves a lip print with her weak bite.

I say she can’t hurt Jack. I love her energy and the way she presents herself. She has as much, if not more spunk then Hillary has. I say America needs a soccor mom who will stand up and make damn sure they hear her out. I think she can be the true voice for Americans who want change. The hell with experience. She’ll be on our side and that you can take to the bank.

Sarah Palin is likely to hurt:
a) John McCain
b) Obama / Biden

Jack , you guessed right. The answer is a.

In a way I feel sorry for McCain; how would you like to be the 2008 candidate who is picked most likely to kick the bucket? Nevertheless, Palin could become Commander In Chief, and that’s scary. She may have given a good speech, but if she doesn’t do well in the debate, then it really is over for the Republicans.
Chattanooga, TN

Jack, I think she hurts big time.
When you are trying to pretend to be the party of high family and moral values and your pick has a pregnant unmarried child and a small baby with special needs of her own, it looks like these people put more value on ambition than their own family. If they care so little about their family, how much do you think they will care about the american people.

Are you kidding Jack, she will be a tremendous asset to McCain, she showed that last night. Yes, she will have to answer some tough questions and I think she is up to the task. She is an unknown right now but then who heard of Carter before he got into the politics and that even applies to Bill Clinton, how ever heard about this Gov. from Arkansas. I think given some time she can rise to the occasion and we should not be so quick to judge.

I am ashamed that Sarah Palin became a Republican puppet and attacked the very hard working class people, like community organizers.

Who does she think she is? How dare she…

Hurts. She and her family made him look like a pale, sick, old man on stage last night. And why didn’t he say anything? Because he can’t adlib. Her dynamic nature showcases his lack of charm.

She is also way too conservative for most women voters, and she lied in her speech. She wasn’t always against the bridge to nowhere and has supported Ted Stevens in the past. We don’t need another President who doesn’t tell the truth. And regarding the thought of her being “one of us”, wasnt’t that “W”’s claim to fame? Can I please have a president who’s actually smarter than the average bear? Please!!!

Third point, she’s sassy, but does this attitude really lead towards working across the aisle with a democratic lead congress? 4 years of gridlock with her my way or the highway attitude. No dice.

As a female Republican, I am extremely disgusted at the fawning over Sarah Palin. I did not hear anything different than has been repeated consistently over these past months. The only difference is the commentor was in a skirt. Her policies are the same as McCain’s because that’s her job. She, as well as McCain, have lied over and over and over again about Obama’s tax policy. Anyone who may have listened these last months understands Obama is not raising taxes on most of us who are middle class. If you make under $250,000 a year, your taxes will go down. I am sick and tired of the Republicans making exceptions for the rich at every corner. As was said by one commentator, I feel the Republicans have left me. I never felt I had left the Republican party until I heard more rhetoric last night. I am really disgusted. I would like the media who are fawning over her to explain to me exactly what was different in her speech last night.

I think her negative rhetoric will ultimately hurt his maverick image. She helps energies the extreme right but they would have voted anyway, if only to vote against Obama. What McCain needed was the middle… the people who are tired of the same old politics and she gave us, verbatim, George W. Bush language written by his own speech writer! It was ugly to watch, Jack. Painful. Particularly the belittling if community organizers. Did they know that Jesus was a community organizer? And MLK? And Gandhi? This will backfire.

Jack, Gov. Palin will only be able to take her Insult Comedy act so far.
I seriously doubt she can sucessfully take her act on the road with much success. Americans are not laughing when it comes to the dire problems we face each day!

Sarah Palin will not help and here are the facts.Until this woman shows some remorse and state where her child conducted the sex to be pregnant.Why is this important?Palin does not allow sex education in schools.She has brought the young man into the spotlight instead of keeping a low profile.What can she tell American families with teenage girls.go to school and have sex ,and if you become pregnant it’s going to be ok.This is a woman willing to do whatever the Republicans want her to do regardless of the crime.It’s a shame on John McCain and all he’s thinking about now is how to win the White House.Where has country first speech gone?Where is the toughness and strickness in both Palin and McCain.I’m waiting for her to be released to the media for some serious questioning.

Hi Jack,
I think the national news media and Obamas’ campaign should re-run (often) the film clip of McCains’ response when asked what the duties of his vice-president would be? His reply (paraphrased) was “The vp should be concerned with two things: To cast the tie-breaking vote for the ‘house’, when required, and to continually inquire as to the health of the president.”
If these are the only things McCains’ vp is needs to do…..what’s the big hub-bub all about. Just stick to the differences in the campaign platforms…and may the best person win!

