Palin is embroiled in a nasty family scandal that may be linked to official corruption. She's being investigated. Not a good sign. Perhaps McCain thinks that tacking a woman, any woman, on the ticket is enough to persuade female voters. I think he's in for a rude awakening.

Dan. Quayle. Revisited.

McSame's odd choice will bite him in the ass, as soon as Stevens' trial begins and the massive corruption of the Alaska GOP (and the collusion with Big Oil) gets the national spotlight.

And her hyper-pro-life position will soon tarnish any appeal that she has with PUMA-types.

If McCain put Palin "a heartbeat away" from the presidency, isn't she already VP?

But by being a mayor and now a governor, Palin has more executive experience than Obama.

Obama hasn't run anything in his life larger than a senator's office. He's just used other people's money to advance his own political ambitions.

Why not Sarah Palin?

To paraphrase Jeb Bartlet, "because he might die."

I don't think this is the right tone to take yet.

Welcome her to the race first.

THEN attack her.

except for his carefully choreographed trip.

So what's the difference? Obama will be the one in charge and Palin would be second in line.

Sadly for you, Palin was the one turning in the corrupt politicians in Alaska. She's on the right side (pun not intended) of that issue.

But I know the Obama camp's usual tactics of guilt by association. She lives in the same state as Ted Stevens, hence they must be pals, even though she denounced Stevens publicly.

McCain, the small government conservative, big on experience, picked an inexperienced woman from a state noted for government pork as his Vice President?

Eiiish.

By your logic, she has more "executive" experience than McCain! Maybe she should be at the top of the ticket.

And yes, she fought against some corruption in Alaska. That doesn't mean she isn't currently fighting her own scandal of misusing ehr political power to help a family member. Which she is.

He's just used other people's money to advance his own political ambitions.

You're describing John "I don't know how many houses my wife's money has bought me" McCain here, right?

Obama's executive experience?

He's run a pretty decent campaign for the last 18 months.

Doesn't anybody remember that George Sr. won with Quayle, and he didn't even have to cheat, like his son?

Well, McCain's VP choice effectively takes the experience issue off the table. And she's purty, too.

Guess McCain wants the two votes he might pick up from disgruntled anti-choice Hillary supporters.

Her bio and resume reads like something off the onion.

Yeah, she is pretty clean...

except for that little abuse of power wherein she ordered her Superintendent of Public Safety to fire a state trooper, who just happened to be her former brother-in-law, who just happened to be in a nasty custody dispute with her sister.

And when her Chief of Public Safety told her he would not, in the course of his duties, fire a trooper solely for the sake of personal retribution, she fired Alaska's most senior Law Enforcement officer.

Yeah, that's squeaky clean... [/sarcasm]

For those wondering - she allegedly tried to fire her former brother-in-law from the Alaska state cops for having the temerity to divorce her sister. She's denied it, but the state is probing.

McCain spoke about putting integrity before power, I wonder who he was talking about.

Salon.com comments: "This is bad for Obama!"

Interesting that a "progressive" magazine is read mostly by right wing propagandists, or those who listen to them.

I'm not saying I know why. I report, you decide. You should all be familiar with that slogan.

She is supposed to debate Joe Biden.......

A Man? A Woman? Or one 'o those super mutants the got in the comic books.

The gevernor of a Alaska? For what more could you aska?

I think the Obama campaign needs to hit Palin harder on being a woman who is opposed to a woman's right to choose.

Obviously McCain is trying to win over the Hillary fans here, and Obama needs to show that while he might not be Hillary's gender, he is much closer to her on the issues - particularly women's issues.

They mentioned it in this response, but I think that needs to be the focus.

We don't need experience or smarts. We just need a reasonably intelligent non-crazy. I'm sure her qualifications, such as they are are as good or as poor as anyone else's. It's all rather meaningless given that whomever wins the election will carry around enormous baggage of their constituencies and will lead according to the will of those constituencies. Which of itself is almost meaningless anyway, since we longer have the capability to operate a functioning government anyway. Nothing will get done. Not in Congress not in the courts and not in the executive branch. Look forward to 4 long years of fear, timidity, inaction and gridlock. I probably doesn't matter who gets elected anymore though you may be less depressed with one candidate vs another.

...let's have Hillary Clinton take on Palin. Oh, to see those two in a debate...the joy I feel in my heart...I bet Hillary Clinton is having a nice chuckle this morning...

By your logic, she has more "executive" experience than McCain!

Nope, McCain rain a Naval Aviation squadron, and if anyone knows naval aviators (and the Navy in general), that's a lifetime of executive experience in a short 4-year tour.

and turn away from the War and the Economy.

WEDGE ISSUE WOMAN.

That is what this is about I think.

Sadly, I think you're right.

I have to know the origin of your name, though, because if it's what I'm imagining, it was probably funny as hell.

The oldest president elect selects a 44 yr old beauty queen with city council experience to negotiate with Putin.

JUDGEMENT: SENILITY AT ITS BEST!!!

I see. Your definition of "executive" experience is "whatever makes the Republicans look like they have more."

What a crock.

She's got less experience than Obama. McCain is a lying, Bush-loving fool. You want to strap yourself to that bandwagon, just make sure you don't get crushed when the wheels come off.