Does choosing Palin look desperate and underestimate the intelligence of the voters?

Question

Does choosing Palin look desperate and underestimate the intelligence of the voters?

Answer 1

Yes and Yes.    To your second point.   The American people will see McCains political stunt as a gimmick.  They will see through it and dismiss the GOP ticket accordingly.  

Answer 2

No

Answer 3

Not a bit....she's very qualified.  I was voting for McCain anyway, now I'm really excited he picked her......

Answer 4

I'd say bold but risky before desperate. I know I'm more excited about the election now. I was hoping he wouldn't choose one of the same old stiff white guys....and I'm an old white guy myself. We need a different approach but not one as drastic as Obama is suggesting.

Answer 5

Not at all.

Answer 6

On the contrary, it tells the American voters that McCain cares what we think, that he cares enough to pick a person who will help break the glass ceiling for women, be against abortion and same s*x "marriage" like all conservatives are.

Palin reflects a decent hard working Anmerica with morals and family values.

McCain reveals again his excellent charactar.

Answer 7

Very much so.  And her accepting it seems to be taken as an insult by many women that I have spoken to.

Answer 8

Never underestimate the lack of intelligence of the voters!

Most Americans read less than 2 books a year and those are usually not literature at that.  

Answer 9

It's the flea flicker.

Answer 10

Looks like McCain thinks that  the women that are Hillary supporters will take ANY woman.

The man is just senile  

Answer 11

No more than the Dem's handing the nomination to an unqualified Black man over a white female who won the popular vote and is much more qualified.  They selected him for the Black and young vote.   ***

Answer 12

Nope he sealed the deal on getting my vote! Go Palin!  

Answer 13

No.  

Answer 14

No and why would you ask the question about intelligence? She is the only candidate that has ever had to make a payroll, set a budget for a state, command the elite Alaskan National Guard---they are right next to Russia to the future smartalecs.

Answer 15

No, it shows that McCain lacks the judgment necessary to be President but is willing to pander more than anybody else in history to have a shot at winning.

Palin is simply unqualified to be VP.  She has zero experience with foreign policy, has had no need to know how to balance a budget because Alaska (which has less people than Brooklyn, NY) gets oil revenue (she left Wasilla's budget in shambles--that's the town of 7000 where she was Mayor prior to becoming governor), she thinks creationism is science, she thinks climate change isn't real despite the evidence that exists in Alaska, and she's already wrapped up in a trooper-gate scandal and may be connected to the oil scandal that's going to bring down Sen. Ted Stevens.  

Answer 16

I do not share your point of view.

Answer 17

No. Palin is an accomplished Governor with a long list of great work. Obama can't hold a candle to her.