Well, technically Palin has been an elected politician longer than Obama has.

McCain made a good choice on this one:

Palin is (as was said before) a maverick who voted against her own party lines to scrap the bridge-to-nowhere that was going to cost the state around $300 million to complete.

Palin is a member of 'Feminists for Life' which essentially means she should appeal to both feminists and mothers.

She has 5 children, 1 serving in Iraq and 1 with down syndrome which will once again put her in a position to do well with mothers.

Plus, she's lived a rather down to earth life. Her farther was a school teacher whom she often accompanied on hunting trips. This should help quell the 'McCain is out of touch with reality' sentiments.

Ehh, well, he is old. If he croaks then his successor would not be out of touch with reality?

I'm not really sure to what level the President talks to his Vice President about important policy decisions, but I'm assuming that they must at least discuss important issues. In this regard, maybe the VP would have some influence?

Might want to ask a different question. Obviously I don't know, or I wouldn't have asked it

More likely he thought he was hiring a maid.

"I still want to know how you think an intelligent senator will harm the war. "

You assume the word intelligent concerning Obama.

"Maybe a little. But McCain has totally reversed track on many of his own beliefs, infact, he's now against Bills of his own creation only because they werent exactly along party lines. He's turned into the GOP's puppet."

What not post which items you are talking about. While you are at it lets see how non-partisan you are by posting Bo's flippity floppities as well.

"Wait, wtf are you replying to? Did I mention Palin?"

I was helping fill in the hole, in your mind.

"OMFG, bush himself replaced several of them with Conservatives, please try and think about what you say, before you say it "

Bush replace a solids conservative and an on the fence individual (OConnor). So no liberal goof balls have been replaced yet.

"Harm what? A totally unnecessary war thats killed hundreds of Americans and Iraqis alike?"

Unnecessary to you maybe but I have some haliburton stock, so speak for yourself hehe. By saying that you show that you have not learned from history is all.

"Well, if I was considering voting for McCain before, I'm not anymore. The problem is that McCain is old, and old people tend to die at inopportune times. I really don't want a one-year governor from Alaska as president."

I dont want a 143 day Senator that associates with known terrorists leading my nation. This November will be one of the easiest decisions ever.

"Might want to ask a different question. Obviously I don't know, or I wouldn't have asked it "

The question you need to ask is how many times did BO met with Ayer in his apartment to raise money from the Chicago political machine. This is how BO kicked off his state senate race. This will help McCain.

I think that's childish. Wikipedia's links to sources, but you can't? This community has devolved to a level barely above that of a typical gamer forum because too many of you simply say whatever damn thing pops into your head with no justification other than 'because I said so, so naner-naner-naner'.

Palin's daughter is teen pregnant?! WAAHAHAHAHAHA!

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unmarried?!?!?! BLAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

Why is it funny or even unexpected? She's an absentee mother who proudly promotes "Country First." I'm sure she'll have even less family time as she travels around the country with McCain.

I'm more interested in her relationship with Big Oil and the Alaskan scandals than her daughter's life.

Obviously somebody besides nonnus29 and you thought, "I'd hit it" in regard to the daughter.

"Why is it funny or even unexpected? She's an absentee mother who proudly promotes "Country First." I'm sure she'll have even less family time as she travels around the country with McCain."

With comments like this I can see why most of you are single. You could say the same thing for everyman that has run for office that has had children. I though Liberals were supposed to be tolerant and accepting of non-traditional families. The lame stream media is acting just a intolerant, so why should I expect anything different from you guys.

"I'm more interested in her relationship with Big Oil and the Alaskan scandals than her daughter's life."

You should be more interested in the next VP's accomplishments, since she will be in office at the start of next year.

"Why should I do any work for you? Are you that lazy?"

I asked you to provide a source since I thought you were full of crap. I knew that you were being lazy and would probably continue to be lazy, so I called you on it, no biggie.

"Blah Blah Blah"

Hehe thats what Palin's new born baby said too. It looks like you guys have lots in common, including the hairdo and IQ. Im just joking but your such an easy target I could not resist.

Frank, don't stoop to their level and act like them.

I dislike Obama because according to the TV, Jesus Christ has returned, and His name is Barack Obama. It's rather annoying, and the more I hear his name the less I like him. Yes, this is irrelevant I know, but it's psychological.

(Matthew, fix your forum, if you start a paragraph with a tag it doesn't begin a new paragraph.) According to CNN (so it may not be true), Palin is being investigated for abusing her power in Alaska. Of course, it's by a Democrat, so who knows....

Politicians are like children. They all demonstrate the level of maturity of a fifth grader, and none of them are appealing. Every time I hear about Congress passing symbolic resolutions, I want a piece of that pie. You get paid money to fly off to D.C., take a nap while some people babble about the importance of condemning some advertisement in a newspaper which is irrelevant to anything, and then vote on it. Where do I sign up?

By the way, you guys are all acting like children, too. Act your respective ages, please.

Maybe I could become governor of Wyoming.

Obama FTW !!

/Support

I did not see Palin's speech. However, Mitt Romney's was [prepare for biased utterance] deeply, utterly stupid. Many times, I heard him say something, such as "time to back to the party of big <something good> and away from the party of big brother", and think "OK, but which is which?" He consistently criticized things that W Bush has done, but cast them as problems with some hypothetical-cast-as-real "liberal government".