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Her resume says it all. | 8:46 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

She's proving the Peter Principle right now -- she's not qualified or able to handle the Vice Presidency. No, thanks, Sarah -- don't want you a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Observer | 9:07 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

It was reported that Levi, Palin's future son in law will attend the GOP convention. He's a hockey player. And as you all know, hockey is the national sport of Canada, and very popular in Russia and eastern Europe. With those qualifications, he'd make a fine Secretary of State in the McCain administration.

? | 9:10 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

What's the Peter Principle?

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Brother Chuck Schroeder | 9:29 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Here's the big question folk's. Did you see the Utah Republicans and watch on TV "the ABC Evening News" your loyal to Utah Republican icon's that are "for the people" per se, at the parties with their lobbyist's while they were to "take it light" because of a hurricane, in a different "face mode"?. And was to be in morning over it per se. I am ticked folks. Are you?. You should be, you elected them in that "Red State". What did they do for you lately?. Last Friday, our campaign was proud to welcome Governor Sarah Palin to the ticket as John McCain's running mate. Over the past few days, the GOP campaign has received an outpouring of support in the form of record-breaking donations and crowds of supporters who have packed rallies in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Missouri, but what about all the other States?. Tomorrow night, Governor Palin will officially accept (with over zealous hype) the nomination to be the first (radical feminist W-Oman) female Republican Vice Presidential candidate in history.

I'm a Red State Republican 2 | 9:33 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

(the GOP) is giving you the opportunity (you got that wrong, it's US, your walking ATM's that are giving you the opportunity to sit on your "do nothing ass in a seat for the people because we are not BIG OIL nor big business nor your personal lobbyist) to get to know Governor Palin a little better through an exclusive video you can watch. We know everyone is anticipating John McCain and Governor Palin's speeches at the Republican National Convention later this week. We hope you'll take the time tonight to watch the following speakers during tonight's convention prime-time program (that is if the liberal news media shows it on prime time TV and not just cable tv only). President Bush will deliver remarks (not face to face as he should really do in the first place) buy via satellite. Mrs. Laura Bush, Senators Fred Thompson and Joe Lieberman and many others will also speak. We encourage you (if you have cable tv) to tune in tonight between the hours of 8:30 to 10:00 CST.

I will still Vote for McCain this November. No one else to choose from.

Anonymous | 9:45 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

The social conservative bulldog wants to tell us what our families should look like, and how they should function. Ironic, I think.

Scott A | 9:48 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I'm a little torn about this. On one hand I'm excited for Palin who will stand strong enough to do what she believes even if its against her own party. She has brought energy. However it does worry me with so little experience that she would be just a death away from the presidency. I'm tired of the details of her daughter. That was her daughter's choice not Palin's. Its unimportant to politics and the next presidency. Its time to ignore the energy brought by Palin as well as ignoring Obama's great oration. Focus on the policies of the two possible administrations and how well they could actually enact the policies and deal internationally and domestically. Isn't that whats going to make the true difference to American life during the next presidency? Great speaking, youthful energy, being the first black president, or woman vice president; none of that matters. What are the concerns and what can the next president do about them? Better perspective needs to be taken in this election. Its not a beauty pageant or a showcase its the leadership of this country.

Observer | 10:00 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I watched a little bit of the GOP convention the other night, but fell asleep about 2 minutes into it. Tonight I've decided to do something a little more exciting. Clean my toothbrush.

Re: Scott A - 9:48 a.m. | 10:11 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

YOUR 100% right. "I'm a little torn about this. On one hand I'm excited for Palin who will stand strong enough to do what she believes even if its against her own party. She has brought energy. However it does worry me with so little experience that she would be just a death away from the presidency. I'm tired of the details of her daughter." I to will watch the Obamacon and his phony sidekick veep as well as the other O'bots a little longer because my doctor told me I needed to laugh more and laughing will lower my blood pressure. As for you Obamacon young O'bots if you really want a change, turn off the computer, go to the telephone, call up your mom to come home, and, change your diaper, than you'll have your true change you are really seeking in life.

What are the concerns and what can the next president do about them?, well that's simple, elect them somewhat blind, and wait for 4 years to pass by from your life, hope a lot, get nothing, and cry about it next election. Than you'll know. Not sooner. Any question's?.

