Sarah Palin is a decent choice. She brings a different and refreshingly new perspective to the Republican side. With the time she served as a two term city council member, mayor of Wasilla and Governor of AK and a host of accomplishments in each position, she has accomplished a lot in the "little" experience she has had. Compare this to Obama, who wishes to be President of the U.S, who served 8 years in the IL state senate and 2.5 years in the U.S Senate of which he has spent nearly the entire time campaigning. So is his experience really that much more relevant? What kind of experience does he have that makes him so qualified? Serving on the Health, education, labor and pension committee or Environmental and public works committee in the U.S Senate, not too impressive.

She seems an interesting choice. She is the first woman governor to Alaska, their 11th governor, took strong positions on oil issues for Alaska, balanced a career and family, no small feat, specially with 5 children and put forth serious and reforming changes in legislation, and was very involved with the Alaska Conservation Commission as chairperson and the list goes on. Maybe not huge strides by Washington DC's standards, but it's all relative. As a conservative American women who loves politics, I am delighted to see a strong female chosen as VP to McCain. I am not a soccer mom although my kids do play soccer and not a kool-aid drinker but a free thinker. I think Sarah Palin will be a free thinker as well. No matter what her record, credentials or experience of course it never will be enough according to the democrats.

I have no idea how she is a carbon copy of Hillary?

The choice of Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate raises more questions than it answers. Yes, it is temporarily grabbing headlines away from Obama's acceptance speech and creating a "buzz." The Arizona senator named a running mate who has spent her entire live in Alaska except for college attendance in Idaho. She a former beauty queen, runner-up to the Miss Alaska crown in 1984.

Governor Palin also has an ethic probe into her attempted firing of her ex-brother -in-law, a state trooper, and has admitted 25 contacts with the relevant authorities to fire him. This shows that Palin might have used her public office to settle a personal score. Palin was the youngest Alaska governor at age 42, and the first born after the state joined the union in 1957. She is young and she is female, and that seems to be why McCain selected her.