Anyone who is paying attention recognizes that this woman has changed the status quo. Her presence alone has aroused undecided, independent and Conservative voters. I have many Pro-Obama friends who also have reacted positively to this woman. And why not? Here are just three reasons:
a.- She is a woman, and America is ready for a woman President. Too bad they decided to ‘play the Obama card’ despite Hillary’s 18 million votes. Many people are not happy with that decision. And many feel that Hillary should have been at least the VP on the ticket. A strong minority is really PO after the fact that the Obama camp did not even ‘Vet’ Hillary. Do not underestimate the punishment women can return to those who have sold them out.
b.- Palin has REAL accomplishments. This rapidly contrast with Obama’s lack of any real one. Moreover, this fact rekindles that ‘feeling of unfairness’ many Democrats have in their mouth even as they chant UNITY!
c.- Palin represents CHANGE. That is her trademark and she’s got the ‘REAL’ goods to show it. On the other hand Obama says he is for CHANGE, but then he goes and picks Biden as his running mate: Biden is a Washington insider with Status Quo written in his DNA.
So…it it at all surprising ???? I think not.

Illegal war against Iraq? Palin is unfit as a mother, unfit as a wife why bill clinton will look better after her.

SHE SURE DOES HAVE THE GOODS TO PROVE WHAT TYPE OF CHANGE SHE REPRESENTS. I am so happy for more than one source of information that is available on her. And anyone who touts her as the agent of CHANGE (now even McCain-Palin-McCain has jumped on the bandwagon of Obama’s ideas and platform)is obviously closed to the truth about Sarah Palin, which is why she is being protected from the press so that they won’t ask her “mean” questions.

From the moment I read about Governor Palin and heard her speak, I realized I was looking at a future President of the United States of America!!!!

Palin represents arrogant know-it-all snarkyness.
I haven’t heard anything else. Granted she didn’t write the speech, and all she has said is the speech and then escerpts from the speech.
Perhaps if she spoke her own lines they would be less snarkey?

Palin’s political career shows that she is adept at introducing polarizing, contentious issues for the purpose of dividing people and creating conflict. Then she moves in taking advantage of the conflict. Sound familiar?
The cynical part of it is that the conflict she created was irrelevent to the political campaign she was in. One of the conflict issues she used in her Mayoral campaign was Choice vs anti-Choice. Abortion is not an issue decided at the Mayoral level, so it was truely irrelevent, but it worked.
Move over Carl Rove, someone’s been studying your play book.

High favorables three days after giving her coming-out speech and only a week after entering the national stage aren’t surprising for a barrier-breaking candidate. The larger question is whether these numbers will go up or down. My bet is that she has seen her highest approvals. It is inevitable–give the way she was debuted–that her favorables are going to drop once they no more about her beyond what she said in a coronation speech in front of a partisan crowd.
If the Democrats had picked some unknown like Brian Schweitzer, for instance, his favorables would likely be quite high if his initial debut went well.

Michael,
Interesting and provocative theory. Wonder if there’s historical precedent of largely unknown veep picks whose favorability plunges after a few weeks?
For today, her favorables are still sky-high. Gallup’s daily tracking poll has McCain moving ahead of Obama, with more support than at anytime in the last three months.

We, my husband and I are born-again believers and registered lifetime Republicans. We’ve recently come to realize and believe that GOD has written HIS LAWS on the hearts of mankind: Romans 2:14-15, and also that HE gives choice in our spirits, hearts and souls, and bodies; i.e.: the two trees in the garden of Eden. Of course GOD could have made it mandatory to serve HIM, but HE wants us to have the CHOICE to make that decision. Choice is an inalienable RIGHT given to us from GOD. Man cannot create a law that would make us moral or immoral, that’s a choice that only we can make as individuals between GOD and all of us, separately and independently. Choice, like gravity, has always existed and will always exist – it is a law of GOD. Attempts to legislate morality are moot.

What so-called pundits fail to understand, is that irrespective on each individuals political position on abortion, a person who champions life (such as Palin), will be liked far more than a person who voted three times that it was OK to kill a baby that survived an abortion (such as OBama). Think about that baby for a second, instead of just your political view, whatever they are. These babies cried themselves to death, alone in Chicago Hospitals while Obama voted against a bill to stop the practice. Just try to justify this inhumanity to me.

Lucia,
Way to make a boneheaded statement. By your reasoning we should get rid of all laws then…? How about in Matthew 22, where we are commanded by Christ to pay our taxes honestly? Or in Romans 13 where Paul writes that we should obey the governments authority over us? The only times that we should disobey is when the government places a law that is evil or unjust (such as legalizing abortion) over us, read Acts 4 and 5. You need to get your Bible out and do some closer reading my friend.

Lucia…
Choice is neither good nor evil. It is the action you choose that determines the moral qualification of the choice you make.
If you choose to oppose Slavery, that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. If you choose to have slaves and to consider Black people as ‘non-humans’ that is a bad choice, because all individuals are equal, regardless of their skin color. No sector of society can take that way: it doesn’t matter what rationale that sector of society followed to conclude otherwise. If you are a human individual you are entitled to the same rights as all the rest, period. It did not even matter if the Constitution supported their claim (as in Dred Scott v. Sandford). Those evil laws were overturned. We evolved.
If you choose to oppose the Nazi regime, that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. If you choose to exterminate Jews and to constitutionally declare that those individuals are ‘non- humans’, that is a bad choice. The reason is the same: all individuals are equal, and it doesn’t matter if they are not Aryan or have a different religion. They are human individuals: that is all that matters. No sector of society can take that way. If you are a human individual you are entitled to the same rights as all the rest. It did not matter if laws were enacted to support their claim (such as the Reich Citizenship Law). Those evil laws were overturned. We evolved.
If you choose to oppose Abortion,that is a good choice. The reason is that all individuals are equal. Not a single scientist today would deny that the human embryo (from implantation onwards) is an individual from the Human Species. The process of development doesn’t make an embryo -or a fetus- more human, it just make him/her more developed. Consciousness is not a measure of humanity: if that was so, my patients under anesthesia would loose their rights! If you choose to support Abortion (which is what being pro-Choice really means), and to consider unborn human individuals as non-humans, that is a bad choice. Again this is because all individuals are equal. No sector of society can take that way. ALL Human individual are entitled to the same rights. It doesn’t matter if the Constitution (for the moment) supports abortion (as in the Roe v. Wade decision). One day that evil decision will be overturned. We evolved.
The problem here is that you, as many other Americans, have not been informed about the human embryo. You have been fed the ‘doctrine’ that emanates from Planned Parenthood. This is why you think being Pro-Choice is something civilized.
As our fathers before, we affirm that ALL individuals are equal…Do you?

I don’t care if Palin is a woman, a man or a transexual:
“You can’t fight religious extremists in the Middle East when you elect them in the Midwest”.