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You mean that socialism thing she does with sending everyone a check every year? Annie

uh huh lol Although you know when Republicans do socialism it's not socialism...it's for the better of the people...yeah yeah that's it

Nope she is definitely not qualified. And if she's going to run in 2012 she better be a quick study because she definitely has a lot to learn. Let's start with teaching her that a wink only gets you so far. That wink may have worked for a few months but then she started opening her mouth more and more and pretty soon she wasn't America's sweetheart anymore.

Your willingness to believe this garbage from nameless sources just shows that you're no better than the morons who believe Obama is a muslim terrorist. You're so willing to subscribe to the belief that Bush is ignorant and yet you fail to realize he got his MBA from Harvard, the same school Obama went to.

Thanks for a very thorough and thoughtful response! You made enough good points for me to decide to go through it point by point. "I feel she was USED by the Republican party as a pawn in their plan to get McCain into the White House. Now that the plan failed miserably, they want to blame her for their loss." I think you're absolutely right about that, they really did use her. "Our press has become like bottom feeders who look for the worst in everyone. Not one of them could live up to the standards they hold up for others. The Republican party used her & she used them back. I find that hilarious." I agree she used the Republicans back but I'm not personally so inclined to blame the media completely for what they report. Now, if it were to come out that they've made up the stories that have been circulating lately, allegedly from McCain campaign staffers, I'd eat my words in a heartbeat; for now, I feel they're just dong what they do - looking for a story that will sell papers or magazines or draw in viewers. "Think about it...had she worn her soccer mom clothes while campaigning, the press would have eaten her alive & the American public would NOT have accepted her at all." Here's where we really disagree; I'm not saying she should have campaigned wearing tattered jeans and sloppy sweatshirts, which I'm certainly NOT saying that's how she "normally" dresses, but there is something in between wearing clothing worth more than many Americans spend in an entire lifetime for clothes from the most high-end, expensive stores in the world and wearing the kind of outfits the typical soccer or hockey mom may wear when she takes her kids to practice everyday. Had she said in one of her early speeches something like, "I came here from Alaska without much notice so I had to do some clothes shopping at Target (or Wal-Mart or K-Mart)" or "I just came back from J.C. Penney's where I got some great buys on sale". That wouldn't have made me vote for her and McCain based on the issues but I think that would have made lots of women feel they could really relate to her. "I think ALL these anonymous sources should be outed & prosecuted if they lied." Without even getting into the First Amendment issue I'll just say that's a very tall order indeed! "We as the American public have become so pious as to pounce upon any badmouthing we read. We used to be able to trust the press. I find that no longer to be the case. It would be easy for me to say you are wrong if I don't have to back up my claim with fact by hiding behind the press. If I were being held accountable for my accusations, I would." I think this is again a case of blaming the media and I think you're implying that journalists should be forced to reveal their sources. Do you know how may important stories never would have been broken if they didn't have that protection? There are good and bad journalists and it's our responsibility to do our best to figure out the difference. In the case of Sarah Palin vs. the Media I think it just might all come out in the wash eventually. Annie

A lot of the newest information is coming from the Newsweek special election issue, which has been published after the election in each election since 1984. Newsweek makes a deal with the various campaigns to allow a reporter to travel with the campaign and to grant that reporter more access to the campaign staff and records in return for a promise that nothing they learn will be published before the polls are closed. The reporters involved even had their own computer network to reduce the chance of accidental leaks. There were also interesting tidbits about the Obama campaign (even though the campaign advisers decided early on that Hillary wouldn't be on the short list of VP picks, Obama kept coming back and asking "Are we sure about that?" Early on in the campaign, Hillary looked around her living room and asked out loud, "Do I really want to do this? I love this house..." And when one of the campaign aides responded "The White House is nice, too", she responded, "I've been there.") As far as books about the campaign, I'm sure of it, and I'd bet we'll see it within the next four to six months. Tell-all exposes always do well.

