The stuff with Palin is a distraction for Obama, because he’s not running against her, but against McCain. We aren’t comparing Palin and Biden. In fact, no one has been talking about Biden much at all, except when he makes one of his hilarious gaffes, like telling the guy in the wheelchair to stand up. (That’s my favorite Bidenism, BTW) How about the time when he wanted the government to help buy Americans toasters? (Stainless steel for me please…) How about his comments on how patriotic it is for rich people to pay a lot of taxes? The Democrats would benefit from giving Biden a set speech and keeping him away from the media. Let’s talk more about Biden and his supposed wisdom.

Somehow you never got the memo I guess, but the longer this discussion comparing Palin’s experience to Obama’s goes on, the worse Obama looks because it brings up the area in which Obama is the weakest: his own thin resume.

Obama himself has even realized this (actually David Axelrod probably pointed it out to him). Have you not noticed that after a week of fruitless attacks against Palin, Obama has shifted back to critizing McCain?

The more you Obama supporters attempt to diminish, disrespect, and disgrace Governor Palin the more it redounds against you. Just ask Keith Olbermann and Chris Mathews.

I’ve been hearing for a year that eloquent speeches are nothing for something as important as the presidency. Now all of a sudden Republicans are telling me I should have heard her speak? Interesting.

Almost switching parties also doesn’t make one a centrist. Joe Lieberman, a man with no party, didn’t almost switch he was booted out when he lost the Democratic Primary in 2006. McCain on the other hand, out right considered switching parties two different times in the last 8 years. He flopped back and forth between the issue not certain what his decision was going to be. He also met with John Kerry to see about being his running mate in 2004. McCain’s a waffler, never certain where he might land. In Lieberman’s example, there was no switch. It was a forceful boot. In McCain’s example, he cognitively considered switching to the Democratic Party on two separate occasions only later to change his mind. That’s not centrism.

I’ll agree Palin is a conservative. But I think she adds little weight to the McCain ticket. She is by far the most inexperienced VP selection in a hundred years.

I do like to see the word apoplectic, however. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.

The fact that he “almost switched parties” as you say speaks to that fact that he, like Lieberman, is a centrist. And arguably a left leaning centrist at that.

You should be happy, our next president will either be a left leaning centrist or a hardcore leftist.

Either way the left wins.

This also helps explain why so many on the left are apoplectic about the Sarah Palin selection. There now is at least one conservative out of the four people on both tickets.

Palin represents the fact that conservatives have not been entirely consigned to the political wilderness just yet.

The addition of Palin to the ticket also ruins the MSM plan to have McCain as a back up plan if the country collectively doesn’t feel like making a state senator with no foreign policy experience our commander in chief.

If something should happen to McCain should he win, then a bonafide conservative will suddenly be in charge thereby thwarting the MSM’s McCain safety net theory.

If knowing where a person stands is about trust, then McCain is the least honest person in the U.S. government.

There are so many more home-runs to be hit against the Dems.

Dear RNC, less hand-wringing, more home-runs please.