I chose OMFG, What?

Because seriously, secessionists who think foreign policy experience is having Japanese tourists visit your house and preach abstinence while neither she nor her daughter waited until marriage to get pregnant as a teen deserve to be listened to seriously.

McCain screwed the pooch.

And after the debacle this morning on CNBC where the Radical Bushies wouldn't answer direct questions about Palin by conservative journalists ... they've lost their last supporters.

It's all about judgment - that and competence and fiscal prudence - and the GOP has none of those.

The only problem McCain has is trying to convince them that they're not voting for Palin for President.

I wanted to vote for, "MY GOD HER VOICE IS ANNOYING."

Clearly, *we* will all be saying OMFG, but the republicans and the media will say she killed it. She can read a teleprompter (she used to be a sports anchor) and will be cheered on like crazy by the people in the room. I fully expect to be horrified (by the content), but I expect her to give a strong speech.

I will vote after you define who "they" are. "All of the above" should be a choice.

I second #3. Having already sampled her voice, I may not even watch the speech and might elect to read the transcript later.

I'm John McCain, and I approve of Sarah Palin's hot fundie booty.

Matter of fact, in my mind, I'm groping it right now.

And no, I don't feel like letting it go.

When I was a child I day-dreamed about witnessing the Fall of Rome. Now I get to watch an empire fall in real-time. It is less romantic than I imagined.

It won't matter what she says, to this crowd, they are very biased.

She will astonish her party and western states women and evangelical all over the USA.

If she comes to Washington to help Rossi, Gregoire is doomed.

Seattle pinko commies will be howling into the wind thru election night.

I think Obama will still win, but the game is much tighter and will be razor close. If he wins, he should dump Biden at the end of one term.

Hillary vs. Palin - who would have thought. And of course each will choose a woman for VP - old boys run for cover.

Her screeching voice - how insightful. I thought it was her choice in shoes and Kotex that mattered most.

I'm betting most people don't catch the Eagleton comparison right away, but it makes a lot of sense. Eagleton was McGovern's initial VP pick in '72, after all the dudes he wanted (Kennedy, Mondale, et al) declined. Then it came out that Eagleton had had shock therapy, and the media never really let it go. Eagleton withdrew, and McGovern picked someone else. Ultimately McGovern lost, party due to doubts about his judgment, based on his quick-pick of Eagleton in the first place.

She'll give a "good" speech, FOX and Drudge and the Republicans will say she hit it out of the park, and MSNBC and Huffington will compare her to Eagleton. The middle-left media will probably continue to let themselves be cowed by the Republican charges of liberal bias and sexism. At that point, it will be up to non-traditional news sites to keep Palin's questionable record and McCain's questionable judgment alive.

I have hope.

The repubs will eat it up. You all know it. It's gross and wrong, but hey...they thought about our convention*.

*Still, I am very concerned.

I have never in my life been so eager to hear a Republican speak.

I can't WAIT!!!!!!

Mc Govern never had a chance in hell to be elected.

He was the war protest candidate, Mr. Peace-nik.

But, yes, 1972 values were still mired in the 1880's in many ways, mental health issues one of them. It is a sad comment on how backward the USA was in that era just 30 plus years ago.

@3 for the well-deserved win.

Can you imagine her voice in your face for four years?

Nuh uh.

You gotta wonder: if Yukon Barbie were a Dem, would Mary Matalin be warning us about "another bambino eruption?"

I sure hope she mentions how she believes taht a kid raped by her uncle should be forced to have the baby! Good old fashioned Family Values, yesirree!

I sure hope she mentions how she believes that a kid raped by her uncle should be forced to have the baby! Good old fashioned Family Values, yesirree!

Who's "they?" The Rs will be saying she was great. The media will be saying, "huh?" But I think Levi needs to start stretching and find a safe house to hide away.

Y'all are way too optimistic. Even the trolls.

