[HereInTheHeartland]

What ever people think of McCain; he was the one who picked Palin.
He should get credit for that...

[Tribune7]

And saying Sarah is fit to be president is not exactly bad-mouthing her.

What we have is McCain Derangement Syndrome.

[I see my hands]

"What ever people think of McCain; he was the one who picked Palin.
He should get credit for that"

The same way the the guy who slipped a roofie in a woman's drink should get credit for the rape that she suffers later that night.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

"What ever people think of McCain; he was the one who picked Palin.
He should get credit for that...

Yes, I will credit him with forever tying her to a losing campaign and subjecting her to the unbelievable media examination. Of course, I saw her as a good conservative with a fighting chance of working her way up to a national run without any help from the McCain campaign. Therefore, I was never in favor of her hitching her wagon to McCain, whom I can not stand. Same goes for Jindal ... I told him straight up that I would lose a great deal of respect for him if he joined a ticket with McCain.

One reason that the media scrutiny was as intense as turned out, I believe, is that anyone opposing Obama had to be vanquished at all costs. Same would have probably been true of any opponent of Hillary. Had the dem nominee been Edwards or Biden (for example), I don't think that Palin would have received the same extremely shabby treatment. History had to be served this election cycle and the media wasn't going to have it any other way. Unfortunately, much of the electorate agreed.