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McCain team rallying GOP with sexism charges

The attack cat is out. Now I think it's time to get away from personal attacks and get into the ISSUES that all of America wants answered. Scare tatics have worn their selves out. We want answers on the ecomomy, gas prices, health and insurance, housing, financial markets, and foreign policy, including invasion of foreign countries based on deceit, and lies. Miracle worker Palin will soon face debates that are not scripted, and answers that are not written for her, then we will see just knowledgable she really is. McDuff has already failed this test.

In reality there is a great amount of truth in this statement. A Double Standard of Boys do this and Girls do that seems to apply. This is America and the Boys and Girls can do the same things. Except for a couple of things prevented by basic biology.

Rearing Children can and should be a team effort. If a person wants to and can within reason be a stay at home mom, that is extremely honorable and in and of its self a full time job.

Mrs. Palin (I am tired of people trying ignore, or discount her husband. She does not do that. Tonight he was holding the baby. The baby was sleeping through all the noise and was doing just fine), seams to have found a balance, lots of Women have many children over many years, and the oldest are adults when the youngest are born.

Her family does not appear to be in any crisis. Like any other family they have situations and are dealing with the situations.

The women lib people should love her but they do not because she has an active involved husband, a together family, and high profile career.
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YES I think what Mr. McDuff went through 40 years ago is remarkable and honorable. But does that past service qualify him for the top office of this country? No I don't hardly think so. Lets get his answers on the big picture items. Ecomomy, gas prices and their future, health care, housing ect. Stop this Fear tatic crap.

That is ABSOLUTELY the right of the media to ask questions about Sarah Palins past. The electorate wants to know. The media is tasked with asking the questions we cannot becuase the media is there, the public is not. We pay (through newspaper subscriptions, etc.) to know. McCain's campaign should have done a more thorough job of investigating Palin's past. Steve Schmidt saying that questions about Sarah Palins past will be no longer accepted is a bunch of hogwash. Hint: Steve, the questions will go on anyway, all you can do is "damage control". If I were McCain, I would let him (Schmidt) go. If McCain doesn't, people will always be suspicious.

Sarah Palin is all about hope and change! She is everything America has been hoping for, a real change in the direction it has been going, and for once a real candidate, not a clone. No wonder the media is having a meltdown. She is the last thing liberals want. Who cares about them? We, the real people want her! The test is, that the more vilification is heaped on her, the more we know that she is the right choice. Most good people wouldn't mind if she did become president. What a " Thatcher" she would be!

CONGRATS Sarah Palin, the running mate chosen by John McCain, delivers a fiery address in which she defends her small town roots, praises Mr McCain and attacks his Democrat rival Barack Obama. It goes down well with a crowd warmed up by rousing speeches from Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney. Mr McCain joins Mrs Palin on stage, before being formally nominated as candidate in a roll call vote. Sarah Palin takes the fight to Barack Obama, with a reference to his time as a community organiser in Chicago. We need change all right - change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington. We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington - throw out the big government liberals and elect John McCain. I'm sorry that Barack Obama feels that (Mrs Palin's) home town isn't cosmopolitan enough. I'm sorry, Barack, that it isn't flashy enough. Maybe they cling to religion there.

Sarah is fabulous. All the sexist garbage thrown at her doesn't intimidate her at all. She's a great governor, a great role model and a great person.

GO SARAH!

It ain't sexism! Her record is abysmal. Cheering at the convention won't change her record. The demos and the indeps will soon road back: unqualified at any speed.

Levi Johnson? Why haven't you two gotten married? Oh, gop values, eh.

please........... somebody turn off this soap opera.

I've noticed Rush plays the "victim" card quite a bit, it looks like the GOP, in general, is using that strategy. Wacky conservatives like Goldwater, and Reagan, were a little scary, but a least you knew what they stood for, and it wasn't pretending to be picked on by some imaginary meany, like the media. The far right has really lost it's bearings.

"The media views its job as scrutinizing her background, helping voters determine her readiness to serve..."

Interesting that when it comes to Obama a majority in the media view their job as serving as cheerleaders rather than "scrutinizing his background, helping voters determine his readiness to serve."

