And congratulations to the Governor and her family. This is quite an honor.

with this ticket. McCain-Palin 2008!

Well, my first donation to the campaign is getting ready to be mailed out after this pick. And to think I was depressed about Pawlenty last night-that was a nice bait and switch!

I have always held a pro-woman VP pick this year. It just makes so much sense to create a bigger “history” splash then Obama.

And she fishes. nuff said!

Er…not so sure about this one. Palin? She is NOT ready to be President of my country. I’m sorry, just not. This isn’t smart–it’s obviously political. And it doesn’t even seem politically strategic. She’s supposed to debate Biden? Shoulda at least been Pawlenty,

I kid, I kid. Seriously, massive credit to McCain & Co. for running a great counterintelligence campaign on the Veepstakes. First we were all convinced it was Romney, then we all thought it might Lieberman, then we all KNEW it was Pawlenty, and all the while Palin snuck in under our noses. Way to dominate the news cycle, Johnny Mac!

I’m very excited about this pick. I worry about the “experience” thing but I think it’s not the big deal people are making it out to be. Obama is still a tyro running for prez compared to McCain. Additionally, I think that Biden won’t be able to really beat up on Palin in the debate without looking like a real jerk.

She puts the drilling issue in the front of the campaign.

She siphons off even more of the disaffected Hillary voters from Obama.

She is strongly pro life and is a sharp contrast to the pro-abortionists on the Dem ticket.

She is strongly conservative which demonstrates that McCain hasn’t turned his back on the conservative base. They will be fired up and excited. Donations will be through the roof.

Did I mention that McCain is a genius?

A right wing, elk hunting, mother of 5, Catholic, with Chief Executive experience. How does Hillary criticize this woman?

This SoCon is reserving judgment until I hear where she stands on Life.

This is a homerun in oh so many ways.

Already the media has fallen into the trap of comparing our VP candidates experience with their presidential candidate.

Biden must feel like he just got castrated, LOL.

Yes!!!!

Dilutes the experience brand, but threads the needle exactly. Acceptable to moderates but strongly pro-life? Check. Reform Cred? Check. Good on energy policy? Check, and perceived as anti-oil industry to boot. Historic choice? Check. Puts team McCain solidly into a weekend news cycle that should be all-Obama-all-the-time? Check.

Yes, she’s a newcomer and a risk. Joe Biden might eat her alive at the debates (or not). But McCain didn’t forget that he’s still the underdog, polls notwithstanding, and made a good, bold move.

….with a woman in my office. This woman is conservative and a loyal Republican voter who will still vote for McCain nonetheless, but she thinks Palin is a mistake. She says that she’s a woman and she worries about a woman making a decision based on emotions during a crisis situation.

Me personally, I like the pick, although it sends a signal that McCain felt like he needed a game changer.

I think we just clinched it.

And guess what?

He is absolutely correct!

It would be Pawlenty. I am so juiced with this pick. This is going to drive the lib’s further over the edge. Watch out for exploding heads.

Outstanding pick, go JMac

She has less experience then Obama and Governor of Alaska? There are not many people there.

All that said I am diehard Republican and will be up for my party all the time

Or to borrow from that scamp Dean:
Yeeeeaaaarrrrrrggghhhhhh!!!!

Cantor, pfft! Don’t you feel silly.

I said McCain would reinforce his maverick proclivities with this pick. You guys went with your heart not your head.

I must say given her gender and political leanings, this is an exciting time. Women in my family that have never voted, have now said they will vote the McCain-Palin ticket!

This is a huge mistake, it will undercut many things McCain has said about Obama with regard experience, foreign policy, etc.

Huge mistake, I am sorely disappointed. I will vote for McCain, but I have no great expectations of a win here.

I am so pumped! I never thought she’d be seriously considered, there was no leaks of her name even being on the short list beyond the cursory list. Great job by the McCain team on message management!

Maybe Zoot agrees. I can’t see her as anything other than an affirmative action pick. I’m not putting Mrs. Palin down personally, but she doesn’t have the experience and accomplishments that have been demanded from everyone else.

Her conservatism is good as well as her pro-life and energy stances, but there are 45 million other people in the US that hold the same views.

With Sanford, Pawlenty, Romney, Cox, even Fred (although we knew there was no chance), I can’t see where she was the best pick for anything other than identity politics.

I have been waiting for. Go McCain/Palin!

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Biden, check. Palin, checkmate.

The Beauty of Sarah Palin

But I must admit that I didn’t think McCain had the smarts to do this. I knew he had the stones to do it, but not the smarts.

Well done, Senator McCain. You just stole their thunder!

- JP

She’s brave and principled. She stands up to the powers that be, and goes against stuff like earmarks.