Jack
Houston, Tx

It amazes me that republicans would pick someone that so undermines all of their primary arguments. They attack Obama’s experience, and we get a governor with half a term. They attack his patriotism on the basis of flag shaped jewelry, and give us someone who wanted to Seced from the Union? This is country first? It sonds like she wants to leave america for good and take the whole state of Alaska with her. Not to mention her glowing example of the effects of abstinance only education on the family.

Jack, she adds yet ANOTHER perky female voice to McCain’s fumbling, breathy campaign. Sure, she’s as right-wing as they get, and that brings back the GOP base, but she’s not the uniter they need or the figurehead for change that the Dems offer. She’s as white-trash as they get (take it from white trash); a gun-loving, bible-thumping redneck from the sticks. Sure, she has executive experience, deciding which roads to pave this month and fending off the Russian invasion at her Alaskan border. She’ll draw in the base and maybe grab some Hilary voters, and who knows, maybe that’ll be enough.

As long as no one takes a long look at her she will be perfect. I could care less about her family values. What I care about is what her executive experience shows. She raised taxes, cavorted with lobbyists, worked with Ted Stevens to bring million of dollars in earmarks all while crying how 180 degress from this she really was.

I have heard the tape from troopergate. She may have cleaned up corruption, but it seems like it was more to eliminate the competition. She is now claiming that the Senate has no authority to question her aide. Doesn’t that have a nice familiar White House ring to it? If the Dems were smart that would make commercials highlighting this and asking if America was ready for another 4 years of Bush corruption?

Maybe that will make people take a real look at Palin, and not the celebrity they are portraying her as.

What’s the difference between her and a convict? Lipstick.

Palen’s speech was typical republican sarcasm and mocking of Obama. The worst thing however is how quickly the CNN media team changed. For two days they’ve been asking if she was qualified to be president and commander in chief if McCain dies. Every time they asked the question, the republicans attacked Obama and never answered the question. After Palen’s speech, your team fell all over themselves in proclaiming her a STAR. Not one person asked the most important question. What did Palen say that changed the concern that she’s not qualified republican to be president in an emergency.

Jack, you’re a dishonest boob of a propagandist for Obama. Palin didn’t say she wasn’t aware of what the VP did, she stated that line in a criticism of the ineffectual nature of the office, stating that she likes to be more productive than the VP spot appear.

Please, have some integrity, honesty, and correct information in your spiel. What garbage! CNN (Communist News Network) should fire you.

And, Jack, aside from breaking tie votes, what exactly DOES the VP do?

After Palen’s newfound “celebrity” dies down a bit, I think the Republicans will see that she hurts McCain’s chances. So far her most valuable experience seems to be as a sports reporter, able to read a teleprompter and deliver a swaggering pre-game talk. She spoke of danger - hopefully the American people will realize the bigger danger is giving power to an impulsive “maverick” who wants to pick fights all over the world, and his snarky cheerleader who justifies her extreme social views and abuses of power because God is on her side. Haven’t we had enough of that already?

I don’t know if it will help or hurt McCain. But what I do know is that sending messages to young voters that bullying and attacking gets you ahead hurts America.

I’m getting slightly tired of that metaphor of “electrification.” It was a mob scene reminding me of German rallies in the early 30s. Hate the other, hate the other, hate the other. We’re the pure race. USA, USA. Ueber alles.

I feel like I’m watching some really cheesy PG movie entitled “Hockey Mom Goes To Washington”. What do people say about life imitating art? Unfortunately, this is no movie and it may turn into a “horror-able”
reality show….

Thanks CNN for showing us that she was reading from a teleprompter. I held my nose and watched her spew hate. But how else could she get her point across? She’s not educated enough to be funny *and *subtle. She was so totally in-your-face abusive that I was shocked the FCC did not censor her. Of course she will whine sexism when she is creamed in the debates.

Jack,

More important than your question is why Blitzer, Cooper, and the rest of your networks talking heads went along with the Republican kool-aid drinkers last night and praised Palin’s speech. It was awful and has done McCain irreparable damage with independents.

