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[...] was only two weeks ago that McCain aides were complaining she was a Diva! “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not [...]

[...] aides now say Governor Palin is working against them try to create rifts that will help her in a 2012 [...]

[...] mesto leta 2012, kot se bori za McCaina. Tako je McCainov svetovalec že prejšnji teden takole okaral podpredsedniško kandidatko: Ona je diva. Od nikogar ne jemlje nasvetov. Razmerja na podlagi [...]

[...] attempts to sling mud and look decent while doing it. Apparently, the handlers only became alarmed when Governor Palin called the use of robo calls "irritating", and seemed to (you can often not be sure what she really means) disagree with the campaign's decision to [...]

[...] There is some talk that Sarah Palin has "gone rogue" and is just saying what she feels like saying. [...]

[...] Palin proves she's a party man - not: has stopped campaign for McCain-Palin, is now campaigning for herself. More about it here. (Another thing I love to watch: GOP infighting - it's so vicious [...]

[...] it turns out, it's "going rogue" that McCain aides are apparently starting to accuse her of: ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) – With 10 days to go until election day, long brewing tension [...]

[...] CNN: McCain aide: Palin ‘going rogue’ [...]

[...] Sarah Palin) – The big news story that's begun to circulate rather heavily is that Sarah Palin is going rogue, according to a few McCain aides: "Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with [...]

[...] Says someone loyal to McCain: A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign. [...]

[...] ‘going rogue’" screams the CNN Political Ticker headline. She won't listen to us when we tell her when, how and where to say or do something!, they [...]

CNN I'AM VERY SAD TO ME AND MAYBE IT'S JUST ME. IT
SEEMS LIKE I'AM WATCHING FOX-NEWS WHEN I WATCH.
IT'S LIKE YOU ARE ON THE TRAIL FOR PALIN AND MCAIN
I THOUGHT NEWS WAS SUPPOSE TOBE A SOURCE OF GOOD
REPORTING NOT FOR ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER.
WELL, IT SEEMS YOU PEOPLE THINK PALIN IS READY TO
BE PRESIDENT YOU WOULD RATHER HAVE HER INSTEAD
OF BARACK OBAMA. MY GRAND-PARENTS ARE NATIVE-AMERICAN
I'AM AFRICAN-AMERICAN BECAUSE MY FATHERS GRAND-PARENTS
NOT BY THEIR CHOICE KINGS,QUEENS ON A BOAT. BUT, MY
BROTHERS JOKE I'AM A BLACK SARAH PALIN. THE ONLY
THING THAT MAKES US DIFFERENT IS I'AM TRUTHFUL,HONEST
AND WILL NOT LIE JUST TO GET MY POINT ACROSS. I SAID MY
GRAND-PARENTS ARE NATIVE-AMERICAN I KIND OF THINK THEY
WERE HERE FIRST. COOPER ANDERSON YOU KNOW I WOULD
STAY UP AT NIGHT NO MATTER WHAT TO WATCH YOU WHEN
YOU WORKED FOR THAT OTHER STATION AND PRAYED AND
HOPE YOU WOULD GET A BETTER TIME SLOT SO ALL PEOPLE
COULD WATCH YOU. COULD I HAVE BEEN WRONG? OH,
I FORGOT TO SAY I WOULD NOT USE MY CHILDREN FOR
ANY REASON SARAH PALIN. YOU NEED TO BOUND WITH YOUR
NEW BABY. CNN SHAME DON'T PICK SIDES JUST DO WHAT
YOU CAN DO REPORT THE NEWS. YOUR WEEKEND REPORTERS
LET THE WORLD KNOW WE WOULD RATHER HAVE SARAH
PALIN THAN TO HAVE AN BARACK OBAMA. I WILL NOT GO
IN THAT PLACE WHERE RACE SHOULD NOT BE A FACTOR
BUT THE ISSUES. IN MY CASE IT'S THE ISSUES AND NOT
WHO IS RUNNING. I WOULD NOT WANT A PALIN TO RUN
THE COUNTRY I LOVE. WHY MENTION HER HUSBAND AND
FRIENDS WANTED TO MAKE ALASKA A COUNTRY ALL BY
IT'S LONELY SELF OR SHE JUST SPENT THREE(3) HOURS
DEFENDING WHY SHE FIRED A PERSON.

Sounds like a campaign coming off at the seams...I would love to see bimbo barbie run for president, SNL and the rest of the comedians will have material for years.

Maybe she'll go ultra rogue after elected and defect to Russia.... since she can see it from her window.

Palin is a dangerous RIGHT-WINGER

The Republican party needs an adjustment of attitude and character towards our nation. It's a guilt of intolerance and indifference when partisan politics take precedence before the needs of our citizens. This election is a referendum to every political party that the needs of the American people is the hierarcy of our politics. It's a reminder of who we are and what we are all about; a godly nation that honors freedom, liberty, and the pursue of happiness.

Registered Republican "voted" Obama/Biden 08

So, McCain is a maverick and Palin is going rouge. That's all our great nation needs–a rogue leader who won't listen to anyone except themselves.

It appears that all the criticism by her own Alaskan constituents–that she is an authoritarian, closed-minded leader–turns out to be true. It is telling that in the final days of this election she is more concerned about herself than her party, than her country.

Country first? No, wait. For Palin it is me first, country second. This is one diva we don’t need in politics period.

I think our nation would best be served if the social conservative wing of the Republican party splits off and forms their own, new party. That way, the Republican party can regain its strength, focusing on the issues that matter most.

Sarah Palin`s selection was a desperate attempt at cashing in on millions of women being disappointet at Hilary Clinton losing the DEMOCRATIC nomination to Barack Obama. The difference was/is that millions of people had a say in that historic contest. Nobody voted for Pallin. She was simply force fed to the American public by John McCain and his strategists, grasping at straws while the Republicans are about as popular as a skunk at a picnic. Now she has decided to stab McCain in the back; as a reward for making her a national (joke) figure. I almost pity McCain. He could have picked so many qualified running mates. Intead he gets the airhead from Alaska.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else"

Just what we need running this country....NOT

What do you expect??? This caribou barbie CANNOT be trusted at all. She is a hypocrite and so self-centered that she will do anything to attain her own personal political ambition. I can believe that she won't trust even her own family...do you expect her to personally do her role as a mother when elected vice president? She says, "forget about family, i want to be the vice president of America!!!" She will spend all her times parading and pretending to be a qualified government official. One thing...was she the only best candidate for Alaska??? Looks like Alaska, when they filled their ballots, they were thinking the race was a "beauty contest."

If the most important decision/responsibility a president has is to select a qualified successor as vice president….then John McCain’s selection of Sarah Pavin was so flawed, so absolutely irresponsible that – as a matter of national security – he should have been summarily “excused” from his campaign by the GOP.

That's a strong woman...they tried to stifle her, they tried to keep her behind closed doors. She's stronger than that. I may not support her...but at least give her the dignity of campaigning with the boys!

This time...I'm on Palin's side (but never again)

Who's surprised by this? Palin's 15 minutes of fame has gone to her head. The beauty queen sociopath in her is coming back out. She'll do anything for attention.

She knows this campaign is a joke. She's just trying to solidify her own political future.

Still think picking Palin was a 'good choice'? Stil proud of her, McCain?

Let er go!! Lets really see what she has to offer the country. Can she work well with others towards the most serious issues facing not only America, but internationally!!

Hmmm.......looks like by far the biggest gaffe of the campaign was made by John McCain. But we knew this already, didn't we!!!

How self-centered must Gov. Diva be to think that she will have any political future in the GOP after this campaign? Is she so naive that she doesn't know what happens to people who draw the scorn and ire of the party?

My guess is, after a few months of more media fluff......this lady will never be heard from again.

Hopefully she goes off the deep end and does a spread for Playboy after she loses. Seriously her being a MILF is about all she has going for her. Way to pick a winner Mr. McCain

GOING rogue? She's been a rogue her entire (self-admitted) redneck life!

Awesome! Going rogue! Diva! How about this for a clever idea: going for the presidency in 2008 instead, picking Dan Quayle or Joe-what-his-name for VP. It's possible to do that isn't it Palin? LOL!!!!!!

May be Sarah Palin thought this election is just like a beauty contest whereby she can spend $150.000 for dresses amd make-ups . Imagine what will happen if she is elected as a vice Prsident of the United States of America?

THIS ARTICLE SAYS IT ALL. NO MCCAIN NO PALIN NOT NOW NOT EVER.

It is so hard to understand the reasons she was chosen for vp nominee. And the choices she makes are apparently just as odd as the choice McCain made in picking her. What about family feuds in public office and projects out to bid for favored contractors? What about her kids going everywhere at public expense? (Do they go to school?) Sad for her and them that this harsh light is shining. Sad for all of us that we have to learn this way about the mistakes of an early political career. A proper vetting would have spared the Palin family and the American public. There are reasons for practical, methodical and prudent ways that were cast aside in this selection process.

In my opinion, Pailin was not a good choice for VP by McCain. If elected and something happened to him, we'd have a very aggressive President in charge of our country.
I will be voting for Obama!
Eula Bolin
Mo

The right wing has lost this election for McCain and he knows it. You can see it in his face. Palin is a farce and its McCain's legacy in this election. She is mean and arrogant.

Palin is A DISAPPOINTMENT to the Republicans like me who can think and would have been happier without the Bimbo factor on the Republican ticket. If Senator McCain wanted to select a Woman for a VP he should have goine with Olympia Snowe or Kay Hutchinson or one of the female Governors who have a sound mind, a keen intellect and present themselves better than "gotcha" and 6-pack Joe. etc.
She's a frigging disaster and only out to make a name for herself. I think McCain should drop her. Terrible choice and he is going to lose this election because of his poor judgement.
- Zee

I hope the Republican party finds itself after Nov. 4. The US needs a healthy two party system.

Palin is the symbol of everything that has gone wrong in the Republican party:

- collective narcissism
- total moral corruption while simultaneously claiming righteous holders of faith;
- projection of incompetence and lack of ethics onto others;
- religious indoctrination;
- rejoice opposition to learning and education;
- denial of facts;
- narrow-mindedness.

Palin will either lead the evolution of the Republican party into a Nazisque group or fade into the oblivion while more intellectual, honest conservatives take the helm. Let's pray for the latter. Being the narcissistic lunatic she is, I'm sure she will push for the former. She might just win.

I agree. She's too close to the presidency not to be fully vetted. Very difficult to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket considering McCain is old. She should do as many interviews as possible over the next week and see what happens. I think that's McCain's only chance.

Wow!!!!!! This is a lovely thing to hear 10 days before Election Day. NOT!!!!!!! If I were in McCain's campaign, I'd be shaking in my boots and preparing to jump ship to save my reputation.

Chris from NC

Watch out for the Maverick! lol!

I'll be so glad when she can go back to Alaska! May we never have to here her bile again.

y cant they wait until after the election to trash each other...

From mayor of a tiny city to a few questionable months as governor of a state with population not much bigger than Los Angeles, to leader of the Republican party. I believe we may have found a new definition of ego.

While my comment is awaiting moderation, may I edit it? I said "twenty years ago." Should have said "seven years ago." Thanks.

Speaking of Diva Palin "going rogue" or she can be referred to as a loose cannon....WHERE ARE HER MEDICAL RECORDS? What doesn't she want the public to see? She said all should be an "open book"....Is she hiding something. She doesn't like to answer questions asked of her, so this is just along old Sarah's attitude–scary woman!

Palin is wasting her time trying to play Diva. What she doens't real is the entire country is laughing at her. Being a Mayor or a 7,000 and a Governor of 600,000 doesn't make anyone capable of being a VP or President for that matter. When the election is done and over she will go back to Alaska and find herself without a job. Palin needs to be impeached for all of the misuse of power. She has taken advantage of the Alaskian people, but she wont take advantage of the United States of American. Bye Bye Palin

This lady has no shame to stand up there and tell lies. They WILL NOT balance the budget in four years. After the government just bailed out the richest Americans the bankers to the tone of trillions. Her speach is always about what Obama siad and what Obama will do–Sarah tell up what John and you will do. You make it seem as if your the ONE at the TOP of the ticket. Why did JOHN McCAIN say out of his OWN mouth he VOTED with Bush 90% of the time-It's just more of the same!!!!

They are really imploding. I hope that John McCain's long, successful career in politics is not permanantely damaged by this campaign and particularly by Sarah Palin.
McCain has done a lot of good things but he sold his sould for one last shot at the big chair and it appears he will lose.

I find it ironic that the 'maverick' would be the lead player in the demise of the GOP. In some ways, it's poetic.

I look forward to the fresh start with Barack Obama.

"Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom"

I thought that was a Maverick.

Good for her, she should speak her own mind. Too bad she is just like any other politician. Are there any authentic pols out there? Please don't make the silly suggestion that Obama is. He is just like the rest, but just more smooth about it (which makes it all the more annoying). I don't like any of my choices. Can we get some real leaders that don't act like children. Pathetic. All of them.

Well, I'm of two opinions. First, this is just more proof that she is not ready. This article contains open admissions to the fact that she had to be taught within weeks all of the important things that a VP should know, instead of knowing them already. Life or death issues that an administration must deal with are not in pop quiz territory. Only people who REALLY know what they're doing should be allowed in, unless you feel that Katrina, Iraq, wild deregulation/privatization, and oil speculation have all been handled intelligently.

Secondly, good for her for getting away from the creepy Rove campaigners. We should get to know her for who she is, lack of qualifications and all.

Did Palin not realize from the start that McCain and her were on two different sides of the coin on a lot of issues?

I know in general politicians are ambitious folk, but Palin seems to be motivated purely by blind ambition and the desire for power. Her willingness to sell out her own ticket for future career prospects is frightening.

I can't help but feel a little sorry for McCain.

My opinion is that Six-Pack Sarah is doing a great job for the Obama campaign. She is doing all that the Obama campaign has been saying. I think the McCain campaign should leave her out there because she is also making for a good landslide re-election of Obama in 2012.

My neighbor is an Atheists and this evening on his way to work he knocked me for a loop. We were discussing the debate and he said to me, that McCain and Palin scare him so bad that he was PRAYING for an Obama / Biden win.
Now that was a powerful statement coming from an ATHEIST.

Palin is like Alaska Fools Gold, just a flash in the pan but under examination ….. Worthless.

They tried to turn her into a NEO CON but she's not, even though she shares a lot of similarities with dick cheney.

McCain's sign says, "Country First," but he is getting just what he deserves when his ambition drove him to pick Palin as a political ploy that placed his country at great risk.

If the Republican Party thinks it has “brand” problems now, let Sarah Palin continue on this path and see just how bad it can get. Governor Palin is not even remotely qualified to lead anything, much less save a political party.

Sarah Palin is a joke – she has no business being on the national ticket.

The traditional Republican party alliance between extremism and moderates is beginning to self-destruct before our eyes. When McCain allowed his campaign to be subjugated by the religious right in the selection of Palin, they made unknowingly brough to the surface the major single problem of the party. When you add this to her unbelievable ambition and blindness to other opinion due to naivete in politics, you create the worse political scenario possible. Just like Hillary Clinton almost killed the Democrats because of her polarizing persona, Palin will destroy the Republicans in the same manner.

Sarah Palin will be the new leader of the extremist Republican party. It will also become a much more virulent and "pure" religious and neo-conservative party than ever before. Smaller but homogenized and more extreme.

Mark my words: Tanks on the streets of America for Guy Fawke's day.

Go Sarah!

Ha! As much as I enjoy the circular firing squad, I have to agree that Palin has really gotten the shaft in all this. She must have thought she won the lottery when they picked her. Who could have thought that McCain would so successfully transform himself into a stupider, more transparently mendacious and more asinine version of George W. Bush. And on top of all that, his campaign has got to be the most grotesque train-wreck in modern political history. How do you pull a stunt like "suspending" your campaign without having planned out, in exacting detail, 10 steps ahead on how you're going to follow through on that? They hadn't even figured out how to handle Letterman. Then they set up an all-hands super-special meeting in the White House, and McCain just sits there with his thumb up his @ss. And how on earth do you put out phony adds making a fraudulent link between Obama and Franklin Raines, AT THE EXACT SAME TIME as Rick Davis is cashing $15,000 monthly checks from Fannie Mae? Pathetic!

I couldn't see myself ever voting for her, but Palin is a fresh and engaging political personality. Given a reasonable amount of time to learn the ropes, she could have become a contender. By pulling her in way over her head so quickly, and then dragging her into this farce of a campaign, the McCaniacs have pretty much destroyed her as a politically viable national candidate. Hopefully, she'll return the favor and carve them up with that moose knife real good!

Isn't that what a MAVERICK does? She is just Mavericking.

It hurts my ears to hear the CNN East Coast anchors mispronouncing a little town in New Mexico. Rick Sanchez especially should know that the town of Mesilla is not pronounced Me-sil-lah but Meh-see-ya. The double "l" in Spanish is pronunced "y" and even the Anglos in our State know that! Come on now, you can do better than that!

This ain't coming out like the McCain team thought it would. I predict that John McCain's temper will rear it's ugly head in a few days and all hell will break loose in the republican board/strategy room. This is getting interesting.

PLEASE get out and vote for CHANGE!!!

Obama/Biden-2008 + 2012

Palin has a mind of her own.....and McCain has consistently let her use it, all the time acknowledging they have differences of opinion on some issues.

So.....what's the problem?

Looking forward to having a President Sarah Palin at some point in the future!

Oh Sarah Sarah Sarah. Who to the @$#! do you think you are? Just because the ignorant right wing hate mongers love you that don’t mean the rest of us do. Most strange McCain supporters are going to hold his choice for VP as the single reason not to pick his ticket. You are running of delusion and fumes. Please Stop! And contrary to what they are saying at your Klan rallies, you will not beat out Obama in four years.

This is kinda sad, I like McCain and I would have voted for him if he didnt pick Palin. But because of his poor pick for VP I will be voting for Obama. I may not agree with everyone Obama is going to do in the white house, but I think we need people who really put this nation before political gains.

She's gearing up to run in 2012.........I hope she uses these next 4 yrs to study and learn from past gop mistakes....Ha! That was a joke!! She'll still be Bush in a dress...

A campaign disarray is what we see here. McCain is going down and he will never have a chance in presidential politics in his life. This is his last. But Sarah Palin on the other hand does now she has a national spotlight. I do not think she would allow McCain campaign to make her look like an idiot. She seems to be trying to break free.

PALIN first Country second , maybe bus ride is a good idea.

It is kind of old politics that we are tired of it. I thought when Gov. plain join the ticket she will bring new things to Washington but that was turn out untrue. I think we got your message time for you to go away.

Thanks

It astounds me that this woman not only thinks she's qualified to run for a national public office, but that she thinks she knows how to handle a presidential campaign better than John McCain.

Sarah Palin, you are by far the worst thing to ever happen to the GOP and you have single-handedly cost us this election.

Not that I'm too thrilled about McCain choosing you in the first place. God, you think you know someone though... then this.

"“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else."

Like, DUH. Where were you when you chose her as the VP candidate?

Sarah Palin acts like someone with a limited educational background. She seems full of bluff and bluster and empty show. She uses nasty innuendoes,crafts repugnant attacks on Obama's reputation and uses all this as a smoke screen for her own short-comings. Who is the REAL Sarah Palin. Why won't the media show us? What is being unsaid about John McCain and Sarah Palin in this campaign in favor of playing the race card against Barack Obama? Some facts I am aware of through means other than the media. Facts that are not about who has the most experience but facts about who has the most education and intelligence. Show us what a White House full of the McClain/Palin clan would be like as opposed to an Obama/Biden White House.

Well, that's what you get when you pick a "maverick" as your running mate ...

It appears that McCain is getting what he wanted – a maverick!

That said, what other politican is going to trust running with her? Another way, she has stabbed herself in the back.

Besides, if 55% of the people think she is not ready for Pres – what makes her think they are going to make her Queen of the GOP? I really think she is delusional.

