Palin's selection was surely more than one thing, but one prominent thing it definitely was, was to mock people concerned with women's rights, with the added cynical bonus that a few women's rights supporters might actually allow themselves to be "moved" by Palin's selection.  

Palin is very inexperienced and shows little to think she could lead this nation if McCain died in office.  

These kinds of pieces are fun sometimes but they don't help win any independents over to the cause.  

These kinds of pieces are designed to make dems feel superior and alienate republicans.  It would be more helpful to see some pieces on what Palin's strengths might be and how to beat her and McCain given those strengths.  

How do we convince white working class men to vote for Obama and not against Palin?  How do we win over evangelicals?  I think Obama understands this better than Huffington, Pollit, and other less known bloggers and left wingers.  

Actually, the one good thing all these negative pieces do for me is make me feel good about voting for Obama because he is handling it all so well, so far.  

But that doesn't mean I can't recognize that she has the potential of being a potent national political figure.  And was a smart choice for McCain even with her baggage, perhaps because of baggage.

I think some on the left want to destroy her, because they realize even if McCain loses he may be creating a new Republican superstar.

That could be correct thinking.  But I think you have to be careful.  And maybe it would be wise to wait at least a week before deciding on the smartest way to do this.

I find it fascinating that folks have not paid attention to the fact that Obama/Biden has said virtually nothing about Palin.

But as you say, you will not be silenced, no matter what.

Me, I prefer to go after John McCain as he runs for Bush's Third Term.

But I have said enough on this point.

I'll be taking a few days off from the site as, frankly, I am rather bored with the Palin fixation, and the anti- talking about Palin fixation I have been on.

I am hearing from feminists but I am hearing something other than what the liberal-Democratic or conservative Republican media have to say. I am not at liberty to go into details but here's the essence of what I have been told:

The Democratic Party leaders, despite their feminist-friendly agenda, did everything they could to destroy Senator Hillary's candidacy. The fact that she is a standard-bearer for Democratic party values and won eighteen million votes made no difference, not only because she came with "baggage," but because she is a woman. This is why the Hillary-ites are so enraged and distraught. They have seen such behavior before from progressive-radical men and women who have said all the right feminist things (or promised future feminist activism) but turned out to be no different than anyone else in terms of misogyny.    

On the other hand, Senator John's choice of a newcomer and an unknown as his Vice-Presidential pick does not suggest that he understands (as Freud once famously asked) what women or what Hillary's feminist women want. Yes, Palin seems both charming and attractively "kickass" tough; yes, I am already upset by how vicious and sexist the liberal commentators have been about Governor Sarah's candidacy--but c'mon: Would Senator John have picked a male candidate with as little experience on the world stage or does he have different and lower standards for women-only?

Seriously, I believe polar bears belong on the endangered species list and I'm glad they were added.  

It's on PERMANENT ACTIVE DUTY, unlike other Guard units. As governor of Alaska, Palin is briefed on highly classified military issues, homeland security, and counterterrorism. Her exposure to classified material may rival even Biden's.

She's also the commander in chief of the Alaska State Defense Force, ASDF, a federally recognized militia incorporated into Homeland Security's counterterrorism plans. Palin is privy to military and intelligence secrets that are vital to the entire country's defense.
Given Alaska's proximity to Russia, she may have security clearances we don't even know about.

As fun as it is to read the "spin," I like to put my own spin to it.  Frankly, I don't trust either left or right wing blogs to report news accurately.  

Now that I think about it, I don't know why I trust newspapers to report it accurately either...  

If, though, I can make a "meta" comment, I can only say that seeing the rumors about Palin being slobbered over and broadcast as they have been in the liberal blogosphere has brought me to a true nadir in my opinion of their basic morals.

On some level, if people don't grasp that someone can adopt a different ideology from yours and still be a good and decent person, then you've lost some important moral faculty.

I don't know enough about Sarah Palin of course to declare that she is, at base, such a good and decent person. But I can easily envision that she might be. It is entirely possible that she sincerely believes what she believes, and is trying to abide as best she can by the moral principles she holds.

I know such people exist. Even in my own family, I have siblings who could hardly differ more from me in their basic ideology. Yet they are, I think, good people. They love their families, they treat them well, and they try to abide by standards of good, decent, and honest behavior. If I'm honest myself, sometimes, maybe often, they are better at it than I am.

That's one reason I found the instant attacks on Palin so very discouraging and depressing. People knew nothing about her. Yet somehow they also knew that she must be evil, and a great perpetrator of horrible acts, and that the evidence would surely back that up, if only they looked in the right places.

It's truly just sickening to behold this kind of behavior.

So, given that most people here are already solidy on the left, leaning left or just fed up with the GOP, it just seems like the better way to drive home why the GOP is the wrong choice is to go after their platform - what they believe in, what their agenda is, and so on.  

It's kind of the reverse of what you were doing with regard to Obama and Biden - looking past the particulars of the candidates' weaknesses and foibles to see the big picture of what the Democratic agenda is and how much better that would be.  

I have to say that for me, the more specific people are about why Obama and Biden are The Ones, the more apathetic and resistant I feel; when you start going into what it is Democrats want to do, where we stand, how our presence will help and not hurt, I start to think maybe - just maybe - by November I will be able to vote for the Democratic ticket to put Democrats back into government.  I am not voting for McCain, and nobody he could put on as a running mate would get me to do so.

I suspect that the more you personalize this, and make it ant-Palin and anti-McCain, the more you bring out the tendency of people to come to their defense - and I don't think that's your goal.  We've already seen a lot of that - of people feeling they needed to defend Palin from being attacked as a response to the zeal with which you went after her; it seemed way too personal.

Not you by any chance?  :)

This election is asking a simple question: It's been eight years of GOP rule, America.  Are we stupid enough to reward them for what they have done, in the name of whatever principle you want to call it?  Indeed, will we be stoopid enough to facilitate more of it?  How many will die this time if we do?    

Relate experience and common sense to when the flight attendant is going through the speech before take-off! When they get to the part of if oxygen is low, the oxygen masks will drop and provide oxygen to everyone.  Well "Experience" says, rather than putting my mask on my face first and then help out my partner if needed, I'll help them out as I struggle for air.  Whereas, "Common Sense" says, put my mask on first, and then help out my partner.  You're only as much help to others as you are to yourself.  You can never give more to others than you can to yourself.  Sarah Palin is probably a wonderful person, but to sit there and ride the "Experience" train, the same train George Bush rode on is totally OUTRAGEOUS!

It is time for the USA to stand up and say, no more GEORGENOMICS! We have to change the way we treat other countries and not have a "MAVERICK and his Pit bull with Lipstick" with a fully loaded gun ready to invade every country that sneezes. Foreign Policy nowadays are more crucial to the success of our country that we have done nothing in the past 8 years but CONTINUALLY DISTANCED ourselves from these other countries that we have to deal with.  IT'S TIME FOR CHANGE!

If we cannot accept CHANGE, then why even bother having a Democracy?  The reason why no other countries really respect us is because we put on this facade as if we are the KINGS OF THE UNIVERSE! We want every other country to follow us, yet our national debt has increased more than any other administration because your, "Experienced" George Bush put us there. So now, you want other countries to follow our trend of take care of others, before you take care of home???? That's a mind-boggling affirmation!