Tim, Houston TX

As a working professional and hockey mom, I would not condone anyone calling into question whether or not a woman can successfully raise a family and have a career. The Obama campaign has also condemned any such suggestion. It is the Republicans who keep faning that flame in the hopes that the American public will be dumb enough to fall for yet another smokescreen. As far Palin’s family is concerned, it is a legitimate issue that she has jumped on the abstinance only, no sex before marriage soapbox. This policy is obviously flawed and was met with opposition when it was implimented. Now we find that in her own family (who we should assume has all the benefits of money, love, support and parental guidance) this abstinance only policy has failed. If anything should cause Palin to re-think her position, it should be her own child falling victim to being kept ignorant of all of her options (or is Palin saying that she did not practice at home what she preaches in public?). However, typical of Republican practices, instead of just admitting that the policy is flawed and should be modified, she will stubbornly dig in her heals and stand by teaching that clearly does not work even in the best of family situations. It is this habit of standing stupidly by failed policies at the expense of America and the American public that is so indicative of the Republican Party and so damagingly dangerous. Because they have failed on issues such as the economy, jobs, health care, education and Iraq, once again they will attempt to win using smokescreens and fear. I for one am tired of hearing that the Republican Party is the only party that can keep us safe. They were guarding the gates when we were attacked on 9/11. If they could keep us safe why didn’t they???

Jack,
One thing for sure, Sarah Palin can READ a good speech to a crowd. For that, she’better then W. That and a good quality hockey stick is probably all she needs to intimidate Putin et al. Any member of Toastmasters by that standard could be Vice President. Hopefully, the American voters will wake up and educate themselves before voting the country further into the abyss.
David, Las Vegas

Palin is taking this election is nasty, spiteful direction, and I think she is using being a female against the media. There is a double standard, but it is in her favor. Instead of the media focusing on what she has done, good and bad, they are focusing on if we should talk about it. Lets not ignore the Pork spending and family values like bringing your 4 month old special needs baby to a convention at 11p with thousands of screaming people. Where are the values there?

Jodie- Colorado Springs, CO

I was shocked to see the tone of the Republican convention last night. I got the message over & over, both by the speakers and by the signs and chants of the delegates in the audience, that we are regressing to the Bush politics of 2004, where people who disagree with the government and the war are unpatriotic and un-American. That kind of thing is exactly what McCain fought against just a few years ago, which made him appealing to me at the time. And the video surfacing of Palin telling a church congregation that nothing she does as governor - not the school funding, or road paving, or supplying of police - will matter unless Alaskans are “right with God?” Are you kidding me?? That is precisely the kind of You’re-Not-A-True-American-Without-Jesus stuff that chased moderates away, screaming, from President Bush! I know because I was one of them.

Watch out, Laura. Looks like Sarah Palin could be President Bush’s new soul mate!

sarah is no hillary—–thompson needs to renew with “Law and Order”, the Ice Princess and Father Time should go to Alaska and” chill out”.

Sarah Palin helps McCain. She is a young, energetic, bright woman with the right stance on all the issues important to Republicans plus her family is a living example of the moral issues also important to Republicans. Knowledge, experience and blond hair are the only things she lacks. Palin can learn what she needs to know, gain experience on the campaign trail and buy a bottle of hair dye. However, even blond hair will not cause me to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket because the Republicans are wrong on all the issues important to me.

Sarah Palin will help and is helping. She is the future. I was so glad when she gave you guys in the media what for, I wanted to jump through the roof.

yes, she spoke to most of America last night. She spoke about the can do attitude that succesfull people in this country have. You know keep your head up and keep fighting when the going gets tough.

Barrack and the Democrats say “we will (meaning government) is here to take care of you. You can’t do it like we did. We are special, you suck so let me take other rich peoples money to pay for you. So you vote for me.

It is obvious that Sara Palin portrayed herself as a very supportive mother of Bristol, her 17 year old pregnant daughter. While this is admirable, I would like to ask, mother to mother, “How would she react if one of her children disclosed to her that they are gay?” Would her support be the same or would that not fit into her ‘born again Christian’ profile of herself?

She will help the Democrats which will kill McCains bid for the white house…Of course, the people who voted for Bush twice will only vote for McCain anyway because they think the country is doing great…

The first time I heard Palin’s speech, I was impressed with her grit. The second time, I listened more carefully, and her words lost their luster! She acted more like McCain’s attack dog than a potential VP. I’m an Independent, and this average hockey mom won’t be getting my vote!

