And while I don't want McCain to be president, I'd much rather the narrative surrounding any McCain victory to be that the Dems unleashed a monster named Misogyny in the primary and it came back to bite them in November.  

McCain picks a different woman who is 180 degrees apart from Hillary and Sebelius, and it's a sign that he wants your vote?

She can run...so next woman to come along ...any woman... issues be damned...gets the PUMA vote

People eat up the anti-corruption stuff.  And the tough gal stuff (Anne Richards, anyone?).  And the American frontier stuff (Alaska's a tough place to live, and Palin and her husband have working class roots to which they are a lot closer than Joe Biden).

Maybe this pick will shake up the Obama campaign and they will realize that, yes, women do have somewhere else to go.

The sad thing is that Dems are now saying "We can send out Clinton to counteract her." There's an article on the HuffPo that says "Sarah Palin, you're no Hillary Clinton!" Oh really, well then, they must love her since HRC is the debil woman, right?

My question would be is: Do they teach creationism in public schools now?

  On paper and if she doesn't speak, it's a spectacularly good choice.  But when she speaks, her voice an octave higher than it would naturally be, the tension behind it, and the frown she does after each 'paragraph' just scared me.

  I was hoping that if Dems had to lose, that we'd at least have that 'historic' thing on the other side.

  While I'd think this will really hurt McCain, as people hear her more, we DID see, voted in, George W. Bush twice!  Not to mention Cheney.  

  On paper and if she doesn't speak, it's a spectacularly good choice.  But when she speaks, her voice an octave higher than it would naturally be, the tension behind it, and the frown she does after each 'paragraph' just scared me.

  I was hoping that if Dems had to lose, that we'd at least have that 'historic' thing on the other side.

  While I'd think this will really hurt McCain, as people hear her more, we DID see, voted in, George W. Bush twice!  Not to mention Cheney.  

  On paper and if she doesn't speak, it's a spectacularly good choice.  But when she speaks -- her voice an octave higher than it would naturally be, the tension behind it, and the frown she does after each 'paragraph' -- just scared me.

  I was hoping that if Dems had to lose, that we'd at least have that 'historic' thing on the other side.

  While I'd think this will actually hurt McCain, as people hear her more, we DID see, voted in, George W. Bush twice!  Not to mention Cheney.  So you are probably right.

  I don't know.  I'm not really for Obama due to the gap between how he presents himself and how he functioned in the primary but this may cause me to vote for him after all because the stresses with global problems requires someone a bit cooler in style.

On the other hand, she seems to have integrity.  The wikipedia entry for her says this

While the previous administration did not implement same-sex
benefits, Palin complied with an Alaskan state Supreme Court
order and signed them into law.[32] She disagreed with the
Supreme Court ruling[33] and supported a democratic advisory
vote from the public on whether there should be a
constitutional amendment on the matter.[34] Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay
marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.[35] Palin has stated that she supported the 1998 constitutional amendment.[10]

Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would
have barred the state from granting benefits to the partners of gay state employees. In effect, her veto granted State of
Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after
Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the
constitutionality of the legislation.[33]

Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state's entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton. (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn't support a woman, but she didn't like Clinton's "whining.")

People thought that McCain was running an inept campaign because HE WAS in the spring. However, he retooled and started doing the right things.

She will not speak against Palin, nor should she.

Now they suddenly find themselves needing her and wanting her input.