You guys all think you are frustrated. I live in Alabama near Montomgery. I am stunned everyday by the number of McCain/Palin signs I see in so many yards. David Gergen (I hope I spelled that right) hit the nail on the head yesterday, when he said the issue is RACE. No one in their right unprejudiced mind could possibly vote for McPalin with a straight face.

If Obama wins I might have to move!!!!!

Now, what’s her name has been relegated to the back pages of the political history book, where her only stated merit will that she freed Dan Quayle from the public humiliation he as had to endure. She is officially a bigger bobble head than he is.

The Reptilians should be proud that their campaign has been reduced to an iconic American punch line!

The Reptilians should just privately concede the election and do an honorable last month so they will live to fight another day. MAYBE they can regroup in time for 2012.

Continuing down the road the “Liar’s Express” is now traveling will only bring out the whole Keating 5 etc, and cause the Reptilians to lose any respect from middle America. Reptilians will not only be a laughing stock, but a dishonored laughing stock.

No political clout for decades.

But hey, what do I know.

I feel sorry for Alaskans.

I hated the Bush/Cheney policies, but you know what, those CRAZY terrorists deserve our best of the best LUNATIC Team, Bush/Cheney.

Trust me, Muslim extremists DO NOT deserve good treatments. I was watching the History Channel some times back, and when Turkey (Ottomon Empire was moderate Muslims) established its government, they got rid of Muslim extremists.

Ideas are what this American experiment is about.
Regardless who wins this election we have to get past the mindless hate that seems to run rampant in this country. One thing that Obama has done is energize a whole new generation of citizens to be voters.
We will be watching. The American people have been awakened and have discovered our power. We reject corruption. We embrace hope. We long to live in peace and prosperity. There are many in the world who would see us fail. Some even in this country. As Barack Obama has said, we stand in a stronger position to deal with threats if we stand together with our brothers throughout the world. We must lead by example, not by force. Create jobs through innovation and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure. Rebuild our health care system and schools. Make us once again the envy of the world and share our prosperity, freedom and peace.
We must reject hate. We must truly put "Country first". It's not a slogan, it's a way of life.
We are Americans above all else. We set for ourselves high goals and high expectations. We expect our leaders to be the BEST of our people. Don't let us down.

She has helped him unite the democratic party.
She has helped him raise 10 million dollars.
He has made it clear that obama camp is a peace feast where you hear look to the future, yes we can!!! while McCain's camp is a terror feast.
Kill him!!! terrorist!!! heard in their rallies. The choice is clear either you have a childish instigator or a thoughtfull intelliegent able and capable young man.

Although the words sound rather harsh, I have to say that I completely agree. What Palin scares me the most is not her lacking of experience, but rather her extreme ignorance that drives her to do anything, no matter right or wrong, simply just to fulfill her own purpose. Based on what I have seen since the convention, how did she get elected as AK governor is really beyond me. Choosing Palin as VP truly shows McCain’s bad judgment.

McCain: "Who is the real Obama?"

Answer: "He's the guy whose ahead of you in every national poll and in most battleground states"

Well, we all know it, she seems the only one not to know it…and McCain of course!

Sarah Palin has nerve throwing mud at anyone. She is sleeping with the man who was recently in an organization trying to get Alaska to secede from the United States! And she went and spoke at one of their meetings!!! How UNAMERICAN IS THAT??!!

Yeah, real experience is needed like organizing fund raising through ACORN and other anti-American radical groups.
She's imminently more qualified than Obama the Black Muslim radical. Just being an decent Christian American makes her or anyone of her ilk more qualified than Hussein the Muslim pig.
He can be someone else's president, never mine.

It's pretty bad when people who are supporters of your own party who give thoughtful, insightful commentary on a regular basis to national media outlets think you're poison.

When will the rest of America wake up and realize that Palin is NOT the future of the GOP?

I am appalled that so many have been so blinded by this woman's folksy charisma and made-for-tv soundbites that they refuse to see what lies underneath–a vapid, ultraconservative shell of a woman who has absolutely no business governing anything.

Go back to the hockey rink and gossip and snipe with your hockey moms, Palin. It seems to be where you're most comfortable.

It is time for change

We need new leadership

We need someone to make our economy stronger

We need Obama-Biden in the White House

or are we willing to afford the Bush-McCain policies that have failed us all, just look at our economy…

Obama -Biden
Yes we will

The only real decision that McCain has had to make in the campaign, and it turns out to be a real stinker.