I am an Independent leaning towards Democrat - I was a Hillary supporter but last night my voting choice was made…Obama. Last night I learned that Palin is a very good speech reader, very good with sarcasm and a “hockey mom.” What I didn’t learn is what she has done in Alaska that quallifies her to be Vice President of the United States. Her speech really told me nothing except that she knows something about energy, that she supports John McCain and that she’s not shy to use dripping sarcasm to try and demean her “Opponent.” Well, if she wanted to rally the Hillary supporters, I think she did that - when push comes to shove, we support our candidate and while I may not have wanted him to be the Democratic nominee, I am now rallying around Barack Obama now and he will get my vote! Thanks Palin for helping me make up my mind!

well PAT ROBERTSON likes her, even though he didn’t even know of her a week ago. i think he just wants a free moose hunting trip, then he can talk her into killing some leader of a foreign country. nuts attract other nuts, McCain knew he was whipped, before this choice, now hes doomed….i guess we will soon see the straight talk express airplane on ebay..

I think she does nothing to help him. I dont think anything can help him. She doesnt even know him and he doesnt even know her. It scares me to death to think she could be in a position to run the country. Her speech had no substance she really is a pitbull. A FEMALE one!!!!

Watching Palin last night was sad, McCain really thinks that because Palin is a woman that no one will ask her touch questions. I can’t wait to see how she handles answering questions that was not written by someone else. If Biden does not want to go there, please call me. I have no problem debating her.

I was willing to give Gov. Palin the benefit of the doubt. I was hoping she would come out to introduce herself and provide substance solutions to America’s problems - economic and national security.
I was hoping she would put forth her vision for America and how to effectively assist in leading us in this 21st century.

But instead she was a let down. Her answer to defending her accomplishments was to try and diminish Sen. Obama’s strong legislative record and accomplishments. She stayed on the attack, lying and using vicious, divisive, gutter attacks. Basically, she proved and defined herself as someone who’s deeply rooted in the old failed and dirty politics America have seen year after year.

She has no real plan to make the American people lives better on the very serious issues we are facing - education, health care, mortgage crisis, poverty, energy crisis, job losses, etc.

She has proven, as have McCain, that she is committed to continuing the failed policies of Bush. And this is a shame since Bush has the lowest approval rating ever - 26%. …this is a shame since 80 % of the American people believe the country is on the wrong track and people are desperately seeking a new and better direction. This is a shame since America has lost it’s creditability abroad and neither McCain nor Palin has any solutions to offer the American people and our allies around the world. They are so “out-of-touch” on the needs that this nation is facing right now in this defining moment in history. They just don’t get it. They truly don’t have real solutions to fix this nation’s serious problems.

It’s time for the American people to get it right and NOT vote for McCain-Palin, instead vote for change. It’s time for this country to turn the page and seek a new and better future for ourselves and our children. It’s time for REAL change in Washington, it’s time to elect Barack Obama for president !

It’s the Obama-Biden ticket that’s needed at this defining moment in our history because this team is wiser and stronger to meet the challenges this nation faces at home and abroad.

It depends on whether or not you are a true conservative hungering for someone who might actually represent you. To those voters, which McCain had trouble connecting with, she helps. To voters that will look at her record in Alaska and lack of experience in a big pond, and not just the letter R placed at the back of her name, she hurts him.

I hate to say it, but I think she will ultimately hurt McCain for the following reasons:

1. She made a huge mistake by slamming community organizers as being irresponsible fools. Not a good way to win over independents and democrats who believe in volunteerism.

2. The serious lack of substance in McCains campaign is magnified with her nomination and Obama slamming. He already lost a lot of voters by airing so many negative ads.

3. The “vote for the hot chick” pins worn by many male delegates were not complimentary to shattering that glass ceiling, which may cost him the women’s vote.

4. Most of us want our daughters to go to college and not get pregnant and married at 17. Gov. Palin has made it look like it is OK for teens to get pregnant as long as their parents force them into marriage.

5. By not letting her talk to the media, they are making it look like McCain is hiding something. None of these things can be too good for him.

I think Palin and McCain hurt each other. Palin and her husband are a disgrace to parenthood. The lack of parenting and a lack of communication is apparent here. When my daughter and son was 17 years old, they were enjoying their senior year in high school - getting essays written for college applications and the like. They were not indulging in sex because my husband and I preached to them about absinence and the importance of going to college and having a career first. Palin says her family is like any American family; I say proudly that my family is not like her family.

