I have not seen anybody mention this aspect of Palin that the McCain camp does not seem to have considered when making her pick. At her introduction by McCain, I think she came off looking energetic, smart and good looking. You would think that is not bad but it made McCain look extremely old and dowdy. He looked like how a grandfather, who is tired with life looks when standing next his teenage daughter! I feel this will play out more and more in the coming days forcing everybody to view McCain as old, bitter and boring old man everytime they appear together.

I think she can be the goddess of the extreme right wing republicans. However, her speech was full of invectives and outright lies. It was horrible to see Guiliani with his vampire grin after one such sentence. GOP will ride her hard as she is able to deliver such abuse with a smile and appearance of innocence. She has a place in Fox team anytime she wants...fits in very well. Ann Coulter move over! She advocates drilling in Alaska, "Victory" in Iraq though nobody knows what that is, Abstinence, Creationisms, and the list goes on. If America puts this lady in the white house..they would have slipped back about a kilometer in cultural advancement.

When I heard her acceptance speech, I also saw similarities with Bush's speech and approach. Simple message, attack viciously with a smile on the face, jingoistic chanting. Dems better be ready as another poster has warned here. They need to keep harping on her weaknesses lest people dont see it. Else, it will be Bush all over again..with puppeteers in the background setting the agenda. American people as has been shown in 2000 and 2004 have a weakness for people with simple messages however idiotic and dumb it may be!

It is true that Sarah Palins extreme beliefs should automatically disqualify her for the VP position. ( or any other in my opinion). However, you have to admit that the republicans have played a very smart card here, at least for now, in camouflaging an extreme right candidate in such a way as to make the GOP base excited but at the same time woo enough independents to swing the election. It remains to be seem if this swing will hold until november and produce the votes also.

This type of wizardy has been practised throughout the Bush presidency. Clarence Thomas comes to mind first. Black man with extremenly right views but still making it difficult for liberals to oppose outright or too vehemently.

Another point which might be interesting here is there are probably lots of white american independents who in the depths of thier soul hated the idea of a black president. Sarah Palin gives them the perfect cover to vote GOP but still not be looked at as rascist. I think thats the swing we are seeing last week!