>>>It's a pretty thin resume, isn't it? Governor for two years of a remote state with a population of 1 million.
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>>Experience as a Mayor as well. As governor, she has already achieved more than Obama. She balanced the budge of Alaska, fought special interest groups, leads the national guard of the state, improved the economy of the state, and brought corrupt politicians to justice. Have to give her credit for that.
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>>What shouldn't surprise me, but does, is that I'm listening to her speech and the party brought partriotism and military service and fear into it...
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>>More - brought her son going to Iraq into it and how important Alaska is as an energy state (the most important), and then women's suffrage of course and how the Dem party failed to meet the challenge.
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>>Not only has McCain beat Obama on 'change,' but I think she is more qualified to be President than Obama is...
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>>Too bad I disagree with many of her views...
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>I am sure her pro-life stance bothers you as it will many others but at least in fairness she lives her beliefs, as witnessed by her most recent child's birth, and I find people who do that actually tend to be less hell-bent on imposing their beliefs on others. She also short-circuited an attempt to deny gay couples partnership rights. Doesn't seem like a zealot, though she is undoubtedly a social conservative.

I agree. She has her beliefs, and I'm not enraged by the fact that they are not my beliefs, but as I said, she doesn't seem to be fixated on a sort of divine right to rule by ideology. I'm not a McCain fan, but this appointment is real interesting. At least now I know he is a very smart man (or at least his advisers are smart).