They are both panicking and politicing. If they rile people up to think that "the press" is abusing Ms. Palin, then they hope people will be more sympathetic to her.

The press has a right to ask legitimate questions. I think the mainstream press is bending over backwards to keep from being sexist. But, she's the one who flew 8 hours during labor. She's the one who accepted a position, knowing it would expose her daughter to undue scrutiny. Those things show lack of judgment. And certainly she should be held accountable for supporting the bridge, even though she brags she didn't, and for eagerly taking so many earmarks she now denounces, etc.

questioning palins qualifications is as sexist as questioning Obama's qualifications is racist.

I would say, anyone on either side who uses the racisim/sexism argument to avoid real questions is the breal bigot.

It is amazing to see how reactive the media is to Palin. For every positive article on her there are ten negative and nine of those ten are downright stupid. The media seems more concerned about her appearance and mothering skills than what she has done as a governor. Meanwhile, Obama and Biden (and Biden�s son) get passes about all their questionable business activities and past associates. US magazine does a puff piece on Obama and then turns around a tries to present Palin as trailer trash. Why? Because the magazine owner is a big Obama supporter.

The media bias for Obama is becoming so apparent than it is nearing desperate. CNN last night had 3 liberal women on to bash Palin while Larry King threw up softball questions to them without questioning any of the supposed facts they were spewing out--especially about Palin's experience but not Obama's lack of....and people wonder why Utah is such a red state.

The dems and main stream media are in an absolute panic. That fact is well-revealed by their personal attacks against Sarah Palin. However, this lady seems to be a tough cookie who is unafraid to use her verbal claws. Her emergence as a "person of the people" on the national political scene, and the potential for long-term dominance of the republican party, has intimidated the dems/main stream media to the point of desperation. They can see the writing on the wall. All these personal attacks on Palin only galvanize "we the people" against the dems and their lackeys in the mainstream media. The media is too stupid to realize they are contributing to their candidates' own loss.

The downside to a lenghty republican dominance - we will have to listen to the democrats whine for a long time.

I can live with that.

Bottom line, dems - the U.S. has a two party political system and somebody always has to be the "other" party.

Who's playing the sexism card?? The media not the GOP.

I applaud your idea that the election ought to be about the issues, and not about the side show. However, after listening the convention speeches, I am much more prone to support Governor Palin than Obama or Biden. I thought she was very clear about her intentions for dealing with gas prices, the economy and foreign policy. I honestly thought she made the most sense out of any candidate so far far including McCain and the other GOP candidates. I think she will do just fine in the debates.

It is not sexism to think that the next generation is being raised up by good mothers, not baby factories. Palin is a baby factory. She is NOT THE TYPYICAL FAMILY WOMAN. Sorry folks, this is not the train I'm jumping aboard.

Palin lacks the experience, the know how and the FAMILY VALUES (yes I said it) to be Vice President. Likewise McCain. He's never been my cup of java. And this conservative woman will not be voting for this ticket. It's a loser for everyone. The American People, and expecially the Palin children, who appear to be raising themselves.

Good Post 7:25 AM

The double standards from the left are very obvious. The liberals who have posted here are so naive. The issues do matter most, and several were addressed last night, lower taxes, energy independence, choice of the best schools, things that matter most to ordinary, hard-working folks.

Palin did well and I like her message.

"I'm an outsider who is going to Washington to take on the corruption of the Republican Party and the oil companies."

Conservative womman now voting for Obama. I know who/what obama is. It's not going to be fun or great. I'm not going to enjoy it at all. But I do not trust McCain at all. He shoots from the hip, and no amount of handclapping and shoving onto me and being told I HAVE to support her, will help. I've looked, I don't like. There is a smell underbelly and now everyone is crying FOUL. Well, we on the right have spent years tearing down the left. Now we're getting it back - in spades. If widdle cuttie pie sarah can't take the heat put on her perfect family - recuse yourself and go back to fishing in Alaska. There are those that see through you, don't trust you and don't want you. Now, were stuck. I pray Utah falls to Obama. What a message that will send to the bigots of the country! McCain and his sidekick (evanglaical of all things!) loses the election because of THE MORMON FACTOE! What a kick in the pants that would be. Popcorn anyone?