[raygunfan]

there’s nothing wrong with the pick...mccain isnt rolling any dice.

she is a hard charging conservative...God, guns, country first.....compared to ‘safe’ choices????

i like it....

[Presto]

I LOVE this pick. Governor Sarah Palin has more EXECUTIVE experience than Biden and obama - COMBINED.

[SoConPubbie]

So let me ask you raygunfan, what is her positions on Illegal Immigration issues?

And I ask that as a non-fan of Romney. I did not want him and saw him as a liability.

[nathanbedford]

Of course McCain is rolling the dice with this pick. A safe and conservative pick might have been Romney or even Pawlenty. McCain quite deliberately chose to roll the dice.

And roll the dice is exactly what he must do because, despite our recent good polling performance, McCain knows that eventually the whole array of obstacles bearing down on him must eventually tell and, barring a catastrophic mistake by Obama or a revelation out of his past, this is the Democrats' year.

I have been posting for months and months that the Republican candidates and now McCain are doomed to lose this election unless they can change the rules of the game and kick over the table and make this a whole new election on their terms. This is precisely what McCain is trying to do with this selection. Make no mistake, he is rolling the dice, but at last we have someone who looks like he is playing to win instead of sleepwalking toward execution.

[wolf78]

there’s nothing wrong with the pick...mccain isnt rolling any dice.

I would agree with the article that "McCain is rolling the dice", I would also agree that Romney would have been an excellent choice, too.

However, McCain is taking a calculated risk and I don't think that Palin is gonna hurt McCain in the long run. Why? Simple:

Everytime Democrats want to criticize Palin for beeing inexperienced, they'll get the immediate feeling of buyer's remorse, of being stuck with their own weak Candidate, Obama. The fact that Hillary's name will be constantly repeated till the election will probably not help sway that many former Hillary voters to switch to McCain, but it will lead to Democratic disillusionment: No more "The One", but "That one? Really?".