Anonymous | 10:21 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I've heard that the boyfriend who's going to appear with the Palins is a high school dropout.

Some political writers are starting to call them snow billies.

Anonymous | 10:19 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

This is not rocket science folks. A 5th grader knows that McFossil made the wrong choice. He picked a PTA Mom with Spears family values.

To Observer | 10:30 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

OBSERVER, you sound just a little bit like a disgruntled, thoroughly biased Democrat which trumps your credibility. Fred Thompson and Joe Liberman were very convincing and ate the Democrat's lunch. Small wonder you thought it was so boring. Hope you got your toothbrush clean.

Oh Please | 10:46 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Watched the corpses being wheeled out to address the convention last night. Thompson and Lieberman look like mummies, and Bush looked downright embalmed. It was fun listening to them running against their own record all night.

Jud | 10:50 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

People worry that Palin will have to neglect her family to be Veep. not so. Veep is a completely empty job (except for Cheney, who's been filling the power vacuum in Bush's brain). She'll have more time than ever to care for the family. It's perfect.

x-mcCain voter | 11:21 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I was going to vote for McCain, but now I am not. I don't think our country is ready for a female vice-president.

LDS Texan | 11:37 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Palin will be great! ROCK ON MCCAIN/PALIN!!!!!!!!!!!!

former dem | 11:40 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

So, why are her qualifications so important? Obama supporters don't seem to care at all that he has no experience leading anything. `

Geezer | 11:43 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Hey, editors, let's see some coverage about Sarah Palin's attempt as mayor of Wasilla to get certain unnamed books removed from the public library. What books were they? And what about her effort to fire the librarian - which Palin reversed after the Wassila voters protested? We need more information about this.

Reformer? | 11:46 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

So hopefully the reformer Palin will explain tonight why she supported the bridge to nowhere and hired a heavy weight lobbying group to get millions in ear marks for her town.

Palin Fan | 11:47 a.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Go Sarah! At least you stand for something! I like how you meet the challenges head on.

Never underestimate the power of an intelligent capable, woman!

Texas | 12:03 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I wonder how many educated readers believed FDR was not qualified and lacked executive experience to be VP in 1920 when he was 38 years old? Some people need to relearn their US history otherwise they sound biased.

J Salek | 12:06 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

If I were a betting person, this long shot could bring good returns.
Just to really shake things up, let's take a look at what might happen because of all the media on her and her family.
In a few weeks Governor Palin will step up to the microphone and step back from the nomination. Either because of her young child with Down's, her daughter's pending parenthood, or just the realization that her family is too important for her to lose family time for a minimum of four year while performing the job of V.P.
What will Senator McCain do? This fine woman has chosen to pass up a honor as her family has to come first. He will be put on the spot no longer having a running mate, but he will perform admirably in rapidly picking another choice for the role of his running mate. And with so little time before the election, who he chooses may not be a favoured choice of the party, but the new choice must be accepted if the Republican party is going to keep doing what is right for this country.
As I said, if I was a betting person...

Palin Neglectful Platform | 12:11 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

She stands for neglectful parenting. Do a search and you will see pictures of her daughter drinking and boozing with other teens while she is off following the career. The father is as much to blame too. When you run on a platform of telling people what is sin and what is not sin, you put yourself as a target for being called out for being untrue to your beliefs.

I wonder | 12:16 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I thought the big thing for arguing against Obama is his lack of experience, so they go out and grab someone who makes Obama look like he has more than enough experience. Why do you take the biggest edge you've got in the election and throw it away with someone with so little experience?

I think they could have taken almost anyone else and made a better decision. Or has the GOP decided to put up its own version of Mondale/Ferraro and hope that Obama does bad enough to guarantee a win in the next election?

Diane W. | 12:26 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

McCain has made a real blunder
that has made the whole country wonder,
Was this the best pick,
this chick from the sticks
to lead us when he's six feet under?