[sarcasm]Oh my! Who knew! [sarcasm/]

Sarah Palin needs to take her $!!,000+ a week hair and makeup artisit and head on home and you better grab that $150,000 wardrobe for you and your family. The nerve a Louis Veton bag for your 7 year old.
You have been a joke since day one. You were selected"Only" because you were a woman and McCain, in his usual poor judgement, thought women were dumb enough to vote for you because you were a woman. He figured we weren;t bright enough to figure out you did not even know the job description. Then after the bubble burst then he sent you out to be the attack dog and say the things he wouldn't dare say because he said he would not say those things. He used you to do his dirty work and the "stink" stuck to you and now they are going to throw you under the bus. When the only news network that supports you is Fox, you definately have a problem Leaders of the free world do not say"gotcha" and "you bet" and "betcha" and wink and "to ya".and they do not drag their children from place to place as you have. What happen to their education??? Let me guess – the McCain hired full time teachers to teach them when you weren't dragging them across a stage. Go back to Alaska and rerun the last few months and see what exactly happened to you since you are the number one joke on SNL. Learn from your mistakes.

if this is true!!!! i feel sorry for the GOP ticket and America if the republicans win. I will be ashamed of my country.

Did she even know which day of the week she would be appearing on SNL?

Palin in 2012? Now that's even a bigger joke than McCain/Palin 2008!!!!!!!!!! Go back to Alaska!

This is the smartest thing she's done since we've been introduced to her.

We can always count on CNN to publish garbage. That's how we got here in the first place. "Sources" say CNN's been paid MILLIONS in revenue from Obama himself. Sources. Riiiiiiiight.

They can't even blame this one on the "liberal media" considering it's coming from their own campaign. They didn't need to tell me she's a diva, that's been obvious. She's been looking at 2012 since she was picked for VP. I don't care how much she calls herself a "hockey mom" and plays that angle. She's not this everyday person who suddenly decided to run for city council and went from there; this woman is a politician, and a cookie cutter politician at that. Even worse, she's a cookie cutter politician who has no semblance of foreign policy. I can't wait until 2012; she's going to get crushed like Barry Goldwater did.

So the chickens are coming home to roost...and even staffers on the Republican campaign are calling Sarah Palin a "diva"!

Send Palin back to Alaska after Obama and Biden win the election! She's totally unfit to be a serious candidate for national politics in this day and age with her outdated beliefs! A story in a newspaper here in Toronto said today that before her expensive makeover, Palin looked like a – Canadian! That was pretty funny and probably true! Another reporter said she is "uncannily self-confident". Also true. She's way out of her depth and we're still waiting for her to do her first news conference since becoming McCain's running mate. I double-dog dare ya', Sarah!

I also had to laugh at the line in the story above that says John Edwards wanted to protect his future interests. Well, he sure blew that with the forced admission of his extramarital affair, didn't it?

So we can see that there are plenty of unqualified and undeserving candidates from both parties!

By the way, the Americans I know here (and people with dual Canadian and American citizenship) have all voted for Obama in advance polls. Although I don't have a vote, I'm ordering a "Canadians for Obama" t-shirt. Check out the website. We're rooting for you, Barack and Joe (Biden, that is, NOT Plumber!!!)

Big mistake, McCain. Huge. Absolute disaster.

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The repugs chickens are comin home to roost!!!

Presidential terms are four years, as everyone knows, but Sarah Palin and the Republicans are sure doing their darndest to hand Barak Obama an eight year term !!! I think that suits me just fine. I can see it right now, a Sarah Palin/Wurselbacher ticket in 2012. That would make the election a "no brainer". Two liars running on the Republican ticket in 2012. Joe doesn't own a plumbing comapny. He doesn't belong to a plumbers union and he owes back taxes. Sarah, ....well Sarah is Sarah. We now know her well. She is a retrograde, nincompoop idiot who knows next to nothing except to charge the State of Alaska for plane, hotel and other expenses for her family members because they were also "on official government functions" when on trips with her. So, you take it from there, and the question is: what else does this make her? Abraham Lincoln isn't just "turning over in his grave", he's ready to come out and join the chorus against JM & SP.

John McCain, your way of making important decisions scares the (you know what) out of me. I do believe that all of this points to an opportunity to many qualified public servants who want to become, Mayor, Governor or Senator of a State of the Union in the near future. The strengthening of the government structure of Alaska should be considered as a matter for discussion by the National Security Council.

We've got no use for this "diva".

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

TOOO SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

McCain wanted another M-a-v-r-i-c-k.

He got one.

What was he expecting another M-a-v-r-i-c-k to do?

Hey John ... For future reference: O-p-p-o-s-i-t-e-s (With the Same Core Values) Attract.

"Experience" ?

Yea Right!

John McCain ... You've just exposed the whole World to exactly what we can all look forward to in a McCain Administration. A Vice President who understands that the 'Ole Man' aint got long and he is her stepping stone. You picked her. Deal with it.

I don't care for Sarah Palin but I certainly R-e-s-p-e-c-t her for doing what is in H-e-r best interest. After all ... She may actually have a future. This is John McCains last chance.

Also ... How is it that the Media never pick up in the Brian Williams interview when Palin said:

"I have more executive experience than Barack Obama"

... That she was S-i-t-t-i-n-g B-e-s-i-d-e ... John McCain?

Oh Shock! She just happens to have More Executive Experience ... than John McCain too. If that is her standard; Isn't she r-e-a-l-l-y saying that she is More Qualified than John McCain?

This is not surprising...........

Hey, McCain did this to himself.

Everyone knows that unintelligent, uncurious people who always think they're right about everything are bad news.

We saw what happened with Bush.

But at least Bush seems like a decent enough person underneath all that.

Palin's just nasty, mean-spirited, and hugely egotistical.

She's the sort of dumb thuggish extremist that William F Buckley did his best to purge from the GOP.

Current GOP leaders should take note.

Of course, this is the Palin/Mcain ticket. She's been looking to the Oval Offices ever since she was brought on to the campaign. It's all about her and her agenda. McCain should send her packing back to Alaska who wont be happy to have her back after leaving Wasilla with millions in debt, busted the state run dairy and abused her power as govenor. She was for earmarks before she was against it.

Obama/Biden 2008/2012

Far right republicans like Palin..should take all the rest Far right republicans and head to alaska with her sessionist husband. i tink it was in the mid 90s the far right reps entered congress and tainted it. Palin you are their leader. take all of them to your Alaska. your preaching of higher taxes is scaring no one. we are not stupid. we are already in serious debt. and we all know we have to pay for this in the years to come. You are NOT a maverick. John Mccain IS NOT a maverick. Any one can be a Governor. just like Arnold schwarzenegger, Gary coleman, and You. so stop touting your EXECUTIVE experience...lol..it simply does NOT exist. You are very non Observant of the outside world..outside..alaska.

This girl is a dimwit. There's no other way to put it. She was able to get elected Governor in Alaska with about 125,000 votes and it's probably fair to say very little of the debate was about complicated issues of domestic or foreign policy. She simply doesn't have the intellect to handle this stuff although it's amusing to watch her trying to fake it. You can't. What's most amazing about this is the way she has been embraced by establishment figures on the far right who see her as some sort of future standard bearer. I'm hugging myself with glee at the prospect but suspect I'm going to be disappointed as she disappears back into Alaskan obscurity. At least she'll be able to wow the folks up there with her new designer duds.

Were she to run again for Governor in Alaska, she would lose. People now know her better than ever before. She is hollow.

a diva? what a shock. this woman is a nut.

oh dear

Not good with process questions? Ummm...how are you supposed to lead a country that is to set an example for and work with the rest of the world when you can't answe "processed questions"?

You Palin suppoters must be blind of too filled with hate for Obama to see reality. This woman is a dummy.

Maybe someone should tell her that Mrs Barry Goldwater helped start Planned Parenthood...Republicans were not as ignorant then, and did good things for Americans...

It is a shame that things have gone so awry and cult lady now gets to be a diva. She has been divisive, shown narrow-mindedness, thinks the VP controls the Senate, has foreign relations experience because of living in Alaska(???), spoke at Vogler's Alaska Independence Party America Hater's, had a witch doctor do a exorcism on her at church to expel witchcraft etc...how can I trust her with ANYTHING???
Even though she is an entertainment curiosity for the moment, surely no one can trust her when she lies and knowingly calls someone a Socialist, a terrorist, or some other nasty and knowingly false thing to put doubt in someone's mind, cannot be trusted to do the RIGHT thing at all...she has learned to lie with a straight face. Does she believe what she says? Scary!!!!!!!!!!!
Hopefully America will put this diva away.
We have great women in every field in America. She is not great. Not even good. Her time in the spotlight has been insulting to great women.

Palin is too "mavericky" for the former "maverick"?

Choices and consequences! McCain should have vetted her better, or gone with his heart's desire, Lieberman... no backbone, John?

Betting she wouldn't be a quiet VP either ... just out there running the Senate, like all great VP's do ... hasn't realized or never knew that the VP has only two jobs: break a tie vote in the Senate and check the President's heartbeat every morning.

oh well, adn we know CNN loves her, the only "news " in the ticker and CNN overall is palin

let CNN crown her..

where is mcgrumpy is he not the one running???

hhhaahaha well cnn just told mcgrumpy slap slap slap

cnn want to manipulate the election and the voters
now they want us to crown this woman

Why should this be a surprise to anyone? I'm no high paid veteran politial adviser, but you don't have to be to see this coming. As much as I can't stand the guy, Mitt Romney would have been a better VP pick. And if McCain wanted to attract women and moderates at the same time distance himself from Bush, he should have picked Christine Todd Whitman. She's a governor from the east coast, former cabinet member and disillusioned with the Bush administration.

This is perfect! But Palin needs to get a clue. She was not mishandled; it is just that she is not smart enough to be a good leader. It would be great though if she stays major politics, because Tina’s impression is awesome!

And the glue comes loose. I knew it was just a matter of time before the Republicans would start to cannibalize themselves. Bon apetit!

Because they insisted on misleading the people with dishonesty and fearleading, they were caused to turn upon one another and fight amongst themselves until the dust settled, and they were no more. –The ousting of the faux Republicans. A new Republican regime is formed and will return with a wholesome agenda in 2020.

But she's a Maverick. Didn't you know she wasn't going to listen to McSame?

mccain lost his way when he veered from his strength of independence and judgement that was winning the battle for independents.
palin's campaign has hijacked the imporance of his message and the aping to the conservative right mixed w/ an inconsistant message on the important issue of the day – the economy. it is that flip-flopping on the economy, only now is he sounding more coherent but its probably too little too late, that makes independents squeamish and decide that obama is the lesser of 2 evils.
i always liked mccain but in the climatic moment of his poltocal career, he is acting like a rookie.

Sarah "Rogue" Palin

So, what did Sen. McCain expect? She has said from the start that she was born to be a politician, that she had the kind of spirit and drive few have to carry out necessary duties. She looked down on McCain from the the very beginning.

It's been more and more apparent that she doesn't get along with the McCain staff; after all, they're the ones who "leaked" the clothes and makeup information, who help keep Troopergate alive, who controlled information to her. All in an apparently failed effort to keep the rope short. She has been returning the favor, believing, it seems, that everyone is blind to her behaviors, tics, and attempts at self-serving pity/sympathy/leadership/whatever elicitations.

Thinks way too much of her own accomplishments. It's all over her face, words, and gestures, and treatment of Sen. McCain.

McCain's election of Palin completely made the party's momentum take a nose dive. It was obvious that McCain's choice was not for the
benefit of the nation but for the intention of popularity. Consequently many, me included, lost trust in McCain's ability to make rational choices and question his integrity regarding promises for the "benefit of the Nation.".

destruction comes from within

It does not surprise me a bit that Palin is a diva,. I have felt that all along. McSame better wise up and smell the coffee. She's running for herself not as VP. I imagine she has illusions of being the first VP then President. Watch out America. We don't need her kind in the white house. I smell trouble and she is it! And all you ogleing men better get smart too. I have said all along she is an air head and she is proving it. All I have to do is sit back. Poor McCain....so desperate.

So much for McCain's experience and judgement! First he picks an unqualified running mate and now we find out she is not a team player or a leader but an ego-maniac. She could go go nutsky with the nuke button. Put him out to pasture and she need help.

Well you can never control a pitbull for long! Stupid mccain camp should have realised this before picking her..sorry too late!!

She's so Maverick-y that even McCain cant control her!

Imagine how bad she'd be as a President with advisors pulling out their hairs!!

This is getting a little dirty don't you think CNN. Calm down. America will make informed decisions inspite of pathetic articles from both sides.

Wow Sarah Palin is even more of a liability than I originally thought, I bet McCain is wishing he picked a different running mate.

This is hysterical. Let her. McCain made a very dangerous tactical error with Palin. Now the Chickens are coming back to roost.

Diva? I don't know this woman personally but I have gotten the impression she is caught up in herself. Fame can do awful things to some people. Now even Joe the Plumber has delusions of grandeur and is thinking of running for congress.

I'm becoming a bit tired of these people.

Now they are referring to the Gov. as a Diva...well, in the words of Country Joe & The Fish: "Woopee, we're all gonna die!"
That's all

This woman needs to go away and stay away from national politics. She only cares for her own political future. That says alot about ones view of are country. As a republican, I'm outraged she was even picked for the veep job. Pathetic!

The ultimate backfire, not only did Sarah Palin turn out to be a lame duck VP choice when it comes to knowledge and qualifications but now she turns out to be as disloyal to her running-mate as her Husband is to our country. This is better then any soap opera in history.

I'll move down south to mehico if palin becomes a president. Is Palin the most qualified republican in the country? You betcha! Doggone it mcsame believes it too.

Good for that is so selfish; Sarah only represent the ideology of the Republican Party; they don't have the interest of America at heart but theirs. VP indeed!!!

I think I just found out what "Be afraid, be very afraid" means!

Palin a programmed pit by GOP. This women is the worst person i ever seen she is evil

That "diva" attitude of self-righteousness and superiority has turned off all of the moderates who might have voted McCain. And "people who think they're better than everyone else" is how she defined "elitist" on NBC. Elitist, thy name is Palin.

maybe idiot child has a brain after all, weeeeee!

To anyone thinking of ever voting for Palin or Joe-the-Plumber or like types, please watch "Idiocracy"! Maybe a double-feature with "Dave".

Seriously, saying that paying taxes is socialistic or unpatriotic is insane! Do their children attend public schools?! Despite the available tax plan charts, Joe hasn't yet figured out he'd be better off if Obama is elected. Spare us. Talk about unclear on the concept. Get a clue or get out.

And don't dare call those who believe in responsible taxation unpatriotic!

if sarah palin is able to pull enough wool over all our eyes that
she becomes the future of her party God help us. Why isn't she going
away?

There sure are alot of scandels turning up around Palin. The most recent is the natural gas pipeline – looks like the terms & bidding process weren't fair and only catered to a few select companies – one of which Palin had ties to – TransCanada – the one that won the bid.

I'm actually feeling sorry for the GOP, but then again they put Palin in this position...does the term 'maverick' fit her...perhaps we'll see the 'true Palin' in 2012...or more likely 2016.

Good for her, I mean I still don't think she is qualified and I still believe she should have bowed out as Katherine Parker the columnist wrote. But the McCain campaign has messed this lady up and you can tell she was not even aware of it. Because all she could see was opportunity. She is by no means a leader but least she knows when to get out of the kitchen.

NOW THIS IS INFORMATION. WE LIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SHE IS OUT TO GET HERSELF A NAME. SHE DOES NOT CARE ABOUT RUNNING FOR VP, RIGHT NOW. HOW CAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TRUST THIS "DIVA" IF MCSANE CAN'T TRUST HER HIMSELF. ALL SHE CARES ABOUT IS GETTING SOME DEALS IN THE PROCESS. SHE IS THROWING MCCAIN IN THE CASKET BEFORE HIS DEAD.

MORE INFO BOUND TO COME OUT.

OBAMA/BIDEN 08

This woman sends chills down my spine!

It is disgusting to give credence to these annoymous sources. How do we not know that this is a creature of a journalist – who is pro Obama – imagination?

Could lthe CNN newsteam throw some light on a story that Obama has failed to produce his US birth certificatre as requested by a judge of the court? Is this true or not? Now here is a story that one could research. You do not have to depend on these unknown sources.

I agree that she has been mishandled by the McCain campaign since the start. I've watched her for two years and she's exactly the type of down-to-earth leader I've been looking for. If allowed to get away from the "approved script", I feel she could have contributed so much more to a failing campaign.

Sarah Palin`s selection was a desperate attempt at cashing in on millions of women being disappointed at Hilary Clinton losing the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama. The difference was/is that millions of people had a say in deciding that historic contest. Nobody voted for Sarah Palin (outside Alaska???!) except Mc

=/ Obama '08

I'm begining to get a nagging feeling that maybe things aren't going do well in the McCain-Palin camp. Like, maybe the wheels are coming off? The circular shooting squad is a symptom of a desperate campaign off the rails and the drowning rats are fighting to get on the last life raft. Is that Tallulah Bankhead I hear singing...?

That's my girl!!!
She warned everybody she would change Washington! And she's has already started
Don't patronize a mother of five!

John McCain can't even control his own campaign and running mate. Why in the world would we want to put him in charge of running the country?

Sarah Palin is the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party I once knew and loved.

Obama '08

Mr. McCain, Please watch "All About Eve" at your earliest opportunity. We promise not to say "I told you so..."

NIGHTMARE SCENARIO for America and the world: Old, hapless John McCain wins the election and Sarah Palin becomes vice-president.....things will go from bad to worse for the U.S, both at home and around the world.....McCain has no clue but insists on doing things his erratic way and will not listen to anyone....

Can you imagine the number Palin would do on McCain once they find themselves in the same mess as Bush and Cheney have put us in? People might actually pray for the return of Bush-Cheney. Too scary to even imagine?

May heaven and the good sense of the majority of Americans save us from this scary scenario!

Good. Let's hope she implodes the McCain campaign. God help us if this kooky team is elected.

I like her. I voted Republican for the first time. What the media has done to her is aweful. If obama wins...i hope she comes back in 4 years and runs against him because if it was her on the top of the ticket day...she would win.

White Women From Ohio for OBAMA

Wow you have GOT TO LOVE THIS WOMEN, taking control because she knows her campaign is Finished, you know what i might vote for her in 8 years if she runs... By then she would have enough experience

Obama/Biden 2008/2012

Palin/ Unknown 2016

See what happens when you have poor jugdement. Now it is clear that this pick by John Mccain was not well thought out. She is only out for herself. This is the same thing that she did in her home state. Not a team player.

Obama/Biden 08

Somebody should buy McCain some depends because his maverick move is coming back to bite him on the behind. As for Diva Palin, you are no match for either Obama nor Hillary so good luck, by the time you are ready to lead you will have as many wrinkles as McCain.

Palin doesn't even know what her role would be if she was elected with McCain. Perhaps she finally figured out she was part of a ploy. McCains only intentions were to use her for Hillary votes. She knows this now and is probably indeed going rogue so she'll have somewhere to go after McCain loses in a few days. She was never selected for her brains or experience anyhow. Disaster in the end for the Republicans.

Josephine the Plumber and McCain the Bummer!!!

Just what this country needs .

O.B.08

She not going rouge, she is setting herself up not to be the fall gal. GO OBAMA/BIDEN

How can Palin even think..to play for 2012 when 2008 ticket has been a total pathetic game and a real farce for the most serious process of the country which is to select the next President.

Please "Media Hounds" give us all a break – the election is not over until the last legitimate ballot is counted. All we can hope for is that the American people do not get caught up in the hype and focus on the issues.

I just can't find it in me to trust Palin. Beyond the AIP, troopergate, and her anti-Christian attacks on Obama, I just don't think she's straight. The new Alaskan pipeline, a $30 Billion project, had one bid. One bid. That just doesn't sqaure with what I know about government contracts – it sounds corrupt to me. She is not what she seems to be – and I don't think she represents most Americans – most people I know make a mistake and take responsibility for it. Palin pretends that it never happened – over and over again. We've had a President like that for 8 years. American can't afford anymore of this.

Palin has plans to pad her pockets whether by being in politics or in show business. She is using this as her launching pad for bigger things.
She would do well on Fixed News. I am sure Murdock would love to have her on the air.

The fact that she is poorly educated and clearly superficial doesn't matter to Fixed News.

Obama/Biden '08

The problem that Sarah Palin has is that she does not understand the difference between "laughing at" and "laughing with". Although she is a politically sav vy woman she is a very stupid woman. She knows nothing about the world and its people.

