Choosing Sarah Palin: Did McCain just Lose the Election?

Well she certianly impressed some people now we will see how good a leader she is. She has done a lot for her state even in such a short time. And most of our recent Presidents have been Governers first. I think you have to look at her as running for President, McCain could go at any time as could all of us of course.
I am a liberal so I wasn't going to vote for McCain anyway but I can't say I'm very happy with Oboma either. I just wonder how long some of our more racist civilians will stand a Black man as President. I don't have a lot of faith in
our ability to protect our President from harm. I wish I felt better about the choices.

You can keep telling yourself that.

never he won't lose the election instead he will the election. because he is white and choosing the woman he is planning to earn the youth voters . I hope he will beat the obama and rule the country.

I say Bravo! I love the fact that she is strong, pro-life, pro-family, pro-integrity! How novel for D.C.! As for experience? I feel running the state of Alaska has given her much more experience that sitting in the senate for 35 years has given to Biden. He never has had to make day-to-day decisions like she has.

I have yet to read through all the responses to this discussion but I'm sure you got a lot of flak for saying, "She looks like a soccer mom or John McCain's secretary."
I've already read some discussions here regarding sexism when it comes to Palin so I've been very careful, even though I am a woman and have been called a "radical feminist" at that, to not say anything that can be in any construed as being sexist in nature.

Therefore, I think if she instead "looked like a Little League coach" or McCain's "assistant" as opposed to "secretary" she would still be a very unwise choice. In the four days since you started this thread there has been quite a few things come to light about this woman and about McCain's "vetting process" which was virtually non-existent. However, I think you're right, McCain along with whoever advised him on tis did decide they had to pick a young woman and she had to be anti-choice which eliminated some GOP women who would have been better choices as far as experience and even having been vetted by the public and the press already. Condie rice is one who comes to mind here. I actually feel a bit badly for Sarah Palin, although I could never possibly vote for her or McCain, because she was made this incredible offer which had to have been like a dream for her and just thrown out there. Now comes the revelation of her 17 year old daughter's pregnancy coupled with the fact that Palin has support abstinence only education in public schools, and while I agree with Barack Obama that this should be off-limits politically because it's a private matter it still WILL be discussed, there's not possible way of avoiding that. This teenager who is about to become a wife and mother at a very tender age doesn't need or deserve the kind of scrutiny HER life is now going to receive.

Senator McCain, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?

Annie

Choosing Sarah Palin brough life back into the McCain. Whether or not he wins or not, the election would go down as one of the most historic in our country. Palin is a strong person and a strong candidate. Through all of this, I admire her strength and character. Whether or not McCain loses will be his own fault, but not for choosing Palin.

McCain lost the election because of Bush. Bush has put such a bad taste in everyone's mouths about how Republicans act that the people would have rather elected Charles Manson into office than another republican.