I probably will not change anyone’s opinion. Just consider this, I have friends who have more PTA experience than Sarah; and her appointment
to the Oil and Gas commission wa sa hand out from a guy she defeated!
Her Mayoral campaign which is usually a non- partisan event in the large metropolis of Wasilla ( yup been there myself) was garnered because an Anti - Abortion group funded her election, they even passed out post cards urging people what was a stake. We may choose to vote someone into office. But let’s be clear: there is a difference from being a true conservative, and being a “Social Conservative”, who the Far Right
have used Religion and Abortion to corral voters.

“McBush, oops McCain, must be thinking of only disgruntled Hilary votes by picking Palin as his running mate. Could he really care so little about this country as to pick a running mate who is not experienced enough to lead? Oh wait, it seems I remember hearing that said about Obama by McCain, but lets face facts, Palin is less tested than Obama is.
The fact that McCain is picking a woman is designed for one purpose, and that’s to pick up women’s votes. It sure isn’t because either of them are qualified to lead. McCain offers 4-8 more years of Bush, and oh, did you notice, Palin’s hubby is an oil man from Alaska? Geesh, just what we don’t need, we have 2 oilmen in power now, and now McCain wants the wife of an oilman as VP? No thank you Senator McCain.
To top it off, I find it HIGHLY unlikely that McCain will last a year in office due to his age and poor health. Do we really want an unknown commodity like Palin taking over? Again, No thanks Senator McCain. In fact Senator, the majority of Americans feel you’ve served our country long enough, as a prisoner of war and as a Senator, the latter of which has been a dismal failure since you follow Bush most of the time, and we think it’s time for you to just step out of the limelight altogether.
The Republicans railed on Obama for picking Biden, even some Democrats did, as they felt Biden to be more of the same on the democrats side, which means Obama isn’t really an agent for change. I couldn’t disagree more, however, at least he’s fully qualified to be president should something happen to Barack.
McCain, you forgot the first rule of picking a VP. Pick someone who is tried and tested and ready to lead should cancer or a heart attack befall your sorry carcass. And Senator, like Barack, I’ll debate that with you any day, any time, any where.
Bring it on old timer!”

In Cedarburg, several women in the crowd said the draw for them was Ms. Palin, not necessarily Mr. McCain, and that the Republican vice presidential nominee, the mother of five children, whose 17-year-old unmarried daughter, Bristol, is pregnant gave voice to their own struggles. Ms. Palin’s youngest child has Down Syndrome.

“She’s me,” said Tana Krueger, 58, a mothger of six from Fond du Lac, Wis., who said she drove an hour to see Ms. Palin.

Ms. Krueger, a risk manager at a state hospital, said that she might not have come out to see only Mr. McCain, and that while she is a Republican she might have voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton had she been the Democratic nominee. Now, she said, she was now definitely going to vote for Mr. McCain because of his selection of Ms. Palin.

“I can just really relate to everything in her life, children with disabilities, teenage pregnancy,” Ms. Krueger said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/05campaign.html?hp