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It is confirmed, see post below!

it's confirmed. great pick!

BRAVISIMO!!!

I lean more Democrat, but I think this choice is very good for McCain. You can't find anyone as conservative as Palin. She will definetely sway the Hillary voters to McCain.

I have had my eye on Gov. Palin for months. Was hoping McCain would pick her, but put that up on the shelf as the Obama train chugged down the tracks of late.

The woman could run for President. That is how qualified for the office she is. MORE qualified than Obama is!

She has like 7 children, the oldest son recently enlisting in the military. Her last son born in the spring has Down Syndrome (as does my last daughter) ...

Her and her husband's conservative judgement to love this child and give him the deserved equal worth of their other children not only strengthens her standing with pro-life folks in the conservative republican base, but really smacks the heck out of the recent news about Obama's horrible abortion stand/record.

Folks, Obama thought he had a great fireworks show last night after his speech???

THIS blows that out of the water ...

Also, this woman wants her state drilled NOW for domestic oil and gas ...

Keep sharp objects away from Hillary? What about Pelosi? Palin looks FAR better and hasn't had ANY plastic surgery. What's that bug-eyed, frozen-faced pseudofeminist going to say about this?

I just got a call from my dad fromhis cellphone: "Did you hear? We have a woman Vice president!" He was all excited and he has never, ever called me about anything "politics" in his life.

Se jodió la bicicleta demócrata!

So can Obama change his mind now and dump Biden for Hillary?

Asombra - can't it's a done deal - but i'm sure the thought has crossed obama's mind. Que se jodan con Biden! Bueno, they were already jodidos con la nominacion the obama anyways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFjqZ_vvLNc

Palin's nick-name while playing basketball in school:

"Sarah Barracuda"

Her oldest son is in the military and will leave for Iraq next month.

She is a member of the NRA ... Her Daddy took her moose hunting in the wee hours of the mornings She hunts and fishes ... She has named her kids some of the best names I have ever heard:

"Track" and "Trig" and "Bristol" and Willow and Piper?
I feel as if I just hit the mega-millions lottery!

Happy Birthday, John McCain! Thanks for such a great gift!

I am woman hear me roar, baby!

...she's pretty...

Since I first read the blog palinforVP I've been secretely wishing and praying for this to become a reality.

Yesterday, while driving back home and switching the dial to a non-Obama stuff (Jeez, I'm 45 minutes from Denver, remember?) I was thinking about the possibility of McCain choosing Palin...

It was good I was alone in my office this morning when I first read the news online, so nobody saw me jumping in the chair.

As I've posted earlier in my blog,does anybody out there want change? This is the type of change that we REALLY need!

No ofense, guys, but it's really supercool that she's a woman! Es como darle una galleta sin manos a todos esos izquierdistas and pseudo-feminists de pacotilla que andan por ahi!

Of course I hate the pick. As conservatives and Republicans we look past gender, race and ethnicity and go for the best person for the job. Not only is she clearly not that, she is not even the most qualified woman - I wanted Kay Bailey Huthison. Here are my concerns:

*Palin has less experience than Obama.
*She is too conservative to appeal to the Hillary voters
*She obviously hates him but every single time they mention her name the Dems will mention Ted Stevens
*Our only hope in the VP debate is that Biden comes across as the condenscending prick that he is.

On the plus side:

*she's a woman
*she's conservative
*she is a remarkable person with a good narrative to sell to the American people.

I hate the pick, knee jerk reaction to be historic.

I'm taking a break from following weather systems starting with the letters F, G and H to announce that I LIKE the selection of Gov. Palin!

Im watching the stream of her acceptance speech. I...I ..I think Im in love.

I am no fan of John McCain, but this is a tactically brilliant move. It deflates the Obama change BS juggernaut and, as icing on the cake, Hillary is gnawing her own fingers right now over Obama's incredible tactical gaffe of not picking her. I've said for a year and I'll repeat it again: Obama/Clinton would have been the killer ticket for the Dems. Now we have a fighting chance to experience the joy and wonder and awe of seeing liberal heads explode late on the night of November 4...

she's a better speaker than McCain. Hell of a speech that she gave. She will be a great on the campaign and in getting those Ohio and middle America voters to vote for reason rather than false hopes.

Great move. I'm psyched.

This also help stump the momentum the Dems had with the DNC and Obama's speech.

This is fantastic. An amazing chess move on McCain's part. Just awesome! I'm so proud of being a conservative Republican forty-something year old woman and this was the cherry on the cake of my day! She is terrific and her speech gave me goosebumps!

Ahhh … I’m sorry … Did ’somebody’ give some sort of ’speech’ last night in Denver?

Really?