But Republicans are unlikely to listen. And its probably too late to do anything about it anyway. McCain can't replace her because he can't afford to admit to a serious mistake.

Hmm, let me see. Where have we seen that kind of stiff-necked belligerence before?

The same thing Obama as a cancer to the Democrats, but the media do no admit it? He has no epxerience and real-life records, but all talks.

Conservative New York Times columnist David Brooks has this to say about Sarah Palin:
She “represents a fatal cancer to the Republican Party.”
“Do I think she’s ready to be president or vice president? No, she’s not even close to that,” he said.

And I have this to say about Sarah Palin:

She has destroyed what ever fabric of decency left to cover the shame the Republican party has become these past several years.

She and McCain will be confined to the Dustbin of History and great men and women will rise up again to rebuild the GOP.

God bless America.

Guess Who am voting for 'that one", Mcsame and McPalain are sick desperados. Who, WANT be voting for them is "Me"

God help us all if she becomes President. The best we can hope for is that someone decent and smart runs things behind her. Kind of like a 4-year-old Princess that suddenly becomes the Queen when her dad dies. No one expects the 4-year-old to run the country.

I am not qualified to be President and I'm much more qualified that she.

The GOP cancer is all those who are turning a blind eye to her incompetence and claiming she's qualified and who should know better. How can they sleep at night?

why isn't the Alaskan Sepratist Party and the link to Todd and Sarah not being scutinized, We have like 3 weeks before we vote and it has hit MS media. people at her rally's sound like what you'd hear from a Spike Lee joint 1890's movie about lynching blacks, only now they say kill em, instead of hang em.
-I thought McCain would set this country back a hundred years, thats Disney Land compared to the hatred that this lady is spewing out,

bye bye McShameful duo!!!!!!

if something EVER happens to Barack, I hope she gets prosecuted for racial baiting…

Ahhhh what a relief to hear it said. If there was any hope of me accepting McCain, he trounced it when he picked Palin.

All politics aside, she does not represent positive, intelligent, successful women well. Women have tough when playing on the same field as men and winking and smiling like a pagent competitor doesn't help. The base coddles and encourages her, but they won't let her show what she is made of and speak to the press. I KNOW Pawlenty and Romney would be allowed to speak to the press unfiltered. It is sexist to do otherwise.

PALIN IS A GOOD AFFIRMATIVE ACTION VP STUPID ENTITLED WHITE GIRL WITH LOW STANDARDS BUT ACCEPTED BY HALF OF AMERICA. VERY GOOD AMERICA YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU GET JUST LOOK AT YOU INVESTMENTS.

Nothing is fatal for the GOP. Once they break out the smear attacks, & fear tactics, America buys it!

Look at how quickly the polls are swinging. 2 days ago it was 50%-43%. Today it's 48%-44%. And this is after Obama clearly won the debate too!. Unbelievable.

Believe me. Shes not just a cancer to the republican party. She's a cancer to the people of Alaska, our counrty, and the rest of the planet.

She will leave the ticket. Of course she will say its because she needs to spend more time with her family. But she has no experience and she owe over 25K in back taxes. We know the real reason, and it has nothing to do with her family.

Well stated.

I've never seen such high ambition and low intellectual curiosity since, well, Bush.

Palin is dangerous to America and she is the death of the GOP. Sure, the fringe loves her but the other 80% of the GOP have abandoned her.

YOU ARE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, DAVID!

Amazeing….. CNN posted this and it was not negative towards Obama.

Palin is a joke!!!! I predict that after the election is over and Obama wins by a big margin that she will go back to Alaska and be finally be gone. I can't wait for Troopergate to be over. Then we will know Sara for the snake she is.

And who picked her to be a running mate?

Right, enough said.

There is this mis conception also that she is a reformer, that she'll be able to tackle and change corruption. How about evidence and facts contradicting that? In fact, it is she who had actually abused power.

Why was she picked anyway? Because McCain thought he could pander to Hilary's voters. That's all. It's all about winning.

Thank you Mr. Brooks. I've been losing sleep. The possibility of Ms. Palin leader of the free world is terrifying.

I am willing to give anyone a chance, but Palin is hateful. I'm sorry, she lost me as a Republican when she gave that hate filled, speech during the Republican convention. She and McCain have yet to figure out that people are tired of being in attack mode. I just don't understand what they don't get about that.