Undecided | 12:27 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Well, I may not like all the candidates but we are stuck with them. So I guess it's gonna come down to whoever will be the most convincing from now till the day before election day.

paa | 12:28 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I like Sarah Palin, and I think she was a good choice. The media and liberals all have nothing good to say about her, just like they do with all conservatives. The latest front page of US magazine says it all: Glowing portrayal of the "messiah" Obama and nothing but negative slander on Palin. (see Drudge report on this). It's all about politics, and the blantantly biased mainstream media is pulling out all the stops to help elect comrade Obama as infallible king of the new Socialist Republic of the once-United States. Get ready to lose your freedoms folks if Obama is elected. Examples: You will be told what lightbulbs you will be allowed to use, what vehicles you will be allowed to drive, and you will be forced to accept homosexual marriage and homosexual "sex" as normal. California is the liberal model of the ideal and what a basket case that state is becoming.

mark | 12:42 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

While the D-news is looking into Palins attempted firing of the librarian and what books Palin wanted to burn, sorry, I mean censor, maybe they could also look into her use of eminent domain in Alaska. I thought conservatives were not fans of governmental seizure of property. Maybe they just don't know about Palins administration taking private property.
Maybe someone, also, will report on how palin wants creationisim taught in public schools.

Nice Change!!! | 12:41 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

At first I was a little taken back by how inexperienced and a bit of a simpleton Palin came across. I was pulling for Romney...suprise!

But then after comparing here style (or some may argue lack thereof) with that of what I saw in Denver with the Democratic Convention the simplicity and staight talk became refreshing.

We all talk about how nice it would be to get someone in a leadership postion that is not corrupt by the self-interests groups.

LukeSW | 12:51 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Go McCain and Palin!!

Politics is a vicious game. People are changed by the enormous pressures placed on them. Those of us who are members of the organization that owns this paper know that we should seek to uphold for public office those who are good, decent and honest people.

Obama is clearly a lightweight liberal fraud who wants to change the US into a communist state that baby sits the entire population.

McCain and Palin are real Americans, with a genuine vision of what is good and right about America.

All the naysayers in the media and on the DN forums know that Palin challenges their liberal vision of the world.

I say go McCain and Palin!

Solutions not tears | 12:52 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

If you always make dumb statements you look stupid.

I was listening to NPR out of San Francisco last night. They were broadcasting the GOP convention.

I read this typically stupid conservative remark about the liberal press. "If the liberal press will show it."

If you don't trust the liberal press to give conservative ideas a fair amount of time, support democrats and return the fairness doctrine.

TexasRepublican | 12:54 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

To "Her Resume Says it All": I'd much rather have Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency than Obama IN the presidency. Jud is correct - per the Constitution, the VP's job is to vote in the Senate in case of a tie. That's about it. Assuming the Democrats retain control in both houses of Congress, having very liberal and very inexperienced Obama as president is very frightening indeed.

Brother Chuck Schroeder | 1:04 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Mrs. Palin is a strong fiscal conservative who shares, if not exceeds, Mr. McCain's determination to oppose wasteful government expenditures. She is pro-life and pro-gun (a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association), and a stalwart opponent of tax increases. She has been unafraid to fight corruption or the appearance of corruption - even if it occurs in her own party. With this kind of record, conservatives are generally ecstatic over Mr. McCain's choice of Mrs. Palin as his running mate. Organizations ranging from the Club for Growth to the Traditional Values Coaliton have issued statements praising Mr. McCain's choice. Any conservatives who have been lukewarm thus far in their support of the McCain candidacy will work their hearts out between now and November for the McCain-Palin ticket.

Brother Chuck Schroeder | 1:08 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

This is THE BEST free PR off of the liberal drive by news media one could ask for - John McCain's unparalleled history of military service and support of veterans' issues has led thousands of Florida veterans to rally in support of his candidacy. And of course as governor, she has had enormous responsibilities, none of which Senator Obama had. When she was in government, he was a community organizer. When she was taking tough positions against her own party, Senator Obama was voting present 130 times in the state legislature. On every tough issue, whatever it was, she was taking them on. That's the kind of judgment that I'm confident that we need in Washington. Governor Palin is Senator McCain's sleeper selection before nearly all members of the media and general public. Sarah Palin was a hockey mom, small-town mayor and rising young Republican star in Alaska in 2003 when she ran afoul of her party's establishment over ethics reform and was cast into the political wilderness. But she came charging back as an ethics crusader to win the governor's office in 2006.