Who?

What did he say?

drillanwr what you heard last night was from the George McGovern playbook; raise taxes; redistribute wealth; same crap but spoken by elitist putz.

As Veep, this conservative Republican woman will serve OVER the Senate ...

Cigar Mike: Obviously you didn't read the NYT Magazine's eight-page breakdown last Sunday of Obama's economic plan.

As for Palin, it's a surprise, actually. How's the Christian base gonna feel about this very gay-friendly, pot-smoking woman who named two kids after TV witches? But it smells of desperation. Romney would have been a better choice.

National Review Online's Ramesh Ponnoru gets it:

Both the pros and the cons are pretty obvious. I’m going to focus on the cons, mostly because conservatives right now seem to be paying them less attention.

The pros: She’s a pro-life conservative reformer from outside Washington, and a woman. The pick signals a boldness and willingness to mix things up that the McCain campaign, like Republicans generally, need.

The cons: Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain's age raised the stakes on this issue. As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama.

Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins. And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)

Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?

(I"m getting my HTML all screwed up. All these bullet points are Ponnuru's, not mine.)

I'd rather look at Governor Palin's lovely face than Hillary's any day. AND, she can reel in a big fish!! What a woman!

The big question... pantsuit or skirt?

Hillary is replaced again...

by the other woman...

The Obama campaign already took a shot at her lack of experience. This is what I hate - WE made experience the issue, for good cause and we undercut it with this pick. Don't say VP picks don't really matter because they do when your prez nominee is in his '70s and is not in perfect health. It was a desperation pick for political bonus points.

The thinking is the same as Bush 41 when he picked Quayle - boomers will vote for him because he's one of them. Women will not voter for Palin just cuz she has ovaries.

Val, why don't you post a link to the acceptance speech video. I haven't been able to see it at all, and has been trying for quite a while.
Plisss!!??

We have a winer!! Great move by McCane.

Duke, spare me. Read my post on Obama's speech which I wrote last night. I've read Obama's economic and tax policy. It's pure unadulterated bullshit. He's raising taxes up the ying yang. And watch it dude, cause you're gonna pay a lot more taxes with that elitist putz as president.

Hey using your definition, then Harry Truman should never have been a veep.

you lefty libs are pathetic whiners. You guys dwell in the malaise. The conservative base will love her. middle America will love her. Middle America is who decides elections, not pointy headed liberal elitist wine sipping hahvahd education socialists shmendricks who use the tax code for social change.

Barry Goldwater once said "liberal assholes, pardon the redundancy."

Read my post and weep. If you buy that shit that obama's selling, I have 3 day old ice for you.

The next time I see you in Publix buying wine, I'll point and laugh.

and another thing, it's a beautiful thing when the lefties are attacking old people and women -- the biggest voting block out there. If you think that obama will win with the 18-21 year old vote, think again; they did not help mcgovern.

Um...twd...the VP is ALWAYS a token choice.

She is a smaller government person. She is conservative on all of the issues. She is a great speaker, strong personality, popular governor, as well as she was a popular mayor. She worked for the past governor. She was my first choice because she is a conservative and young and would bring the party back from where Bush had it stray. We don't need the country club Republicans, those elitists. Let Obama be the elitist. We need conservatism. I think she's going to be great. And I'm just guessing, but I'll bet she'll be good on Cuba.
Honey

Sorry, but the democrat party threw down the "token" card first by crowding in behind Obama ... and ONLY for the "token" reason.

He has nothing else.

drillanwr the One is a cult of personality; lefties are drawn to such figures. I mean when Caroline Kennedy says that Obama is the most inspiring politician since JFK? Puhlease. Maybe since Mussolini, but spare me.

All campaigns are cults of personality: that's part of the narcissism of political campaigns. FDR and Reagan were the most formidable presidents-as-personalities of the last 60 years.

A lot of Obama's policies scare me a bit, frankly. But I'm not sure why you guys aren't more delighted about Obama's eagerness to bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb-bomb Iran, going after Osama in the cave, and tough talk about Georgia. This is right up your alley.

BTW I don't know a single liberal who doesn't think the Kennedys -- all of them -- were a joke. A crew of bootleggers, moll fuckers, Joe McCarthy aides, and reluctant supporters of civil rights. You guys are repeating CNN-FOX NEWS patter.

Gotta love them libs they're at it now.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080829171140.5123i228&show_article=1

If McCain had picked Romney or Pawlenty, then they'd say "he picked another rich white dude" or they'd say he picked another insider.

libs are miserable wretches. Offer a liberal a beautiful woman to sleep with and they'll give you 100 excuses on why she is not good enough. They are like a toxic bacteria that thrives in cow dung.

