The Obama campaign is right on top of it.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/obama-biden-vs-bush-mccain.html

Yes, it isn't personal.  She's a nice lady.  She has some strange beliefs on a few things...little wacky, but she's a good person.  The problem is that she has no qualifications to be president and that she agrees with Bush and Cheney on almost every important issue.  It's not personal.  

A search of the archives proves that Steven D predicted this.

I have to disagree. Palin, and what this choice says about McCain, is not more of the same. Her selection marks a shift as far right as you can get.

McCain pretended to be concerned with global warming, yet picked  a successor who thinks global warming is a lie.

He pretended to care about women, yet picked a successor who wants the police to force a 14-year-old girl to deliver what grew in her after her daddy raped her.

He pretended to care about the environment, yet picked a successor who want to declare open season on polar bears and the rest of the endangered species in America's last wild place.

He pretended concern that the commander in chief should have long foreign policy experience, yet chose a successor whose administrative experience consists of governing a population the size of Memphis's for a year and a half.

He pretended to care about corruption, yet chose as his successor Ted Stevens's number-one protege who went on to fire the state's head law enforcer for not using his power to harrass her brother-in-law sufficiently.

McCain pretended to care about America's education, yet chose a successor who wants to force America's public schools to teach its children that the Earth is 6 thousand years old.

John McCain pretends to care about safety and security, yet chose a successor who sees no problem putting AK-47s into the hands of any crazy fuck who likes to hang around schools and playgrounds, any gangbanger who sees killing 8-year-olds as mere collateral damage to a driveby shooting.

McCain struts around as the straight shooter, yet chose a successor whose family received a government dole of $11,788 last year from the oil fund, but still loves to rant about rugged individualism and the evils of socialist welfare.

John McCain is not more of the same. With his sexist attempt to win the votes of a few gullible women he ripped the mask off his own face. John McCain learned destruction at the feet of a master, but like any good student he did his mentor one better. We thought Bush shoved America into the lowest circle of Hell, but we now know that McCain has found a secret door to an even lower depth. Bush hurt America more deeply than Bin Laden could have ever aspired to. McCain as he stands revealed before us now will make Bush look like a minor nuisance. A vote for McCain is no longer just insane: it is an act of treason.

Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." --Former Nixon counsel John Dean

     Palin is just more of the God, Guns, and Gop mindset that we've endured as a country now, for 8 years. Choosing Palin was completely irresponsible on John McCain's part, and it really does show just how much contempt for America the Gop really does have.  
     God forbid-should anything happen to McCain-we'd actually have a president who doesn't even have an opinion-yet-on a war that is literally tearing the country in two. Haven't we already done that kind of ignorance and self-involvement with the Bush White House? I don't think the United States could handle even four more years of this kind of incompetent, ignorant, arrogant, governance. Heaven help us.

dd

This could very well turn out to be dismissed and ridiculed as the Harriet Miers debacle was, or it could be played up based on her family and background.

Thanks clammyc! I've been trying to think of her name since yesterday. McCain's decision making process is all Bush. We will have to get some preschoolers together to figure out the thinking behind this pick.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

That's all well and good for us, the base. But the question about Palin right now is whether she can take over at a moment's notice. We need to be hammering to the American people the singular message that she isn't ready, not that she's conservative. We can do that later if need be. But her inexperience cuts across ideological lines and is something everyone is asking themselves. That is the game-changing issue. We need to define her as too green.

We need the MSM to stop repeating rethug lies, since the brewing scandal
Alaskan blogs are reporting her approval drops albeit 67 is still high it is NOT friggin 90%

here is the info

 http://mudflats.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/what-is-mccain-thinking-one-alaskans-perspective/

Oh and according to Poblano of 538...WOMEN repeat WOMAN are less happy with the Palin pic according to reTHUG Rassmussen pollers....bwahahahaha