If Palin was someone else?

I don't think she is being thrown under the bus. I think there are many female politicians who would have taken a different, more acceptable approach to the position of running mate. I think Palin showed a total lack of interest in getting up to speed on things she needed to know to present herself well in this campaign. Those first few interviews, she across as a complete idiot. I don't believe she is one, but that it how it looked. Because she is a good public speaker, I don't think she believed it was necessary to be prepped. This brought very negative attention to her.

I already knew her record before she was even mentioned as V.P.. She sold out to the big oil companies long ago & has been on the environmental hit list since she took office. McCain could have definently chosen better. At lest for me, when he picked her he was no longer even an option. Her being female has nothing to do with it in my opinion. That bus should be backed up over & over again.

I think it has nothing to do with her being female. I was disappointed that Hilary was not chosen as the democratic candidate. This is nothing to do with her being female and everything to do with her extreme right wing stance on all issues. I find her extreme views extremely scary and it would be much better if the republicans abandoned their extreme right wing stance and moved back towards the centre to all the voters who have been abandoned by them.

Not because she's a woman. Because she's a dunce. Olympia Snowe or Kay Bailey Hutchinson are both Republican women far more qualified, in my opinion. Palin wasn't even vetted--for crying out loud, McCain had met her ONCE in person before choosing her!

My objection to Palin is not that she's a woman, but that she's an idiot with no concept of reality, has a track record of exhibiting poor judgement and poor ethics. I also don't believe that she has the common sense needed for the job of vice president and is incapable of taking advice on serious matters. If McCain had chosen a different woman...or man...I may still be supporting him but there's no way I want that wackjob in the white house.

celestos, I took part in a whole lot of political discussions in which Palin was the subject, and I think it was fairly clear that it was HER, not the fact that she was female, which was causing all the opposition. Many of those who thought she stank would have voted for Hilary in a heartbeat. In Australia we have seen a fair bit of coverage, and from what I saw of Palin, I would have been terrified if McCain won with her as VP. The thought of her with her finger on the button .....ugh. Lash

We`ll still depends really on who and what the person would be... as for Palin, I believe that she`s not really being thrown under the bus just because she`s a female, there`s really just something in her which doesn`t fit to be a quality of a good leader... just my two cents.

She's deifnately not being thrown under the bus for being female. More just for being completely incompetant and the thought of her being a heartbeat (pardon the pun) away from running the United States is disturbing to say the least. Had McCain picked a better VP canadite (Romney for sure, or even Guliani, Huckabee) or even a better female canadite (sorry, I can't think of one in the Republican party offhand..i'm sure there are a couple though) then he might actually have a chance, or at the very least America would be more accepting. But really...what were they thinking, after America has largely given up on Pres Bush, they pick the only woman in the United States that makes G.W look like a Rhodes Scholar?? ;) I'll look back on this election not as one the Democrats won, but one the Republicans lost.