Anonymous | 1:09 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Absolutely frightening choice for VP! Her lack of experience shows McCain's hypocrisy vis-a-vis Obama and his "shot from the hip" tendencies without more thoroughly vettig her backgorund shows what a shot from the hip/loose cannon he can is!

What now Republican | 1:12 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I have admired McCain for a long time. I have contributed to his campaign, but now, I'm not sure he'll get my vote.
I don't want Gov. Palin to be a heartbeat away from the oldest President ever to serve this country. I don't care about her daughter or her Downs symdrome son. I care that she is completely unqualified and unprepared to be President. I do not trust her making military decisions or decisions about foreign relations or the economy.
So where do I turn now? Obama is looking better.

i love | 1:17 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

I love an experienced, intelligent woman.

Unfort., Palin isn't one. My gop vote is going to the demos.

She is not ready for prime time, and I cannot fathom why anyone would want her one heart beat away from the presidency. Because her state was close to Russia?

Get serious, we republicans. Palin is a joke and I cannot vote such a joke.

whatever | 1:18 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

whatever... what ever you do, do not look behind the screen...

who is orchestrating this diaster for the gop???
My party has been hijacked!!!! Send the poor mom home and get me Mitt!!!

Poor Choice! | 1:19 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

If McCain was going to choose a woman as his veep, why not pick from any number of qualified, conservative candidates? Kay Bailey Hutchison, Elizabeth Dole ... heck, even Christine Todd Whitman would have been a better, more credible choice. Part of my definition of family values is knowing what your children are doing and where they are at night. I will not be voting for this ticket.

I don't mind | 1:21 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Wouldn't mind seeing McCain get the presidency. He's a Democrat in Republican clothing, and has done a great job of pulling the Republicans away from their roots.

Anonymous | 1:30 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

The Republicans are imploding. There are so many more qualified candidates that should have been chosen as Veep. Like Mitt Romney or Richardson from Texas. I understand McCain picked Palin, since Tonya Harding was not available.

OLD SHOE | 1:31 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

IT WAS INTERESTING TO HEAR THAT DR. LAURA WAS ONE OF THE FEW CONSERVATIVES THAT STUCK TO HER GUNS & STILL FEELS THAT A MOTHERS FIRST OBLIGATION IS TO HER YOUNG CHILDREN.

John | 1:34 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

The Peter principle is in play

FauxFox | 1:33 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Quoting the article..."faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee" for vice president. Sure. If this had happened on the deomocrat side, you want to believe it would have been a faux media schedule. Faux news, that is. Stop blaming the media. She brought it to the table.

Tired of the Haters | 1:38 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

It really says a lot about liberals who seem to hate everyone that don't agree with their narrow minds.
They hated and smeared Hillary who dared to oppose their "chosen one"
Now they hate and smear Palin, another woman who dares to challenge their status quo.
Interesting that some even prayed for the Hurricane to hit New Orleans in order to disrupt the Republican convention.
I never see issues anymore from these groups, only smears, lies, and innuendo.
How sad.

Palin vs. Obama? | 1:38 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Obama does not want "experience" to be the issue. As we are learning more about this compelling woman, we are also comparing her experience to Obama's. On day two of her first Mayor term, she had doubled Obama's executive experience. This women is the real deal! It was Joe Biden who said that Obama isn't ready to lead. This woman has dome more for the base since Ronald Reagan.

Obama has no experience. A community organizer? What is a community organizer? I'm sorry Chris Mathews, I do not get a tingly feeling in my leg.

Game Over. pwned.

michael | 1:42 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

palin is a fake. pay attention to her countenance, her facial expressions, her tone of voice, and her body language. She is pretending to be a person she is not.

cb | 1:45 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

Diane W. love your poem! I think his pick of Palin will harm him with the undecided voters.

mark | 1:47 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

What about the ethics probe she is under, maybe the D-news will report on that, or the lobyists she hired to bring back the bacon to the tiny city of 8000, she was mayor of, or her husbands membership in radical orginizations. What is the population of Alaska anyways? Less then SL County, right? Maybe they will report on what schools she went to.
No, I think the philanderer John McCain might regret this choice before it is over.

Cats | 1:55 p.m. Sept. 3, 2008

It is very clear that the Democrats are terrified of Sarah Palin. That's why they are so viciously attacking her and creating phony, manufactured issues. This has really thrown them.

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