I cannot believe that she thinks that Americans will embrace her in 2012. Her stupidity really shows in her thinking that this could happen!

A friend once said to me that " There was a time when stupid people were at least a little humble about it ; but now they have such a sense of entitlement!" I think that my friend must have been talking about Sarah Palin!

Canadian Cath ( looking forward to seeing a bright, articulate, world leader in The White House)

This is great! Again, the gift that keeps on giving!

The republican party is beginning to fall apart and turn on each other. Sarah Palin has not only dug the republican party into the ground, but also any political future she thinks she could possibly have. She seems to be unaware of her unpopularity amongst majority of Americans and actually believes in her mind that she is qualified to run as president of this country. I also believe she is going to find it very difficult in the future to get backing from the republicans that she has angered during this campaign. She needs to come to her senses and realize that Americans made a mistake in the past to elect a less than qualified George Bush into office and that the same mistake will not be repeated.

I agree that the McCain campaign has mishandled her from the start. I've watched her for over 2 years and if not given an "Approved script" she could have contributed much more to the campaign. She's just the type of leader I've been looking for and I hope to see her in the future.

PAsmart

None of this is surprising and would have been obvious to McCain if he hadn't made the same thoughtless decisions that he always makes. He tends to act on impulse and then goes into a frenzy with damage control. Palin has considered this to be the Palin/McCain campaign from day one. Problem is, she's reckless – even more so than McCain.

Remember, she came out of the convention with a laundry list of false statements. McCain and Palin spent several weeks repeating lies about the airplane on eBay, bridge to nowhere, etc. It's been downhill from there.

Wow that's news...Sarah Palin is out for Sarah Palin and thinks she has the ... "knowledge and experience" ...to win this race herself. Funny that every time a citizen says what an overbloated ego with total lack of fortitude she is we are "attacking" her.

John McCain is reaping what he sowed when he chose Gov. Palin as his running mate. She represents that portion of the Republican party that thrives on division and intolerance in the guise of patriotism and Christianity. It is no surprise that she would be poor team player when things are not going well.

So since when was the NEWS based on suggestions? If the aides have an interest in this election they'd do well to keep their mouths shut.

I'm just stunned that the Republican party is just NOW starting to see Sarah for who she is!! She is absolutely given up on the bid for the white house in 2008 and is looking toward a possible future in 2012. I believe since day 1 she has always seen the ticket as Palin/McCain not the other way around.

She is DANGEROUS!! This woman wants to push the far rights ultra-conservative religious agenda and she doesn't care who she steps on to do that...even Senator McCain!

We do NOT need any more division in the white house. I'm voting for the ticket that can and WILL unite this nation...Obama/Biden 08/12

Remember all those times John McCain praised Sarah Palin as one who 'turned against members of her own party"? As McCain has now learned this isn't necessarily a virtue.

This does not surprise me one bit. Deceitful lair is what I'd use to describe Sarah Palin. What type of woman would use her children as bait to bring in sympathy votes. The son going of to war, the teen daughter's pregnancy, and the poor baby with special needs. This woman is a pathetic example of a "hockey mom". Hockey moms protect their children and keep them out of harms way. Shame on you Sarah. Shame on you John McCain for putting your personal interest before the interest of the country by picking her as your running mate.

EVERYONE SHOULD OF SEEN HOW SHE TREATED THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED HER IN ALASKA. WHY WOULDN'T SHE DO THE SAME TO THE MC CAIN PEOPLE ?

So if John McCain can't handle his own running mate, how can we expect him to handle the economy, domestic issues and foreign policy? Oh yes, and that concentration of superegos know as Congress.

He isn't the right man for the job and she isn't the right woman for the job.

With her answers to question related to the Vice Presidency of the U.S and her inability to discern or understand what goes on during the primaries, she seems to be forgetting the hand that chose her.
Anyway, if these rumors are true, I think it offers a great revelation into McCain's and Palin's mind. Meanwhile someone should tell them that their tactics are not working. If these self proclaimed mavericks can't run a campaign with all the so-called experience between them, how do they plan on running the country?

***Palin appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.***

Didn't she do the same in Alaska?

Of course, Palin's pick as vice President at first seems a successful coup againt the Democrats, but it was an eloquent testimony to McCain's rash judgement. The ticket lacked chemistry and a "fundamental" knowledge of where the country was headed, after eight years of George Bush in the White House. The choice was spiteful and it has gone naturally awry. Gov. Palin should hang those expensive costume for 2012 i.e. if she has not already done herself in with all the media guffaws. Case closed.

This is yet another "gasp for breath" from a drowning campaign... The thrashing about underwater will soon come....

NO PALIN EVER..... EVER

Its obvious that Palin is going to attempt to save her 'political future'. She's ambitious.

Thing the governor doesn't 'get' is that 55% of Americans, including people in her own party do not believe she is qualified to lead.

I predict that Palin & the "first dude" will be retiring from politics once the whole investigation is over into their ethics violations.

Let her go "rogue" all she wants because every time she does she sends another "Undecided" voter to Obama!!!

Keep talkin' Caribou Barbie!!!

I love it! You don't even have to get them a rope you can instead just get out of their way and they'll apparently be quite content to hang themselves! What a pick John!! A diva who thinks she's the new chosen Messiah of your party that wont even follow your own instructions. I guess we know longer have to wonder whether or not she'd make a good "second In command".

If McShame were smart, he'd tie an anchor line around her and dump her in the Gulf of Alaska and then apologize profusely to the American people for abandoning his principles and running the sleaziest campaign ever.

He MIGHT be able to salvage his senate career if he writes all this dangerous, reckless and extremely ugly behavior off as a prolonged "senior moment".

John, you shot your own foot off this time. As for the rest of your party, can you say "Titanic"?

In your article you used the term "gone off the reservation". In Canada a reporter would be called on the carpet for an ethnic slur such as that!
(only in America? in America only!)

The McCain campaign imploding on itself,PRICELESS

Why don't you go away, already....

Evil turns in on itself. "Values" republicans. I wonder if that is solely a tactic of manipulating the base, or if they really have any values? I would also point out, that while the democratic party are certainly not socialists (and I wish they were), people believe in socialism because they actually are concerned about the welfare of others. Love thy neighbor, sound familiar you hypocritical jack booted vultures?

I feel bad for the advisor who is lying under that bus. She'll be crushed to death now that the wheels are coming off.

Serves McCain right for not properly vetting, spending 15 minutes with a woman and then expecting a strong partner. He got a lightweight, zealot with no background who has helped bring down his campaign.

Does not surprise me in least....I sure hope she does try to push herself to the top of GOP in 2012...it will ensure at least a generation of Democratici rule!!! YOU BETCHA (wink, wink)!!!

When Joe the Plumber gives out more TV interviews and press conferences in 1 week for John McCain than Sarah the VP nominee has done in 2 months, you know there is something seriously wrong with McCain's campaign. And if he can't run a campaign, I can't even imagine how he could run the U.S.

I really don't see how she could ever be successful as a presidential candidate. It would be tremendously hippocritical of Republicans who claimed Obama was not 'experienced enough' to even consider voting for her.

A REPUBLICAN HOUSE DIVIDED. LMAO.

As a law enforcement officer, let me be the first one to tell you that the people who are POWER HUNGARY, and abuse their power, are the ones who should NEVER be allowed to be in such a position of authority in the first place. It doesnt make any diffrence whether they are in public office, or in law enforcement. They always make horrible choices and make horrible examples of the rest of us who uphold our integrity and keep our oath to serve the public. Sarah Palin is a POWER hungary who already abused her power. She is vendictive, and only in it for herself. I can see that she would do anything to get MORE POWER!

wow

Uh h.. this is another lame attempt to make Palin look "good" and wise...
it won't work GOP!

I WONDER HOW MCCAIN CAN CONTROL HIS CABINETS OR HIS ADMINISTRATION IF HE CANNOT EVEN CONTROL HIS CAMPAIGN TEAM. I THINK HE CANNOT BE A GOOD PRESIDENT IF THIS IS THE CASE. I THOUGHT HE IS TOUGH. OR MAYBE HE IS NOT BEING RESPECTED BY HIS OWN PEOPLE. SORRRRREEEEEE!!!!!

Good to see the Republicans are starting to eat their own.

A good sign.

And a frightening reflection on their organization. If they can't run a campaign– and clearly they can't– how to they expect to convince voters they can run the country ?

Well i think this service John McCain right, he chose her without fully vetting her!

My best line in the Bible is 'The truth shall set you free' now revelations are coming out on the level of McCains judgement, the truth is he simply lack judgement period dot! How on earth in a bid to win an election, he picked some one that is not ready and that never had a dream on becoming a VP in her life, Respected Senator McCain threw away caution and want to put America into a feeble hand of Governor Palin in case of an unexpected, that a poor judgemment. In our growing up years we were taught to seek knowledge when we are ignorant, but Senator McCain reversed that by choosing Palin as a running mate. Obama made up for his 'inexperience' on foreign policy by choosing an experienced Biden as a VP America think!

McCains "experts" and McCain himself have screwed up his campaign... Sarah has a future and is right in not leaving it up to these dimwits

This to me shows just how disgustingly superficial American politics can get. It confirms that McCain's choice of Palin was simply to get women and conservative voters, with zero regards to her capabilities (or incapabilities). And then they had to put up a show and fully contain her so that the TV viewer won't realize quite how incapable she is.

This is not democracy. This is disturbing.

When the children of Queen Elizabeth II were airing their marital problems in public, some of the papers in England and some of her advisers were asking her the question I'm about to ask the McCain campaign " My God, Sir..can't you get her under control?" Or maybe it just doesn't matter much anymore?

Ah so here is a campaign that can't even get it's own house in order, and wants to take charge of the whole country.. I say No McCain Palin, No How, No Way!

She is not a maverick. She appeals to the base because that what she is. Mcain's is more of an ally to the independent voter to the moderates. She views are more in line with Bush and the religious right. So this wasn't going to work and she clearly wants to be the star. She said it herself 3 weeks ago, the "Palin/Mcain" ticket.

I love it.

Palin's approval ratings are the lowest of any VP candidate in the history of our country,

Her disapproval rating are the highest of any VP candidate in the history of our country,

Sarah Palin is the most unpopular and disliked VP candidate in the history of the United States of America.

Why do you think that is?

From vogue to rogue might best describe this person.
Opportunistic, stupid and misleading, she exemplifies the Republican mindset.
If this is 2012 on the way, good thing the Mayan calendar predicts Doomsday...or is that the Doomsday they predicted?

Well I say let her go! because the more she talks the more people see the real deal & it is not a pretty sight! Look below the surface & she has a dark soul...very little light at all. I was wondering how she could go do a policy speech on specail needs children, when she cut funding in Alaska for special needs children? Did any one ask her about that...She is nothing but a mouth peice for dirt. I find it very sad...I really hope the republican party see what she is before they make her a big deal in that party...it will only sink them...

The elite liberal media wants you to believe that Sarah Palin is a religious fanatic just because she's a spiritual warrior who believes in fighting demons and witches with prayer and that Alaska will be a refuge for believers in The End Of Days. But her praise of Joe The Plumber, who was registered with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Natural Law Party before he registered Republican, proves she's open minded and that her religious beliefs don't always dictate her politics.

my post from a month ago >>>
McCain and Palin are NOT on the same page on everything from reform to birth control.
September 25th, 2008 11:31 am ET
PT Palin depression The BIG question that SP was asked and HER answer are soooo being overlooked in the Media!
Before whe was put under wraps, a reporter asked her about McCain's opposition to drilling in Anwar.
Remember her response? She said she 'will try to change his (little) mind on that' Can you spell insubordination?
What other issues are Tod and her going to 'change his mind' on?
*He votes to fund pro choice groups.
* She is against birth control and sex education in schools
*Does he believe in shooting wolves from planes, that global warming is a myth, and polar bears are not endangered?
*abortion for rape victims
* as a maverick, he opposed Bush gun legislation
* the list goes on Independence for Alaska
McCain and Palin should debate!!!
Try to find either of the Palin's waving an American flag before she was selected!!!!!
Palin/Palin 2012
(I still predict she will be dumped for Romney or Lieberman)

It's nice that the McCain campaign staffers have finally begun to realize what the majority of the country realized weeks ago. I'm guessing someone finally looked up from their nap and saw what was REALLY going on around them. That's the GOP for you, asleep at the wheel while driving our country and the global economy over a cliff.

Maybe someone should remind Sarah Palin that after McCain loses on Nov. 4th, she'll have to return to Alaska to face another defeat in two years when the voters of Alaska also show her why she's not a "maverick". Gotta hand it to the GOP, if they really wanted to forfeit a presidential election, they couldn't have done a better job than they did with this one. But don't worry, somehow they'll still figure out a way, wrong though it may be, to blame the Democrats, Obama, AND the unbiased "liberal" media that took the time to vet their VP candidate when the GOP couldn't be bothered. The residents of Alaska should be thankful, at no cost to them the rest of the country showed how corrupt their beauty queen really is.

Is this for real? Why are they talking about this now, with 10 days until election? Hmm, maybe it is because McCain's campaign is fundementally inept.

If only it were that simple ... they picked a maverick and, dang, they got a maverick. Nor is the revelation that there's a politician who's keeing an eye out for her/his own future much of a newsflash. Most are, I'd guess, and probably need to in order to survive. It's not like Palin was a longtime McCain stalwart - she just met him a couple of months ago.

No, what's scary about Sarah is that she considers herself *God's* chosen diva. See Alan Boras' thoughtful column in this morning's Anchorage Daily News about Sarah's weird Kenyan witch-doctor "blessing," the role of witch doctors in Kenya today (eleven "witches" burnt to death last May), and what it has to do with American religious history and contemporary conservative extremists.

It is bizarre to me that people went hysterical for Obama to renounce ill-considered words spoken in a sermon twenty years ago, for which he wasn't even present (and which he *did* clearly renounce), but no one has called for Sarah to any way reject the profoundly anti-American ideology this guy was proclaiming, on tape, as he laid his hands on her.

I'm not surprised! Of course she is looking out for number one. that is what she did from day one.
It reflects on McCain. His decision to bring her own after really not vetting her. McBush is sunk!

B.Obama ,08

Change we really really really need.

Change for our children and our children's children.

Their future and all of ours are in jeopardy.

Vote Obama ,08

And WHY is this surprise? Women across the country could see this from the start – a woman much too high on herself. The Republican Party desperately tried to market Palin as an up-and-comer . Did they really think they could suppress this woman's overblown ego for very long? McCain came close to getting my vote until he picked a bimbo trophy as his running mate.

Palin is the last thing this country needs. She is unprofessional, unintelligent, and dare I say it – Un-American. She does not represent the core values that we Americans hold to close to our heart; honesty, integrity, and demonstrating respect for others.

She has repeatedly lied in public forums, for instance 'Obama pals around with terrorists' is a deplorable lie to put out there just to win an election. Yet this is just one of many lies that have spewed out of her mouth- and McCain does not denounce them, just the opposite he defender her in his final debate.

McCain and Palin are not fit to represent our country, nor do they have the intellectual capacity to do so.

McCain's advisers have severely misjudged the prevailing political winds and when it's all said in done may have in the course of two months orchestrated one of the worst run campaigns in a long time. McCain himself has even appeared at times to have recognized this, but it's too late for him to do anything different.

Palin is reaching the same conclusion, and realizes her long term political credibility has been damaged as a result. She is not an idiot, but has been mishandled incorrectly by what appears to be a totally inept campaign team. It's too late for McCain in this election (look at the electorate picture, not overall poll numbers), and it would only be wise for her to make an attempt to salvage her reputation before her return to Alaska.

Wow, you mean that the Republican handlers are finally seeing what was obvious to everyone else right after her nomination. Way to impress the nation with your insight and wisdom, boys.

I'll help you with a couple of other things you might not have figured out yet. The earth is round. The sun rises in the East. And Obama is going to be the President of the United States.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Palin was never ready and to be honest was the worst possible choice for McCain. I do believe that she was looking out for her best interest all along. The McCain campaign is no longer together but fighting constantly. If you watched the interview McCain and Palin had with Brian Williams on NBC Nightly News, you can see the distance, the tension, and the dislike.

Will people please stop bringing up the Joe Biden speech on Obama being tested. Joe Leiberman has said the same thing earlier this year on Face the Nation with Bob Schefer. McCain keeping saying he has been tested. When? When was McCain President? Being a POW is not the same as being President. Does he not understand that??? Only four people on the face of the earth knows what it is to be tested as President and that is Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and the current President. Those are the only people that has been tested in that job. Why doesn't the news media bring up the Joe Leiberman interview, this will stop the talk about being tested and why Joe Biden said that in the first place. Joe Leiberman and Joe Biden were right.

Yep, that's another little red flag being raised for the McCain campaign.
Sarah Palin thinks that she has a future in politics. However, this campaign has hindered any chance of that. Palin is just as likely to continue a political career as Michelle Bachman. These are all hints of things to come.

I do not know if it is a caricature. After listening to her interviews, and now knowing she can't deal with process questions. (Does that mean she can not think independantly), than SNL has her down pat. McCain really believed he could substitute Hillary in our minds. Sadly, he forgot Hillary's attraction is her mind, and ability to process and communicate complex information.
I was a Hillary supporter. Sarah Palin, other than being a woman, is not Hillary Clinton.
Go Obama

"and at the end of the day, voters turned against her both in terms of qualifications and personally." - are you kidding me? Obviously you have not been around her campaign stops. She is the most popular candidate of any of them and if she had the HUGE spending campaign budget Obama has, she'd be in the White House.

McCain has a good message but is a poor messanger, Obama has a poor message but is a good messenger. Obama will be our president and God help us.

"The Sith always turn on one another."

As an Obama supporter, thank you John McCain. Sarah Palin is the gift that keeps on giving. Hahahahaha

Everytime we see Palin, Cindy and John McCain on TV, we change the channel right away. We cannot stand them. They are oh, soooooo full of hatred, full of lies so hypocrite. Palin had her 15 minutes of fame. Hopefully she will just fade away and go back to bridge of nowhere. Thank God, few more days till election day is over.

palin will be forgotten by most people as soon as nov 4th is over. she's ridiculous.

She is a Diva unto herself ONLY!

PALIN NEED TO PACK BAG AND GO BACK TO ALASKA WHERE SHE BELONG AND PLEASE SHE IS NOT WELCOME TO CANADA NO TIME AT ALL CANADIAN IS FOR OBAMA AND WE ALL COMING TO OBAMA RALLY.

PLEASE make her go away...while I agree with her that the McCain campaign has been mismanaged, I don't think that's why SHE is failing to impress people. SHE is failing because:
1. she has no ethics, and no problem using public funds for personal gain.
2. she is NOT a fiscal conservative, maybe she's stingy with her own money as she claims, but she is certainly not stingy when it comes to spending government or campaign $$$
3. she is far too (socially) conservative for the average American.
4. she is not qualified to be Vice President when it comes to time in office, educational background, knowledge of world affairs, or knowledge of how the federal government works.
5. she has dangerously unconstitutional ideas about the role of the Vice President.

She needs to be stopped.
Voting for Obama/Biden is a good way to do that.

This is dumb, what I find funny is that some McCain people are so critical of Palin. Without her this would be a way different race. The republican base needed to be energized so they would go out and vote. SHE DID THAT. McCain had great judgment when choosing her.

McCain/Palin O8

Palin is an unqualified boob and is merely dressed-up white trash. I have nothing but disdain for her and her dangerous religious fundamentalism that wants to dictate to everyone in the country – including those who actually think for themselves and have no use for that kind of mythology. That having been said, she's absolutely right that robo-calls are irritating. If the McCain campaign is pointing to THAT as the source of her weaknesses for the ticket, they really need a reality check. She's right on the money with that one, although this doesn't make her any more qualified to be VP, if just means occasionally she has a flash of insight (maybe her own phone has been targeted with these loathsome calls). If the McCain campaign cannot focus on anything else in an effort to clean their house up, they deserve to lose.

Good, and hopefully she'll be home in Alaska to spend a long winter there. She won't have to bother with Washington DC.

