Fox News confirms from McCain campaign officials, that Governor Palin will be his VP choice.

Smart move, may persuade lots of women to vote. She could get some prime executive experience. I could go for her in 2016, or 2012 if McCain wins and decides not to go for a second term.

Best, Dennis

Gutsy pick for McCain. She brings a lot of conservatism to the ticket.

She has a son in Iraq.

She has a Downs' Syndrome child. Don't know the severity, but it adds quite a burden and challenges to the family.

Admirable mom. Pro life. Pro gun. Believes marriage is between Bill and Mary, not Bill and Bob.

I think the so-called glass ceiling just fell in.

Down side? Maybe her lack of total executive experience; only two years as governor. No foreign policy experience, but that's what the President and Secretary of State are supposed to be doing.

Best, Dennis

McCain is a fool, she might be an attractive pick for us , but how does she help him win?? By appealing to middle of the road Democraps? I don't think so.... Give me a break, we are screwed....

A box a day, you're gonna need em.....

I can hear Bill and Hillary laughing....

Interesting choice, but anyone McCain would choose would be run through the wringer. A perfect choice would be the candidate for president...

Jay

I think she was a good pick .... It will be the first V.P. I ever wouldn't mind seeing naked...

Most hot women are Conservatives. The ugly women seem to be liberals. Not sure why that is, but it's a fact

This choice for McCain my be the boost he needs I don't know much about her hope this puts a dent in the democrats armour.

Reading her short Bio, she is a great pick and I think can neutralize polosi's garbage on capitol hill. Don't forget VP is the speaker in the Senate.

The more I think about it, the more I realize just how BRILLIANT a move it really is.

jcs: Keep thinking..

Seems like a race of fools to me.

Sarah Palin

Avid outdoors enthusiasts. Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school, and the family would regularly run 5k and 10k races.

Palin was the point guard and captain for the Wasilla High School Warriors, in Wasilla, Alaska, when they won the Alaska small-school basketball championship in 1982; she earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense play. She played the championship game despite a stress fracture in her ankle, hitting a critical free throw in the last seconds. Palin, who was also the head of the school Fellowship of Christian Athletes, would lead the team in prayer before games.

In 1984, Palin was second-place in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant after winning the Miss Wasilla contest earlier that year, winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality.

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics.

Her husband, Todd, is a Native Yup'ik Eskimo. Outside the fishing season, Todd works for BP at an oil field on the North Slope and is a champion snowmobiler, winning the 2000-mile "Iron Dog" race four times. The two eloped shortly after Palin graduated college; when they learned they needed witnesses for the civil ceremony, they recruited two residents from the old-age home down the street. The Palin family lives in Wasilla, about 40 miles (64 km) north of Anchorage.

She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd, her high school sweetheart. One summer when she was working on Todd's fishing boat, the boat collided with a tender while she was holding onto the railing; Palin broke several fingers.

On September 11, 2007, the Palins' son Track joined the Army. Eighteen years old at the time, he is the eldest of Palin's five children. Track now serves in an infantry brigade and will be deployed to Iraq in September. She also has three daughters: Bristol, 17, Willow, 13, and Piper, 7. On April 18, 2008, Palin gave birth to her second son, Trig Paxson Van Palin, who has Down syndrome. She returned to the office three days after giving birth. Palin refused to let the results of prenatal genetic testing change her decision to have the baby. "I'm looking at him right now, and I see perfection," Palin said. "Yeah, he has an extra chromosome. I keep thinking, in our world, what is normal and what is perfect?"

Details of Palin's personal life have contributed to her political image. She hunts, eats moose hamburger, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane. Palin holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association. She admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.

Palin is strongly pro-life and belongs to Feminists for Life. She opposes same-sex marriage, but she has stated that she has gay friends and is receptive to gay and lesbian concerns about discrimination. While the previous administration did not implement same-sex benefits, Palin complied with a state Supreme Court order and signed them into law.

She supported a democratic advisory vote from the public on whether there should be a constitutional amendment on the matter. Alaska was one of the first U.S. states to pass a constitutional ban on gay marriage, in 1998, along with Hawaii.

Palin's first veto was used to block legislation that would have barred the state from granting benefits to gay state employees and their partners. In effect, her veto granted State of Alaska benefits to same-sex couples. The veto occurred after Palin consulted with Alaska's attorney general on the constitutionality of the legislation.

Pat,

Neil who ..? What has this Neil ever done ..?

Palin is the one, even with no experience she is the better choice at this point in time ... Easy on the eyes also, not Butt Ugly like Hillary is ... WPT ... (YAC) ...

my wife was going to vote for mc cain but since he took over the tv and now she is missing young and the restless and with victor missing in mexico she can no longer vote for him.

Gutsy call but a very poor choice. The basic valid Republican argument against Obama is lack of experience. So now they choose someone with virtually no experience and after all McCain isn't the exactly young. So there goes the lack of experience argument.

Obama gets assassinated as some people think and Biden takes over. McCain drops dead and we have an ex beauty queen with 2 years governing Alaska as President.

I don't think so. Even if she did campaign naked.

Let's give her a hearing. She has more executive experience than any of the other three running. All Obama and Biden have done their whole lives is figure out ways to get in our pockets and limit our rights. She's not a Lawyer so you can at least expect a fresh point of view. JRM