There she is. Call me a big old sap, but looking at that Palin family, including little Trig Palin, the Down syndrome baby that Sarah Palin could have aborted, but chose to welcome into this world in April, brings me to tears.
UPDATE: In his intro of her, McCain hit on two themes: that she's a reformer, and that she's a soccer-mom sort who can related to ordinary people.
Palin: "A ship in a harbor is safe. But that's not why a ship is built." Good line, given the risk McCain took in picking her.
I've never heard her speak, but I gotta say that it doesn't look like Sarah Palin is going to be a pushover by any stretch.
UPDATE.2: I hadn't realized that Palin's oldest son is in the Army, and is deploying to Iraq. Both Republican nominees, then, have children serving on active duty (as does Joe Biden; his son Beau was just activated to go to Iraq).
UPDATE.3: She just praised Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Rodham Clinton. Ha! She made a blatant bid for the Clinton supporters' votes, saying that HRC put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling, and by voting Palin, they could break on through once and for all. Smart, smart, smart.
UPDATE.4: OK, speech over. I'm more impressed by this pick now than I was one hour ago. What a fascinating race we're going to have this fall.
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Palin isn't a bad pick. Executive experience, pro-life, nice family and all that. The Obama people are going to get hives trying to find a way to mess with her. The VP debate might yet be of some small interest.
I'm still not going to vote for McCain (I'm still deciding between Baldwin and Barr), but in my opinion, he certainly didn't hurt himself.
Your servant,
Lord Karth
there's a female U.S. Senator from Alaska who has more qualifications to be Veep
Daniel, are you even trying to be serious here?
Lisa Murkowski is the daughter and hand-picked successor of the corrupt Frank Murkowski. Her deeply unpopular appointment to the Senate was partly responsible for Palin's stunning upset of Frank in the gubernatorial primary.
The Murkowsis are of a piece with Ted Stevens and Don Young. Pork Barrell establishment Republicans opposed to everything John McCain and Sarah Palin stand for.
One of favorite actions by Governor Palin was when she ended the elder Murkowsi's career, then had the state government sell his opulent jet on ebay.
"But please -- please! -- keep talking about Governor Palin's lack of foreign policy experience. That argument boils down to this: Experience is a crucial pre-requisite for anyone who wants to be Vice President, but not at all necessary for a President."
Well, if experience is important for someone running for President, then it should also be important for someone running for VP behind a septuagenarian Presidential candidate with undisclosed health issues.
Face it, the GOP just lost one of their biggest weapons against Obama...experience. Every time they mention Obama's experience now people will be wondering, "but what if McCain dies in office?"
I think they may also have lost the Rezko issue as well, especially if the Democrats are successful in tying her to the corruption investigations elsewhere in the Alaskan GOP. Face it, Alaskan GOP politics is starting to look almost as bad as Illinois Democrats. If there are some revelations about Stevens that touch other state officeholders, we might find out that she has an incredibly thin heat shield between her and those she has been allegedly trying to reform.
But she makes for good theater...former beauty queen, nice family, small town roots. Cindy McCain had best be watching her closely.
Sarah supported BUCHANAN after his scarrey Culture warrior speech in 92, and has an ad of Ted Stevens endorsing her. She is a creationist, and denies women the right to an abortion, even for rape and incest victims.
This is ULTRA UBER conservative
stick a fork in her
"Daniel, are you even trying to be serious here?"
From an objective, resume perspective, Murkoewski is more qualified. She's been in the Senate for six years, sits on the Foreign Relationship committee, has a graduate degress in Economics and a law degree. Objectively, that's more qualified.
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