Alaska is a true national treasure, purchased during the administration of President Andrew Johnson, for the American People. It was a wise purchase, very good real estate, sold by the Czar of Russia.

Palin may be governor, but most of Alaska belongs to the American People, who paid for it in 1867.

At least she is clever enough to sense a sinking ship.

"divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom"
Wow – does this already sound like someone familiar – perhaps our current president??? Guess it's not just divas who think this way. Is this alleged behavior a surprise to any of us? This woman is not fit to be VP in any rational person's mind, let alone president. Come on American, wake up and look at each candidate and running mate's actual platform, interviews, character and credentials. I think the choice is beyond obvious to anyone with an open mind. Then again, this is the country that voted W in twice............

One of many reasons not to allow her to run this country.

IT WOULD BE PALIN FIRST!

It's all a front!

And the McCain campaign implodes...

So Sarah Palin thinks she knows best? From what I can tell, this woman is so vacuous it's a wonder her head doesn't collapse. The fact that anyone would put her up for office is an insult. Next leader of the party? Who does she think she is?

Sara Palin should go back to college and EARN a real education. She should obtain at least a PHD before thinking about national politics.

Right now she has both feet in her mouth and it is had to remove them.
World travel shoud be high on her agenda as well instead of looking through her kitchen window and thinking she can see Russia.

The question I'd like her to answer is this; does she have any form of internation history?

Can she understand the difficult issues of the Middle East? Does she really know anything about Iraq and it's 2000 year history?

If George Bush, Dick Cheney and John McCain can't seem to fatom the critil issues of the middle East, why then does she think she have a clue?

How stupid one have to be not reading and understanding history?

The 2012 ticket should look like this:

Huckabee / Palin

I truly believe that they can win with this ticket. I heard a lot of good things about Huckabee while he was a governor. He made hard decisions.

I prefer Huckabee or Hillary for 2008, but unfortunately, that did not happen. Obama now, is defintely better than McCain

This whole article is stupid. The fact of the matter is that Governor Palin has more experience than Barack Obama. That is why the pro-Obama media keeps smearing Gov. Palin on a daily basis (like they did to Hillary) to distract the American people from Obama's lack of experience. Obama has been in the US Senate only 3 years and he has spent most of that time running for President or voting "present." Moreover, as Joe Biden and Hillary said, Obama is not ready to be President. Moreover, Biden said that he would be honored to be on the same ticket with McCain. If it wasn't for the collapse of AIG, Fannie and Freddie, which came the day after McCain-Palin took the lead in the polls (which is curious), McCain would be ahead right now, but the race is not over yet.

God help america if this moron on a moose runs in 2012
I doubt many could stand another run by this woman for anything!!!

Hmm...looks like the "Maverick" is taking a maverick turn. It's ironic that they're scrambling to explain this. Looks like the McCain campaign is getting a taste of its own medicine, so to speak.

I read her correctly a long time ago. The Republican Party did it too themselves. How can they govern if they can not get along. McCain is running for President not her. I am sick of her she is an insult. I predict the end of her soon. Obama/Biden.

McCain made the pick, now let him live with it, he wanted to go outside the norm and pick her.....

If you guys can't reveal your sources. I don't believe it. I hate when people write something and say "adviser or source said it"

Ooops the Maverik shell is cracking......

I'm the bigger maverick, No I am. I am ,NOOOO I am. What a disaster this campaign has been. It will go down in history as one of ,if not THE biggest disaster in political history.

This is an ueducated woman who will stop at nothing to get to the TOP. Including stepping on McCain

Country First, right?

Palin's ONLY goal is to "win." Because of her "Lack Of" she does not realize that there is SO much more involved. Why will 2012 be any different than today? Palin does not have the capcity to stop, listen & learn; her ego and self-centeredness will be her demise...Crash and Burn.

Palin has lost a lot of credibility throughout this election. I don't think I would be thinking about next election if I were her. She's got other issues at home to worry about besides Troopergate.

America save the world from Palin !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let the party begin. I guess the McCain campaign is starting to see the true colors of Palin, the same time she is making a note that they are going to lose and starting to look after herself. I'm sure she is going to piss off alot of people (powerful people) as she goes, then comes November 5th, she will be all alone dragging her kids and her yes maaam husband back to Alaska. I guess we Americans are not stupid after all. We give anyone a chance to shine, but it doesn't take us long to see the true colors of a person. Bye Bye Diva.

This woman is a dangerous right wing nutcake and a true neo-con without a decent education to enable her to lead on a national level. "The next leader of the party?" Is that the best they have? Four years from now, no one will care about that woman...

DON'T WE HAVE A MOTHER, DON'T WE LOVE OUR MOTHER, WHY NOT VOTE FOR SARAH PALIN AND STOP CRITICIZING HER. OUR WE NOT PROUD THAT SOME DAY A WOMAN, THE SAME GENDER AS OF OUR MOTHER, WILL BECOME VICE PRESIDENT OR PRESIDENT.

VOTE FOR MC CAIN AND SARAH PALIN.

Maybe Gov. Palin has a conscience or maybe she knows McCain is going to lose and she is trying to distance herself. She definitely has a future in national politics like it or not.

Its a scary thought to imagine a world with a "rogue" Vice President Palin...God forbid!

She sounds a bit marvericky to me. Hmmm, isn't that what they wanted?

I have never heard Palin speak with any intelligence or conviction about any of the important policies. All she gives us in that line is puppet answers or no answer at all. The only thing she does at rallies is spew her venom with lies and 7th grade name-calling. She is a ridiculous candidate, and this will go down in the history books as the Republicans' dumbest decision ever. As a little side.....I'd much prefer to see her wearing an American flag pin, rather than that silly polar bear. If a candidate is from Kansas, do they wear a sunflower to show that they love Kansas more than the whole of America? No, but Sarah does that. Somebody ought to start spewing venom about her. Her 8 month first child and shotgun marriage, her fringe, hateful religion, her using state money to cart her kiids around, rather than make wiser choices about their lives (school, normalcy, etc.), talking about being a "hockey mom", when she only did that for a couple of years.....and what parent isn't a hockey/soccer/softball/band/football/theater, etc., etc., etc. Mom?There are soooo many things we could dis her on, but the Dems are sticking pretty close to telling us what they'd like to do for the country, rather than waste time on that stuff. They only do that when necessary for self defence against the crazy, meaningless and constant attacks.

The wheels are coming off the cart of the McCain campaign. They have nobody but themselves to blame since they picked Palin to begin with.

the beginning of the end!!

This is just more evidence of bad judgment by John McCain in choosing a running mate who's ill-suited for him. And bad judgment would make a bad president. You have to wonder, if Palin keeps going rogue, when she'll slip up and make an even bigger gaffe than she's made in the past. But even though she's trying to break free and be her own woman, it looks like it's too late to help her base, with Obama maintaining and even building his lead nationwide and in battleground states. The sharp slap in the face that Americans have received from the financial meltdown, 5 costly and disastrous years in Iraq, and other blunders by the Bush administration have made the American public all too able to spot politicians who don't make the grade in these days when good help is hard to find. Luckily, Barack Obama is the right man in the right place at the right time. But it will take all of us to steer our country back on track.

Don Stevens
Anaheim, California

What do you know? We knew it would not be LONG. As a WOMAN, I knew, this WOMAN was trouble. She do not follow RULES, she state it herslf. She is setting herself up to move on to BETTER things and VP was not in er VIEW. STOp HER NOW, she is VERY DESRUCTIVE, with her HOCKEY MOM, TAKE NO PRISONER ATTITUDE. OR SHE WILL SELF DESTRUCT.

What Palin not good at process questions? Surprise, Palin is not good period. She was not ready when she accepted the offer, she is not ready now. She should never have left Alaska, at least they approved of her. Had she been vetted they would have known that even as Mayor of a small town, she had to hire a city manager because she is not good at processes, no executive experience at all. Palin turned the Mayor position there into a figurehead position only.

GO BACK TO ALASKA

VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 08 N 2012

I have had posts in the CNN blogs since the first week she was selected saying that a Palin McCain debate would be priceless.
In her first public interview she said she would 'change his little mind on drilling in Anwar.
I can TELL you she is NOT the future of the republican party and that she WILL lose her popularity in Alaska AND I can tell you why!
Now that the world knows she has benn a porker getting $500 per citizen in ear marks of YOUR American tax money and that you get $50 per year there will be an end to that.
Alaskans will blame HER for not keeping her head LOW.
Google "bridge to Wasilla" at least the bridge she said thanks to went to an airport!
You have people who have lost their homes in Hurricanes and she wants to reduce her drive to Anchorage by 35 minutes!!!
Are you going to pay that for hER???

Sounds like something a "maverick" would do... I would suspect that any real "maverick" would resent being handled and told what to say all the time.

Palin is disagreeing with McCain. McCain is disagreeing with Palin. McCain is denouncing Bush while he continues to push Bush tax cuts.

The wheels have definitely come off the Straight Talk Express bus.

She isn't good at process questions? That would be questions of how you put together ways of accomplishing things. Based on what we know of her executive experience in Alaska, her way of problem solving seems to be more in the way of bullying than process. Maybe that works to get a hockey rink in your town or force oil companies to pay more to the state of Alaska, but that is not the what we need on the world stage where the reaction to bullying is at best a lack of cooperation by our allies, and worse, much, worse on the part of our enemies who possible nuclear weapons and a capacity for the most cold-blooded acts.

This woman is scary! This country would be in a world of trouble with her as President!

How does Sarah Palin justify stating that Barack Obama is "not ready", when it is so apparent that if she became "President Palin" (not a real stretch if McCain is elected) she wouldn't know how to find the bathroom, (since her sense of geography includes viewing Russia from her porch) much less a plan for our country's national situations?

Yeah. Palin going rouge sounds like a great plan. She's shown such command of the issues so far. She should just ad lib and talk to the press as much as she wants.

Sarah, Sarah, Sarah – I'm not voting for you or John, but you should appreciate that people like Nicole Wallace are much, much smarter than you and your advisors. Keeping you safely hidden from the press was the RIGHT strategy, as is proven by the fact that your adventures with the press have proven to be so harmful to your credibility. McCain made a horrible pick. The only thing that the COULD do was try and hide it, and hide you in the process.

The idea that you might be back in 2012 should make every Democrat's heart warm, though I can't believe the Repubs wouldn't try and rehabilitate their brand in the next 4 years and find a good, legitimate candidate to nominate.

This ongoing drama queen and her story is getting pretty lame. And speaking of "process," this places into question the decision making process of John McCain. If he has any. McCain voters, be careful what you wish for.

Good for her. She pulled her own weight. McCain did not pull through. He faltered on the economy, while Obama BUSTED out in front with the right message.

Above all, they were way ahead of Obama. However, W messed it up again. This time, crashing the economy.

Is this what happens when you put two Mavericks together? What is the second-in-command maverick to do?

Shes definately looking to 2012, even she can see the writing on the wall. In 2012 we'll see Palin and Joe the Plumber on the ticket and when they lose to Obama and we'll see Joe the Plumber and Thomas the Tank Engine in 2016

With certain real Americans being so fascinated with Divas, such as Paris and Brittany, should we be expecting the release of a 'sex' tape? Seriously, let's accept the fact we have to put up with only 10 more days of this 'fruit' who will fly away back home to hibernate for the winter if her constituants will take her back!
As for her leading the 2012 Republican ticket, I truly hope so because we will finally lose their beliefs of backward thinking from the world landscape. More exposure will only advance the phrase, "What were we thinking?".
World leaders will surely test her because her own Party hasn't.

McCain deserves he, after all he picked her. It is interesting, the Senate republican Congressional Committee and Palin are turning on him during these last few weeks before the election. What they say must be true, "they is no honor amongst thieves.”

It looks like at a time when Sarah Palin should be acting like Hillary Clinton, she's acting like Britney Spears.

McCain claims he is better suited to be the commander and chief than Obama, yet his VP is going "rogue" on him (it also sound like all the Republicans are leaping from the sinking ship). So McCain can't keep is own VP reined in? Is he fit to be commander and chief? If something happens to McCain and the Palin has to stand in, do we want a "Diva" running her own agenda? Would she bomb, bomb, bomb Iran to armageddon?

At least Biden seem to be reined in and subdued after his gaffe.

Why isn't CNN reporting this on the air? This is a very important developement that the public should know. This woman is not interested in doing anything for America. It's very apparent she's only interested in what this campaign can do for Sarah Palin.

Having a head strong person with precious little international experience as a VP candidate is a recipe for disaster. Unfortunately Senator McCain hand picked her without the benefit of a full vetting process. That is just one more example of his inability to trust other people and making spur of the moment decisions on his own. That is not the mark of a successful President.

So much for putting America first. Sarah Plain Stupid is looking out for herself. When the ship sinks, the rats and cock roaches usually sneak away. Yes Sarah, you truly are a Maverick.

I think you get what you deserve for choosing your V.P. without vetting her at all. This guy has entrusted his campaign to a bunch of incompetent people. It makes you wonder who he'll entrust with our economy seeing how he admits his own weakness in that area. Oh yeah, I know who he'll trust.... the same people that Bush did. The McCain campaign continues to react to yesterday's headlines instead of showing any leadership on issues.

too bad for Mcshame... he will regret this !!!!!!!!!!!!!

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” ...Just the type of person we need in the executive branch of our government. I don't think so!

I am a nanny and I would be proud to have Sen Obama as a nanny friend. We need more nannies like him in our business.

What other than her 10 minutes in the national spotlight could possible make this woman believe that she should be on a 2012 ticket ? This is obviously a case of someone who has bought into her own PR.

By now, McCain should realize that if you sacrifice your principles for ambition you risk aligning yourself with like minded individuals. Clearly, Ms. Palin's ultimate loyalty is to her own ambition.

We've been telling them what she's like....maybe the Republicans will now sit up and listen to this devious Diva!

I have serious concerns about Sarah Palin. She is a proven liar and I believe that if you lie, even after you have been proven to be a liar, then you can not be trusted. Tell me when those children go to school and where do they go? She is not a good mother, but she is using those children. If the average citizen was doing that, CPS would be hot on the trail and taking the children putting them in foster homes. My heart goes out to that little baby that she constantly drags around.

The whole country is lucky that the Palin pick backfired...big time. I don't think we were ever ready for her.

If this is all the GOP has to look to in 2012 they are in pathetic shape. The woman is a grasping, self-serving climber with nothing to offer to the national scene. She actually was in over her head as a mayor of a tiny town. She was plucked out of obscurity and now has stars in her eyes. She will step on anyone who gets in her way. She does not, nor ever will, possess the qualities of a great leader. I think Katie Couric gave us a good idea of Palin's capabilities.

If John Mc Cain can't handle her how is he going to handle the Country,this is a clear picture of his short comings.

I support the McCain-Palin ticket at first, but she has made me think twice about them. I'm not an elitist, but I think we need someone smart in the WH. The more I hear her answers, she doesn't appear that knowledgeable. She never really answers the questions, but just kind of goes around them, just talking points, no specifics.

And, I'm worried about her judgement in the latest news on spending on that money on her makeup and clothes. With American's losing their jobs and incomes, it just wasn't smart to let her handlers spend this kind of money on her. Her makeup alone, is what I make in one year! What kind of values are those?

The McCain Campaign is just learning what many of us knew all along, and that is that Sarah Palin's VP quest is a joke and she will be a has been just as soon as this election is over. So much forthe McCain Maverick style. He sold his soul to Karl Rove, George Bush and Company long ago and is finally reaping the fruits, "Sarah Palin" the Joke of the Nighttime TV.

The arrogance of the ignorant is a paradox of human nature.

figuring out that a former beauty queen is a diva is hardly shocking!

Palin maybe looking out for Palin but remember... Even is she's not looking at running in 2012... She must still try to keep her "Cush" job as govener of Alaska.

She may now lose that as well now that her gaffs has gone out to the world.

Bottom Line, we need to change the topic from Palin to how we will bring this country together on Nov. 5th.

Bring it Together America! Vote 08'... Hopefully for Obama

Nothing is surprising me at this point. This one is going down in the annals of history as the WORST. CAMPAIGN. EVER.

It's careening into one giant avalanche of FAIL.

What I love about the GOP ticket:

Most of the Republicans who respect McCain can't abide Palin and most of the Conservatives who love Palin can't stand McCain.

I've love to read a behind-the-scenes book about this election when it's all over. Funniest campaign EVAH!

Sarah Palin AKA Gift from heaven

Imagine that!!! McCain's attack dog has turned on him. Palin has sipped from the devil's cup and she feels powerful. The free clothes, adoring fans (idiots) have a created a monster. IF McCain did get into office she would set him up with in the first 6 months to be impeached or worst.

Today I saw an "I love Palin" bumper sticker, so some have already dismissed McCain. I hate it for him... but that's what he gets!!!

I guess she is showing her real colors as "Palin the Reformer". She not only takes on her own party, she takes on her partner–the man who put her on the ticket! I guess she is saying, "thanks but no thanks John, I'll reform you too so I can get ahead!" He's like the bridge to nowhere, she supported him, but now is against him. She is clearly someone with her own agenda, and poor McCain has been used just like other Republicans who were nice enough to let her join the playing field, only to be stabbed in the back. That's Palin for you! Is it too late for McCain to change his VP pick? If I were him, I'd be scared.

Is this really a surprise? She seems like a psycho-bat-woman who's been reading too much of her own press. But she's really good-looking so people keep letting her get away with it. Go back to being a hockey cheerleader!

Ah ah ah!

McCain is suddenly regretting all the millions of dollars he spent trying to label Obama as "the biggest celebrity in the world".

Look at it now! She spent $150,000 just last month. She is the greatest celebrity in the world. But is she ready to lead?

McCain's ship is sinking. The dogs are turning on each other.

This woman will NEVER be President of the United States.

McCain made the biggest mistake ever choosing Sarah Palin. McCain has become the worst of the worst of all Republicans, The very thing he hated about his own Republicans. He has become the next G.Bush Jr.

CNN i dont know why you do not post my remarks but im going to talk anyway.
The McCain-Palin ticket is imploding. They know there in for a huge loss because of misstakes and the economy, plus the fact that this a democratic year. Palin, for all her stupidity realizes this and is looking toward 2012. McCain is taking his last breathe

Is anyone else reading this story laughing out loud? Did then NOT see this coming? Palin is out for self, not McCain and not this country. She is incredibly misguided in believing that the support is bigger than the curiosity.

Imagine if you will: Palin in front of the mirror with her eyes shut tight saying "I am going to be PRESIDENT...I WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! They love me"...and clapping her hands with glee.

This is some SCARY stuff!

Lots of Canadians like me, have US roots and the shadow of the US falls over the entire of this country so I claim the right of a person more influenced by your affairs than most of your citizens – to comment.

How in the name of all that is holy can a person who claims Christian convictions lie through her teeth like she does. The Bible says, "All liars" are condemned – no reprieve for politicians.

Palin was made into a star by the desperate McErratic campaign, and now they will bear the consequences. She is a remarkably ordinary person, not a star among Repub governors, and was never going to attract Hillary's supporters. If she becomes a/the face of the Repub party after this loss (in spite of undercutting whatever slim chance McErratic had), they will wander in the political desert for a decade or more. She is an "empty pants-suit."

Surprise.... surprise... surprise!

You Repubs always did say she was smart; so, why be so shocked when she is "smart" enough to abondon this malignant campaign?

Shocker!

This is great news for John McCain!

Does Sarah Palin want John McCains job? Maybe she cannot wait till the day she thinks she is going to take over. I wouldnt wish that on anyone...

Sarah Palin appears to be the worst VP candidate ever. She is a selfish woman, who thinks that she achieved the top of the mountains. Her arrogance and ego are detrimental to Mccain's candidacy. The only executiveposition that a president is allowed to pick without congress' scrutny is the VP. McCain really blew it. I hope that the republican party will not give Sarah Palin another chance.

She's a loser. One need only look at http://www.bofads.blogspot.com to see the long long list of her gaffes and lies. If she's the leader of our Party, we're done for.

HAY COME ON CNN, SHOW MY COMMENT, BE FAIR.

VOTE FOR MC CAIN AND SARAH PALIN.

