I assume that means due to time-in-service US Senate. The American people don’t agree much either..they haven’t elected a Senator since JFK.

Nope. Choosing Mrs. Palin was a bolt of lightening must of hit da Maverick’s white head! She is the first “real” person I’ve ever seen in my lifetime on a national ticket! McCain’s choice was ingenious. What’s not to like about a non-elitist, pill-playing, salmon fishing, moose hunting, beauty queen governor with a bunch o’kids? Nothing.

BTW, she not only has more actual management/fiduciary experience than B.H.O., she can probably whip him one-on-one! I’d bet on her. LOL.

Get off that “M” hobby-horse of yours and cheer the “little woman with a vicious bite”, on!

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Submit away, but on what evidence? So people in Alaska could compare her with her experience in Wasilla to what by all accounts was a popular former democratic Governor (hell did freeze over in 1998, and he only lost the Senate race in Alaska in 2004 by 3% points according to the all knowing Wikipedia). So a virtual unknown with not a lot of experience takes on her own party and then a popular, experienced former Gov. and wins, and she’s got the wind at her back? Isn’t your gut a bit desperate here?

Generally, when I realize that my prejudices are engaged against someone, I try to be careful to not attribut to them all kinds of deep failings, because it can be very embarrassing when someone whom you don’t like on a philosophical basis and whom you’ve attacked still turns out to be a mensch. Sort of like when evangelicals conclude that because someone is an atheist they must be a bad person – it can make them look ridiculous, even duplicitous when they start name-calling or floating innuendos based on prejudice.

It helped her a lot that her predecessor was unpopular-and people only vote Democratic in Alaska when hell freezes over. She’s still very linked with Ted Stevens-and I think there is more there than has been brought to light.

Call it a gut feeling-becuase there is nothing to prove it so far. But its out there……..

Fair enough about the experience issue/though judgement and character matters too. She did buck her party – does even Biden do that, ever, much less the golden child? Also, it seems to me that as an electoral political choice Palin already has been exceedingly good for McCain – if Sen. Obama’s partisans in the press had the opportunity to spin out the inevitability narrative over the last 7-8 days, McCain could be very, very behind today. And seriously, do you think Kay Baily Hutchinson or any of the other veep possibles (did you see Ridge’s speech) would have changed the game? (And sorry, there is a game element here – Obama has almost ridden that to the Presidency – would be nice if we were electing philosopher kings, but that’s democracy. Wish we could elect a new people, but we are kind of stuck.)