She CHAMPIONS the brutal killing of wildlife and is fighting against saving polar bears – WHERE IS HER SOUL? I don't care what party you're from… PALIN IS A CANCER ON THE PLANET – PERIOD.

Does Sarah know she's conducting hate rallies? Or is she that unaware? Something tells me this woman is not that unaware. She knows how to manipulate a crowd. What happens, however, if someone gets hurt or worse, God forbid?

I support "That One," but I have to wonder if John McCain really wants to go down this road. If so, he doesn't qualify to even run for President.

this is it
RIP Palin!

We can always send Palin to the Wrangell Mountains for a bath in the mud pots and mud volcanos. Then she can go to Chena Hot Springs and wash off. Afterwards she can shoot some wolves from a helicopter before she goes moose hunting.

Oh wait – she can't do that because nothing can clean her off while she's wallowing in the mud that she's flinging!

It's a relief to know some conservatives can see this woman for what she is — and isn't.
She will never be qualified to be the leader of this country, much less on the world stage.

Nothing more to say.

Well Duh!! Like this is news? She been destroying the party since she stepped on the stage a month ago!

Be a maverick McCain and kick Pailn to the curb. She sucks and now you suck McCain.
And by the way McCain you served your country as POW many years ago, let it go already. It is great but that is not a reason for you to be the President.
All you said last night is that you can get the job done. HOW? Your reputation is going out the door.
So what if Obama has or hasn't took on his party, you haven't took on your campaign, your letting everyone take over you.

WHO IS JOHN MCCAIN?
WILL THE REAL JOHN MCCAIN STAND
MAVERICKMAVERICK WHERE IS HE I?

GET RID OF PAILN

Hey Johnny boy, We are voting for “THAT ONE & THIS ONE”!

You Betcha!

Obama & Biden ‘08 & '12

We need more Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich to balance the government. we had a perfect match in the 1990's and The People of America, benefitted from their wranglings.

the Republicans and Democrats are a great fuse of perfection. It's like a Ying/Yang relationship. A perfect balance forms a circle. No one is right, but add a little bit of this here and there, and you have the greatest economy… see the 1990's

Sara Palin is not ready to lead and John McCain showed poor judgment in selecting her. I question her intelligence. I am merely nitpicking here but didn"t anyone notice that she repeatedly pronounced "nuclear" as "nucular" in her debate? She's another George Bush!!!

She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."
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That is calling it like you see it. This person should have been on the McCain VP selection commitee. Unfortunately, McCain was thinking about how her credentials as a maverick and woman would get votes instead of selecting someone who could actually govern.

Sarah Palin doesn't have the knowledge or ability. If she were a man or ughly she wouldn't be running for VP. It's hard to believe the GOP doesn't have any other women with VP skills. I am a Republican and will not be voting for McCain. I have voted for him numerous times in the past.

I've seen in my neighborhood, where neither McCain nor Palin have tred, signs on muscle SUVs in camoflauge paint, "NOBAMA" with a swastika in the O. I don't know how a person who embraces hate-mongering can call themselves American. I cannot vote for a president/vice president who not only ignores but encourages and condones these behaviors in the citizens of our United States.
SHAME on the McCain ticket. Shame on them. Shame on those who listen to and heed these hurtful, and possibly life-threatening words. It is the most anti-American act of all.

–Obama is a breathe of fresh patriostism and will take us back into the status of benevolent power that is truly American. Barack Hussein Obama – be proud of your name, be proud of the service you bring to our country and world. –America for Obama!

So right on David Brooks. Time for Governor Palin to go back to Alaska. The McCain/Palin ticket will not win this November. Sure, let her keep shooting her mouth off at the remaining rallies. It appears to me that she wants to instigate a riot somewhere. What's with that?!?!? Guess they are really desperate and will try ANYTHING.

Anyway, this Hillary Clinton supporter is going to vote for "that one".

OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel that McCain who says country first wasnt putting country first when he picked Palin she is in over her head. And its like they are trying to keep us Americans off balance with the real issues by picking her we do need country first and I feel McCain right now knows its his only chance to become President not to help our country but to reach his finial goal no matter what it takes.

This is nothing we didn't already know.
She's a mistake.