This is what you get when a candidate is not properly vetted!! McCain use to have integrity, but when you sell your soul to the devil, your campaign burns up in front of you.

thats not all she is
Child abuse with draging the kids around like that

OMIGOD, Dr. McFRANKENSTEIN,
THE MONSTER IS LOOSE....

WHAT SHALL WE DO?

AHAAA, WE SHALL TIE HER TO AN ICEBERG
AND HAVE HER ENDLESSLY DRIFT
BETWEEN ALASKA AND RUSSIA................

I would like to know what sources John King is using. Funny how this comes out now and when Biden was going off on his own, CNN never covered that. Get a life and report why Obama has yet to discuss the specifics of his "TAX" cut and plan. You people are insane. There is NO way OBAMA can pay for the tax plan and you let him walk without having to explain the plan. The debate questions were terrible, not once was Obama asked to explain his plan which every paper has stated that cannot happen the way he described. Yet, no coverage about it from the NEWS you can trust site.

John King, Peter Hanby, and Dana Bash all Obama supporters. CNN likes to make things up and report it even if they know its a lie. Just like Drew Griffin did the other day and no apology to Gov. Palin. Is this article true CNN or are you just making it up? CNN has no credibility anymore.

It is clear there is no family connection – she has not looked any of her family in the eye once – including her young daughter who is being traipsed around like campaign tinsel.

She doesn't even look at them when she kisses them or touch her mouth to them.

She will resent her mother in future life – guaranteed.

This woman is beyond just being a diva – she is a megalomaniac of the likes we have not seen in a log while – well not since Cheney – not so long – but just as dangerous.

Not enough brains or charisma to lead the RNC. Sorry Missy.

It is just what they deserve.
You pick a pretty face and a vacuous intellect for the most powerful position in the country, maybe even the world, and the mis-spent confidence inflates them.
McCain should have had the wisdom to seek advice from wiser people.
Has he ever heard of "Gamblers Anonymous"?

Palin's aide admits Sarah is not good at answering process questions? Hell, Sarah is not good at answering any questions. People, this person is woefully unqualified to be VP let alone President. She intends to "run the Senate". The title of President of the Senate is for all intents and purposes a ceremonial tag. The ONLY time the VP has any say is for a tie braking vote. Fortunately she will be dangerous only if elected and again fortunately enough Americans will invoke their common sense and not vote for this poor ticket. There seems to be little good left in the Republican party with this ticket representing them.

If Palin thinks she's the next leader of the republican party, then I'm the next nobel laureate in astrophysics.

And "not good at PROCESS questions"? That is digging deep to simply find an excuse for sticking foot-in-mouth...

Looking forward to 11/4 and beyond....

And just when you thought that Obama was the celebrity!

How much more evidence does anyone need to be convinced that Palin is wrong for McCain and America? She and McCain hold to the philosophy (much like Bush) that the ends justify the means. The Republicans have had their chance(s) and they blew them. Give Democrats a chance now.

I'm a registered Independent who voted for Obama.

Sara Palin out of control. I don't think anyone could have predicted that.... LOL!!!!

Come 2012, if this Hockey Mom comes out as a Republican or Independent front runner against OBAMA or Hillary Clinton......the ice will melt below her feet. She will be smoked.

Take an advice beauty queen, you are better off in an igloo back home in Alaska. Leave Washington alone for the next 10 years....go for Senate run first and some grasp of the reafl issues.

Why is it so hard to state the obvious? Palin is a backwater outsider who somehow managed to stage acoup in Alaska. John McCain is an old coot who, in a fit of madness, picked her because of her gender. Of course she is going to "go rogue." She has no respect for parties or politics, only a driving ambition for domination.

When a ship starts to go down, its human nature to have the every man ( or woman) for themselves attitude. Mc Cain made a historical error in judgement in picking Palin. If she is looking ahead to 2012 she can forget it. Palin will be a faint memory by 2009.

Nobody shoud be blame except John McCain for selcting he without investigating her records. She think that narrow minded republican like her and she will be presedent 2012. The thing she does not know that if a monkey was selected insted of her for the vice president still narrow minded republican vote for it. with this thinking she does not have a chance to be president at all.

Arash

Only in a Republican America can man who is a Harvard Educated Constitutional Scholar, with 8yrs as State Senator and 4 yrs as US Senator and member of the Foreign Relations Committe deemed not ready to lead yet an ultra conservative woman, with 20 months as Governor of Alaska and a Bachelor of Journalism considered ready on day one.

Republicans held control of Congress for 12 of the last 14 years. They had the White house for 8. McCain has been a US Senator for 24 years! And now he talks of change?

The old guard is the problem. The republicans held our trust and lost it. It indeed is time for change!

Winner = Barack

Loser = many of us soon to be unemployed by his anti-business liberal policies.

Thank God we can kick these guys out in two and four years if we don't elect Palin this time.

Palin 2012

Palin is a diva? On whose stage? who is her audience? I think she is a right-wing lunatic who would be more effective being surrounded in her true element. She needs to wear hunting gear from Wal Mart, and lay off of her fat smoothing cream around her neck. She would simple be more powerful if she showed her true, unworldly, barbaric self.

This is exactly in line with the warnings from people who worked with her in Alaska after McCain announced the pick. She seems like a person driven by a lust for power: the talk of "taking charge of the Senate" comment, the drive for power that compelled her to "not even "blink" when picked for VP, and the sense that she is already trying to overtake McCain and the people running her campaign. The thought of what a person like this would do if they became president is horrifying.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

This scares the living hell out of me.

Well, what did they expect.????? One of the biggest things the Republicans gushed about when they introduced her at the convention was how she took on the old boy network in her own party in Alaska. Guess she's found another group of Republicans she's not afraid to take on.

The way Palin keeps lying and getting away with it when Clinton was impeached for his one lie about his sex life is clear evidence of the abject hypocrisy of the Republican party. She repeats lies that McCain has even refuted, such as the ones about Obama's supposed connections with terrorism. She's allowed by Brian Williams on NBC to get away with saying that Biden claimed that Obama would cause an international crisis. All these lies and slander: Why doesn't McCain do something amazing and admit that it was a mistake to choose Rove to run his campaign and then to elect a running mate without any credentials whatsoever? Obama would be within his legal rights to sue for defamation of character for the Ayers claim alone.

Before John McCain starting running for office, I always thought he was a decent man. Between the dirty politics and the choosing of this woman as his running mate, I feel his judgement can no longer be trusted. I know women like her-they are in it for themselves and only themselves. Maybe for once in her life she will not get what she wants. She IS NOT qualified for office. Voters need to get the big picure and not vote one issue or we will continue to be perceived as an ignorant nation. I am a moderate who will be voting for Obama/Biden and the hope for our future-governing from the middle, not the extreme right.

Back to Alaska with you, Sarah the rogue Wolf Killing Liar!!

Obama 08!

It is so obvious that Palin is prepping for a run in 2012, but she'll never make it past the first few primaries, not against Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty, who will all probably be in the race as soon as this one is over. The McCain-Palin campaign and their party are dying, there may not even be a GOP for them to be nominated by in 2012.

Sara Palin, will do anything to push her own political career forward, she is dishonest, a liar a self only political gainer, who will walk over her own nose if it hang far enough down. I hope they jail her for her wrong doings back in alaska, and the racial inciting in this campaigning, here inthis great USA.

Henry

G.B. MI

Well, maybe she's a maverick after all...

McCain should take the clothes back.

P.S. McCain you and the RNC created this monster....LOL!
God Love Ya!

I blame McSame for all of this. Odds are that mot of us would have never heard of Sarah Palin of Alaska. "I can't believe that future of our party is several steps backward in time.

btw...I voted Tuesday and crossed over to vote for the Democratic ticket. GOP, let's get our act together.

This "rogue" and uninsightful behavior of Pailn's reminds one of what has been said about her by so many in Alaska. Couple this with her ability to smile broadly while relishing her role in attacking her opposition. I find this self-promoting woman's ability to whip naive crowds into a frenzy to be more than a little scary. Add in her exploration of ways to ban books from libraries, and I think I recognize this persona.

Wow its so over for the Republican party. This is just another sign showing that not even Mccain's own people think they can win.

Winner = Barack and Far Left Liberal Ideology

Four Years of misery for business

Winner = American People through their misery of living with high taxes and companies shutting down to go to a tax friendly countries, decide to rethink the anti-business liberal policies that have never worked and kick Barack and as many democrats as possible out of the Senate and Congress.

American Business 2008 is the Biggest Loser this year.

It was only a matter of time for all this to start spilling out to the public however obvious it seemed from the day she was introduced to the public.

Hopefully this will be a lesson learned for any campaign tactics in the future. The voting citizens should never be taken for fools by trying to create an illusion to sell a message. Be respectful to others and the respect will be shown back to you.

I feel for Sarah Palin and hope she can be able to reclaim herself politically as well as a woman in a leadership role. I also see a book in the works before her said 2012 comeback...Good luck with that SP!

For now Obama-Biden 2008 & 2012!

Why is it so hard to state the obvious? Palin is a backwater outsider who somehow managed to stage acoup in Alaska. John McCain is an old coot who, in a fit of madness, picked her because of her gender. Of course she is going to "go rogue." She has no respect for parties or politics, only a driving ambition for domination.

McCain is getting exactly what he deserves for this pick. If he had picked Chuck Hagel and maintained his centrist image, he wouldn't be having this trouble and he might even be competetive at this point. Palin in 2012 is a guarantee of Obama for 8 years. She is not qualified and - as the McCain aide points out - is untrainable. You can mold and cultivate a candidate, but you need quality starting material. Turning Palin into a qualified candidate is like turning Rosie O'Donnell into a Playboy model - there ain't no amount of digital enhancement that's going to cut it...

I have lost ALL confidence in the press. Governor Palin has been just crucified by the press for every little thing that she does and they look the other way at Biden and Obama. It would have been nice to see a fair ball game, not umpires (press) with blinders on. Can you say a fixed game?

Hopefully Sarah takes her family and heads for home,and hope she still
has a husband and a job when she gets back to Alaska.

Well let the "Straight Talk Express" began. Whom ever told her she was a diva, THEY LIED.

What's the matter McCain, can't get a reign on your PitBull? I wondered how long it would take for Palin to bite the hand that pushed her out onto the rest of us. The thing is that even with all of the exposure that Palin has gotten during this election year, she still would not be a suitable candidate in 2012. Why, because she would need to beef up her creditentials, education, and foreign policy experience and the way things are shaping up that is not likely to happen. She must be myopic if she believes that after this election is over, that the RNC will select her for more/future grooming. At any rate......

Obama/Biden 08 & 12!!!

she is a joke and will always be a joke.

Sarah Palin is running for her next platform. She is egotistical,
vain, self-serving and self-promoting. Watch out – she'll be back
after all this. She us like a virus which must be shut down. You
can't be that involved in your face if you have a well-defined
intellect.

Has she given up on winning? It seems like a prerequisite for being president is having a VP that you want to work with.

John McCain began as a man of acknowledged integrity and is ending as a confused old man. Sara Palin began as a reforming governor and is ending as a selfish pretender. The future of each is a casualty of a campaign run by myopic handlers who haven't accepted the sea change in US politics.

It's President Obama by default.

She is helping herself to run for 2012,not for macain.

i think the McCain/Palin camp ROCKS

The fact that she could potentially be vice president, or God help us, PRESIDENT, is the scariest thing I could ever imagine. Please tell me this is a nightmare. Or a late April's Fools joke or something!

John McCain showed a complete absence of judgment in selecting his VP running mate, so how in the hell can we trust him to have the judgment to be President? He also did not see the obvious threat of Virginia voting for the Democratic candidate, a state which is in the "back yard" of Washington D.C., so how is John McCain going to recognize an international threat thousands of miles away. He is indeed erratic, out of touch, not all that smart, and actually quite old already. Barack Obama is the polar opposite, and clearly a person who has the potential to be an excellent President.

As for Palin, she should think about becoming presidend of the hockey league in Alaska, and be happy with that.

who didn't see this coming? making a snap decision on a VP sounds like a fairly critical oversight that is now causing serious problems for the republican party. If she won't listen to her aide's now, she won't listen to them in the White House either. Do you really want that kind of person second in line to run this country?

And the GOP's mad scientist Create-A-Candidate experiment has created a monster. Arrogance doesn't come cheaply, does it?

Palin can try hard to be self-centered and take as much control as her power-hungry right wing evangelical witch-protected soul will permit, but she can't control one important factor–her God-given brain processing deficiency. She is clearly by all objective measurements a white trash, Artic redneck dimwit.

You can dress em up but you can't learn em any more new smarts!

Poor Sarah... it seems that nobody in the lower 48 really understands a moose burgre eating hockey mom!

Another desprate tactic....

JUST LEAK!!!!
The "wild rebel-bad girl" in the campaign!!

Try again.

And they expect us to let them run the country??? Worst decision picking Palin, in the worst campaign ever.

Not surprising, she has had her own agenda all along. Under the fake smile and youbetchas and dontchaknow beats the heart of a schemer.

Oh boy! I can't believe this; now they're gonna trash Palin within the campaign. They made a mistake "rolling out" Palin, i.e., picking her in the first place, and now the cowards are going to trash her.

The GOP needs to get it's sh...t together!

I used to say that Sarah is the gift that keeps on giving, but now I'd say that about the entire GOP!

look at the end of the day the mccain and palin ticket is grasping for straws... this is what happens when you have too much experience and not enough experience... i mean you can say i can see russia from alaska that dosent make you and expert on foreign policy.. hell i can see the moon from my house that doesnt make me and expert at nasa.... it dosent matter how much you prep plain, my mom always told me you can lead a dog to water but you cant make him drink.. well palin i know you have to be a little thirsty right about now

If S.PALIN HAS TRULY GONE ROGUE THEN SHE IS UNFIT TO BE A V.P. AND OR A PRESIDENT !!!!!
THIS ALSO KILLS ONCE AND FOR ALL THE QUESTION OF OBAMA'S
JUDGEMENT.
THIS SHOW THE LACK OF JUDGEMENT ON THE PART OF MCCAIN!!!
THIS EXTREMELY SERIOUS IF SHE HAS GONE ROGUE
AND MCCAIN WINS
HOW THEY BOTH GOING TO WORK TOGETHER AND IF SOMETHING HAPPENS AND PALIN BECOMES PRESIDENT
ACTING LIKE A DIVA AND MORE SERIOULY NOT TAKEING ANY ADVICE FROM ANYONE WILL BE DANGERUS TO BOTH USA AND REST OF THE WORLD !!!!

SO THE MEDIA HAS TO FIND OUT WHATS GOING ON AND REPORT IT BEFORE ITS TO LATE .PUT AMERICA/WORLD 1ST BEFORE ANY PARTY OR PERSON !!!!

Ahhhhh.... remember the days when the McCain campaign mocked Obama as a celebrity and a diva (he eats arugula!)? Now they know what a diva really looks like. And Obama is laughing all the way to the White House. Who says there is no justice in this world?

If this woman thinks she can lead the Republican Party, she is dead wrong. How can a semi educated wench be a leader of a great party like ours? She is unqualified. Period!

The only future I see for Palin is showbiz (which isn't bad). She has caused too much bad blood among 'Real' 'Pro' American voters. If she already thinks she's a diva she'll have problems in showbiz, because there are already too many of them in Hollywood. She is deceitful, manipulative, and divisive. The only career she's suited for is that of a bounty hunter.

Let's shut up media about Palin. Use that ink for something more uplifting!
OBAMA/BIDEN '08

Gee, Sarah Palin lookin' out for #1? What a shock! Still think you have good judgment, McCain?

As McCain was portrayed on SNL, Palin is also mentally unstable and dangerously unbalanced. Period!

At least she's smart enough to look out for herself. The McCain campaign sougt and tried to use Palin to their advantage and now she's returning the favor.

Sarah Palin is dangerous for our country. She is not qualified to be President of the United States of America or the Vice President, or any other position in Washington. She is hungry for power and will stop at nothing to get it. Just look at the investigations being swept under the rug in Alaska. John McCain made a very big mistake when he chose her......

What a bimbo! Now they figure her terms for the gas pipeline got the company she favored the contract! She's down right dangerous. so are most republicans recently!

Please Obama save us from 2012. I could not imagine that woman being president. Does she really think she is capable of running this country. Incredible.

After watching her doing her own thing and behaving as an entertainer instead of a candidate for vice president, it is clear she will listen to no one and go for her own self-aggrandizement. This does not speak well of a politician who is guided by advisors. We do not need a loose cannon in the White House. That attitude is that of a dictator, not a leader of democracy.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008/2012

One word comes to mind when thinking of Ms. Palin – "hubris." Ultimately it will bring her down. She is a silly, yet dangerous example of where we are today.

Power hungry abuser of power. Let's please squash this bug before it gets wings.

Don't act as if this is a surprise. McCain made a blunder in choosing this lady, purportedly to gain conservative republican voters. What he ended up with:

Yes, he will get the ULTRA conservative
No, he will not get the "regular" conservative votes
No, he will not get women's votes
and HELL NO - he will not get educated republican voters with this "2-bit" lady.

If she thinks she is the future of the Republican Party, then I'm Jesus.

Wow, this campaign is totally imploding. The ship is sinking and everyone is scrambling for their own lifeboat.

This woman is delusional if she thinks she can come back in 2012 and be accepted by anyone beyond the most ignorant and rednecked amongst us!

Spin this how you want. Looks like the wheels are coming off the "straight talk express!!"

Don't complain! What you have is what you've got. Is that all qualified individuals the Republican party has? Joe the plumber is also thinking about running too for the congress in 2010. Is that a joke? Did he even finish high school? Get up, wash your face and go pee even if you have that in your dream during your sleep. What on earth makes him think that he has all that needed to be a congressman? The third grader, Palin, also thinks that she will be ready(not now but will be ready) if she has to take over as the president and yet she can't even answer why helping Wall Street rather than Main Street on the Katie Couric interview. She can't even name historic court cases she disagrees, newspaper or magazines to educate herself. "I read all of them." The joke of the 21 century.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

well i glad her own people are finally coming around to seeing her as most of us did the night of the rnc speech...and btw are we now going to hear charges of sexism among the gop minions..where's fiona when we really need her...lol

McCain's decision to pick such an unqualified VP candidate is
coming back to haunt him. My advice to her is " stay in Alaska! You have nothing to give this nation.

Last night on McLaughlin Group
the phrase "off the reservation" was used by Pat Robertson, its used again here in this story today.
"This adviser also decried the double standard, noting that Obama’s running mate, Joe Biden, has gone off the reservation numerous times"

Hard to tell if the writer is quoting senior McCain aid or if this is the writers own phrase.

I take it the conservative ticket is not courting the Native American vote,
because its a straight-up racist comment.

A little suprised to see it used so flippantly and so publicly.

Hahaha!!!.
Any house that is divided against itself cannot stand.
May John McCain campaign rest in pieces.

Ok, they were protecting her because she was'nt ready. I'll buy that, but she should not have been used as an "attack dog" either. That's what ruined her.

She needs to protect her career. I'm not one of her fans, but I understand that Mcain is done and she is at the beginning.
She has a place in the ultra rigth of the Rep party that Mcain never will.
I don't like her, but I do understand.

I have to agree: the campaign should have let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin and let the people judge her on her own merits. In fact, I believe the campaign should have let John McCain be John McCain–his management at the hands of the Rovites is permanently damaging him. Of course, if they had let John be John, he never would have picked Sarah in the first place–she may be smart, but she doesn't have the curiosity, intellectual depth, or wisdom to be POTUS. If John McCain had been allowed to pick someone like Tom Ridge or Joe Lieberman, this would have been a very different election, more about ideas and less about mud-slinging.

If she is the future of this party then the dems will be in good shape for the next two decades.McCain you created this monster...Now deal with her! The wheels have falllen off the express.

Palin 2012? Absolutely not possible. She is not intelligent nor is she qualiified to run for President. Palin is like a funny disney movie ... and she knows that. keping her on locked down helped her not to make a total fool of herself. So, can you actually see Sarah palin running for the nomination of her party? give me a break

Everyone should pray REALLY REALLY hard that she goes for the big bucks and becomes a media celebrity and NOT a political leader.

She is exceedingly dangerous and the McCain camp blew all of his hard earned legitimacy with the stunt of bringing her to national prominence.

