Were all voting women expected to vote for McCain because of Palin?

Of course nobody is stupid enough to think she would get ALL women to vote for her and McCain. He picked her to balance the ticket and shore up his weaknesses. She brought in executive experience as a governor and mayor. She has experience balancing a government budget and producing a budget surplus. She has experience running an energy producing state which provides somewhere along the line of 15% of the nation's oil. Was her gender a factor? Of course it was. Just as Biden's age was a factor in balancing Obama's youth. Her gender did help McCain's campaign. A week after choosing her Obama's lead among women voters went from 16 to 3. McCain led amongst white women voters. The women who attack him over it were the ones who would have never voted for him anyway so they are largely irrelevant.

I actually think it is degrading to think that all women would support any particular woman in politics - not all women would support Hillary and not all women would support Palin. It is much like saying that all blacks supported Obama - which was not the case.

I know there are plenty here who disagree but I'm still totally convinced that's why she was picked and I'm also more and more convinced it wasn't really McCain's idea. I have a feeling there are going to be some interesting things coming out before too long, even more interesting than her not knowing what countries are in North America or that Africa is a continent. It's pretty clear she wasn't vetted at all and they tried to keep her under wraps for as long as possible, never letting her talk without a teleprompter and a scripted speech. I was offended to think someone, whether it was McCain or his advisers who wouldn't "let" him pick Joe Lieberman as he reported wanted to, apparently thought that women, particularly women who had wholeheartedly supported Hillary Clinton, would simply jump over to McCain's camp simply because he'd put a woman on the ticket. I know many Republicans here on myLot and elsewhere think Sarah's the next big GOP star and I respect their views and don't mean to offend anyone, but personally I think she's set women back. I hope to one day see a female V.P. and ultimately President but I hope it's someone who's informed, intelligent and intellectually curious and willing to accept everyone as "real Americans" and not someone who thinks she can get by with a few cute little winks and a folksy way of talking to make us think she's one of us all the while being given designer clothing worth six figures to wear. Annie

Many will scream otherwise but I believe that's exactly what the GOP hoped for when she was selected. There were so many choices that would have worked out so much better. Considering the state of our economy I still believe that Mitt Romney would have been able to gain the confidence of the voters but he was dumped out of fear of upsetting the Religious Right.

I think Sarah Palin hurt McCain with women. After all, McCain lost the women vote nationally. I don't think that it was a ploy of McCain's to pick her, I just think that everyone else turned McCain down. Palin did not know enough about the political process to be electable, and that hurt McCain.

I admit that most of America did not know Palin when he chose her. There were some conservatives who did. I know here on mylot we were kicking around ideas of who should be his running mate and her name was kicked around a lot then. We knew she as on the short list and hoped.The main stream media may not have known much about here. But political junkies, and a lot of conservatives liked her. Do I think McCain picked her because he was hoping to pull more female votes? Yep. But that does not mean that was the only reason he picked her. Not that CNN would admit it. I think it was really offal the way the press spun this. I remember hearing on the news the day she was announced "they only did this because of Hilary". That was their story and they stuck to it. Which deminished the accomplishements Palin had done in Alaska. Heck CNN told woman to be insulted by his choice. So they were. . I heard "she has small kids". What does that matter? There are a lot of women in powerful positions that have small kids. Heck there are a lot of men in powerful positions with small kids. In the first couple of days the press tore her up before most of America got to know her.The sexism that came out of it really shocked me.Combine that with the fact that I do not think the McCain camp handled her properly (they over handled her). Between that and the media she never stood a chance. I hope we do see more of Sarah Palin. Not all women in politics have to be Democrats. Believe or not there are female republican voters out there. There should be female republican and democrat candidates in all levels of government. They should be taken seriously. Not matter what party they belong to.

No, but the left didn't have to resort to total sexist statements when campaigning against her... her is c**t not considered acceptable political speech?