re: #94 Charles

McCain picked Sarah Palin for one two reasons only — religious right leaders like James Dobson and others were on the verge of telling their millions of followers not to vote for McCain, because of his moderate stance on abortion. Palin was brought on board to get Dobson to relax his opposition to McCain, and it worked.

I lost respect for Sarah Palin after her disastrous interview with Katie Couric, and her anti-science statements such as the infamous “wasting money on studying fruit flies in Paris, France” comment. And then when she resigned as Alaska governor in the middle of her elected term, I lost whatever respect I had left.

And then she chose a far right fanatic who collaborated with a white supremacist to ghostwrite her book.

Charles I really think Sarah was a knee jerk reaction to capture the PUMA vote when Obama won the Democratic nomination.. Remember all those angry women then? I think the GOP just wanted to plug in a woman..Any woman to capture that vote… Puma blogs just blew up last summer…
The GOP just picked a pretty woman’s face…Didn’t matter if she was an untested novice.. They just wanted a Woman…IMO