I guess that’s going to be the theme of McCain’s campaign, because experience is gone as an issue.

I have been waiting for. Go McCain/Palin!

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Gov Palin’s nomination completely undermines the message of the last 3 months that claimed that Obama didn’t have the resume or the experience. She’s not going to win Hillary voters because Hillary voters are pro-choice.

I’ve seen her speak before and she is bright and feisty but Biden will kill her in any foreign policy debate.

However, given the other options for Sen. McCain, this was probably his best choice. The bottom line is that we will have to depend on the top of the ticket to carry the weight in this election and hope that Palin doesn’t make any major mistakes.

This will really be fun.

Great pick by McCain, everything was riding on this and he hit it out of the park.
I was a mjor Huckabee supporter and voluteer and this pick will regenerate a lot of that Huckabee ground swell.
(It even got me to peek in on RedState which I haven’t done in months!)

She’s a scrapper and is not imtimadated easily. Mother of 5 give that woman a medal!

Lord, hear my prayer: let the Dems attack her as being unqualified and/or an affirmative action choice.

Please.

Good job, Team McCain.

Don’t remember when so many here at Redstate have been in so much agreement. Yes, I see we have some doubting Thomases out there but, all in all, looks like an unusually large percent of Republicans like this pick.

Tells me John McCain is on top of his game.

They bit!! They are deep into comparing Palin and…. Obama!! Got to love it. They are resorting to calling it indicative of John McCain’s lack of judgment.

No glass ceiling in the GOP!!!

He has experience as a “community organizer” (with questionable ties).

She has experience as a chief executive.

He has experience in Washington but calls himself an outsider.

She is as much outside of Washington as one could possibly be in every facet of her experience.

He has experience in playing the game of corrupt Chicago politics.

She has experience breaking up corrupt good old boy networks.

He has experience fighting for killing of botched abortion babies and the birth of his perfectly healthy kids.

She has experience dealing with having to decide whether to kill her extra chromosome baby or to give birth to it.

Yeah, this takes all experience questions off the table.

“Fortune favors the bold”

I am far less nervous about november than I was just an hour ago. I can’t wait to see the VP debates. I probably would have skipped them if it had just been two “old white guys” reciting talking points. Fox news just said “the landscape in Alaska is riddled with corpses” of her political opponents. I guess she is pretty tough.

This is a terrible pick! An inexperienced woman one heartbeat away from the presidency! How could McCain throw away his experience argument like that? Her conservative credentials aren’t enough. He’s pandering to Clinton supporters, but it won’t be enough. He’s thrown this one away.

I’m glad McCain went for one of the new guard and not the old; someone who can tear through BHO’s ‘change’ like a hot knife through butter.

Hillary is coming for Palin. They will send Hillary to do the attacking and she will do it because she doesn’t want anyone else possibly being the first female President besides her. Kay Bailey would have been better if McCain was going to pick a woman.

The argument against affirmative action is that it places non- or marginally qualified women and Minority candidates and prefers them over more qualified White and male candidates. Frankly, this is the definition of Sarah Palin’s pick.

Yes, Sarah Palin has many good qualities. But as loath as many of you may be willing to admit it, just about every affirmative action choice has many good qualities. The real question is, are they the most qualified?

And quite frankly, Sarah Palin is not the most qualified to be the Vice President of the United States.

Personally, I am still very much opposed to affirmative action. And I am not going to be a hypocrite and make excuses for it when it happens on “our side.”

Don’t ever, ever, ever complain about affirmative action again!

Could it be that we have the first female VP and a Cubs World Series win all in the same year? Holy Cow! I am beside myself with glee right now (that in spite of working for 36 hours straight!) I almost need a cigarette…

Johnny Mac is THE MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go!!!!! McCain/Palin ’08

YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!

Barack Hopey Changey Obama my $#@. McCain is my hope for change.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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I just looked up her bio on Wikipedia. Please tell me that’s she wasn’t runner up as Miss Alaska! There goes the whole Obama as celebrity meme. The more I know about her, the worse this pick gets. If it wasn’t 10:30 am here, I would go get myself a drink.

I had always assumed that she was not experienced enough to be on the short list. But on second thought, if Obama attacks her on inexperience, he is making the election about experience. That would elect McCain.

Plus, this makes it much harder to call McCain a Bush III. They will run as maverick reformers, and I think it will work.

May have just been coined by FOX.

vindictive, hateful old man if he tries to attack her during a debate.

And I’ll bet a $100000000000000 he won’t be able to help but to condescend to her.

John McCain is a genius. And what a secret keeper!!!!! He managed to keep this a secret until the very last second and release it in time to be ALL the talk at the water cooler, Friday night news, weekend news. The whole ball of wax.

