Women all over the country are close to tears. At least Geraldine Ferraro had substance. This woman reminds me of the girl who gets elected class president because she's pretty and then decides that what her classmates need is sushi day instead of hot dog day, while the ugly girl who ran against her works tirelessly to get a campus outreach group together to protest apartheid....

She has been governor for two years, a maverick as is the wont of many Alaskans anyway. She'd make a better VP for Ron Paul. Makes a big deal of open and transparent government, and then when it applies to her, she slams the door. Her sister is embroiled in a nasty divorce, custody battle, so she hounds, yes hounds, the State head of public safety to fire Wooten, a state patrolman and husband of her sister, then denies it. Personally she's a really solid woman, 5 kids, husband, last child born with downs, but she has been caught in a "troopergate" which is gonna get rough....

I am on my way to the craft store soon to paint a sign for my car that will read "not all women are created equal" and a big red circle with Palin's name in the middle with a slash through it....

Because in the words of Laura Bush herself on the day after Hillary announced, she said, "well I was actually thinking Condi Rice" would make a good president someday when asked what she felt about women in the White House. Will, if McCain had chosen Condi I would have had that little, "Hmmm. That's a secretly powerful statement." I don't care for her, but she is SUBSTANTIAL. This twit he's chosen is like cotton candy....

I just couldn't put my finger on it. I knew Palin looked like someone....VP Palin looks like one of the girls from Petticoat Junction. I bet they still run episodes of the show in Alaska. Maybe that's why she dressed her daughter this morning in that curiously Mormon-like frock....

I wasn't likely to adore McC's veep choice anyway, but this is weak. Kris is right, this move is tokenism for dummies, very hamfisted and condescending. Plus she accentuates his negatives -- in photos together they look like a CEO and the lady from HR going in to talk about his severance package. (And Cindy is perpetually between them -- in case John gets any ideas about nailin' Palin?)
And now they're talking about postponing the hurricane because of the GOP convention....