Her name has popped up before, but largely considered an even more raw and untested prospect than Jindal was seen to be.

As you may have heard, John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for President, has chosen Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate. Below is a statement I made today about Senator McCain's decision:

The Vice President is a heartbeat away from becoming President, so to choose someone with not one hour's worth of experience on national issues is a dangerous choice.

If John McCain thought that choosing Sarah Palin would attract Hillary Clinton voters, he is badly mistaken.

The only similarity between her and Hillary Clinton is that they are both women. On the issues, they could not be further apart.

Senator McCain had so many other options if he wanted to put a woman on his ticket, such as Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison or Senator Olympia Snowe -- they would have been an appropriate choice compared to this dangerous choice.

In addition, Sarah Palin is under investigation by the Alaska state legislature which makes this more incomprehensible.

Where did you quote this from unebug?

I predicted back in early summer that McCain would pick a woman to try and steal Hillary supporters. In spite of whoever wrote the above article, I think it might work in some ways. There are a lot of women who are upset that Hillary isn't on ticket, and they dislike Obama, so I can see them being swing voters.

Right now I am on the fence. I don't know if I will vote for McCain or write in Hillary's name. Oh yes, I said it.

Maybe he's trying to swifboat his own campaign here?

Considering all the gratuitous abuse Bush has taken over the years, perhaps he considers Sarah as his ace in the hole against actually winning the election.

Which, if so, is a presumptious notion, since what the Democrats are offering is equally unpalatable.

Maybe we should all write in Mickey Mouse of the ballet, which is precisely what this whole sorry state of affairs has turned into.

Damn, Tsuku. You really do want to kill the Democratic Party here.

A year of Hillary, and separation might actually become a reality.

In any event, not that it's saying much, Sarah is better looking.

The men in the family I hear are Democrats. The eldest male, is supposed to go to Iraq. The youngest child has down syndrome.

Now, I hear she is a tough debater. She seems more suited to being the Mayor of the town of Grinderswitch, or the Governor of Alaska than even as Veep, but if the Donkey's can nominate Obama as their front man, then whoa nelly, no harm picking a very green split-end as the Veep.

It's funny the pundits are quick to point out she has less experience than Obama.

You know that doesn't tell me a whole lot. Obama sitting on some comittee and busting David Petraeus' balls for politics is not the kind of experience I'd want.

Especially since he was dead wrong on the surge.

And she probably stands a greater chance of melting tensions between Russia and the States, than Obama.

I bet Putin, won't give a dog shit about Obama's oreo story, especially his Hillaryesque Bosnia sniper fish tale about how his parents shacked up in the Selma marches?

Selma happened in 65, not in 61 when he was born.

TXDem:

Where did you quote this from unebug?

I predicted back in early summer that McCain would pick a woman to try and steal Hillary supporters. In spite of whoever wrote the above article, I think it might work in some ways. There are a lot of women who are upset that Hillary isn't on ticket, and they dislike Obama, so I can see them being swing voters.

Right now I am on the fence. I don't know if I will vote for McCain or write in Hillary's name. Oh yes, I said it.

Tex:

Unebug is referring to an incident where Ms Palin fired a top law enforcement official in her administration because he refused to fire a stste trooper on her orders who had been married to her sister, and was currently involved in a bitter custody with her sister.

This is the skinny of the matter.

On the surface though, it would certainly seem that Ms Palin abused her duly constituted authority for the sake of a personal grudge she harbored for her former brother-in-law.

In which case, would raise legitimate concerns regarding her individual character and integrity.

Unebug is quoting from Barbara Boxer, I believe.

Though I had to look up the details of the inquiry against Ms Palin myself.

Enough to disqualify her from serious consideration as vice president if she did in fact abuse her authority to attempt to resolve a personal grudge. Which would certainly seem be the case here.

She would also like to overturn Roe vs Wade, and is said to be a devout Christian.

The former is a deeply personal matter, and the latter makes her a very risky propsition to entrust with power.

Church and State do not mix well,

Rob I heard that it was confirmed that the ex made threats against the broad. It was confirmed he used a taser on his step son. They also said he was seen in his cruiser drinking.

So the cop doesn't sound squeaky clean.

As I said, I only had the skinny on the matter. Your information would justify a termination, in which case she would be justified in ordering the firing.

Still, it puts her in an unfortunate position here. She could have ordered the firing of any other trooper without repercussions, but one can bet that the Dems will jump all over this one.

She does have one liberal trait in that she wants to impose additional taxation on the oil industry, and has done so in her own state as governor.

A stance McCain was initially opposed to, but now seems to be waffling on.

All in all, not much known about her yet. Aside from the incident in question, not much to arouse controversy or concern.

Perhaps she might make a competent and capable veep. She is said to be intelligent and a good debater.

The only thing I personally don't like about her is the devout Christian bullshit. I don't trust religious types.

Church and State should not be mixed.