I think that the Republicans are in trouble. Out of all the candidates they pick a man who is 72 years old.

He shows his judgement by picking the least qualified female Republican.

And, if they Republicans win, this country is in REAL trouble.

It can only ultimately hurt McCain. We all know that her speech was written for her and only read by her, but it was clear to me that her ambitions are on the presidency, and some of her phrases signified that. She sees McCain as dead.

I have never considered scarcasm as entertaining or informing on anything but the person with the turned up nose, so I was thoroughly disgusted. Her speech was degrading and an insult to women. I am a retired hairdresser, my husband is a retired coal miner, and we rasied two daughters and one son. Our son has an MBA from Columbia in NYC. Our oldest daughter has a Masters in Education from SIU in Carbondale, Illinois, and our youngest daughter has a Masters in Law History from Websters University in St. Louis and a Bachelors from the University of Illinois in Champagne. We worked very hard and did without ourselves to get them their education without help from the government. We live and were raised in a small town. Our values are family, honesty and personal achievment of our own doing.

We deserted the fundamental religion at adulthood because of their divisive beliefs and their wish to believe they had the only answer to everything.

We raised our kids with the idea that we, as parents, do not have the right to decide their future because they are not ours, we are theirs.
We had no teenage pregnancies, no drug problems, no problems with the law and they were all three straight A students.

I, by my own values and standards have the right to say to Palin, “You have failed as a parent by forcing a mistake in your own pregnancy on the life of your mentally challenged son. Do you really think he would have chosen the life you, in the fundamental religious self-rightousness, has forced on him? Do you think your daughter will value your ignorance when she realizes she is a single mom with a child on her hip? Most teenage marriages do not work. Force never does. Choice is the answer to the pregnancy of teenagers, and choice has never been abundant in your religion.”

If the McCain/Palin ticket wins this election, let’s hope the God of the Universe, not the fundamentalist religion, helps us all.

Donna Sherman, Scott City, Missouri

One thing she’s sure to hurt is Community Organizers. I read that McCain had to cancel his ‘Habitat for Humanity’ appearance after she disparaged them last night. Too bad the Republicans are falling for her speech hook, line and sinker without any fact checking. I just hope you and your journalist friends at CNN will do more than cover teen pregnancy- go after the stories likeWasilla’s debt going up during her reign, the real story on takin gon the good old boys in alaska, and running on the ‘bridge to nowhere’ platform. AWe need real journalists now more than ever. Don’t fall for more lies coming from Bush’s speech writers.
Teri

I was shocked to see the tone of the Republican convention last night. I got the message over & over, both by the speakers and by the signs and chants of the delegates in the audience, that we are regressing to the Bush politics of 2004, where people who disagree with the government and the war are unpatriotic and un-American. That kind of thing is exactly what McCain fought against just a few years ago, which made him appealing to me at the time. And the video surfacing of Palin telling a church congregation that nothing she does as governor - not the school funding, or road paving, or supplying of police - will matter unless Alaskans are “right with God?” Are you kidding me?? That is precisely the kind of You’re-Not-A-True-American-Without-Jesus stuff that chased moderates away, screaming, from President Bush! I know because I was one of them.

Watch out, Laura. Looks like Sarah Palin could be President Bush’s new soul mate!

Olivia Rice
Houston, TX

Of course she helps him. She was GREAT and knock Obama out of the park.. The Dems are running scared because she isn’t afraid to tell the TRUTH. Of course all your bloggers are Obama supporters. Why don’t you ask something positive about Palin and McCain and quit being so bias. You are becoming a grouchy, ugly old man Jack. What are you going to do when the Rep. win this election. I used to be a Dem. but am ashamed of the mean and hateful things they are saying about Palin and things they said about Hillary. God help us if we elect a freshman senator with 143 days of EXPERIENCE! Jeanette Lewis

She peddles political snake oil almost as well as you and the Clintons.

II was born in a small town, and was a working mother, and I do NOT feel that Sarah Palin in any way represents me! I want to know about health care, loss of jobs overseas, the ECONOMY and not her groundless attacks on the opposite side. I shudder to think of her meeting with the leaders of Russia or Iran. I feel there should have been more thought put into a pick of such importance, considering the age and health of the pick for president. She is NO Hillary!