Let her be a high paid voice of ignorance– she looks way better than Rush Limbaugh right?

If Sarah Palin sees herself as the new head of the GOP, conservatives better jump ship. This is NOT the message they need to be spreading for the next 4 years. They need to regroup and reconsider their core values before they have any chance of gaining respect. And Palin isn't the person to do that. She's so much like Bush I'm surprised she wasn't already hired onto the administration and then fired in disgrace.

Isn't this what you get from a Maverick?

I am sooooo not surprised. Anyone could tell from the very beginning that this shallow woman was only out for herself !! Yes, John Mccain used her as his personal attack dog however, once she was in she has used the Mccain camp to serve her own purposes. When she said "in a Palin/Mccain administration" we all knew what her motives were.

It is sooooo obvious. This Palin women is a self-serving, egocentric ambitous. piece of EYE CANDY who has an overinflated opinion of what she is but knows exactaly where she wants to go. She is shrewed enough to recognize that the McCain/Palin ticket is going down the drain with an extra flush from JOE THE PLUMBER. It is obvious that McCain the GAMBLER picked her for the RIGHT EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN EXTREME'S VOTE. And Palin see riding McCainn's coat-tail as achieving whatever it is she has planned for herself after Nov.4th. Here is a mid-40s good looking who had to go to 5 colleges to earn a 4 year degree. Who cannot describe any newspapers/books she has read except the BIBLE. Does not show any knowledge of CONSTITUTIONAL ruleings or ROLE of VP. OMG

The campaign is just now noticing that Palin is a "diva"??? Where have you guys been all these weeks? Maybe it is only right that her make-up artist makes the most money. The rest of the advisors need to be fired.

Can anything go right for McCain? Well i guess they are doing something mavericky after all.

So John McCain made a very bad choice for VP, and it's blowing up in his face. Better HIS face than America's ... and the world's for that matter.

Too bad the GOP can't tell the difference between "maverick" and "rogue".

RIP.

Governer Palin is not a Rogue! She is an intellegent person caught in a rough campaign. I'm not clear why she would want to be VP of the US ... having a family of 5 ... but, who am I to judge anyone's desires and aspirations?

I think in the end, Obama/Biden will get the win and Govenor Palin will have given all of us a view and perhaps an appreciation of Alaska politics and their environment! In my book, If McCain/Palin win, I will not be happy ... but, I believe the loss will be her gain!

See! ... Smart and Wise!

I beg to differ with the McDufus advisers on the issue of Knuckle Head being a diva. Yes, divas believe that all interpretation of information and other intellectual discourses start and end with them. It presupposes however that divas have to be intelligent about their subject matter in order to be the gate-keeper of it. Knuckle Head, however, is espousing empty rhetoric and ignorant ranting to audiences who still believe that the Earth is still flat.

If the McDufus campaign is now worried about how Knuckle Head is going rouge, they are to blame for creating context and venue where mediocrity is a representative of their party. They created her, they need to send her back to Alaska. NO wait, they will blame it on someone else for creating that Frankenstein. Pitiful!

Much of what Sarah Palin was asked to do by the McCain-Sarah campaign in my opinion has been contrary to her nature. The attack role given to her does not fit her personality. She will attract more people to herself and the GOP if she does not go negative. She has the potential to be what Obama is today. As an independent I have more in common with her than John McCain that is why I am not voting the GOP ticket

You must remember Palin's personal history: beauty pageant contestant, "Mayor" of Wasilla (they met once per week to discuss city issues), and Governor of Alaska, a land of few women, where bigotry is as acceptable as shooting a wolf from an airplane. Palin may actually believe Alaska is a microcosm of the lower forty-eight (it is not) and therefore she has the experience to be President of the United States. Just under the shallow surface, the illuminating glare of the spotlight exposes the true self: an egotistical, manipulative wolverine in Louis Viton clothing. The spectacle of this once rising star has faded and fallen back to earth with an ignominious thud.

Lmao.. what a bunch of screw up folks. maybe she should be running instead of john mccain...lol

I am not surprised to hear of infighting among the McCain team. They have created a Frankenstein's monster and are now unsure of how to control it and keep it reigned in. Unfortunately, we will all have to wait until the 4th for the torch wielding citizens to end the nightmare.

I seriously doubt she is capable of of playing for anything except the same old GOP boring tactics of division, polarization, fear-mongering and trying to distract voters from the real issues.

There may well have been some mishandling, but I think the fact that when she did the interviews with Couric and Gibson, it truly showed how uneducated and illiterate she is about anything outside the State of Alaska. I think the republicans recognized this and that is why they tried to keep her from doing interviews.

Just another case of McCain's bad judgement when he picked her for his running mate. He should never have picked such a right wing, evangelical extremist just to shore up his support from the right wing conservative base of the party and women. Evidently, he thought all us women were not intelligent enough to vote on the issues and would vote for him just because he had a woman running mate. That might have been true if she knew more about any of the subjects outside of her State of Alaska. Unfortunately, she is a small town, small minded person. I'd vote for Bush before I'd vote for her in 2012. She makes me ashamed to say I'm a woman.

As the saying go
Joe "The Plumber"
as for Palin
Sara "The Dummer"

FREE SARAH PALIN SHE IS READY TO CUT JOHN MCCAIN LOOSE AND SHE IS READY TO RUN IN 2042, BECAUSE SHE WILL NEVER BE READY TO RUN THE NEXT 30 YEARS, I WILL BE IN THE GROUND WITH A COLD HEAD BEFORE SHE BECOME PRESIDENT THEN AGAIN DEAD PEOPLE CAN VOTE................

The wheels are falling off. It is so obvious that the McCain/Palin campaign has been extremely negative, inciting hatred and division amongst the American people rather than trying to bring them together for a common cause. When you do this rather than work towards giving hope to the people then it will become very difficult to keep your own team together. I am encouraged by hope rather than fear.

Obama represents hope for America!

Vote Obama/Biden '08.

Finally, McCain's campaign sees Palin for what most of us (especially PA residents) realized awhile ago. Palin marches to the beat of her own drum and is distancing herself from the old man to set up a 2012 Presidential run. There's no chance McBush will take PA in 2008!

As an Obama supporter I find it ridiculous that McCain's people are turning on Palin.

Was she a bad choice? Yes.

But hey...YOU picked her!

And I might not be a big wig political strategist but turning on your VP choice before the election...not the best idea ever.

Look, more people on the Republican side like Palin more than McCain so the idea of her planning her political future is fair.

Especially when McCain aides are treating her this way, how can they not expect her to start looking out for herself.

Oh well...this is just another part of the collapse of today's Republican party.

So my side benefits.

Hey Gov. Air-Head, I have two words for you (no, not those two) ... ten days.

The McCain folks who supposedly vetted her are just figuring this out?
I knew she was a diva the first time I heard her speak.
She is a power-hungry megalomaniac with delusions of grandeur who believes she has been chosen by God to institute a theocracy and she wants to be the queen.
Republicans have been duped. Turnabout is fair play. We have been duped by the neo-cons for way too long.

I HOPE SHE RUNS IN 2012..I WONT VOTE FOR THEN, EITHER.

"Diva" is such a tactful term. McCain has gotten what he deserves.

Her true colors starting to shine already. Go ahead all you replublicans, tell us how GREAT she is. I am dying to hear this one. Go on we're all ears......

Obama/Biden 08 AND 12

When they lose, Palin will say that McCain dragged down the ticket.

what a stupid stupid woman ....

Sarah Palin is a disgrace to this country. Former McCain supporter now Barr supporter

sad really, but not surprising that she's looking out only for number one.

Isn't that what politicians do anyway? They go with the flow as long as it works for them and when it doesn't they use a life saver to pull out and make it work for themselves? I call it...back stabbing !!!!
In two months we have learned more negative things about this ignorant, selfish, corrupt, etc Alaskan "governor"...than positive ones. Wake up people !!!!!

She is out of any control. She is a fundamentalist, even worse than Taliban of for the better all Quada! Does she understand co-oparation
needed. We in Europe are scared of her rethoric in lies and hate.
Is this what Christians stand for... than I'm ashamed to be one.
Please vote for common sense: Barack Obama. He is not a socialist... he is a realist. and beyond.

Aw. The Republican Night of the Long Knives shall soon be at hand. Make sure you have your popcorn ready cause it's gonna be great.

10 more days and she can go back to where she came from... election day cannot come soon enough

I am so sick of Sarah Palin! GO AWAY!

McCain you are an IDIOT for picking that bear skinnin' beotch!

Yup. That pretty much sums it up.

Finally the real Sarah Palin is coming out....and its going to be an ugly one. Diva? ...i see arrogance instead

Palin has become a legend in her own mind. We need real leadership, folks! We need Barack Obama!!

As I told Alaska Sen. Green months before the Gov. became VP running mate. Maybe what we need is less process and more action and strait talk. Good for Palin!!

Well, well, well.....you get what you paid for!

Seems the McCain people don't like it when their Mavericks actually go Maverick. (And by the way, isn't "Country First" a socialist slogan?)

That what happen when you only know your running mate for a few day before you pick them! He is getting what he asked for!!!

I pray that all Americans will see her for what she is – perhaps the most dangerous political newbie since Adolf Hitler. The US and the world is in for a whole lot of hurt if we don't kick her out hard and fast. No kidding.

I hope she goes back to Alaska and I never have to hear this woman's voice again. Soon.

Well the election is not even over and they Republicians are starting to
jump ship .. Fingerpointing and scapegoating is just stating!!!!!!!!

no surprise here.

PALIN IS COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL AND OUT FOR HERSELF. NOT THE COUNTRY, NOT HER PARTY.

MCCAIN CAN'T EVEN CONTROL HIS OWN RUNNING MATE.

JUST LIKE BUSH WITH CHENEY.

WAKE UP AMERICA AND VOTE OBAMA / BIDEN BEFORE TOO LATE. ONLY 10 DAYS LEFT.

This is no shock. Every indication points to her ego and bull-headedness being a huge problem. We have had stubborn , uninformed, and uncompromising leadership for the past eight years. Do we really want more of this? I can't believe anyone even supports this woman. She is not vice-material much less presidential.

I am sad to see the republican party fall this far. It is in complete disaray. I am ashamed to have once called myself a republican. What happened to the party of Lincoln? The party has been overrun by the way out there fringe.

I saw this coming a week after she was in the convention. She doesn't care a rat's patuty about the rest of us only want "she wants". god help us if that happens, this is one scary person. Hey, if they (Alaska) indicts her butt for the ethics thing, what will happen then? Oh, it was all the democrats fault..........partisan politics again.

The end is near.

Change is coming and its name is President Barack Obama.

If McCain can't control her when she's merely a candidate, wait until she's ensconced in the White House as vice president. Who knows what she'll do or what policies she'll advocate. And I happen to like John McCain. But I don't want the tail wagging the dog.

i wonder is she really believes the garbage coming out of her mouth?

PALIN IS DREAMING ABOUT 2012 SHES JUST DREAMING , THERE ARE MUCH BIGGER , BETTER , AND BRIGHTER FISH IN THE GOP THAN SARA PALIN FOR THE 2012 ELECTION PALIN HAS NO CHANCE . CHARLIE CRIST . TIM PAWLENTY , JUST TO NAME TWO WOULD BLOW HER AWAY .ANY WAY IF THE POLLS ARE RIGHT ONLY A FEW DAYS OF THIS HORRIBLE WORST IN MY LIFETIME REPUBLICAN GOVENMENT . OBAMA 08 ITS LOOKING LIKE A LANDSLIDE TO OBAMA/BIDEN .

This article sounds like another unsubstantiated media hack job to me. I'd be interested to hear what your definition of a "McCain aide" might be. You can't seriously expect a thoughtful reader to take this at face value. Trying to portray Palin as a diva is a truly pathetic and sexist ploy, one which reflects your own fears that you'll be seeing her in a presidential campaign next time around.

* So Much for Leadership.

* So Much for Team Work.

*Country First=====> Ego First*

lol, maybe she really is a maverick. Too bad for McCain, she's mavericking against him!

This will go down in history as the worst VP pick ever. No vetting and no chemistry at all. She is just ruining McCain's campaign.

Should we be so unfortunate to have McCain/Palin win this election, their taking over the White House Administration would make George Bush Administration look good. Palin has gotten so empowered and full of herself by the attention she has received, that she would be extremely dangerous if given power. She is NO Hillary and could never be. While I think help for 'special needs children' is important, it IS a special interest group, something they say they want to abolish. There are many other illnesses that need funding too, however if not something that personally affects Palin and McCain, then it will definitely be cut out. This is pretty obvious by their comments.

First Palin need to get an understanding and have a clue. It appears that she can trash talk but have no subtance. Half the time I really don't know what she's talking about.

Obama/Biden

Man!!! I haven't heard such a good story since I read about "Charmelagne"...you know this is better! LOL!!!

All I'm gonna say is I told you so GOP. But noooooo, you thought it was a joke, but nooooooooo, you thought people wouldn't care, etc.

But on the other hand, if she's doesn't succeed, she'll be one of the biggest busts in American politics...

Why she got an 80 percent rating in Alaska, I'll never know. That number must have been put out by her people. She is not a team player, she believes she knows it all, and yes she is a diva. She is just using John McCain to get to the next level. We pray she does not. She has done too much damage and frankly, she lies.

So, if she can't follow orders while on campaign, how could she POSSIBLY follow orders as a VP?

Palin has delusions of adequacy. However, she is inadequate in every area that counts; education, experience, discernment, instincts, political conncections. Her candle is almost extinguished. She has less gravitas than Dan Quayle. Her only base is the extreme fundamentalist wing of the GOP and their power is waining as the country turns it's attention away from wedge issues to the economy, jobs, energy, the War and our global reputation.

I had a friend who used to say "you can't polish a turd" and I never understand what she meant until this campaign.

From U.K. When i first heard that McCain choosed Palin just to get Clintons surporters, i knew it was wrong. That was a wrong judgement. Well its all over now. Even the latest news is spreading like wild fire-150,000 dollers for clothigs, it shows they are out of touch.

The world is waiting i am waiting also to see OBAMA become the next president of the states. My prime minister is waiting also.

Why wouldn't she go alone with McShame? Who would like herself hang around a man that could be her Grandfather...Hey Sarah you said the other day in an interview that you shop at " Out of the closet" at a consignment store in Alaska to buy clothes. We have one her in Fort Lauderdale with the same thing but it is a Gay group who sells things to the poor. Like a Goodwill store is. So does this mean that you are GAY friendly? I would odds that your new hair doo was done by a GAY man..Nothing wrong with it sweetie, just don't bash us because the Republican Party is so hateful to Gays...After all we are everywhere. Police, Judges, Senators, Firemen, the list can go on and on...By the why my best friend is a Police officer and he is Gay also. I would rather him come to my home than a Shoot from the hip Rogue cop.

Ha! It was INEVITABLE!!! How could she resist the temptation to RUN FOR PRESIDENT - when the guy who she is supposed to be supporting is TANKING?!

This is great news for the Democrats. They could only have dreamed of a Republican party so fractured that it would descend into partisan squabbling - within its own party.

If McCain wants to reclaim a shred of integrity, he should fire her now. Of course he won't do that, meaning that he is going to suffer a terrible defeat on November 4th. Let's face it - gamblers and craps-players don't need advice. They need help. Lots and lots of help...

She's not a Diva, she's just stupid.

Another sign of how Palin was just picked on the spot. If McCain's aides can't get along with Palin, then how will that group do any better if elected to office? Also... Palin has no chance of making the national scene again after this election...

Obama/Biden 08!

Palin really scares me. She is not clued in enough to be in the position she is in, and yet she thinks she is. This narcissistic characteristic in her is what makes me not consider a McCain vote. I don't want her any where near the white house leading the most powerful country in the world. Only God knows where he judgement would take her, and I don't want to find out. As soon as McCain picked her this undecided voter made up her mind to vote for Obama.

This woman is dangerous and scary. If she is any part of the Reblican future God help us all. The dumbing of America tour, brought to you by Sarah Palin

I only feel pity for McCain. I think this is another test result for his leadership abilities (first one being poor judgement on picking Sarah and second one over "suspending campaign") that is more impulsive than analytical.

If he is not able to provide solid leadership to set of senior strategists and a have a control on the "message", how in the world is he going to lead a nation's administration that is under a crisis of the century?

Oh Palin!
Not good at process questions...maybe some of my 10th grade students could help you. At least you're speaking your mind though...I'll be ecstatic come Nov 4 when I never have to hear about you again.

The comment by the campaign that Palin needed to be sheltered from the press because she needed time to prepare herself for national and international issues that she was not ready to discuss and to become familiar with McCain's positions is remarkable.

When you go for a job interview, you should study your employer and prepare yourself before hand. She had months to become prepared before McCain picked her. The fact that she was not prepared to be a candidate when chosen is an indictment of her and McCain's selection process and decision. It is not an excuse.

yes, she was mishandled, and now she's angry. She allowed them to damage her reputation because she did'nt know any better.

Sarah Palin "...a Diva..." who sees her self as "...the beginning and end of all wisdom." Are you kidding me?? She represents to wisdom what GWB represents to presidential popularity and competence, what Dick Cheney represents to honesty and integrity, and what Joe McCarthy represented to political and social freedom. Only one thing they all have in common...REPUBLICANS!!! Throw the bums out!!!
Vote Obama & Democratic-2008 and beyond!!!

Wow!!! They really do eat their own don't they!!! Of course she doesn't trust McCain's aides, she doesn't know them, and they don't know her! Clearly, here is the reason why you don't pick a VP candidate you've only met once and spoken to twice....they will turn around and BITE YOU!!

McCain, you got what you deserved....Sarah Barracuda...the man eater

guess we know who the maverick is no, lol. it's not too late to swicth McCain/Palin to Palin/McCain. it won't change the outcome, but it appears that she has the energy. McCain never seems happy to be with her. he always seems irritated and his affect seems forced.

ok, but she and the republican party can make the call on abortion for millions of women??? these people truly are touched...in the head.

Go back to Alaska Sarah. You have done nothing but inject hate and division into this election, and you are baseless and hypocritical in your accusations.
You lack the vision, experience, and ethics to be our President. And you are one mean-spirited lady.

This is what happens when you choose someone completely unqualified-you reap what you sow. I can only hope in 2012 or 2016 people remember what a power hungry diva she is and reject her outright if she tries to run for POTUS.

Obama/Biden 08&12

* So Much for Leadership.

* So Much for Team Work.

*Country First=====> Ego First*

McCain really shot himself in the foot when he chose an idiot like Palin as a running mate. She's too stupid to even realize what a hindrance she is. I actually hope she does try to make a run for president in 2012; It'll ensure that Obama stays in the White House another 4 years.

Outstanding Job Sarah Palin. You are the leader of your party. I cannot wait to see you out on your own. The GOP is really desparate to allow Sarah on her own. I cannot wait to see what happens in the next few day.

ONCE AGAIN, "TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE OBAMA/BIDEN 08!!!!!!!!!!

Gov. Sarah Palin should apoligize to Sanator Obama for the insults she has rained on him for the last couple of weeks. To be fair, you cannot compare the intelligent of that Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator Barrack Obama. I was shock to know that Gov. Palin does not know the functions of the vice president .The position she want to occupy.

Thanks.

She needs to be thankful to John McCain for even adding her to the ticket. She is not smart and has limited experience. How do you vote for this McCain ticket.?

I'm not surprised Governor Palin is frustrated. Senator McCain seems to have forgotten why he wanted to be president, and his only ambition now appears to be to win ... at any cost. His message, his agenda, his plans all seem to be lost. And with Governor Palin's own popularity dropping so quickly, the campaign, the manner in which she has been handled, and her own blundering statements could end her political career. She has 10 days to salvage her own reputation and to convince the American people–or at least her party–she should be considered a player in the future. She's not going to be able to do that if they keep her gagged. Of course, it doesn't help that when she does speak, she appears so inexperienced and uneducated on so many topics, including the scope and duties of the position she currently is attempting to attain.

As for as Obama is concerned this is the best choice McCain has made. McCain should have known better. He wanted to play to the Hillary voters and now it has backfired.

Looks like the excuse "Let Palin be Palin" is as lame as all the other campaign slogans. News flash: She's been "Palin" all along...