Gov Palin is out of her leauge and it shows. She is making Senator Obama out to be a terrorist but he is not. When someone at her rally yelled out kill him and terrorist she did not stop the person she wants people to doubt Senator Obama but it is working against Senator Mccain she should keep it up because it will make it easier for Senator Obama and Senator Biden to win. Which is what this country needs to help us survive this crsis. Thank you Gov Palin.

If Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama is qualified to be president then Sarah Palin is most certainly qualified to be vice-president.

My heart aches at the thought of seeing 2 unprepared persons leading this country. I wish Americans can understand that experience doesn't necessarily mean someone is prepared.

She's a determined, ambitious women who would walk all over McCain to get to the presidency and with her stilletto heels leaving marks on his face. She's a disgrace to the Republican Party to say he very least.

Well, well, well!!! Since when did the turncoat David Brooks become an authority on who is and who is NOT fit to be a candidate for president or vice president. Look in newspaper archives and you'll see the mighty Brooks fawning all over George W. Bush and Dick Cheney when they ran in 2000 and 2004. So now he sets himself up as an authority on recognizing the perfect candidate. Tell you what Mr. Brooks. I see Sarah Palin so much the opposite as your descriptive pronouncement that if this INDEPENDENT had not already decided to vote for McCain/Palin, your column would have dealt the fatal blow to you, your newspaper, and the democratic party.

Mr. Brooks is 100% correct. The republicans have decided that intellect, intelligence, education, curiosity, creativity, and experience are worthless. I have never before seen anyone at this level sneer at higher education. McCain and Palin act as though there is something wrong with a person who has enough wherewithal to get an Ivy league education. My blood ran cold when a former secretary of education (Bill Bennett) spoke disparagingly of George Will as an "intellectual" that "maybe some people listen to." All I know is I wanted my son to get the best education possible, and all my life was told education is the cornerstone of any enlightened society.

SARAN PALIN NEEDS TO GO BACK HOME WITH HER BIAS AND RACIST SEIF SPEWING HATRED. IS THATS HOW BAD SHE WANT TO BE VP. GOD BLESS AMERICAN. THIS IS WHAT AMERICAN IS AND STILL IS FOR SOME.

Well – that "corrupt establishment" – you talk about is the obama Chicago style politics, the DNC, – and most of DC – with all their special programs – Fredie/Fannie – all going to special people -
Raines, Dodd, Obama – and don't forget ACORN.
Looks like we do need someone to Fight this corrupt group.

Palin is a car wreck. Now their campaign is treating her like a cuckoo clock… only letting her out twice a day to chirp like a crazy person before hiding her away again.

And McCain is even worse. Just 12 hours after referring to Sen. Barack Obama as "that one" during the second presidential debate, he just called Americans his "fellow prisoners" today at a rally in Pennsylvania.

I think they're both a fatal cancer! You betcha they are.

Obama/Biden '08!!!

I was beginning to wonder if there were ANY Republicans who are NOT suffering from a deadly case of CYNICISM!

Thank you Mr. Brooks!

There is HOPE!

No kidding.

its the moose burgers

ya think?

In short Palin is not fit to be VP over the PTA muchless the governor of Alaska.

AS A REPUBLICAN I THINK THAT PALIN WAS A VERY BAD CHOICE, I NEED TO DO WHATS BEST AND VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN. I JUST FEEL SAFER WITH THEM AND I FEEL THAT THEY WOULD MAKE A MORE EFFECTIVE TEAM.

Sarah Palin does not actually have a thought of her own in her head. She admonishes Obama for sitting on a board with Ayres who was a domestic terrorist 40 years ago, while she is married to a man who recently belong to an organization wishing to succeed for the US. What a hypocrite. She incites people to shout out "kill him" and hos no appology for her behavior. The Secret Service should arrest her.

The only way the gop can stand a change is to drop her and bring on Romney. I hope they don't though!

Sarah Palin is a political pawn, a product of our times created through strange bedfellow relationship between the Christian Right and so-called new conservative corporate criminals that actually run the Republican Party. She offers the myopic, lemming-like supporters of the right a candidate that they can relate to on both an theological and intellectual level. Many believe her competence level is just right…she is smart enough to learn what to say and her motivation to promote the tenets of her faith make her willing to say or do anything to spread the word. But, I see more. In Sarah Palin I see a megalomaniac akin to the Lonesome Rhodes character in "A Face in the Crowd". She just may be a fierce political fiend that is hiding her true aspirations behind a wholesome and homespun facade and waiting to lead the next crusade.