Hey Duke, if you see me buying wine at publix its cause I'm having liberals over for dinner.

Real men don't order wine at happy hour.

"BTW I don't know a single liberal who doesn't think the Kennedys -- all of them -- were a joke. A crew of bootleggers, moll fuckers, Joe McCarthy aides, and reluctant supporters of civil rights. You guys are repeating CNN-FOX NEWS patter."

You don't get out much, do you?

Hurray!!!!!!!!!

This is what I hate - WE made experience the issue, for good cause and we undercut it with this pick.

*cough* I'll disagree with you. In fact, Palin is better experienced than Obama. Among the highlights

* going moose hunting with her dad at 3 am
* commercial fishing with her husband
* two terms on Wasilla city council
* run on a campaign of cutting taxes to beat the incumbent Wasilla mayor
* beat off a recall campaign by the former mayor and the sheriff
* cut property taxes by 60%
* was elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors
* was appointed as Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission 2003-2004
* resigned that position and filed formal complaints against both Ruedrich and former Alaska Attorney General Gregg Renkes, who both resigned
* ran for governor in 2006 on a clean-government campaign, and upset the incumbent Republican in the primary, only to be outspent by another former governor...and winning
* opposed and helped kill the Bridge to Nowhere

Remind me...what's Obama's claim to fame, again?

Keep all razors and knives away from Hillary Clinton AND keep Bill Clinton away from the new Vice President!

I am extremely happy of the choice. She is a conservative with the guts to play with the big boys. She is smart, well spoken and has more experience than Obama. I can't wait for her debate with Biden, who is such an arrogant fool. I was hoping that she be the choice and I for one yelled and jumped up and down when it was confirmed. Any woman who can get up at 3am to hunt moose, can handle anything they throw at her. She has my vote.

Yes, this answers the question of who will be able to take that 3am call.

Scott, McCain will take the 3am call.

Super Great Choice! But what's even better is the look of surprise on those from the MSM. I loved it!

McCain los cogio fuera de base.

Hoy el viejo metio tremendo jonron.............

"BTW I don't know a single liberal who doesn't think the Kennedys -- all of them -- were a joke. A crew of bootleggers, moll fuckers, Joe McCarthy aides, and reluctant supporters of civil rights. You guys are repeating CNN-FOX NEWS patter."

You don't get out much, do you?

Have to hand it over to you George,

You hit a hole in one with this comment....LOL

Here's the link to her speech:

http://www.breitbart.tv/html/163813.html

Just sit, grab a drink, watch and enjoy her remarks, and afterwards raise a toast in the air.

Have to hand it over to John McCain, he hit a home run way, way over the fence with this pick.

Regardless of what the critics say about her lack of experience, picking Gov. Paulin as his running mate will energize the Republican Party conservative base in ways that John McCain never envisioned and it will take just enough votes in November away from the Democrats in ways that Barack Hussein Obama never expected when he chose Joe Biden as his running mate and bypassed Hillary Clinton.

This is a brilliant move and the more it sinks in the more I see it.

Just watch her her acceptance speech, this lady is something else.

Val said,

Im watching the stream of her acceptance speech. I...I ..I think Im in love.

Me too.......LOL

Scott said,

Keep all razors and knives away from Hillary Clinton AND keep Bill Clinton away from the new Vice President!

LOL.....LOL....LOL....I'm rolling on the ground....LOL

You don't get out much, do you?

Have to hand it over to you George,

You hit a hole in one with this comment....LOL

Yes. The comeback is stunning it its verve and wit. You can hear Westchester rolling with laughter.

Two cliches in one post, and not a single sign that you've ever met a person who parts with party orthodoxy.

If you can stand behind a principle as asinine as "OMG we finally picked someone who's as ignorant about foreign policy -- who didn't know the difference between Sunni and Shi'ia -- as we claimed Barack Obama was! Two wrongs DO make a right!" then you're really living in a fantasy, my friends. This is truly a sign that the two parties and its supporters are meaningless. If anything, this means you guys truly aren't serious about foreign policy -- about electing leaders who understand the complexities of the Middle East. McCain is old. If he dies, do you want someone like Palin as inexperienced as you claim Obama is running the country because she eats moose stew and doesn't believe in abortion?

Two cliches in one post, and not a single sign that you've ever met a person who parts with party orthodoxy.

thinwhiteduke,

Well......for once, how or what do you know that I have(or haven't) ever meet in life?

Please give me a fucking break and cut the stupid crap and think before you write for a change.

Thanks.

Honestly to write something like this is very stupid:

BTW I don't know a single liberal who doesn't think the Kennedys -- all of them -- were a joke. A crew of bootleggers, moll fuckers, Joe McCarthy aides, and reluctant supporters of civil rights.

