The Gallup Poll and Emily’s List both report Palin does not help MCain with women at all, in fact she is driving them away. She helps him with lonely, locked in/shut in men who haven’t had a women in a long time. As a man in my neighborhood said “She looks like a hot fiest tramp that you want to bed a few times and then dump because you can see she’s trash.” Maureen Dowd and Dr. Laura turned against Palin publicly that something ugly was brewing. The McCain campaign, which must have been drinking heavily last night to pull this out of their increasingly rumpled hat, trotted Ann Coulter out to gripe about Palin’s husband not carrying enough Mr. Mom weight in order to elicit sympathy for their failing Veep pick. I’m sure he appreciated the tips. Tremendously. No idea why anyone thought Ann Coulter was the appropriate parenting skillz messenger, but you work with whomever wants their share of the limelight, I suppose. Since half the GOP has run the hell away from the convention center, with scads of empty seats on the teevee coverage thus far, maybe she and her perpetual cocktail dress had a few spare moments to chitchat. From Emily’s List; “Hard numbers show how sour the female electorate has turned on Palin in less than a week is startling, given that the vast majority of women outside Alaska likely had very little clue who she even was. Looks like women don’t like manipulative tactics or imprudent rolls of the campaign dice. McCain just got served a serious “Dear John” letter.

McCain selected the least formidable candidate in Sarah Palin, the former mayor of a hick town and the two-year governor of an already Republican state with three electoral votes, isolated from the mainstream. McCain could save a lot of time, money, and exertion by conceding now.

Sarah Palin is a LIAR and LIED on her first day running as VP/ In her very first speech, Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has proven herself to be a liar. Governor Palin’s statement today: “…I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress — I told Congress, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’ on that bridge to nowhere. If our state wanted a bridge, I said we’d build it ourselves.” (Source.) Yet, she specifically told the Anchorage Daily News on October 22, 2006 that: 5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges? Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now—while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.(Source) It wasn’t until the bridge became a national joke that she finally decided to oppose it. Something like this is pretty par for the course in politics, but what bothers me most about it is the fact that (a) this is one of the issues that Governor Palin and her supporters have pointed to in order to show her “credentials”, and (b) she lied in her very first speech as the Republican VP nominee. She couldn’t at least wait until her second day on the job?

Palin is currently under investigation for SORDID administrative behavior—her role in a scandal involving the firing of Alaska Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan over his reluctance to fire an Alaska state trooper, Mike Wooten—Palin’s former brother-in-law who has been involved in a bitter custody fight with her younger sister, Molly McCann. There have been calls for Palin’s impeachment. There’s an audio tape that confirms interference by Palin’s staff. Monegan claims he has emails documenting Palin’s interference. As one Alaska political blogger noted: “It’s all out there in black & white — drunk driving, foul language, illegal moose hunting, an extramarital affair, neighbors peeking in windows, private investigators, death threats, snow-machining on sick days, verbal abuse, dry tasering an 11-year old so he could see what it felt like. And Palin’s brother-in-law threatening to have a patron thrown out of the Mug Shot Saloon, one of the busiest establishments in Palin’s hometown of Wasilla—the other famous community girl is porn star April Flowers. Trailer-Trash Soap Opera at its worse—a mix of “Northern Exposure” mixed with “The Anna Nicole Show.” And Palin is in the middle of it all and soon to face a deposition. McCain only met Palin on one occasion before offering her the VP. She is the least experienced national candidate in American history. Palin’s politics are hardly ethical—they’re all about greasing the skids of her primary white constituency in scandal-ridden Alaska. On that score she fits perfectly into the Republican mold—she’s pro-oil and anti-environment. Indeed, she’s suing the Federal Government over listing polar bears as a threatened species, which even the Bush Administration supports. At one point she was in favor of Alaska’s so-called “Bridge to Nowhere,” and then she switched gears and opposed it. Palin portrays herself as a fiscal conservative, Palin accumulated nearly $20 million in long-term debt as mayor of Wasilla. She’s a fraud—from beginning to end. Palin’s favorite food is moose meat. She supports drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and supports aerial shooting of wild bears and wolves. She’s even more out-of-touch with the American people than McCain. She’s also supported handing over American jobs to Canada to build a major oil pipeline. She knows nothing of our country’s urban crisis, has zero experience in race relations, and she is pro-gun and pro-life. She’s the radical right —a conservative extremist who is all pork and no barrel. But that’s merely on domestic issues. When it comes to foreign policy, she has absolutely zero experience. This at a time of serious international threats around the world—from Al Qaeda to Iraq, from North Korea to Iran, from Afghanistan to Russia and Georgia, from the Taliban to Pakistan. Not one day of experience. Not one notch on her resume. None. Not only is Palin not fit to serve, but by picking Palin as his running mate, neither is John McCain. An Alaskan who knows. Jackie S.