Does he believe Obama is ready? I don't!
Palin has been a Mayor and a Govenor
She has had to balance a budget, create jobs, maintain jobs, and answer to her constituents

What has Obama done? He's written two books about himself WOW!
What legislation has he been responsible for,? none.
I'm a working mom with two kids and am inspired by Palins spirit, energy and intellect.
Did you see the debate between Obama and McCain?
Palin has more energy then the two of them combined.
Maybe she'll actually do something in Washington and not just talk about it.

Dear Sir/madam.
Please tell me Don't you need a change? , That works to USA interste and the WORLD too? I am not USA citizen, But I am following international news. Sir Could you just tell Mr Mc Cain, That his waife is making MONEY FROM SUDAN GEVERMENT""" Which is killing insent people in DAFUR???? Mc Cain please the world is a bite of dint it need to sort out?
Obama&biden???????

I knew there was a reason why I love David Brooks.

Early voting is the way to go.

Registered Republican voting for Obama/Biden 08

Perfect, she will be a great help for Obama so she will continue digging a big hole for republican party

How did you become Governor? I understand the Mayor bit, she won by about 100 points in a very small town. Now VP potential and she has more experience than Obama and Biden? It sounds like she was selected because of her EXTREME and BIASED views of the the country and the World (????). I think she would be a burden to any campaign if all she can do is bark with lipstick on.

When your campaign plays to the lowest common denominator, the candidates follow.

DISGRACE!!!!! – CNN – HOW could you even print this trash.
And the obama gang cries Racist IF anyone dares to mention obama's MIDDLE name!
Not to worry – Wright, Ayrers, Rezko, Raines, ACORN – all these
"friends" that obama does NOT seem to know – the TRUTH will all come out – before it's too late!!!!

McCain/Palin – a team we can TRUST!

This is not only hurting the Republicans, but the focus on the American People.

Their are so many other respectable Female Republicans, that could have been on the ticket, but for someone to put a person at the lowest end of the chain of human interaction, is just affirming that judgment is far from being sound.

This is the 21st century, not the 16th century!

With the information age, and educated individuals willingness to research the candidates(from all parties) on their track records is at their finger tips!

Distractions, Deceptions, Lies, and Especially Character Smear in as using the Race cards, only demeans those representing the context of ads or verbal attacks.

Remember one thing everybody and everything knowledge of all candidates, Obama, Biden, McCain, Palin, et al are out there to take to task, in very minute detail.

Perhaps she represents McCain's latest bout — Palinoma?

I was wondering when someone would come out and for once be honest about Palin qualification as a vice president. This position is not a joke, we are talking about the USA, the greatest force in the world. She is definitely out of her league.

They are not the only ones asking questions about her readiness, I believe athe vast majority of the world population is also.

So much for Mr. McCain's claim to supeior judgement.

Talk about turning on your own. The pit bull is turning out to be a beagal

Brooks is a sexist.

MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!

Not only she is a fatal cancer, she is likey to follow her husband footsteps and divide this country into two parts if she is elected.

i feel palin is way out of her league.

Yaaeeh the cancer that destroys people, that separates people, that shows how much anger and racisism exists in the McCain and Palin campaign. Republicans are a disgrace to the American people!

Funny…….even the Republicans get it.

Why can't McCain???

Sarah was a bad pick. She's not a maverick……not even close. She governs over a population 3 times smaller than Los Angeles.

Who do you think you were fooling John??

EXactly!!!!!!!Palin needs to go back to Alaska …….What a joke that she is mccains vp……She makes me very disappointed as a women in how she is making us look as a nation (wink).

Experience matters, of course. However, personalty matters just as much.
Sara Palin is nasty, mean-spirited person, aggressive just for the sake of aggression.
And, by the way, she is not running for VP. She is running for President. Not in 2012 or 2016 BUT NOW! Don't know if McCain realized it already…

Sarah Palin is not only a 'fatal cancer" to the Rethuglian Party, she is a seditionist that incites violence toward the other candidate in this presidential race. Perhaps Todd's and her affiliation with the extreme-right secessionist party in Alaska is closer than they let on. And, perhaps an FBI or Secret Service investigation into her campaign trail antics should be launched. She sounds just like Adolph Hitler, except she wears lipstick. Someone needs to slap an muzzle on that stupid cow now!!!!

It was written in the New York-Obama Times. Enough Said.

