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Utahns pleased with pick of Palin

I've always wanted to vote for a female candidate for the presidency...but this one doesn't wash.

There were several experienced females available to McCain, but he picked the inexperienced beauty queen who can talk a good line, while parrotting only the talking points.

Utah would vote Republican if McCain had picked Charles Manson. It doesn't matter.

If the public wants to vote for a man who was at the bottom of his class, and a woman who took 6 years to finish her college education at 5 colleges - well, I guess that says a lot.

"She's like us." I don't WANT a VP (or President) "like me". I want someone smarter, and a deep thinker.

I supervised more people at Hill AFB than Palin did as Wasilla's mayor. That doesn't make me more qualified! Wait. Maybe it does. I didn't have a "city manager" to actually manage my area, like Palin did.

In running the sleaziest campaign since South Carolina in 2000 and standing by completely debunked lies on national television, it's clear that John McCain would rather lose his integrity than lose an election.

What experience does the Junior Senator B.HO. have that is equal to the business and executive experience of Governor Sarah Palin?

Barack Hussein Obama is a lawyer, social worker (community organizer) and a junior legislator of less than 2 years, who votes present 40% of the time and votes 100% along party lines. No change, with zero accomplishments.

Governor Sarah Plain includes business and executive experience, Commander of a National Guard, Mayor and CEO, City Councilor and a community PTA member over a 14 year period and unlike Obama she has not snorted cocaine.

No wonder the media, has not completed the vetting of Barack Hussein Obama or asked him tough questions, like what qualifies him more to run for President than Governor Sarah Palin? What makes him ready for the job, more than Sarah Palin? Keep smiling��

Utah voters feel no ill will toward McCain for not picking Romney??? You would have thought life as we know it ended when 1) Romney wasn't going to be President and 2) As a second slap in the face of Utah, Romney wasn't going to be Vice President either! This despite the incessant glowing and overly optimistic reports and projections of months past by The Deseret News, which, as we all know now, were of no avail.

Palin is not what she appears to be yet Utahans will back her because of her facade as a good mother and devoted family person. Her and her husband are failures as parents yet want to legislate morality for the rest of us. Wake up Utah, there are plenty of better qualified, better parenting women choices out there for VP.

BTW, people that use Obama's name as a pejorative really showing racial bigotry. It is used to incite fear amongst the masses. It won't work. No one in this race is qualified to be president. They all have issues. Palin's are very apparent and her and her husband need to take care of the special needs child and that pregnant daughter.

The lies on Palin's resume would disqualify her from any job in the country. She couldn't get hired at Denny's. Why do we want her or her enabler McCain running the country? Unbelievable.

The majority of the "voters" read:sheep, would vote for Ossama Ben Ladin if he was a Republican.
Why does anyone even waste their time asking people in Utah about how they will vote in a national election?
They are like the "Stepford Wives" or the "humans" in "The Body Snatchers", they vote for the white, male republican.
The sooner the "press" gets that, the sooner we can all sit back and watch Utahns vote against their economic and national security needs and see our economy, schools and security fail.

Palin is a great pick! She has a variety of experience, from local to statewide. Obama supporters that say she lacks experience must see something in Obama I don't. I see very little experience in him, how does his experience qualify him for Pres. more than hers. Why doesn't someone say Obama needs to stay home and care for his two young daughters? Are liberals also sexist?

The McCain Campaign's choice to repeat blatant lies and distortions even after they have been shown to be completely false, coupled with Sarah Palin's belief that a woman should not have the right and the responsibility to "choose" even in cases of rape or incest, shows me that a McCain-Palin ticket would be even worse than our last eight years with Bush-Cheney in charge.

As a feminist and a democrat, I find Mrs. Palin an insulting choice. There are plenty of republican women who are intelligent, driven, experienced, and understand the issues facing out nation. Mrs. Palin showed in her news interview that she has a woeful lack of understanding and education on major issues. Mrs. Palin is just a patronizing pat on the head to women everywhere; an assumption that McCain can get disaffected Hilary supporters to vote for any woman, regardless of their qualifications. Mrs. Palin is a step back for women everywhere, serving a a token female. There are capable women out there in both parties. Unfortunately, Mrs. Palin isn't one of them.

