wombat_socho

In short, she makes the faithful happy, but doesn't win any friends.

Polls say otherwise, but we'll find out in November. Minnesota != America, after all. ;)

I think it's also worth noting here that the Republican base was, at the very least, unenthusiastic about Senator McCain, and Governor Palin may have been chosen partly as a ticket balancer - yeah, she's a maverick reformer like McCain, but she also is walking the pro-life, pro-guns, drill here drill now talk, and that has the base stoked.

Finally, you don't really want to get into an argument about your wannabe President's experience vs. our wannabe Veep's experience. It does nothing for him at all, especially considering that not only his main primary opponent but his own running mate said he wasn't ready to be President.