She is a cancer for which there is no cure or treatment.

Good news!

Our country REALLY needs Obama right now. November 4th can't come soon enough for me! (then January 20th will be the next target date!!)

Go Obama/Biden '08!!

New York Times Conservative???? Please!!!!!

Amen! Every time I hear her speak or read her comments, there is a renewed visceral reaction of pure disbelief! What was McCain thinking!!

Yup. She's an idiot.

You fool. She's doing what she's suppose to be doing…..attacking the other side.
You are one of those disgusting little men that doesn't have a clue to what this woman could accomplish.
She will make a great VP and when John McCain leaves office she would make a Great President.
This woman is smart…..very smart and she has a pure heart. She would not fail.
I pity you.

He also said this about Obama as an intellect:

Obama has the great intellect. I was interviewing Obama a couple years ago, and I'm getting nowhere with the interview, it's late in the night, he's on the phone, walking off the Senate floor, he's cranky. Out of the blue I say, 'Ever read a guy named Reinhold Niebuhr?' And he says, 'Yeah.' So i say, 'What did Niebuhr mean to you?' For the next 20 minutes, he gave me a perfect description of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought, which is a very subtle thought process based on the idea that you have to use power while it corrupts you. And I was dazzled, I felt the tingle up my knee as Chris Matthews would say.

And the other thing that does separate Obama from just a pure intellectual: he has tremendous powers of social perception. And this is why he's a politician, not an academic. A couple of years ago, I was writing columns attacking the Republican congress for spending too much money. And I throw in a few sentences attacking the Democrats to make myself feel better. And one morning I get an email from Obama saying, 'David, if you wanna attack us, fine, but you're only throwing in those sentences to make yourself feel better.' And it was a perfect description of what was going through my mind. And everybody who knows Obama all have these stories to tell about his capacity for social perception.

It's one thing to ignite a party but it's another thing to continue to spew hatred amongst a group and therefore insighting the ugly side in people especially if you hear hatred being yelled out at these rallies. This is very dangerous for anyone!

This is the truth and the GOP should rescue its self and make this woman disappear. Listen to Kathleen Parker.

How mean is it for Palin to attack Biden when he is going to his mother-in-laws funreal, does she have any since of respect for others in the world?

Would any of you attack someone when they are suffering a lost in the family? Be Honest you would not!

Sara Palin does not represent a fatal cancer on the GOP…that title rests squareley upon the religious right who have mutated the GOP into the anti-intellectual party it is now. They made a deal with the devil when they thought they were talking to God. This move created a us against them attitude in that party. And it's bad enoug they already have this thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican rule…(that is so stupid)

I notice no one has commented on this. It is so sad it is unbelievable. She is not just a fatal cancer to the GOP, she is fatal for our country. Is it so important to have a Republican administration that we would elect a woman that could end the world as we know it? Come on folks. John messed up. It was a cute move and now she is allowing her audiences to shout racial and terrorist rantings and not even say ANYTHING about it. Can we say Hitler here? If you disagree with her, eventually she will come after you, and if she is the POTUS, there is not squat you can do about. I'm leaving the bus John. You lost my vote. I'll vote for ABYT. (Anyone But You Two)

Palin is more like a flat joke of a person!!

Funny he doesn't write this in his NY Times op-eds.

Bill Maher talked about this on his show. On one hand, you have people of low intellect who vote against their own interests because they want to have a beer with a candidate. On the other hand you have the conservative intellectuals. The conservative intellectuals know better. They know Palin is not qualified. Yet they lie and rave about her because they know the dumb people don't know better.

"Conservative" David Brooks? Yeah, sort of like "Conservative" Joe Lieberman or "Conservative" John McCain.

Call me when a REAL conservative bags on her, and maybe I'll believe you.

You know it's bad when Palin get's called out by her own party. McCain must be wishing he could take it back.

As a voted, I do not believe this is true, Mr. Brooks.

Sarah Palin has my vote based on the fact that she is a Washington outsider. We need fresh people in Washington.

It is clear that the OLD establishment cannot do the job. They are more worried about getting themselves payraises and lobbying through earmarks instead of the American people!

That goes to both, Dems and Repubs.

Sarah Palin '08!!!!

I want to understand why someone would want an "average, everyday American" to be president or vice president. I don't want someone that's "like you and me" in that office. I'm not smart enough to have that job so why would i want someone like me to have it. Can someone answer this for me?