Palin has no class! She has a nasty mouth, evil tongue and think she’s above all. She will reap what she has sow rather or not she will help or hurt McCain. As a matter of fact, I can garantee you that their campaign will not succeed because of the spirit in which the campaign is being ran on. Evil will not prevail!

this coment will not get through as you only post liberal ones
but i am a hillary supporter and now a sarah supporter and cannot
wait to vote for someone u has actually done something in goverment

she is going to hurt his campaign. she is going to get eaten alive at the debate because she does not know the issues that are important to average americans… you know the issues the republicans say are not a factor in this election. plus no one will be there to write her answers and coach her performance.

Jack: McCain’s campaign has been going downhill for a long time so I think that Palin’s “new kid on the block” presence is bound to give him a boost. But, what happens when all of the RNC convention hoopla dies out and voters have digested (or not) her credentials, i.e. PTA pres, sports announcer, athlete, business-owner, e-bay seller, small-town mayor, governor for less than 2 years and the biggie, shooting a moose? I’m left with the old song, “Is That All There Is?” John McCain has insulted my intelligence by choosing her. Now is the time for us to all say, “Power to the Press” and let’s find out who she is.

Palin is a big mistake, does Mcain think women are stupied. Any right thinking person would see that most part of her speech were lies.
I did a look up last nite after her so called speech on Obama’s achievement in and out of the senate and wat i found out is that she is just like mcain ,she just doesn’t get it .
Mcain thinks he is the next Nelsen Mandela, well maybe but that is not wat america needs now.My advise for Mcain is that he should look for a nursing home ,sit down and write about is experience in the War ,America would appreciate that ,instead of another eight years of unnecessary revenge

Jack, if I were you, I would go back and read the answers to your question “Should John McCain replace Sara Palin. I did, and they are so funny! After her speech, I’ll bet there are those who would like to take back what they wrote. HA!! Just goes to show you what little minds some of those folks have.

Jack, she alienated and angered a LOT of people who are community organizers. She thought she was being clever and scoring points but instead she was angering and making a lot of people angry who go out of their way to help the less fortunate and there are a HUGE number of them that vote. Such people help those in soup kitchens and other events for the less fortunate. She just showed how easily lead by her Republican masters and out of touch she is just like McCain.

I think she hurts it. In her speech last night all I heard was McCain’s words in a female’s tone. The only thing that she made up was the introduction of her family. Did you notice how she continued to say what McCain will do for the country? She never used the word “we”. She said nothing about what she will do for our country, nor did she prove that she would be a good leader. Of course, she had alot of witty things to say, but so does Jay Leno and every other comedian. She seems more like of McCain’s campaign manager rather than his VP.

A couple of more things. Why does everything to revolve around the right wing anyway? There are plenty of people in this country that don’t move like sheep behind some fool spouting off on the pulpit but we still have beliefs. Difference is we don’t force them onto other people. Palin has a double standard. There’s a lot more to be known about her that isn’t public yet but it will be and by the way what’s with that hair? I seriously wonder if McCain has been checked for senility or at least the beginning of it. My dad started showing signs years before he got worse and we didn’t realize it at the time. Looking back I know now why he acted the way he did. Perhaps McCain is starting to show those signs.

No one in their right mind beleaves that the GOP would let a woman have any say in their party. Sex sales and she is sexy. This is just a distraction. People are looking at a sexy woman and not at the facts and issues. They should have tried for Pam Anderson. Leave it to a sailor to pick a bomshell for his running mate. I bet Cindy don’t let those two campain alone togather at all. In the end she will hurt him as we are not as dumb as the GOB thinks we are.

I’m an independent. John McCain lost my vote when he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate. I removed my McCain bumper sticker from my car on Tuesday. I’m now a reluctant Obama supporter.

Unfortunately, judging from the reaction from the far right, I think Palin will help McCain with the Republican base and with people who like her pretty face and spunky attitude.

Democrats don’t understand that many Americans vote based on emotion. Sarah Palin is a far bigger threat to Joe Biden than Democrats realize.

James Parsons
Fairfax County, Virginia — A battleground state.

Jack, at this point who really knows? Given the fact that she probably was not fully vetted let’s just wait and see if any other skeletons jump out the closet. Gov. Palin did a great job delivering what I beleive was a prepared text from the McCain campaign. I’m also waiting to see how she does in a one on one interview like Meet the Press and the V.P. debate. Voters should also understand Gov. Palin is Pro-Life and if McCain is successful, you can bet that ROE VS WADE is history. So, to answer your question, she probably helps Mccain with his conservative base but I’m not sure if she helps him with those undecided and independent voters yet.

