From a policy point of view there is no hope/change in Palin.

That is a ludicrous sentence. My own personal policy on “hope/change” is that I don’t like them. I’m a “despair/status quo” guy, I guess.

Now for the bad news: Palin is a creationist enviro-weenie.

What’s an enviro-weenie?

Look it up.

Don’t bend over to pick up the soap.

There were a couple current/former governors in each party’s primary, no? Doesn’t seem like people really care a whole lot about that sort of experience.

Anyway, I think the notion that she’s going to push the party in a libertarian direction is pretty daft. I mean, come on–her role as VP and in this campaign is to backstop McCain.

Experience as a government chief exec didn’t seem to do Bush much good. Heck, if the POTUS is really supposed to do as little as most libertarians seem to believe, experience would probably be a minus.

There is no way the mccain campaign could consider her to be qualified to be president, but she will be if elected and mccain dies.

C’mon, you’ve got no idea if this is true. Fame is not a qualification, so just because you’d never heard of her before today doesn’t mean she wouldn’t make a good President.

Certain “libertarians” like to refer to her as a “libertarian Republican.” Though personally I think they just like that she resembles an “actress” from one of those internet “reality porn” sites that feature MILFS and teachers. If you are one of the 99% of men that look at internet porn, you know what I’m talking about.

It seems her main political asset is her gender. And the only policy positions anyone talks about are anti-gay and anti-abortion stances. So if she is anything close to “libertarian” she is running as a social-con. She may be “good” on small government spending issues, but that’s about it.

Which, admittedly, is more than can be said about any of the other clowns on the major tickets.

There is no way the mccain campaign could consider her to be qualified to be president…. That means they have placed political interest above the interests of the american people..

I dunno. From where I’m sitting there’s a whole lot more of the widely touted “HopeChange” in the selection of an “inexperienced” Veep running mate with a demonstrated ability to piss off her own party than there is in the selection of an entrenched 30+ year career politician Veep running mate who, as a matter of course, toes his party’s line.

“Go to Death Con One!”

The crazy thing is that with two years as governor and two terms as mayor, she has more experience as a government chief executive (which is what counts) than Obama, Biden and McCain combined!

I’m surprised so few people have heard of her. In the Ron Paul community, there was a lot of serious talk about her as a running mate.

Small government, lower taxes, anti-corruption whistleblower (even within her own party), MILF-tastic…. what’s not to love?

Sounds marginally better than the alternative (Obama). But I’m still not sold. I’m still going to write in “Ted Nugent” on my ballot.

And its Silly Walks, Ben, not funny LOL

Damn it! So close, yet so far.

Very cynical indeed.

You’re thinking of the Ministry of Silly Walks in Britain, Ben is referring to the shadowy Dept. of Funny Walks within the DHS.