I think you're probably right, Xandercordy. The choice of Sarah Palin alienated a lot of moderate Republicans, but I think what alienated them even more was the campaign's insistence that she is something she's not. It's funny - my daughter and I also had many discussions about whether Obama would - and then why he didn't - choose Hillary as running mate. She kept saying "They didn't even VET her!" Interestingly, I was flipping through channels yesterday afternoon and stumbled across the press conference with the Newsweek reporters who contributed to the Special Election Issue, and the gentleman who'd moved from the Hillary campaign to the Palin group put a different face on that, too. According to him, Obama's campaign staff had decided early on that Hillary was an unlikely choice and made a conscious choice to -spare- her the vetting process, which can be positively brutal to a possible candidate. They saw no point in putting her through that and possibly damaging her career when she was such a long shot as their choice.

well it didn't work under Thatcher's Britain (unless you were right wing and rich/privelliged) and she was intelligent.

I really can't disagree with anything you said except for, "... hope she runs for President in 4 years,"! I certainly agree a woman would straighten a lot of things out, just not THAT woman...lol! Annie

I thought it was the Obama supporters who were meant to be the brainwashed blind followers.

Jend80, there are mindless followers from both sides I'm afraid...lol...some more mindless than others! Suspenseful, I wouldn't tell anyone to check their sources or not believe things you hear or read if I were you! You've been posting that Obama is for gay marriage and would make it so heterosexual couples can't get married for months now among other outrageous and totally false claims. There is a lot more credibility in these reports about Palin because they come from the McCain campaign itself and were not just runors started by the "evil" media. Time will tell if these anonymous sources come forward but since there are reportedly several book deals in the works I'd say the odds are in favor of that happening, at least in some cases. Annie

OK, I guess in a sense you got me there, but in fact they reported the story just like any network reports a story, saying it had been said by whoever, named or unnamed, whichever the case may be. Can I assume you're saying Newsweek is telling nothing but lies this year and does that mean they've always told lies when they've done their post-election reports? Annie

Well Annie the article you linked to was Times Online, not Newsweek. Since they've already lied about what Fox News said I can't assume that they were reporting on the Newsweek article accurately either. I don't really read Newsweek so I can't give you any opinions on their honesty or integrity in reporting. I can say that this Times Online article was deceptive, poorly written, and clearly intended to mislead its readers into thinking these claims were verified facts rather than unsubstantiated claims made by an unnamed source.

"She has been the subject of far too much criticism- more than any other." I respectfully disagree, but even if that were true, that she'd been the subject of more criticism than any other, has any of it been unnearned? Annie

Whether you liked Sarah Palin or not here's one fact that I have noticed. Any time anyone said a word about Palin, they were supposed to beg her forgiveness. People were making it sound like it was awful that those bad men were talking about a woman like that! No one was more bashed or knocked around during the campaign than Obama. But he was just supposed to take it because he's a man and John McCain was supposed to take all the bashing because he's a man but Sarah....no! Leave her alone! She's a woman! I'm a woman and I respect strong women but if Sarah couldn't take the heat she should have gotten out of the kitchen! Politics is mud-slinging and slander. Making mountains out of molehills. Telling out and out blatant lies. It is not for the weak of heart or the crybabies, so why does everyone want to defend her? She knew what she was getting into and she accepted the nomination anyway. Let her take her beat downs like the men. Heck, even Michelle took hits and she wasn't even running.

I agree with you completely. It's time to leave her alone and let her get back to her life. She has been the subject of far too much criticism- more than any other. It's nonsense. They are just looking for someone to blame for what went wrong. Let's put the blame where it belongs and move on.

Actually, I'd never heard of anyone, especially anyone who is supposed to be educated, saying that before, but even if what you said was true shouldn't a V.P. candidate know a few more things than the average person knows? You're right though, it is time to get behind our President Elect but he IS a Christian and why would it matter if he weren't? Annie