I want an elitist to be president. The reason is that an elitist is, well, elite. Or at least an elitist thinks they are elite which is better than thinking you're just like everyone else when you have the most important job in the world. Those who founded this great nation and wrote our constitution all had one very important thing in common. They were all elitists.

I couldn't agree more.

The President of the USA is arguably the most powerful position in world. No man that has ever run for the office has ever had any experience in that position, except those who were elected to serve a 2nd term. Those like recent Presidents Clinton and Bush, both probably had the worst 2nd terms in recent memory. Clinton was impeached. Bush had to deal with an attack on America. I would trust the judgment of Sen. McCain in the "unknown" or "unforeseen" events that any president would face. Obama in a like position absolutely frightens me.

Snap.

He's correct. She won't even show up on the news shows the day after a debate to defend her candidate. I truly believe some of McCain's surrogates and advisors like Nicole Wallace and Nancy Pfotenhaur (sp?) are better equipped for the job.

Well I guess McCain's health care credit will fix that right up. You betcha!

Since when in America is their a test to be President or Vice president. Read the Constitution sometime and you will see that Palin meets all the requirements..The problem with this country is that we have but a test on everything..and as a democrat I am angry that my party has turned into the republican party of 8 years ago. They learned their lesson and this election are even worse. Everyone accuses McCain of being negative, look at what the Obama camp has done and real factual evidence that Obama has ran a more negative campaign than McCain.

I agree Sarah is not READY…..

Well John McCain wanted her and it doesn't seem there is much he can do about it now. So, let his repug friends carry on about her as much as they see necessary to let him know they don't like her, it's o.k. with me cause I don't like her either.

Governor Palin IS out of her league. Her interviews present her as a clueless script reader; without severe preparation or a script she has no idea what to say and I bet she has no idea what's going on in America outside of Alaska or how to deal with it.

She may not have any ideas, but she sure can whip up an angry, racist, murderous mob. That should count for something, no matter what those egghead elitists in cocktail parties say!

FOR SURE SHE IS NOWHERE NEAR THAT POSITION , IT WILL BE A MISTAKE TO PUT PALLIN IN THAT GLOVES, SHE CANT BE V.P,ALL HER FACTS ARE BASELESS.

Aha! An area where Brooks and I agree!
Actually, there are conservatives whom I respect. Brooks is one of those. George Will is another. We just disagree on the issues or, more appropriately, how to deal with them.
So, when people like this condemn their own candidate, you have to believe it is more than partisan politics.

Yesterday McCain was speaking and said something about Obama and some guy said that Obama should be shot, and McCain and Palin said nothing to stop that kind of behavior. Also there was a black man working at the Palin rally and some crazy called the black man a boy, for no reason at all. Then last night McCain put down a voter telling him what he did not know and he was black too and he would not say his name. Then finally he called a sitting U.S. Senator not by his name or Senator but that one!

McCain and Palin are totally unfit to be in office, sticking the people of Alaska with a bill when she stays in her own home is criminal, plus she tells so many lies to the American people openly as if we are all dumb. Telling everyone that she stopped the bridge to no where is a lie too, she was not even sworn into office when that happened. then their is her husband who wanted Alaska along with herself to leave the U.S. Plus the lie about the plane that she said that she sold on EBay, when all she did was out it up for Auction but was sold through a broker, what a total liar she is and so is McCain.

McCain is a traitor to our great country, making all those videos to save his own life, what a coward he is and was, I guess country did not come first then, he said it himself, he did not love America until he was in that POW camp. As a solider we are trained to escape and to aid other to escape, I guess McCain missed that training, and that part about giving information to the enemy, even if it is false. I am former Army man and an independent voter and I see that there is no honor among McCain and Palin all they know is hate, fear, and racism. When did patriotism come from hate, bile, fear, and racism?

Thank you Rebecca Sinderbrand. It is comforting to know that there are people who are noticing how horrible the real Sarah Palin is. She is "snake oil in Lipstick". She should be removed from the ticket and sent back to Alaska. Go ahead and fool the people of Alaska, but you can't fool every American.

Palin is a cancer to us all. She has brought nothing to the campaign other than an ability to dump data once she's absorbed it.

When asked about Supreme Court cases or her reading choices, she couldn't answer until days later – after she had a chance to acquire prepared answers.

How can we consider voting for someone when we have no idea who he or she is? And they want us to ask who Obama is? At least he's spoken to us for years.

