It's picks like these that still makes me love John McCain. He's not the guy he was in 2000, when he constantly bucked the GOP establishment. He's caved in areas that I'm not happy with, and drawn considerably closer to Bush and the standard GOP talking points.

Yet, in Palin we see McCain's older, truer self emerge. This is the risk taker who gambled everything in New Hampshire a year ago. This is the maverick McCain who doesn't mind challenging established thinking. McCain has picked a candidate who, based on the brief bios I've read and seen, has actually helped bring about reform. She's cleared up some rather infamous corruption in Alaska. That's more than Barak Obama has done, despite his lofty goals and rhetoric.

If McCain had picked the little weasel Mitt Romney, I'd have been done with him. Palin's pick makes me pause. I still don't know who will get my vote, but McCain once again reminds me why I still admire the guy despite my political disagreements with him.

segment of feminists that are still smoking angry over the way that the election was stolen from Hillary. Not all feminists are zombified deal breaker types on abortion issues.

Many, many of them are going to vote for McCain now BECAUSE they noted that Obama despises women too much to select one for HIS VP pick.

Demcon: your lies are tiresome. Hillary lost the election all by herself. And you can not provide one bit of evidence, one fact or one occurance to show otherwise.

The women who supported Hillary will have a difficult time supporting an anti-abortion, anti-equal rights, anti science pro evolution, candidate who also happens to be anti environment and has advocated for destroying the Alaskan environment, and killing off polar bears in favor of oil. Even if she is a woman.

Demcon:

segment of feminists that are still smoking angry over the way that the election was stolen from Hillary. Not all feminists are zombified deal breaker types on abortion issues.

Many, many of them are going to vote for McCain now BECAUSE they noted that Obama despises women too much to select one for HIS VP pick.

You go way too far. No one 'stole' the Democratic nomination from Hillary. It wasn't hers by birthright. To say that it was stolen is as silly as saying that Bush stole an election in 2000. In both cases it was close, but there was a winner and loser. Hillary lost this year, despite many advantages over Obama at the outset. Her campaign simply made too many mistakes. As for Obama 'despising women,' that's simply a ludicrous, unsupported statement.

I don't doubt that some (many) angry Hillary supporters will find the McCain/Palin ticket attractive; however, they might also pause at some of Palin's conservative social opinions. Your average Hillary voter isn't anti-abortion and pro-NRA. Hillary and Obama have very similar Senate voting records, and those records are quite dissimilar to John McCain's record, and Palin's published stances. My bet is that most left-leaning Hillary supporters will find Obama much more to their liking that McCain/Palin, despite their anger over the nomination process.