Sarah Palin was the point guard for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Alaska. Her nickname is "Sarah Barracuda".

Sarah Palin finished second in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant and played the flute.

Sarah Palin served as Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. Population 6,715

Sarah Palin has been Governor of Alaska a little over a year.

Population of Alaska is 626,972

McCain could not have made a better choice for his DOOMED campaign.

I'm shallow. I cast my vote for Jax.

Im a swing voter and just don't care for her position on some topics.

Couldn't care less about gender, looks, or perceived toughness.

she may be all these things but she's NOT Hillary Clinton

McCain ONLY choose this woman as his running mate because of her GENDER

Message to McCain: The women of America, really are not that STUPID!!!!!

What about those who are not voting for him because he's black? Is that any better?

I think the liberals are a little defensive here..

I think McCain made a great choice. You liberals don't like her because she stands for everything that you are not, she is pro-life and we all know how liberals love killing little unborn babies. She is a life long member of the NRA, and she has conservative values.

You all have to attack her because she happens to be a woman.. Well, she is just as qualified as Obamarama to run this country, if not more.

That's some ignorant sh!t there. It's just as invalid as saying conservatives love killing American soldiers.

wow. you know this is why we can never progress with ignorant statements like this

McCain Picked this woman for one reason and one reason only.

He is afraid of loosing!

That said... just when Obama was holding all the cards McCain turns out to be playing chess.

Im voting Obama but i gotta say... McCain, one hell of a strong move to pick a woman as your VP. It puts the so called P.U.M.A. vote in serious play. Then more importantly finally makes the McCain camp exciting! Something they could never do. Expect to see large crowds at the RNC next week.

Down side is it subverts McCains ability to play the experience attack. The big difference between Miss Alaska (runner up) and Obama when it comes to experience is that America knows him well now and the Dems trust him. It remains to be seen for this V-PILF (lol crude i know but this aint the washington post after all)

I live in Alaska and I can tell you first hand of the good she has done here. She started making waves the minute she went into office and she hasn't stopped since.

The Permanent Fund Dividend did exist long before Sarah Palin did as a politician but energy relief is a separate issue altogether. It just so happens to be paid out at the same time as the dividends. Instead of a $2,000 dividend, this year we get an extra $1,200...similar to the economic stimulus payments received from the federal government earlier this year, only paid out at the same time. Sarah Palin is responsible for that movement and Alaskans are eternally grateful. She represents what it is to be an Alaskan. Small town girl with big ideas.

My brother went to high school with her son and my mom runs into her on a regular basis around town. She is a honest to God hard working wife and mother and exactly what this country needs, with or without McCain...and I'm relatively certain she was chosen more for her oil connections rather than her ovaries...think about it.

Ypu missed the part where she stopped the $400,000,000.00 Pork Bridge to nowhere or forced the Big Oil to pay taxes, or the part where a Private Company got the contract to build the new gas pipeline and not big oil. Or the part where she has an 89% approval rating or is the most popular Governer in the Country. Well I quess those aren't negative so they don't count.

Ted Stevens doesn't like her either.

you may be right but really on her one accomplishment but you cant seriously suggest her ovaries had nothing to do with it?

in the same year that a woman almost clenches the democratic nomination, the same year the first black man ever nominated to be a major parties pick for president... you can sit there and suggest that if Sarah Palin, having the record she has, would be the VP pic if she had testicles?

if you believe that i got a bridge to no where id like to sell you

she didnt stop the bridge. she actually supported it.... that is until she didnt. i got a pair of flip flops she can have. even then she didnt stop it. it takes more than one person to stop these things.

piplines who cares who built it? really? does it matter? the oil companies still profit from it. actually sounds to me like they make more money by not having to spend the money to biuld it in the first place.

and her approval rating is 80% not 89% that may be nit picking but what is not is the fact there are roughly only 700,000 people in the entire state of alaska. there are more people than that in south los angeles alone. not hard to have people like you when there are only 8000 people in the town where you start your political career.

Do you really believe that Sarah Palin is the best the Republican Party has to offer? This is it? A hockey mom from Alaska?

So she stopped the bridge to nowhere. BIG DEAL! I'll bet there are 200 million other Americans that would have stopped that bridge too. It was a no brainer. C'mon. The bridge was a joke!

I feel very sad for the Republicans. Just think about all those McCain passed up to pick her.

You know it was about gender. Get real. If you listened to her speech, she is clearly trying to woo the Hillary supporters. Doesn't she think people can see through this?

I heard she tried to get a state trooper fired illegally or something.

The trooper illegally shot a moose. (And happened to be going thru a divorce with her sister.)

you can talk all the smack you want now...
but shut your dirty mouth when that hockey mom gets her foot in the door because there will be some serious changes in the way things are done in Washington DC.

V-PILF

divorcing her sister Sounds kinda suspiscious

I don't have a dirty mouth. I just brushed my teeth!