The most reasonable questions about her record and official positions is deemed "an attack" by the McCain/Palin campaign.

I agree with Biden. Palin is in lockstep with the very "Old Boys" who have been running the country for 8 years, and would do squat to advance women's rights, reproductive or otherwise. In fact, in many cases, her positions are even more extreme than those of the old guys.

I hope she breaks her empty head open trying to break that glass ceiling.

No Way, No How, No McCain/Palin. She's a disaster, and I don't care HOW much lipstick she wears.

There was so much else to talk about when Palin was selected that this part went unnoticed -- she said the same thing in that rally on the Friday before Labor Day. Clinton was working for the true highest ceiling. Palin is a pale echo of that fight -- both because of what she stands for in policy as well as she isn't aiming for the same thing!

Don't get me wrong, i'm voting for barack.

Nonetheless, if Palin gets elected to the vice presidency, it will be a first, will it not? I guess the question is: is that to be celebrated, on some level; or does this triumph of feminism mean that we can finally, 'ala colbert, stop seeing sex? I'm guessing the former.

BTW, some atrocious grammar in the final paragraph and a misleading by-line in the letter section.

Women who really care about women's issues are democrats, not republicans.

Read that Gary Kamiya BDSM article yet?

Got anything to say about it?

Of course you don't. Salon is too busy kissing its own ass.

Apparently Republicans have taken their already engrained penchant for whining and combined it with the knee jerk "sexism!" cry we had to endure throughout the Democratic primary and have given us.....well whatever the hell this is.

I for one am tired of hearing that every critique of a female candidate (and in Palin's case they are legion) is somehow tainted with sexism. You don't get to compete on an equal playing field and then cry when you are treated to the same level of scrutiny any other candidate would receive. Especially one who came out of nowhere and who tried EXTRA hard to piss off half the electorate with junior high level mockery during her acceptance speech.

Karmically speaking, this woman has a major atonement coming a la her current minion Carly Fiorina (I wondered where she would land after running HP into the ground). I hope I'm around to witness it

Has anyone else noticed that the Republicans are attempting to make discussion of any issue effectively off limits?

Claim Palin supports policies that are actually a step backwards for women, be called a sexist.

Note that stem cell research might aid special needs children, be accused of sinking to a new low.

What's next? Claim that Biden and Obama's opposition to the war is a direct slap in the face of Palin because Track is slated to deploy there soon?

It is frankly appalling.

The belief here isn't that there'll never be a female President, but rather an unspoken understanding that God's plan will make Palin the President without her having to be elected as such.

We've all seen what being President does to a person. The Christian fundamentalists are banking on the fact that McCain won't last. In their minds, the best way to get a fundamentalist Christian President (oh, and a woman) is to make Palin the heir apparent. That way she only has to campaign nationally for two months, and her ascension to the most powerful position on earth is a fait accompli when McCain finally expires.

These "glass ceiling" remarks are from people who see Palin's future as president so clearly that it's a waste of effort to argue the logic that she's actually running for VP. Look at the rapturous reception she receives at her rallies; these are revival meetings. Look at Huckabee's "desk" story at the convention, indecipherable to lay people but a coded parable that it's not what you do that matters, Jesus will take care of you if you just believe.

Palin's Christianist supporters think deep down that they ARE voting in Palin as President, because once McCain and Palin are in office, then God will act and remove her last obstacle to the Presidency.

Sarah Palin's nomination as the Republican vice presidential nominee is an historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling.

Is the implication that John McCain (who at 72 would be oldest elected first-term president) will fall to ill health during his term? Maybe that's Palin's "historic opportunity to break the highest glass ceiling."

Crass, I know.

But it's why McCain's choice of Palin as VP scares the crap out of me. Vice presidents usually don't matter that much--they only have as much power as the president grants them (which for Cheney was enormous). The main job of the vice-president is to have the basic qualifications for preventing the country from going to seed in the event something happens to the president.

Thus far, Sarah Palin has done nothing to demonstrate she meets those minimum criteria.

Is that right? That would explain that strange rambling story. If it is a coded parable, i'm surprised Colbert didn't p/u on it. Is he recasting a story from the bible?

I think Joe was referring to the lack media access to Palin and the McCain campaign's refusal to allow her to be anywhere near the press for interviews.. He was right. The press should be directing questions like these to Palin and questioning why she's not been made availble. These questions should not be asked of Joe Biden. When is she going to sit down and conduct real interviews with journalists? ...Before anyone suggest the upcoming sit-down with Charlie Gibson will be anything more than an ABC schmooze fest, please spare me.

The Democrats are operating from a defensive position--forced there by the unending demonization by the Republican talking heads.. They brilliantly made "liberal" a dirty word (shortened to "those libs") Now "Community Organizer" is being sneered at and is quickly becoming a punch line. I don't know how they can regain the upper hand because every response sounds whiny and, well, defensive. It's so disheartening.