It’s a strange display. The democrats have nominated a young and charismatic man who is now being advised by a veteran of the political arena while the Republicans nominate a veteran who will be advised by someone who doesn’t seem to have any good advice to give.

This does show that while both presidential candidates are good choices, only Obama seems to have the wisdom to surround himself with an appropriate political entourage.

The head of the state does not work alone and americans should see their choices in their political team as an important criteria for the upcoming election.

My questions is, aside for responding to the press which she could have done during one on one interviews, she did not have a theme or message for her party about how she plans to help change the direction of the economy and all the issues we the American people care about. Are these people for real. McCain is just running for running sake cause he wants to be president. This is not about us, its just about him. If he cared about the American people he would stay on message and only focus on the issues. He slings mud all the time that is why I can’t stand him. And the POW stuff, if he is so proud of his only accomplishment, why are there homeless POW’s all over the country and McCain has been in the Senate for over 20years. If he even made his cause about restoring dignity to his comrads I could consider listening to him, but all he cares about is that it is his turn to be president.

Jack, McCain knows nothing about the economy, by his own admission. Palin knows even less. Her much vaunted claim of expertise in energy matters needs to be debunked. Going up against the local oil bad boys does not an expert make! Energy expertise is understanding the difficulties of drilling in the Bakken formation, it’s grasping the intricacies of clean coal technologies, wind turbines, cutting edge solar and battery technologies, it’s having a detailed insight into the minds of leaders from Caracas to Baku. She has none of that. She brings no economic expertise to a ticket that desperately needs one. When the magnitude of her economic ignorance is exposed, she will sink McCain’s chance at the presidency.

I think that Sarah Palin is only one of the roadblocks between McCain and the white house. I think the real trouble for McCain is that he is trying to condemn Obama for being an elitist, when he owns several homes & has plenty of disposable income. He tries to make Obama’s “celebrity” status a negative, but now Palin is becoming quite well know and watched by the media herself. McCain is demonizing the media for reporting on Bristol Palin, reminding us that Obama has taken the high road by not addressing it.

It seems as though McCain is pandering to gain the support of his most conservative party members, and assuming that women are not well read enough to research a candidate beyond her sex & will hop onto the bandwagon for him because he chose a woman. As an American under 35, I believe John McCain is out of touch with young Americans.

I think I can safely say we don’t particularly want our choices to be legislated. Even if you don’t agree in equal rights for a gay couple (which my husband I both support), it is not government’s job to dictate what we can and can not choose. If a man chooses to love another man, that is part of the beauty of democracy. We all have the right to choose what we feel is right for us. And frankly, I am tired of the ultraconservatives trying to convert the whole country into gay hating, gun toting, pro-life mindless masses. I prefer being able to choose my life path for myself.

Remember McCain saying “Senator Obama would rather win an election that win a war”? Seems as though he’s forgotten about the war and is now doing everything he can think of to win the election.

It depends on whether they publish Cliff notes on :
1.) The war on terrorism
2.) The solution to our country’s 9 trillion national debt
3.) What are alternative fuels? (Other than drilling in Alaska)
4.) Curing unemployment and the economy
5.) Fixing our Social Security System
6.) How to structure a workable healthcare system
7.) How to get to know the American voters from coast to coast in
60 days or less
Don’t think so…….

Palin gave a masterful performance last night, which is going to give a lot of people second thoughts about who would really be running the country. I am convinced a Vice President Palin would put Alaska first and the rest of the country second. After all, the pipeline is god’s will according to what she is saying to Alaskans.
The thought that all those crazy extreme right wingers would be praying to have a President McCaine out of the picture so that they could annoint a new American theocracy is a scary thought.
McCaine gave up his first V.P.choice to appease the evangilists. What will he give up to appease Palin?
No, I don’t think people will want to risk a Palin presidency.
Helen, a New Hampshire independent

Sarah Palin definately helps McCain’s chances. She’s like an insecure schoolyard bully with a bad home life who beats up classmates on the playground and shouts “four eyes, four eyes!” to kids with glasses. She’s like the catty neighbor on a network sitcom, the one that always delivers the best one-liners.