As an Alaskan, I am writing to give all of you some information on Sarah Palin. As an Alaska voter, I know more than most of you about her and, frankly, I am horrified that he picked her. The most accurate description of her is red neck. Her husband works in the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay and races snow mobiles. She is a life time member of the NRA and has worked tirelessly to allow indiscriminate hunting of wildlife in Alaska, particularly wolves and bears. She has spent millions of Alaska state dollars on aerial hunting of these predators from helicopters and airplanes, dollars that should have been spent, for example, on Alaska’s failing school system. We have the lowest rate of high school graduation in thecountry. Not all of you may think aerial predator hunting is so bad, but how anyone (other than Alaska wolf-haters, of which there are many, most without teeth), could think this use of funds is appropriate is beyond me. She has been a strong supporter of increased use of fossil fuels, yet the McCain campaign has the nerve to say she has “green” policies. The only thing green about Sarah Palin is her lack of experience. She has consistently supported drilling in ANWR, use of coal-burning power plants (as I write this, a new coal plant is being built in her home town of Wasilla), strip mining, and almost anything else that will unnecessarily exploit the diminishing resources of Alaska and destroy its environment. Prior to her one year as governor of Alaska, she was mayor of Wasilla,a small red neck town outside Anchorage.The average maximum education level of parents of junior high school kids in Wasilla is 10th grade. Unfortunately, I have to go to Wasilla every week to get groceries and other supplies, so I have continual contact with the people who put Palin in office in the first place. I know what I’m talking about. These people don’t have a concept of the world around them or of the serious issues facing the US. Furthermore, they don’t care. So long as they can go out and hunt their moose every fall, kill wolves and bears and drive their snow mobiles and ATVs through every corner of the wilderness, they’re happy. I wish I were exaggerating. Sarah Palin is currently involved in a political corruption scandal. She fired an individual in law enforcement here because she didn’t like how he treated one of her relatives during a divorce. The man’s performance and ability weren’t considered; it was a totally personal firing and is currently under investigation. While the issue isn’t close to the scandal of Ted Steven’s corruption, it shows that Palin isn’t “squeaky clean” and causes me to think there may be more issues that could come to light. Clearly McCain doesn’t care. When you line Palin up with Biden, the comparison would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. Sarah Palin knows nothing of economics (admittedly a weak area for McCain), or of international affairs, knows nothing of national government, Social Security, unemployment, health care systems - you name it. The idea of her meeting with heads of foreign governments truly frightens me. In an increasingly dangerous world, with the economy in shambles in the US, Sarah Palin is uniquely UNqualified to be vice president. John McCain is not a young man. Should something happen to him such that the vice president had to step in, it would destroy our country and possibly the world to have someone as inexperienced and inappropriate as Sarah Palin. The choice of Palin is a cheap shot by McCain to try to get Hillary supporters to vote for him. When McCain introduced her today, Palin had the nerve to compare herself with Hillary and Geraldine Ferraro. Sarah Palin, you are no Hillary Clinton. To those of you who, like me, supported Hilary and were upset that she did not get the nomination, please don’t think that Sarah Palin is a worthy substitute. If you supported Hillary, regardless of what you think the media and the Democratic party may have done to undermine her campaign, the person to support now is Obama, not Sarah Palin. To those of you who are independent or undecided, don’t let the choice of Palin sway you in favor of McCain. Choosing her shows how unqualified McCain is to be president. To those of you who are conservative, I guess you have no choice for president. But please try to see how the poor choice of Palin tells us a great deal about McCain’s judgment. While the political posturing inherent in the choice of Palin is obvious, the more serious issue is the fact that the VP is, literally, a heartbeat away from the presidency. Sarah Palin is totally and unequivocally unqualified to be vice president, let alone president. I know this is a lengthy and emotional email, but the stakes are high. I thought it might help for all of you, regardless of political affiliation, to know something about Palin from someone who has to live with her administration in Alaska on a daily basis. Jackie S.