Because the truth and the fact of the mattter is that liberals to this day (and way too many Americans for that matter) keep the Kennedy legend in the highest pedestal not matter history's reality about the Kennedys myth and if you think that I'm mistaken then you missed the Ted Kennedy tribute at the Democratic Convention.

Is just that plain and simple, many Americans still buy into the Camelott bullshit forty eight years later.

So please give me a fucking break and think before you write so much nonsense.

Thin, and please pardon the profanity, where the fuck are you when the media creams all over itself over Camelot? Over Caroline? Over John Jr.'s death (as though he had been some kind of elected official)? Over Teddy's brain tumor? Over the media's wholesale abdication of its responsibility on the Chappaquiddick story? The Dems L-O-V-E the Kennedys.

Come on man, you're not a blithering idiot, but you sure sound like one.

Thanks George,

You just reinforced the point I was trying to make to Thin.

Hope he gets it this time.

Firstly, don't insult me personally. I've never done the same with you. This is all friendly chat over cafesitos.

You're confusing representation with reality. Americans like glamour, regardless of its political affiliation: do you remember how breathlessly the papers covered Reagan's '80 inauguration, and how Oscar de la Renta designed Nancy's gowns? I'd say that most people under 35 could give a damn about "Camelot" (a word I hate!) other than as a signifier of "cool" and "glamorous."

I continue to say: Kennedy was an overrated president when he wasn't reckless and foolish, and the word is (finally) spreading.

Enjoy your Labor Day weekend. I'm getting crunk. On beer!

Thin,

We're only asking you to think before you write, if you want to take it as an insult is your problem not ours.

I could take as an insult the comment you made earlier to me:

Two cliches in one post, and not a single sign that you've ever met a person who parts with party orthodoxy.

And you know what?

I don't as I have ticker skin than that, yet I had to reply to you on this point to make mine's.

But I hope that George and I made our point clearly to you.

Honestly, sometimes you try to write so much in your posts that I guess you don't reliaze that many of your comments you write don't end up making much sense at all.

One last comment before I break,

Enjoy your Labor Day weekend too.

Please let me add one more thing that I sensed as I heard her acceptance speech.

Sarah Palin is no Dan Quayle and when she starts hitting that campaing trail for the next 60+ days the American people will very quickly learn that fact.

She's the rising star of the Republican Party and I strongly suspect that she will quickly start shinning in ways nobody ever expected it.

I think that the Democrats are in for the shock of their lives.

This Presidential contest has just gotten so much hotter now regardless of the way the MSM is dowplaying Sarah Palin's strengths.

Get ready because is going to get a whole lot better from this point on for the Republicans prospects of winning in November.

Palin's one more good-looking Republican chick with balls.

Bring it on, Dimbulb, I mean, Biden. She's gonna clean your clock.

Gigi,

Believe it or not for what I'm seeing and hearing it looks to me that Sarah Paulin has the looks, the brains, the charisma, the wit and speech ability to clean both Biden and Obama's clocks put in the same room together and McCain knows it very well by now.

By this point, McCain probably understands that she even has a better speaking abilility that he does and will encourage her to go after both Democratic candidates with fury.

The beautiful part of it if that the Democrats are going to be in a tought and ackward spot on how to attack her because they might turn-off even more their remaining chunk of women vote that they still control.

And the only one who has a record to confront Sarah Paulin is Joe Biden and that is a lefty liberal record (that Sarah can jump on it and attack) whether Sarah's short record in office shows a higher accomplishment rate under more difficult odds.

And Obama's record is pale in comparison to Sarah Paulin even if hers is as short as his.

Reality is that by going after the her own currupted GOP party political machine and good old boys network in Alaska (no matter how small the state is, look at the economic importance because of the energy resources) and making meaninful changes to it (as Sarah Paulin did) will score her many points in the campaign weeks to come. Talk about real CHANGE.

The MSM kept talking about Joe Biden being the attack dog and Obama unleashing him, tell you what, the tables will be turned on the Democrats soon enough when Sarah Paulin starts hitting the campaign trail.

I say it again, the Democrats are in for the shock of their lives with Sarah Paulin on the Republican ticket.

Oh...is going to get good from now on...!

And one more thing,

As I heard her energy views, I feel that Sarah Paulin has a better understanding of America's needs for a comprehensive energy policy that she can effectively sell to the American people in ways that a Obama/Biden ticket could never do.

This lady has more brains that those two idiots put together. The only chance they have is to resort to dirty tactics and the use of the MSM in their favor. And that type of campaign can backfire big time for the Democrats when least expected.

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