It really only struck me this morning--I'd cut off my arm before I'd vote for Hillary for President or for VP, and that has nothing to do with her being a woman. She's just not the right woman for the job.

I'd vote for Sarah Palin in a heartbeat, and in part because she's a woman. The now desperate Democrats are trying to say McCain waited until the last minute to decide instead of being "proactive" (?), and that he only picked her because she's a woman, and that he would not have chosen her if Obama had chosen Hillary or another woman.

I don't think that's true, and in any event, I say of course that was a factor, but so what? That's not the only reason, because I'd vote for any man or woman of any color with her credentials. People always operate on multiple levels of motive. McCain was just fortunate to find such a well qualified woman. I suspect he decided a long time ago, but has just kept it very close.

Just as Hillary is not the right woman, Obama is also just not the right man for the job.

Obama has to be kicking himself now, and I'm sure Hillary is fit to be tied. She spent basically her entire political life trying to get into the White House and then BACK into the White House, and she lost out. Then this little upstart Palin comes along and without even suggesting interest in the executive ticket, she is now the Republican candidate for VP! There's always 2012, but who knows what the world will look like by then... Today's Democrats should study what happened to the Federalists for their opposition of James Madison in the War of 1812.

I think although an Obama/Clinton ticket could win, he would have been foolish to pick Hillary. There's too much Clinton Administration baggage (read “uninvestigated, and likely-to-never-be-investigated, corruption), and Bill himself would upstage Obama anywhere they appeared together. That would defeat the purpose in a lot of people's minds, of having the first black President--especially after they used to call Bill the first black President (don't ask me to defend that--I just know they did it!)

Obama could have picked any number of women other than Hillary, but he didn't. He picked Joe Biden, and the only member of Congress with a more liberal, far left voting record than Joe Biden IS Barack Obama! Bill Clinton said Obama "hit it out of the park", but Biden didn't bring any votes. Everybody who was far left and everybody who hates Bush and all the rest of the "evil Republicans" was already voting for Obama.

To be sure, there are those racist crackers who would never vote for any black man, but bringing Biden on isn't going to change those people's bigotry, nor their votes. I suspect any of them who are Bush haters will vote for whatever 3rd party candidates or Independents are running, or just stay home with a six pack and their bug-zapper.

At the same time, McCain has hopefully sealed the deal with those who call themselves conservatives but who were planning not to vote for McCain because they were not willing to “compromise their principles”. They would gleefully vote in or allow to be voted in, Marxist leadership in the White House and in Congress, but they wouldn’t compromise their principles. Wow!