Put ovaries into a Right Wing Zealot, nominate it for president in a craven political calculation to win the presidency and to keep the money flowing into the grasping hands of the most wealthy -- and this is a wonderful step forward in history?

I don't think so.

And, no one -- NO progressive, should encourage right-wingers in this farce.

The African American Obamas -- brilliant, stable, steady, public-minded, affluent, Ivy-League educated professionals -- had to go through a well-staged Dog and Pony show to convince the "Low Information" US voter that they are "normal," patriotic" and worthy of their respect.

But -- a journalism BA, ex-beauty queen who may or may not have had to have her own shot-gun wedding with her college drop-out Hubby who has a Trailer Park Trash family narrative is the All-American Girl and a SALT OF THE EARTH feisty gal -- who makes Right Wingers and Christian Fundamentalists ecstatic!!!

And Rebecca T continues to blather on and on about her concerns about how all this affects her feelings about the "first woman Vice President" candidate.

Sickening.

This is a low moment in US politics and US media History.

Shame on all of us.

A mean, lying, nasty, hypocritical and evil bitch.

[I am a woman, so I can call her that.]

Any Hillary supporter who does not return to the "fold" after the lies, distortions and evil rhetoric tonight was not a Democrat to begin with. We must work together to fight these desperate tactics that McCain decided he must use to win.

Democrats, we need to unify as never before: if the GOP can circle their wagons around McCain, a broken down old flip-flopper and Palin, an inexperienced Caribou Prom Queen on steroids -- can't we all come together to support Barack Obama -- the candidate Hillary and Bill Clinton have both heartily endorsed and pledged to work to elect?

I am a 100% Pro-Choice voter. I am also a woman who was unlikely to ever have an abortion -- especially not one within a stable marriage. Many years ago, after waiting a long time to conceive, I was told to get tested because I had spent time in a household where a disease that could cause birth defects had been detected (in a cat box), I declined to be tested.

At that point in my pregnancy, I would NOT have aborted. The woman who lived in the house chose to get the testing and would have aborted. That would have been her choice and I had NO problem with that.

But, my own experience -- considering that I am a Pro-Choice woman who refused to have a prenatal test that would made me have to think about whether to keep my baby, the fact that Ms. Palin kept her pregnancy secret for 7 months and the fact that she showed incredibly reckless behavior after her water broke (you don't stay out in public, travel in germ infested planes and pass up chances to have immediate medical care for a high-risk, premature, special needs baby!) makes me really wonder about how Ms. Palin really felt about her late-life pregnancy.

I am not trying to paint Ms. Palin as some evil woman. I am simply trying to say that she is no saint -- and certainly no "poster girl" for pro-life idealism.

Each woman, each family does the best they can and hopes for the best. And Sarah Palin and the Republican Party do NOT know what is best for me or any other woman in the United States.