Going rogue is what mavericks do, it makes them interesting people, and entertaining too, but it also makes them very poor leaders, and boy do we need good leaders now – one choice Obama!

The definition of a PIT BULL is. My way or the highway..not a team member. So this is no surprise. Shes above all others. I Think that she really believes she has a handle on things and a know it all. Thank God we all have a better handle on situations then she does. GO OBAMA

McCain-Palin bridges fallin down fallin down fallin down McCain-Palin fallin down Obama Biden 2008

And some people want to put this loon-ball a heartbeat from the President-s office?

Noooooooooooo Thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what happens when you join a campaign just to see your name in lights, and not because you have a clear understanding of all the issues. What a moron! And she has the nerve to look ahead to 2012, what a joke.....

I guess that's the maverick in Sarah..... you betcha!

At least McCain's running mate is not running around the country making stupid gaffs like (I'm smarter than everybody) Joe Biden. Joe it seems as a hard time not putting his foot his mouth when he opens it.

DIVA? Those aids think they know more then her that's their problem. I remember once having met another governor of Alaska while I was Chamber President and giving him a walking stick and when he was going through the airport the next year and wanting to stop and talk the aid pulling him along. He was already shceked in and there was no rush. Aides need to know their place and these obviously didn't thinking she was a Diva from the start and no more qualified then them. Well up their nose.

HARRY TRUMAN BLEW UP HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI WITH NUCLEAR BOMBS. HE HAD THAT POWER AS PRESIDENT AND USED IT.

ANYONE WHO BELIEVES SARAH PALIN SHOULD HAVE THAT POWER IS HOPING JOHN MC CAIN WILL LIVE ANOTHER 8 YEARS AND DOESN'T REALLY BELIEVE SHE SHOULD HAVE THAT POWER.

I'M SURE OF THIS. PLEASE TELL ME THIS IS TRUE.

McCain advisors admit that she was "not ready" so that is why they limited her exposure to a couple of high profile interviews. Not ready for interviews means that she is hardly ready for the office that she is running for. How could she have a well rounded view of the issues in a couple of weeks? Al the McCain campaign would be able to do is indoctrinate her with their own ideas in that short amount of time. There is no way that she could gain the "student of history" perspective that she needs to be a good candidate whom has looked at history and carefully formed her own opinions. The Republican leadership has used this tactic before in putting unqualified, maliable, inexperienced people in positions of power so that they can be indoctrinated and then manipulated to do the bidding of their masters. GWB himself, is the prime example of this. You bring these naives up from obscurity indoctrinat them, keep them insulate from other views and they become grateful, brainwashed servents of Haliburton and others. Palin is/was just a cynical and gimmicy pick.

Just more b.s. bias from CNN. Talk about a bunch of rogues!!

Who is this Palin lady?

this woman is more than scary she is dangerous. thank god she represents a small fringe part of society. I think anyone who votes for her deserves what they get.

This is not the kind of leader we need. A leader of herself and not McCain. She will take GOP down the drain. It is time to leave GOP to join Dem.

Palin is undoubtably the WORST VP choice in the history of this country!

2012? By then she will have secured her proper place in history: as a national...nay, WORLDWIDE JOKE.

She can play for whatever she wants, I think the public now sees her as the Michael Dukakis of 2008. Back to Alaska.

This is the Repubs eating their own. The campaign is a mess and someone is going to be blamed. They are trying to position themselves out of the storm that is to come. So sad

This article really says it all, and it demonstrates that John McCain is a dangerous pick for the White House, to have tapped Palin for the job. America, don't be duped again like the last two times.

Its too late in the game to start your oun campagne. Its only 10 days left to screw things up and they are already there........screwed up

she is still clueless.. only talking about issues she understands is not enough... she still knows nothing of Foreign relations nor does she know how to fix the economy.. sure she cut taxes in Alaska but she also raised Two other taxes one was added grocery tax!! Spending increased in all her years in office of mayor and governor!!

That is not what we need!! $150,000 for clothes?? $45000 for hair and makeup.. what about just being yourself and wearing what you got? Pay for it yourself?? Why the family? Just spending not needed right now!!

Thank you, Sarah, for insuring Obama's victory! How will they keep you down on the farm now that you have seen Paris!

Sarah Palin recognizes that McCain has virtually no chance to win this election, and has started the political divorce proceedings....

So who is really running for president McCain or Palin?

So, Palin has balls!
And...that's a bad thing!
Just what part of 'maverick' do you not understand!

Just out of curiousity, if there is no hint of disagreement on issues in the Obama/Biden camp, do you mean to imply that Biden is Obama's 'yes' bitc*!?

A bunch of garbage that is obviously exaggerated.
McCain does have a few too many very young people – they need to grow up more but do have the skills Obama has – talks the talk and can't walk the walk.
Just heard on TV Obama say "John McCain never did anything to stop this crisis" – MCCAIN THE ONLY SENATOR THAT DID DO SOMETHING. He drafted Legislation in 2005 which Schumer, Frank and Dodd blocked; it was to rein in Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac. At the same time Obama, according to Hearing yesteday on CSPAN was taking the highest amount of money in history from these scam entities – you should get copy of hearing and listen to DEMOCRAT SCHUMER SAYING MCCAIN WARNED YOU AND US.
LET'S TELL THE TRUTH, MAKES US PEOPLE MAD.
J Buck
Minnesota

I'm not surprised, after reading the excellent profile of Palin in this week's New Yorker. She comes across there as someone much more intelligent and able to chart her own course than what we've seen from her involvement in the campaign.

It does seem like they are both laying grounds for the post election blame game though, should things continue to go bad for them.

just another reminder of John McCain picking her not because of country but because he needs to win at any cost.

What party is she trying to lead? After this election the republican party is going to be two separate and distinct entities: the fiscal conservatives and socially moderates, the party that has the best long term chance of wooing back independent voters in 2010, and the evangelicals kooks that Bush sold the party out for in order to win in 2000 and 2004. Well, of course, I've already answered my own question.
The GOP has some major soul searching to do. Do they want to be the "Big Tent" that Ronald Reagan imagined or do they want to remain hostage to the 10% of Christians who now own the base? The intellectual flight from the right has been STAGGERING in the past few weeks: Powell, Buckley, and it's only just begun.
The GOP really needs to consider the cost of putting Palin out in front; she's not representative of contingent that they need in order to get back into power. Even though she draws the crowds at the rallies, the crowd at the rallies are not the tie breaking votes they need to win elections. The Democrats have managed to take back ownership of the word liberal in this election and they've managed to change the zeitgeist of the nation. The GOP is going to have to move back to center in order to do the same, and having a kook on center stage is not the way.

Palin is really out of touch with American people. Thanks for some smart Republicans who finally realised that their candidates for president are not siuted for the job "the President of the United States and endorsed our next Presiden Obama" they figured-out the McCains angry atitude and Palins ignorant comments in which she said there are two America.

It would seem to me that the internal polls for McCain-Palin campaign must tell them they are about to be crushed for this "in-fighting" to become "open warfare".

No doubt Palin ia trying to set herself up for a 2012 run. Only a couple of problems with that scenario. If she has not been severly chastised for her misdeeds as governor of Alaska(including possible impeachment and/or jail time), while her reactionary views on such topics as equal pay for equal work, women's right to choose, creationism being taught in school and the war in Iran might appeal to the ultra right wing evangelical base of the Republican Party, it is far, far too extreme to attract socially moderate Reps., Reagan Dems. or independants. Even if she were the Rep. nominee, she would NEVER be elected POTUS.

"Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

This is the core belief of right wing nuts that have destroyed the GOP. Substitute evangelical for Diva and you describe the way all these nuts think. The rest of us are not worthy, un-American heathens in their minds. This divisive destructive behavior needs to be rooted out of American politics now. Or, we could just rape the environment, pile up debt, and move to Alaska for the coming rapture!

Tthe McCain staff have thrown Sarah to the dogs how many times? Sarah has had to put up with more crap from the media and celebrities than anyone else ever has, and what has McCain's people done for her? Answer that one. Number Two: McCain's staff are from the Year One. He has about as much good, intelligent, up-to-the-minute people on his staff as Bush did – NONE. So them spilling to the media doesn't mean anything. I took my McCain/Palin sticker and cut out the McCain name before I put it on my back vehicle window. . I am voting for Sarah – NOT McCain. I only hope he wins so she is in place for the Presidency for the next go round.

Repulicans will want to say, "liberal media blah blah blah"

But this was from a source WITHIN THE MCCAIN CAMPAIGN.

And honestly, I'm not surprised at all with Palin's true nature.

Palin is a bitter cocktail of hubris, ignorance, venom and incompetence. Of course she is only playing her own hand – she is thinking of 2012, not 2008.

To John McCain: fire her. You will take some flak for admitting a bad decision, but a last minute addition of a competent VP will give you a BIG boost. Get the Republican Party to ax her so it won't seem like you changed your mind.

Sarah Palin would be far, far worse than W. America cannot stand that, John. Be a patriot and fire her. You I could stand, Palin never.

If i was the GOP I'd be worried about 2012 too. Send this diva back to Wasilla.

Sarah may have insulted American Pit Bull Terriers; but she is Right, ROBO calls are extremely annoying. I keep my landline busy so they can't call me. Thank-you, PLC

maybe she actually answer questions instead of reading from that pitiful script she keeps having to go back to.

I think both candidates should "go rogue" against their handlers. The campaign itself has hurt the images of both candidates, pushing McCain to hold back his maverick tendencies and not defend his record of deregulation when it is obvious that deregulation is not the cause of this crisis. They're not letting McCain take the direction in his own way, and that alone makes him seem less a maverick as much as he seems handled by his own campaign.

It also has held back Palin from saying what she believes. Anyone who believes the VP and President need to be in agreement on all things and that anything to the contrary is off-message are ridiculous – look at Cheney vs. Bush on gay rights, for instance.

Hey Sarah, remember when I commented you were being set up by the boys running the show in the campaign and John Mc Cain himself to be used and abused like so many women in McCain's past.
Well get ready here it comes.......it's going to be all your fault then they will send you back to the American equivalant of Siberia, I think they call it Alaska and no one in Washington will ever take your calls. Oh and your pay off......they will probably let you keep the clothes.

just another reminder of John M

Clearly part of her aquarian nature to bust free from conformity and confirm her status as an individual. And what is a "process question"?

No surprise here the fact is she has no qualifcations whatsoever and she thinks she is God gift to mankind. One would think when listening to Senator McCain that Governor Palin is a specialist in energy, sorry all bs. I suggest the reading of the article of the AP investigation about the major contract to build a 1,715-mile pipeline to bring natural gas from Alaska to the Lower 48, this will give you a clear idea of McCain "maverick" Sarah Palin. As I always say the hole detaining the lies is never deep making them come to the surface when you least expected.

I've been waiting for this. I figured she would have done it before now though. It'll be interesting to watch regardless.

Palin is America's Marie Antoinette...........She is making a fool of herself and she cost Mccain the election

Betty the maid

What the hell is a process question and what is it about it that she can't answer it?

Begs the question: what other "processes" can she not deal with?

Unfortunately, John McCain's irrational choice of Sarah Palin has now come back to bite him in the behind. This is what happens when you don't thoroughly vet your VP pick.

Where are all the stories about the rogue Biden? Clearly he has gone so far off the reservation that the Obama campaign has had to gag the guy. He has not been allowed to talk to the press for over a month. Palin has been all over the media circuit. This story is another example of media bias.

The Mccain/Palin campaign seems to be sinking faster than the Titanic ship. If they are unable to manage and run a small campaign, how do they expect to manage a country that is in financial turmoil. It seems to me the answer is distinctly clear who to vote for in November. I have never seen such a level of disorganization!!

Time is Running Out for the GOP.....Karl Rove Politics didn't work this time!!!

This is what a McCain and Palin voter will say on November 5, 2008?
I was depressed last night, so I called a Suicide Hot Line.
Got a freaking’ call center in Pakistan.
I told them I was suicidal. They got all excited
and asked if I could drive a truck. I give up!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama & Biden '08

What judgement does this show of McCain?
Poor judgement.
I cannot afford a repeat of the last 8 years.
Palin has nothing to do with the USA, she is out for herself.
She needs to go back to Alaska and it looks like, make it a independant country that she can control. She is big on that.

I do not need this kind of person a few heart beats from the presidency.
What happened to McCain? If you know please give me a call.
His choices are not excusable.
I will be voting for Obama.

LMAO Now they are learning who she really is. Guess she really wasn't vetted.

Mccain's campaign is in a complete jeopardy. This shows that Mccain and Palin are not on the same frequency.

Can we please stop with the dictionary bastardization from the Republican party? A diva is by definition "a distinguished female singer; prima donna" and unless Sarah Palin is a singer, she is in no more a diva than she is a maverick or whatever else they make her up to be.

How about they just say she is a woman, plain and simple. She has a husband and kids, she's the governor of Alaska and she's running as VP for McCain. The End.

Palin has an arrogance about her that is not appealing. It is okay to be confident, but to be arrogant like Palin when she has no knowledge of the issues is a turn off.

Gee they created a monster ......surprise, surprise !

Mere words almost fail me at this time when even his campaign is admitting this beyond moronic female is a diva.How the man can continue to claim his maverick status when the entire world now realizes he no more had a voice in her selection as his running mate as the man in the moon did is beyond my comprehension and since he hadn't a voice in it and the " powers that be " did one has to question if even "they" properly vetted her or has this comedy been shock and awe to them as well? I predict the republicans going down in flames on Nov 4 but the larger question for them must be asked- Is this the future of the GOP?If so they best prepare themselves for a long hard winter of many many seasons out of power, out of voice, out of influence and hopefully out of sight.

I about spilled my tea on this one.
The Governor who enjoys abusing power.
The hockey mom who spends $150,000 on clothing.
The hockey mom who said shes like you and I with $150,00
and chooses not to spend it at a small independently owned
business that might be owned by you and I?
The AIP supporter going rogue?
Oh no I can't believe she is going rogue(sarcastics added).
Anyone dumb enough to put her in office deserves
exactly what they get.

Just imagine what she will do if she were ever elected at a federal level.

John McCain chose a pit bull. I have always warned owners of pit bulls. Pit Bull have really bad ending stories.

"I'm a Maverick"

sarah Palin may be adiva but it will take her longer than 2012 to come back.She still has so much to learn and it seems to me like she takes stuff personally.like SNL forexample,how many politicians have red on SNL?

ANd her shoping spree,OMG! One wonders,did she miss out on so much when growing up?I just dont fathom what this woman thinks of americans.She is just taking us for aride....AND I HOPE U'ALL ENJOY coz i ain't coming along

It was obvious that she is inept and self serving from the start. Read the logs in Alaska! I find the comment in the article about her not being trusting with anyone including her family to be very revealing and interesting. Watch out for Sarah whenever she rears her head again.

REALLY? DIVA? you could've knocked me over with a feather. Centrist Republicans, your party has been completely hijacked by a dumb religious wing nut. What am I saying, it was hijacked 8 years ago, now it's merely a formality.

Looking forward to 2012 already. I don't believe that Obama or McCain are going to provide the real leadership this country needs.

how is anyone supporting this? For crying out loud, people, these are our lives you're playing around with!

Oh... I get it Maverick actually means Diva!

She's a joke. Plain and simple.

Why am I not surprised?

Palin dosent realize her political career outside of alaska is over.After this election the Republican party is going to redefine itself.And 1of the biggest reasons McCain wont win is because of her.She dosent get.

Its all for the world to see! Just another validation of McCain's very poor judgment he exercised in choosing Ms. Palin. And to harp on "Country comes First" was just an eyewash, truly exhibiting his desperation and lust for power.

Uh oh! Looks like the "Invisible Fence" malfunctioned and the "Pit Bull" wandered off the reservation.

oh, here we go, now there playing the blame game.

1. McCain tried the scare card
2. McCain tried the anti-american card
3. McCain tried the sympathy card
4.McCain now trying the blame card.

Just shut up already McCain and go away.

You can't control your caribou-barbie while campaigning how are you going to be able to control her once you are President. I am an independent voter I tried to give you every chance to try and show me why I should vote for you. Yes, I will support Obama now, there team seems to be working pretty well together, yes there have been gaffes on Biden side but all in all they have been there pretty much together.

SHE IS A REAL SLIME-BALL. WHAT AN EXCUSE FOR A GOVERNOR OR VP CANDIDATE. McPAIN SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SELECTIVE. THIS IS ALL HIS FAULT. SHE LOOKS LIKE A SERVER AT HOOTERS.

Yeah, Rogue Sarah, oh so independent! She can't even stay loyal to her own would-be president. Her bright future in 2012? Gimme a break! She'll have to campaign from the trash heap of history.

Let her speak. The more soundbites we have to prevent her wasting the national stage again, the better.

GET OUT AND VOTE EARLY! Please.

In such a serious time in our history, the idea that Gov. Palin was even presented as a vetted viable choice for Vice President, and what could be the highest office in the land, shows what some will do to keep things as they were. Bye, bye Palin!

Obama '08!!!!!

What a surprise!

Palin wrecking herself, her party, the McCain campaign... all in one fell swoop! Who'da thunk that?

She has a "holier-than-thou" attitude, filters information and accepts no responsibility for her own actions.

Will history paint her as a "maverick" or will history paint her as the most despicable semi-politician that was ever on a major party ticket?

Palin and McCain will make history – the biggest LOSS in the presidential race EVER! When she goes back to Alaska with her tail between her legs I hope the legislature does what's right and IMPEACHES her!

You betcha, wink, wink!

"she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party"

hmms... now I am getting worried about her, what if she actually gets in to the white house?

That Palin woman is EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! For the sake of our nation, please get rid of her and her dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I understand that John McCain is thinking about selecting Joe the Plumber to be Secretary of the Treasury...not too far off than Sarah Palin for VP!

Good choice, John. You can't even run your own campaign. How would you run the country?

Scary......the brainless(Palin) leaving the brain(McCain).
This is what would happen if She...cough cough . I mean McCain were elected president. The Repubs have no sense of order and corporation. This is what happened in the Bush White House and it would be happening for Obama right now had he selected Clinton instead of Biden.

I'm not defending her for one minute - but it is nice to see that she might be losing her parrot persona.

Listen up, Republican party – I will never vote for any ticket with Ms. Palin on it. She is unqualified – period. Being Governor of Alaska is about as impressive as being mayor of the city that I live in (perhaps less impressive because that city has more people in it than Alaska). As to comparing her to the next Ronald Reagan, please give us credit for being more intelligent than buying that analogy. The late Ronald Reagan was governor of California, a state that has more population than many nations in the world and an economy to match.

Is this an orchestrated thing to make us believe that she is different than she has appeared to be? It seems calculated...again. As if the McCain campaign wants her to really appear more competent and "maverick" and that she's been holding back. They are USING THE PRESS to convey this message.

You mean a candidate that spent most of per time in Alaska stepping on everyone's heads and pushing people out of the way to get ahead is 'going rogue'?

Sarah Palin reminds me of Eva Peron more and more every day.

Whether it's a "process" question or a "gotcha" question, this woman is an idiot. She cannot put together a complete, understandable sentence in answer to a question. She is not ready for prime time. Being a governor from Alaska, where Todd did most of her work for her, does not make one ready for national politics.

That this woman was picked as VP candidate is wrong and scary on so many levels. The campaign even admits to keeping her from interaction from the press because "she was not ready." I'm sorry, but I wouldn't want my VP candidate to "need time to get briefed on issues on the national and international stage they are not familiar with and has never dealt with." If a person is to be a VP candidate, they should know national and international issues better than 99% of the country. Palin knows nothing except how to lie, you betcha.

Let her keep talking. She puts a nail into her political future every time she speaks to the press.

Wow, just wow. It just keeps getting worse. Why do insane people want to vote these idiots in? They can't even agree amongst themselves. Palin was the worst decision McCain could have made.

YOU MADE THIS BED…IT’S TIME TO LAY ON IT

I guess these are the type of issues that don't come up when the candidate actually knows their running mate rather than relying on a vetting process that lasted about 60 minutes.