I am stunned and incredibly saddened at the depth to which the McCain/Palin campaign has sunk in order to win this election. Their lies, vitriol and incitement of hatred and racism has set our country back decades. For a man who professes his honor and past service to country at every turn, McCain, along with his running mate and many members of the Republican party, has shed all semblance of honor in an attempt to win this presidential election. He may say his motto “Country First”, but it’s becoming more and more obvious that his true motto is “John McCain First”.

I commend Senator Obama for his attempt to remain above the fray. We, as Americans who are proud of our country and all we have achieved in its relatively short history, need to stand up in unison and say that the age of fear and smear politics is over. John McCain may be willing to surrender his honor to gain the White House, but we Americans are not willing to surrender our honor to put him there. Please stand with me on November 4 and say “ENOUGH” to John McCain, Sarah Palin and their campaign of fear and hatred. Please vote Obama/Biden, and let’s begin to return our country to its previous glory and standing as the most powerful and envied nation in the world.

I believe that some of the people may realize that the emperor has no clothes!

Palin is scarey, dumb, a liar, and a complete faker, who does not answer question at all, she tell the moderator she was not going to answer the questions asked and then asked herself her own questions and still did not answer her own questions.

She is a "cancer" because she is spreading around hatred and underhanded racism.

It's a shame that the McHatred conservative campaign is spewing out these types of attacks. They are not just doing this to hurt Obama but it also hurts the people that it's against (blacks).

I'm ashamed of the campaign. McCain, you claim that you are a Maverick but if you were you would go against your party and stop the hatred, racist comments by your VP and surrogates.

You have lost that title…………………..

McCain's new strategy as "dishonest, dishonorable character attacks." He signaled Obama will still try to keep the economy front-and-center going forward.
"We understand that it's not easy for John McCain to defend the worst economic record of our lifetime, but he will have to explain to the people struggling to pay their bills and stay in their homes why he would rather spend his time tearing down Barack Obama than laying out a plan to build up our economy,"

The country is in crisis. George Bush and Dick Cheney should be impeached immediately. They deserve it. Washington must be reformed. Time is of the essence. The people need help.

TRUTH.

ONE NATION.

BARACK/BIDEN NOW!

AMERICA FOREVER!

This woman is proof that as a christian you are supposed to walk the walk, not just talk the talk. The only thing she's ready for is to go hunt some moose and be a grandma. Her fifteen minutes are up. Buh-bye!

my fellow prisoners who is that one?

This women is truly a FATAL CANCER on AMERICA. We are better than this hatred. We are awesome when we are UNITED. This shows how ERRATIC AND UNSTABLE John McCain is.

Palin personifies all of the ugliness that has turned the GOP from a party of fiscal conservatives to power-lust, greed, and corruption.

Senator John McCain, I like you, I respect you, and YES I am voting for you.

Senator McCain, you need to really knock the ball out of the ball park during the next debate, you need to think, prepare and really give us an economic plan.

Focus, Focus, Focus, also is it too late to consider Romney, I like Gov. Palin yet I'm simply thinking about a WIN at this point.

It's time for you to get this thing together for the sake of the party.

…you still have my vote…

who is Sarah palin?
An incompetent VP Candidate?
Does not know the news paper she reads and blame on the media?
Does not know what the bailout plan is?
Does not know what the national security means.

EVEN STEVIE WONDER CAN SEE THAT SHE NOT READY!

Palin is just one, but probably the most visable, of McCain's long-shot gambles gone awry.

I agee with Brooks, McCain's and Palin's outrageously negative behavior in this campaign has set off a self-destruct sequence in the GOP party.

Palin is a blank slate, in the form of a woman, on which McCain's campaign can write whatever they want to.

She was a tactic. A failed tactic.

Translation to common speak? She is an idiot, an imbecile. And yes, a cancer on the party, her state, the nation…my ears and my mind. Thankfully, Senators Obama and Biden will rid this country of the Palin Pox and the McCain Malady in a matter of 28 days!
YES WE CAN!!!

And this is the woman McCain brought in the woo the conservatives. Good call, John. You must have left your judgement in that 13th house you forgot about.

Wow – David Brooks.
Very candid piece. Look out, she may call you "Liberal Media"

Duh!

ONE NATION

Obama and McCain should leave the country for the good of the country.

McBama's ideas are weak and don't offer change.