It makes Big O look like that much more of a loser.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
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Pro-life, pro-gun, pro-family! What can Obama/Biden say about her experience? NOTHING! Why do you think there was very little “house talk” coming out from Obama regarding McCains house comment? It was because he has his own “house” issues. McCain just took the wind out of the windbags Obama/Biden campaign. Masterful!

I can’t tell you how many of my moderate liberal friends were waiting for a Lieberman pick… But what keeps them on the fence isn’t whether or not John McCain will be more moderate than conservative it is… “McCain seems to have lost his Maverick edge…” without getting into the pyschology of basing candidate effectiveness on stigma… this pick may cause moderates, especially the HRC moderates to swing GOP.

I think this pick shows that McCain doesn’t think he’s going anywhere but to the whitehouse for 8 years to do things the way he knows how…his way.

Incredible the tight-lipped organization… McCain has GREAT people.

Palin as the VP changes the dynamic of the media attacks that can be levied…

How will they respond to this? We know they’ll use rhetoric to explain how they’re not hypocritical for being critical of a Woman who can balance family and career…

To Gov. Palin… congratulations, and We wish you a long a prosperous career in the GOP.

Go McCain/Palin ’08!

This pick brilliantly undermines Obama’s message of “Change we can believe in.” Who does he pick for VP, but the old white DEM hack that has been in the senate for 38 years…whose son is paid big bucks to lobby his dad.

Yet, McCain bein a man of action and not “just words” actually picks the “baracuda”…the young and beautiful female govenor from Alaska that could not be more of an outsider.

in a good way. This changes everything.

I tried really hard to like/trust/vote for Obama but there are just too many holes in his resume. And, his choice of Biden left me nonplussed.

I was prepared to yawn at Romney as the VP choice, as I was only lukewarm to McCain at best. But, I am truly excited about a McCain/Palin ticket. I’m an independent/swing voter and I think I have just been won over by the RNC.

Great choice…

You have seen the light! congrats!! Obama’s resume is empty. And his judgement his terrible.

She beats Obama in so many of this year’s hot issues:
Experience in energy policy.
Revealing his monstrous BAIPA stand.
GOVERNING a state.
DC Outsider.
And the list goes on…

She is so pro-life that I can’t see her as someone intended to pander to female Hillary voters.

Thank you Senator McCain for reaching out to the base. Will call the county GOP office today to confirm my willingness to volunteer.

Good move, Dems. Insult all the small towns in America by implying there is something wrong with having roots in a small town. I guess she is one of those people clinging to her guns and religion that Obama thinks very little of.

has to be scambling to come up with an ad to attack her. hahahahah. They’ll look like meanies and sexist,no matter how they spin this they did with Hillary.

The best they can do is WHO?

You got it Maggie…It is a masterful pick!

Was that really the Babewatch Baywatch theme song playing when he entered the arena?

nt

signs at McCain rally! So good to see!

Palin hitting HR in speech!!..AWESOME!

after Palin’s speech. Conservative’s like myself have to be delighted at the choice of Palin. I apologize for gushing on this topic. I really do think she hit a HR-hell a Grand Slam with her speech today

nt

Almost

Great pick by McCain, everything was riding on this and he hit it out of the park.
I was a mjor Huckabee supporter and voluteer and this pick will regenerate a lot of that Huckabee ground swell.
(It even got me to peek in on RedState which I haven’t done in months!)

I didn’t know Sarah Palin’s story and position well at all. She’s amazing.

This is a great pick for the McCain campaign. My donation will be heading out tonight.

BTW, something people aren’t talking about much… based on what I’m seeing and reading of her…

Palin/Jindal could be the dream ticket for Republicans come 2012.

Especially against the Hillary/X ticket.

If McCain just goes the one term, as he very well may, having Sarah Palin with four years in the White House as the VP (in the modern post-Cheney era, the VP is an important position) could be a wonderful thing for us.

This is a fantastic choice by McCain.

-TS

Mavrick McCain has a new backseater…

Barracuda Palin!

(Talk to me ‘Cuda)

The Dem’s don’t know what just hit them. By now they must be feeling like the dog that caught the car, instead of just chasing it!

I’ve been waiting for something like this to happen. Go back a few decades to the Gipper & Prime Minister Thatcher. That was a good pair. Now we have a chance to pull it all together in one country under one party.

I confess I don’t know much about Gov. Palin, but if they call her the barracuda she gets my vote for knocking over someones sandbox.

Sen. Fred is up to something come this Monday also.

Have the R’s finally took note and decided to get very serious? This has the potential of something very, very interesting.