McCain VP: Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Interesting; thoughts anyone?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080829/...cvn_veepstakes

"McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P.

By LIZ SIDOTI and BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writers 7 minutes ago

DAYTON, Ohio - John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, a conservative who shares his maverick streak, as his vice presidential running mate on Friday in a startling selection on the eve of the Republican National Convention.


At a raucous rally in the swing state of Ohio, McCain said he made his pick after looking for a political partner "who can best help me shake up Washington and make it start working again for the people who are counting on us."
McCain said that Palin was "exactly who I need. She's exactly who this country needs to help us fight the same old Washington politics of me first and country second."
Palin thus became the first woman named to a spot on a Republican ticket. "I am honored," she said as she stood by a beaming McCain in her first few seconds in the national spotlight.
In a fast-developing presidential campaign, McCain made his selection six days after his Democratic rival Barack Obama, named Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, as his running mate.
The contrast between the two announcements was remarkable — Obama picked an older running mate, and a man whom he said at the outset was qualified to be president.
McCain chose Palin, a generation younger than he is, and a governor less than two years, and made no such claim about her readiness to sit in the Oval Office.
Unlike Biden, who attacked McCain sharply in his debut last week, Palin was indirect in her initial attemps to elevate McCain over Obama.
"There is only one candidate who has truly fought for America and that man is John McCain," she said as McCain beamed. The Arizona senator was a prisoner of war for more than five years in Vietnam.
Palin has a strong anti-abortion record, and her selection was praised warmly by social conservatives whose support Mccain needs to prevail in the campaign for the White House.
"It's an absolutely brilliant choice," said Mathew Staver, dean of Liberty University school of Law. "This will absolutely energize Mccain's campaign and energize conservatives," he predicted.
With his pick, McCain passed over more prominent contenders like Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, as well as others such for former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge, whose support for abortion rights might have sparked unrest at the convention that opens Monday in St. Paul, Minn.
The timing of McCain's selection appeared designed to limit any political gain Obama derives from his own convention, which ended Thursday night with his nominating acceptance speech before an estimated 84,000 in Invesco Field in Colorado.
Public opinion polls show a close race between Obama and McCain, and with scarcely two months remaining until the election, neither contender can allow the other to jump out to a big post-convention lead.
At 44, Palin is a generation younger than two of McCain's seven children. She also is considerably younger than Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, who is Barack Obama's running mate on the Democratic ticket.
She is three years Obama's junior, as well — and McCain has made much in recent weeks of Obama's relative lack of experience in foreign policy and defense matters..."

Interesting pick, McSame is trying to get the female vote(Hillary Supporters), but Palin is not close to being Hillary Clinton. Women are much smarter then to pick a female just base on gender, plus why would Hillary Supporters(Democrats) vote for a conservative that is against Clinton political values?

This was a huge risk from McBush camp that won't help his campaign at all.
The debates are going to be interesting and Biden better not take it easy on her.
McBush can't talk about Obama's inexperience no more.

I can not wait for vice presidential debate Biden will dominate on every level.

Is anyone else really happy with this?

For awhile I thought it was going to be anti-DREAM Pawlenty or Romney.

She's from Alaska and probably has a libertarian streak about immigration. We'll wait until the VP debate to know for sure.

McCain's old and we need a pro-DREAM candidate in there all four years no matter what happens in November. So I'm pleased.

^ Yes because Alaska Sen. Stevens and Sen. Murkowski voted the correct way on DREAM (sarcasm).

I doubt she is immigrant friendly..

Palin.. That's odd! McCain questions Obama's experience but I'd say Obama has more experience than Palin. VPs are supposed to be ready to be president at anytime. Palin doesn't look like someone who can lead the nation if McCain promptly dies of cancer.

I think the Dems have this election in the bag already. Biden vs. Palin... I dunno...

It's obviously a desperation move on their part, scraping for the minority/women votes.

I also can't wait until the VP debate when she'll be crushed in front of the entire nation.

I don't think she's immigrant friendly. In fact, I'll bet that she'd be opposed to CIR/DREAM.

Anyway, I think she's so smoking hot!!!

Definitely VPILF material.