You know... McCain lost the election when he chose that red neck bimbo Palin. She is seriously out of touch!!! what a freak.....I think I hate her more than I hate Bush.
I am so happy America has wised up and is getting ready to throw out all the repubes and send that twat packing back to Alaska!!!

Mary Jo Smith

Time for Palin to fade back to alaska with the rest of the nuts in tow. The soviets used to banish people to siberia and we can put alaska to good use. After reading up on her trans-canada pipeline deal where they had only one bidder to be allowed to bid under fixed guidelines not to mention her two meetings with dick cheney at the same time looking for money from washington for more bridge to nowhere projects. Her support of the anti-american AIP IS A SLAP IN THE FACE OF ALL MILITARY VETERANS who died fighting the japanese in WWII in alaska! She's killing John McCains chances. I think McCain was duped and infiltrated by the extreme right with Bush-Cheney cohorts. Palins going off on her own now thinking about future political careers. Et Tu Sarah!

As ye sow so shall ye reap

McCain didn't bother checking this b**ch out and now he's surprised that she is a losse cannon with an ego the size of ANWAR? This is why he is down 15 points in the polls; he's not too bright.

And if she thinks that she is going to be the rising star in the party, wait till the long knives come out and the blame game starts. She will head the ticket in 2012 right after Quayle does. The problem with the Republican Party is that it is fundamentally dishonest; theay are incapable of telling the truth. Tax Ciuts? yeah if you're rich; Fiscally repsonsible? Don't make me laugh? Strong on defense? they have done more damage to the military than all the Iraqis and Al Quaida combined. Education? a disaster. Infrastructure? Crumbling. Jobs? Millions lost.

The Party of Hoover resurrected in the image of George (What me Worry) Bush, the most incompetent POTUS ever; bar none.

NO surprise here in Alaska.Ms.Palin has long run things the way SHE wants and anyone who steps in her way quietly disappears.We have had our fill of her up here- now rest of the country can see her for what she is- a FAKE, a LIAR, and a resounding HYPOCRITE.Not to mention a nationalis t Christian who believes in a Christian theocracy with her at the helm..
The GOP slogans should say"PALIN FIRST" , not COUNTRY FIRST.
She possesses a malignant narcicissm that keeps her going on a
relentless pursuit to the top and God help anyone who gets in her way- Including her family.

This is a good story

Sarah Palin lacks a 4th grade knowledge of geography ,yet she thinks she is qualified to be VP or Pres.

Like many evengelicals Sarah claims to be a devout christian while at the same time "bears false witness against others" with great ease.

"Disingenuous "is a truer description for Mrs. Palin.

SHOULD Obama/Biden win next month and SHOULD VP Biden decide to retire prior to the re-election in 2012, what about a Barack Obama/Tina Fey ticket?

Obama will have had time to start digging America out of this economic mess, restore our credibility in the world, and the long journey of re-uniting America. His efforts will prove critics wrong. And for those who are just hung-up on Sarah Palin, Tina Fey has the "look" if that is what you seek, and is exponentially more intelligent than Palin would ever hope to be.

Seriously, get out and vote, and if your state has early voting; vote early, as I did here in Tennessee. Oboma/Biden '08.

"she needed time to get briefed on issues on the national and international stage she was not familiar with and has never dealt with, and on McCain’s long record"

Isn't this particular line from the above article simply admitting that Palin is not ready for the VP position? To me it says that her own party does not believe she is qualified to fill those shoes. She is just a barbie doll hastefully chosen to manipulate Hillary supporters once there was no longer a female figure in the race. Palin is a very far cry from being a "replacement" for Hillary Clinton's years of education, experience, and knowledge in the political system on both the national and international stage. It is sad that McCain thought any woman would do, but it is more sad that many Hillary supporters agree with him. Hillary's appropriateness for the White House was not because she is a woman, it's because everything else that makes her Hillary.

This just shows us one more reason why McCain is not the person for the job. He thinks American's are stupid enough to believe this charade and puppet show is trying to pull using Sarah Palin as his Howdy Doody.

This shows just how she would eventually turn against the American people. Sounds like succession to me! Scary, Scary lady. People, please pay attention.

Vote Obama/Biden

I am SOOOOO ready for Palin to take her negative twang back up to Alaska. She was a horrible pick in the first place by Senator McCain, a pick that puts the entire country at risk should she find her way to the top, an ignorant bull headed self-proclaimed "maverick" who's really nothing more than a pretty face over an unproven record. I don't care what she's done in Alaska in her short stint there, in terms of knowledge or understanding beyond Alaska's state lines she is devoid.

Sarah Palin is completely out of touch with everyone except the most extreme right wing element and those too ignorant to see her for what she really is: a fake. She knows nothing about world politics, yet she's too ignorant and bravado to realize she knows nothing. Sarah Palin as president would be like throwing a loaded uzzi into the gorilla cage at the zoo. She's more bravado and ignorant than George Bush and surely won't blink when she runs the country off the edge of a cliff.

If there really is a God watching over America as she says, that God will keep her out of the White House now and in 2012. She should stay Gov of Alaska full term then run for the Senate, and then let's judge her on her ability to bring people together. What we're seeing right now typifies what she's historically done: stab those in the back who helped erect her career.

Palin's the type who'll smile in your face while she's shoving the knife into your ribs. Her black-and-white views of the world come down to this: you're either on her side and see EVERYTHING Sarah's way, or you're one of the bad guys and need to be eliminated.

She's a threat, a pretty package wrapped around a not-so-pretty human being.

What a hoot! McCain should be watching his back ever since she made the slip, "McCain ... is the man we want to leave"!

IT'S TIME TO SEND THIS IMBECILE BACK TO ALASKA AND KEEP HER ON A VERY SHORT LEASH!

From everything I've read, Mrs. Palin would throw any body under the bus to get ahead. She is totally amoral. Given the opportunity, she could probably mouth convincing progressive talking points if there was something to be gained there also.

How dare she thinks about 2012? Isn't she a proven idiot, bigot and dumb enough to come back and showcase her very very low IQ in four years? Poor Sarah it's not even funny anymore, just go back to where you belong: THE WILDERNESS!!!!

That shows you how ungratefull she is. She was a nobody from Alaska and McCain put her on his ticket, having plenty of more qualified republican women for the job. Now, this is how she is paying him back. Just like people with new money who start squandering it on unnecessary stuff, she is squandering her given political capital. By 2012, if this is really the beauty queen's goal, she would be dust in Alaska and mainland politics. Mark my words.

Don't blame Palin. Blame McCain for picking the wrong choice. Palin is now drunk with power as she looks forward to running for president in 2012, -thanks to McCain's help in making her "famous". However, with her lack of inellect in imporptu interviews, I hope she will not ultimately end in an asylum when she realizes it takes more than beauty to be a leader.

What did they expect from Palin...? Of course she now sees the handwriting on the wall and will turn on her "creator." She wore their clothes and spewed their hate for the past 2 months with the promise she could be a vice president in spite of her lack of qualifications or even knowledge of what the job entails. They created this Frankenstein. Now they have to deal with it.

Avoid the Drama... Vote Obama!!!

All i have to say is 'Palin for 2012'

This is no surprise. Palin is a sociopath, and her only concern is for herself. Not only will she damage McCain during the campaign to make herself look good, watch for her to start shredding him the minute they lose.

I suppose "rogue" is a step above "maverick"...it`s pretty obvious that she`s had her own agenda, from the time she was mayor to being Governor. I don`t trust this woman nor should any of the voters who think she is on their side. She`s self-centered and dangerous...

Geez Palin,

Wheres your loyalty?

You cant even be loyal for 2 months.
Honestly many saw this ambition of yours very early and
its no suprise she is going rogue and seeing to her personal interests
more and more.

In the final throws of the pres. race, Im betting she will outright denounce John McCain.

That's right. She's going to go against her own party bosses just like she did in Alaska, so watch out! She befriended many and later threw them under the bus. She sees members of her party as corrupt, and seeks to replace them with her own brand of corruption.

You guys will try anything to diminish the Palin effect that is real.

What kind of story can we create today? Hmmmm, I have an idea. What about her college days? I bet she said something or did something back then we could use in the next 10 days. Why not.

Why don't you spend your time reporting on news instead of trying to create news.

I agree.

"She never allowed herself to be vetted. Voters turned against her both in terms of qualifications and personality."

She has not protected women in Wasilla. Charged women for rape kits in Wasilla, AK. Watch what they do.....

McCain wants to charge me for my healthcare for the first time ever. I like my current healthcare. I do not want to be let out on my own to wander around looking for good healthcare.

Healthcare is too important to go out and "Maverick it up."

Please vote against bad Healthcare. NO MCCAIN.

Thank You.

John McCain wanted a maverick.

So when you select a maverick, you should expect that person to speak their mind, which will sometimes conflict with the theme of a campaign.

Is it true that Russian aircraft fly over Alaska to get to the US?

I can see the end of your political career from my house!!

McCain should have vetted her and this is a clear indication of McCain not having it takes to be the president fo United States. He (McCain ) claims the mantle of experience but it looks like his two and half decades of experience comes without judgment. Experience without judgment is worst than inexperience with flawless judgment.

McCain is hot head just like Palin, he ignored what was important and pulled a political stunt to score political point. He deserves what he gets.

LOL; looks like the GOP has created a monstrocity. I am not really concerned with Caribu barbie ; just the blind idiots that are following her !!!

Sarah Palin is not ready to be vice president or president. Furthermore, it is baffling to me how she was able to become governor of Alaska.

Sarah Palin is not intelligent. She has very little intellectual curiosity. If you ask her questions to test her basic knowledge, she clearly shows that she is not knowledgeable. Catie Couric interview
showed this. McCain advisers know this. That's why they were afraid to let her run wild.

Quite frankly, she should have been able to do her own hair and makeup. I wonder what she would have looked like had she done her own hair and makeup and worn her own clothes. The Obamas and Bidens wear their own clothes.

WOW, HOW CUTE? SHE'S NOT QUALIFIED TO BE ANYTHING, LET'S FACE IT

Just what the McCain group should have expected when She was picked to be VP. She wants to make a name for herself and going down the way the Republicans are can't blame her when you run the campain that the republicans are running no one in charge.

STICKS AND STONES...
I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?

I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I?

Hopefully we'll never have to see Sarah W Palin again in Washington. What a disgrace!

A rogue

sounds more like a Maverick

and how idiotic is it to say you are a team of Maverick's since they do things their own way

"Maverick is as Maverick does"

this why not only am I not voting republican this year presidentially

i am thinking of changing my affiliation to Independent

I am not leaving the party the party is leaving me

since I live in Non-pro America California

and I am not a real American

because I do criticize our country when we are wrong

Obama/Biden '08/12

Wow, who didn't see that coming? Oh yeah, McCain. Great leadership skills!!! He can't even make the one crucial decision in his campaign correctly. Imagine what his administration would look like? His administration would actually have us pining for bushes’ administration. Now how awful would that be?

By the way, McCain will be loosing his home state of Arizona as well. Add the 10 Arizona electoral votes to the Obama column.

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008

Sarah Palin is an idiot - almost as big an idiot as the republicans that chose her to represent our party. We should vote out the lot of them and start over from scratch.

Is the stewardess morphing into Alice in Wonderland? Palin 2012 !!!
Is she that clueless ... Let me try to put it like this: You can spend $150,000 on clothes and makeup for a pig, it's still a pig!!!

SO WHAT?

THAT'S HOW A MAVERICK IS SUPPOSED TO ACT.

YOU GO GIRL.

Princess Caribou looking out for herself - imagine that; she has always been in this for herself, just watch her constant mugging for the cameras and gimme looks and winks (Tina Fey has these down). But that's all she could be in it for; she has no political philosophy, no ideas, no ability to comprehend anything larger or more important than herself. A dangerous narcissist, in another political climate she would have the makings of a fascist dictator (down-market, dumber Eva Peron).

Ok so, she's a woman... no big surprise there.

"advisers" can only do so much advising. they're not the ones running for office.

the public loves her..let her do what she wants.

Poor Sarah, dressed up, used, and thrown away like a toy at christmas. Looks like the republican boys are warming up the bus to throw you under. Let the finger pointing begin, I'm sure this will somehow be Barack's fault. Too funny!!

End the drama vote Obama.

Sarah Palin = Diva
John McCain = Drama Queen

so 40% of the country is willing to vote into the presidency a 72 year old man who cannot control his "diva" vp.

NICE

Like an avalanche coming down a mountain, Palin is out of control, this article takes all doubt away that McCain's first executive decision was to pick this psycho racist that he has lost complete control of! This guy wants to be President????

I have always thought Palin was dangerous because she has a personality combination of extreme ambition with narcissism. She does not have insight into how others view her, she does not appear capable of true empathy. These character traits in a "leader" can lead to real problems and what she is doing proves this analysis.

You could see it coming .At one time she said , "The Palin- McCain ticket"..............This women scares the hell out of me .
Can you imagine waking up one morning and finding her the President ,and she has to deal with Iran, Korea , etc ?
Lord help us !!
John ,N.C.

here-here

Comedy, thy name is GOP.

What a vile and repugnant princess.

This woman being a heartbeat away from the presidency is the strongest reason of all to vote against the McCain/Palin ticket.

She is the antithesis of everything progressive and forward thinking that the Obama campaign stands for.

Hahaha well I thought she was a "Maverick". She is going Maverikeee ... This is what you get when you don't completely vet a candidate. McCain can talk about experience all he wants, but is lack of sound JUDGMENT is coming to play, just as with the financial crisis. America wake up and realize the GOP is bring this country down. Vote Straight Blue (VSB)

Sarah Palin has proven to be what she has always been-a dingbat. How the American people can even consider her as a potential Vice-President, and President, is beyond belief. Yes, I am aware Bush is a two term President. She never answers a question directly and with conviction, whatever the subject. Her pretence to be a " Walmart mom", while she shops at Niemen Marcus, says it all. The okey doke all over again! She is patently false, and totally unqualified. Can anyone imagine her dealing with the economic crisis, and any International ones? As cynical and opportunistic a choice as can ever have been made. The American people deserve far better.

Sounds like a campaign that is imploding....

He has created his own monster. I almost feel sorry for him. Of all the female republicans he could have chosen, he selected a child.

Personally, Palin can do all she wants to protect her political aspirations; however, her running for President in 2012 or beyond is nothing short of laughable. There are so many competency weaknesses and issues with her "facts" vs. the real truth, that she has – with the exception of the "base... (the religious right) in effect, burned all bridges, leaving her with one option: returning to Alaska to finish out what's left of her political career.

There's the maverick you republicans wanted

THIS GOES DIRECTLY TO JOHN McCAIN's JUDGMENT.

HOW MUCH PROOF DO PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERRSTAND THAT JOHN McCAIN IS TOO DANGEROUS FOR A POSITION AS "COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF", , , , AND SARAH PALIN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS PERSON TO BE BEHIND A CANCER STRICKEN McCAIN AND JUST A SINGLE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

God save the Republican Party from Gov. Palin's leadership.

When the ship is sinking – it's everyone for herself baby!
Well I guess we have to give Palin a little credit, – she is a bit smarter than she talks.
The sooner she is off the airwaves the better,
She thinks Robo-calls are irritating. Has anyone honestly told her she is irritating.
Good riddance. Not soon enough

Hmm one MORE reason NOT to vote for this ticket.... like I even needed another.

As a conservative, I'm voting more for Gov. Palin than Sen. McCain. I can see why she would be struggling with his group of left leaning handlers.

Sarah's future is not as a politician. I guarantee she will get a nice fat contract at Fox....

now it's time for Main Stream America to say,

Even GOP KNOW S THE TRUTH THAT PALIN CAN'T BE TRUSTED–
ABUSE OF POWER ABUSE OF POSITION ABUSE ABUSE ABUSE

There's the old adage "when you find yoruself in a deep hole, stop digging". Palin isn't smart enough to figure that out. If she becomes the standard bearer for the Republican party, then they are in deep, deep trouble. Most objective people with any measure of intelligence have figured out she perhaps reached her level of competence as the Mayor of Wasilla, if not before.

Bush/Cheney were to Halliburton, what McCain/Palin would be to Exxon Mobil.

If it weren't so sad, it would be funny. It is truly the "perfect storm." Everything they touch turns to crap. Divine intervention for a struggling nation. OBAMA!

How on earth can Mccain expect us to respect his judgment after picking this rookie as his VP.

I wonder if he even plan to win in the first place.

A lot of people do not plan to fail but they fail to plan.

I see the end of the road for McCain on November 4th.

Americans cannot be fooled.

Period!

Governor Palin is highly intelligent, honest and "down to earth". She
will make an excellent VP. Stop all the negatives from the Obama
team. I want to hear who paid for Obama's clothes, who paid for his
trip to see his grandmother, and, where did the 605 million in donations come from when America's economy is so poor at this time. Senator McCain will be "THE President" who will lead America to victory and save our economy. Governor Palin will be taught well
from President McCain and will be able to lead our country if some-
thing happens to the President. However, my 83 old mother says that
President McCain will be around for a long time!! With age comes
knowledge!!

I appreciate Palin's efforts to derail the McCain campaign.
And yes we know TAINOPWER:
Obama was born in the US and is a citizen so don't even try to start it again. We all know you are off your meds and can't help yourself.
Obama 08/12 for a better America

Looks like Sarah is becoming John McCain's worst nightmare. The bride of Frankenstein is breaking out as the campaign sinks.

You independents better jump on the Barack ship. It's not to safe over there on McCain's sinking ship. As you can see everybody else – and yes even Republicans have already jumped ship.

Obama/Biden 08
The Change We "All" Can Believe In (not just small towns)

We are seeing the true colors of Palin. Need we say more?
Go Obama/Biden '08 !!!

PALIN IS DANGEROUS, NOT JUST DANGEROUSLY STUPID, BUT DANGEROUS TO OTHERS AND THE COUNTRY!

SEND THIS FOOL BACK TO MOOSE COUNTRY AND KEEP HER THERE!

Its falling apart!

This is astoundingly bad news for John McCain. Nobody in the McCain campaign likes Palin, and after this, I firmly believe that she will run for president in 2010.

Anyone who would seriously give this shallow woman credence for the Vice Presidency or leader of the Republican Party ought to have their heads examined. Starting with John McCain, of course. Her (and the cult part of the Republican Party) view of the United States and the world is so narrow it frightening.

This woman is obviously not qualified to step in as President at this time; however, she is a masterful politician and a skilled speaker. I think she is spot on to look out for herself. McCains dreams are gone; Sarah's are the future and I say...You Go Girl !!!!!

Wow! They can't even get their stuff together within their own party?! This should NEVER have come out of the advisers mouth. You wouldn't dare see an Obama adviser say something like this about Biden. Yet another area where McCain should take notes from "The Man"!

OBAMA '08!!!

She has her own agenda and it doesn't include John Mc Cain. She is one sly fox!

Mccain is to blame, he knew palin wasn't ready and yet he offered her the vp spot, and now the GOP are denying sarah palin of her freedom of speech, she cant even speak to the media alone... if palin is disagreeing so much with john mccain maybe there should be another debate between palin and mccain to see who the real maverick is...

So then, what are the Obama folks saying to the gaffe-tastic Biden side of the ticket? How about reporting that too...

She is playing year 2012 already. It sad that she seems to be more interested in her personal succes than being a good team player. Not a good choice. Poor McCain.

“going rogue”??? Sarah Palin is and has been all about herself. She is becoming the campaign's "Maverick" which John McCain has championed, that is until the message was embodied by Palin and is now scuttling his campaign. The poor judgment side of McCain's choice glares brightly in the public's view. Palin will now be seen in the Republican Party as a non-team player, which she always has been, and blamed for the election defeat. Bottom line, she is a misfitted amateur playing in the big leagues. Maybe the Evangelical Christian will want to form their own Party with Queen Palin at the helm.

The ship is strating to drown , way to go mcsame and caribou barbie.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a way to thank a guy for a $150,000 make over.

Ths ship is sinking, the wheel have fallen off the straight talk express, and the fat lady is singing. She is going to make it look like it's McCain fault so she has a chance at some sort of position in the GOP.

SO – exactly what ticket are republicans voting for? And if this is going on now, what would have happened if they were elected? I think there are many republicans who can't wait for Nov 5th so they can put this to bed and stop talking up a chaotic ticket.