This is a joke, right?

If it isn't, we need to put some lipstick on this pig and run it up the flagpole.
I have tried to reconcile that I WANT to vote for a woman, but this woman? I have some problems:
She seems to be one of those women that --- well, there was a movie about them-- oh, Stepford Wives-esque. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something is amiss.

Her speech last night didn't impress me. She didn't say ANYTHING about the issues, but she sure told me what EVERY OTHER politician has said: I'm not going up there to make friends I'm going to work for the people of America. yeah right!! she might can talk the talk but can she walk the walk?

And my husband said that the plane she sold on ebay, well she didn't sell it on ebay, it was bought OUTSIDE of an ebay transaction, and that she LOST 1MILLION DOLLARS on the deal. Doesn't sound like a fiscally responsible governor---- wouldn't it have been more if she had had it disassebled and sold for scrap? did she talk to sir richard about buying it? hmm...

Like I said, the best thing she said, was at the beginning when she talked about being an advocate for special needs children. That is the ONLY thing that impressed me

Is this the BEST they can do? McCain/Palin? What a Joke!

Okay, I'm all for a woman in our Executive Branch of government, but as an undecided voter, although I voted for Hillary in the Texas Primary, I am not enthused with the pick that has come from the Republican party.
She hasn't really done anything for Alaska (I have friends that work up there 7 months of each year) as far as bringing in jobs and strengthening their economy.
I'm inclined to read all I can before making up my mind but several things come to mind:
1) She is against a woman's CHOICE re: terminating a pregnancy. This is MY choice to be made intelligently, and with the information given by my doctor to terminate. Not a decision to be forced upon me by some rootin', tootin, shootin' resident of our 49th state.
2) Her response to questions re: troopergate require her(the state) to hire an attorney to defend her.
3) I'm all for giving WE THE PEOPLE all information, and as such, some sort of "theology" basics should be taught in school; our educational institutions should NOT exclude theology in its curriculum, but neither should theology be the ONLY course taught.
4) Her response to questions re: troops in Iraq is a joke.
5) She had to get a passport because she had never been outside the U.S. until AFTER she became Governor.

I'm not impressed with her. And as someone who is TRULY an undecided voter, this pick doesn't show me that John McCain has the judgement to be trusted with my vote. I want to believe that the Republicans when they tell me what they stand for. http://www.gop.com/pdf/PlatformFINAL_WithCover.pdf

It seems kinda like when my parents would say "Don't do as I do, do as I SAY do".
Moral vs. Political Philosophy is an easy one. The Moral Philosophy stays within my home and family and to some extent my community, but the Political Philosophy has a larger impact, State / National. What is right for my community in southeast texas, may not be necessarily right for downtown Detroit, small town Iowa, manufacturing PA, or leisurely CA.
We all want smaller government, but we want our government to be responsible for us, not the other way around.

I can't believe that the Republican National Committee wants the conservative base so badly that it will sacrifice the political life of John McCain to even allow this to go forward. I saw a picture of the McCain/Palin ticket, and it remined me of Anna Nicole Smith sitting beside her late husband. It was kinda porny watching the two of them up on a stage. Her moral compass may cater to the religious right, but if I'm the kind of undecided voter the Republicans are trying to win over with this pick, then they have seriously underestimated my intelligence and my "political philosophy".

I am going to watch her speech at the convention and then I'll post more, but her opposition to abortion is the first black strike against her.