<p>In my opinion, McCain has just handed the election to Obama-Biden (which I am very happy about!)</p>
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<li>He can no longer attack Obama for lack of experience - Palin has less! There goes the Republican party's number one attack on the Obama campaign.</li>
<li>She doesn't even appeal to pro-Hillary supporters, because she is so violently anti-abortion.</li>
<li>If John McCain dies, which he very well might, he'll put a ridiculously inexperienced person in charge of our entire country - somebody with absolutely ZERO foreign policy experience.</li>
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<p>I think McCain just proved his inability to lead. He can't even pick a decent VP. I would be very, very disappointd if</p>
<p>touche my friend. McCain's one hope was to attack the inexperience of Obama. He can kiss that goodbye. Bring in a women was his secret strategies? Yeah right! Obama is going to win.</p>
<p>Uh oh. This seriously made me laugh out loud when I woke up to it.</p>
<p>And they said Obama was a hypocrite for picking an established VP? McCain is in for a taste of his own medicine from the media.</p>
<p>And I absolutely despise the women who are now going to vote for McCain simply because he has a woman. Sorry but no self-respecting woman should vote against the right to do what she wants with her own body.</p>
<p>"Palin counters Barack Obama's youth-history ticket...having a woman VP is groundbreaking!"</p>
<p>but this woman doesn't give a crap about women. McCain is USING her. She's Dick Cheney with a pretty face and a v*****. REPUBLICANS do NOT support WOMEN in POWER. This is an insult to women.</p>
<p>I am a woman myself, but I would be absolutely DISGUSTED if any woman chose to switch from Hillary to McCain because of Palin. </p>
<p>"Plus, it is way different to have an inexperienced VP than an inexperienced President/CIC"</p>
<p>Well, there's Obama inexperienced (working in the South Side of Chicago as a young man, years as a state senator, editor of the Harvard law review, and, of course, UNITED STATES SENATOR) and then there's Palin inexperienced (mayor of a town of 9,000 and governor of a tiny [population-wise] state). Don't forget, McCain is in his 70s and his health is not great. This woman could go from being the governor of an isolated place to the President of the United States!</p>
<p>Plus, the big deal is that McCain can no longer criticize Obama's inexperienced, because he picked somebody to be his second in command who has half of that. If experience really matters as much as he says, then why pick Palin?</p>
<p>Did anybody else watch her speech and laugh at how much the Republicans applauded when she said "hockey mom?" And before that there was practically a standing ovation when McCain mentioned that her dad had raised her to "succeed at sports."</p>
<p>Guess we know what her real qualifications are, besides a VJJ.</p>
<p>I think it's nice that McCain chose a woman, but why THAT woman? There are so many other Republican women with long resumes and experience/knowledge of the economy/foreign policy/military that might have fit the bill. </p>
<p>I certainly hope no supporter of Hillary will switch over because of this. Hillary had a resume that compared favorably to any of the male candidates, Republican or Democrat. She didn't win in a hard fought primary. But it was hard to question her qualifications.</p>
<p>Sarah Palin.... Alaska... Hmmm. McCain definitely did not do his campaign a favor in choosing her. I'm curious how he's going to back up the choice next week.</p>
<p>It sucks that, if McCain wins (which he shouldn't after this) the first woman in the VP seat will be somebody as dumb, underqualified, and anti-women's rights as Palin. Oh well. It won't happen.</p>
<p>Not sure what in the world McCain was thinking. Perhaps he was being characteristically stubborn and refused to listen to his smarter advisors in choosing a VP. If he really wanted a woman as a VP, he could've gone with Kay Bailey Hutchison, IMO a much more qualified individual for the spot.</p>
<p>Either way, he gets a bunch of PUMAs now. But other than that, probably lost some of those Romney supporters, and turned Dems/Independents to Obama's side. Strategically, a failure. Alaska isn't much of a battleground state either.</p>
<p>I personally think Mccain was playing the minority card, meaning that since having a black nomination for the democratic party was groundbreaking, he's trying to do the same thing with a woman vp. i've never even heard of palin before this!</p>
<p>as for the democratic vice president nomination, my friend pointed out something that i thought was realy funny:
obama biden... osama binladen?</p>