1. She'll give a great speech.
2. The media narrative will shift more positive, enough to keep McCain in the race, not far enough to counter the right-wing sense of victimhood.
3. That victimhood and outrage will cause other Obama smears to finally gain real traction.
4. All of this together will fire up the base very effectively ("they stole the election!") for the real game: preventing anything from getting accomplished in the Obama presidency.

Why no Biden stories?

Where is he?

What has he been saying?

Why the press black out on Biden?

"Yukon Barbie"

I ROFL'd - you win!

@ 20: keee-rist you are thick, and by thick I mean a dumbass tool. Biden has been vetted and your whacked out muffintop Sarah wasn't, so it is being done now.

& once again slowly so as you understand "vet-ted".

Biden is so old news - how can the media write more than one story?

I voted OMFG too, for the same reasons. This woman has NO qualifications. Choosing her was an act of rank sexism: if she was a man, McCain never would have given her a second look, because her qualifications are virtually non-existent. As a female swing voter, I cannot tell you how insulted I am that McCain figured I'd vote for a completely unqualified person just because she has a pair of boobs like me. I worried about voting for Obama because of HIS lack of experience. Now he's definitely got my vote because if John McCain won, I'd spend the next four days in terror that he'd die and we'd have a vastly unqualified "hockey mom" in the White House. Suddenly Obama's meager experience looks DAMN good!

I have to agree with 24. McCain lost my vote with this VP pick. I'm an independent...I've been waiting to see who the VP picks would be so that I could better inform my decision. I was never comfortable with Obama's experience and have been more than a little concerned with McCain's age. I was leaning more towards McCain though, because of the "devil known better than the devil unknown" thing, but this VP pick is of concern. I keep having images of McCain choking on a bone and "rootin tootin mama" at the helm. Also, I don't care what anybody says (and I was raised in the "you can have it all" 80's) there is no way in hell this woman can manage the number 2 position in the world and run a household with 5 kids! I've learned the hard way that sooner or later somethings gotta give and usually that's your sanity or your family. Sorry Sarah, that's just the way it is....

I have to agree with 24. McCain lost my vote with this VP pick. I'm an independent...I've been waiting to see who the VP picks would be so that I could better inform my decision. I was never comfortable with Obama's experience and have been more than a little concerned with McCain's age. I was leaning more towards McCain though, because of the "devil known better than the devil unknown" thing, but this VP pick is of concern. I keep having images of McCain choking on a bone and "rootin tootin mama" at the helm. Also, I don't care what anybody says (and I was raised in the "you can have it all" 80's) there is no way in hell this woman can manage the number 2 position in the world and run a household with 5 kids! I've learned the hard way that sooner or later somethings gotta give and usually that's your sanity or your family. Sorry Sarah, that's just the way it is....

I have to agree with 24. McCain lost my vote with this VP pick. I'm an independent...I've been waiting to see who the VP picks would be so that I could better inform my decision. I was never comfortable with Obama's experience and have been more than a little concerned with McCain's age. I was leaning more towards McCain though, because of the "devil known better than the devil unknown" thing, but this VP pick is of concern. I keep having images of McCain choking on a bone and "rootin tootin mama" at the helm. Also, I don't care what anybody says (and I was raised in the "you can have it all" 80's) there is no way in hell this woman can manage the number 2 position in the world and run a household with 5 kids! I've learned the hard way that sooner or later somethings gotta give and usually that's your sanity or your family. Sorry Sarah, that's just the way it is....

McCain cannot have vetted Palin very well. The small town where she was mayor is known for its meth labs. She was more concerned about breaking up home gambling events than using the same manpower to rid the town of drugs. She also wanted to ban books from the local library. She left the town in debt.

All this talk of the liberals being sexist is a joke. Listen to what Rush Limbaugh has had to say about Governor Palin. As for the "leave her kids alone" rant, how short can our political memories be. It was GOP operatives who ran a racist smear against McCain in 2000 concerning his adopted daugher saying he had fathered an illegitimate black child. McCain himself also has something of a foul mouth. He was the one who disparaged Chelsey Clinton's appearance. True, he later apologized, but he has a problem with impulse control.