I'm sorry, Mike, that you're uncomfortable living in a state where the majority of voters side with conservative values and principles --and who vote Republican much of the time only because the National Democratic Party is so left-wing as to leave most of middle-of the-road and conservative voters behind. Utah used to be solidly Democratic...it was the 1972 Democratic National Convention which at the height of "hippy happenings" and burning draft cards, that turned Utahns off. Demos haven't regained them because, well, they're still far-left. If you lived in the North East part of the United States -- like wacko-Vermont (Ben and Jerry-land) where there's a serious movement to try and separate their idylic little paradise away from the rest of the United States.... and where socialistic and the "nanny-state" reign supreme, then you could easily have substituted your thesis of "Sheep" to those voters who haven't put in a Republican dog-catcher in about 50 years. Republicans are endangered species in the liberal North East... There's only 1 Republican Congressman from the North East, and he's very very liberal. Just thought this should bring some balance to your perspective.

I am not an Obama supporter and I still don't think Palin is good presidential material.

Excuse me, wacko Vermont? I am from Vermont, and I can promise you that there is no "serious movement" to secede. No one in Vermont, aside from a handful of people, actually wants or is working towards that. Get your facts straight before you try to cast the state in such a light.

Utahns would be pleased with Chicken Little (R) as the the Republican vp nominee.

"Just thought this should bring some balance to your perspective"

That's an interesting choice of words. Most of the assumptions in the paragraph above are wrong, no matter which party you believe is right.

Palin isn't a bad choice, just not the type I thought McCain would pick. Many of her campaign people worked for HW Bush throughout the last eight years, which is something John McCain doesn't want most Americans to know. Those who work closely to the candidates in campaigns usually end up working for that person after the election. And, as we all know, it's not the President that runs the country, it's those who surround him. Can we stand for another four years of Bush cronies running the greatest country in the world?

Why doesn't someone tell Obama to stay home and care for his two young daughters?
are you kidding me?
liberals are sexist? ya thats right! the Repub-Mormons have always said its the mother who should stay home and take care of the family! It's the conservatives who have always said the breakdown of the family has been when women went out to the workforce and left the kids behind. Now its OK for Sister Palin to leave her kids to be VP of the US? WHY?

"Pollster Dan Jones"
How was the poll worded? Dan Jones has a reputation for cooking polls by using qualifiers in his wording.
I don't trust any polls done by them for either party.

If the majority of voters side with conservative values and principles in this state, how do you explain McCain dumping his disabled wife after several years of infidelity, and marrying a wealthy woman to further his ambition. If McCain wins Utah's votes, the Clinton jokes in this state take on a hypocritical context.

I remember a certain leader of the LDS church and his friend the president of BYU making a statement that it was impossible to be a Democrat and be LDS in the early 70's. Both were strong members of the John Birch society.

Is there any evidence that Sarah Palin has ever wrestled with the issues? Everything I've seen of her suggests that she's held onto her simple world-view and cruised through life. I'd guess that she reads Guns and Ammo rather than The Economist. Yes, Matt Damon is "just" an actor, but I agree with what he's said about Palin. We should be scared to death with the possibility that she could be president. This is reality, not some bad Disney movie.

Watch the O'Reilly interview of Obama to see how a statesman handles a tough interview. Obama knows the issues. He's smart!!! Palin's a lightweight. McCain's judgment should be questioned after this selection. Of course, it's an effort to win the white house. He's not looking for a partner to run the country. He's looking for a gimmick to divert Americans' attention from the hole the Republicans have put us. If McCain wins, Palin will not be a Cheney. She'll be sent out for photo-ops. She doesn't have much more to contribute.

Amen.

Although Rommney would have been the best choice, I completely understand why McCain couldn't choose him as a VP running mate. There is no way that Rommney would have helped his campaign due to Evangelical bigotry.

With that said, the choice of Palin is 100% political pandering. There were many far better choices (females included) that were available.

At this point, I have to believe that McCain's upswing in the polls and the title of this article (Utahns happy with Palin pick) can only mean one thing: People really are stupid. There is no other explanation. Its discouraging to see such air headed decision making by both McCain and voters.

At this point I have no vote. McCain is no longer an option. I cannot vote for a candidate who chooses a running mate that knows less about how to run our country than a typical service station attendant. Obama isn't a choice either. Ron Paul is useless. No options.