COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We-- we do-- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where-- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.

Um. OK.

I wonder how they'll get her out of debating Biden?

I hope they don't. That is scheduled to take place close to me. I am trying to find out how to get in.

The sad part is. even if Palin can't answer a single question correctly Repubs will love her as long as she keeps saying... take the fight to the, we are mavericks, no bridges to nowhere, and i can see Russia.

I use to think Hillary was not qualified to be president... by comparison i know now i was very wrong.

Liberals always see as IQ as the path to a great presidency...how misunderstood...instinct...judgement...character...honesty...principles...grounded...leadership...passion...strength...these are just some of the qualities that make a GREAT president...

Liberals always see as IQ as the path to a great presidency...how misunderstood...instinct...judgement...character...honesty...principles...grounded...leadership...passion...strength...these are just some of the qualities that make a GREAT president...

sure you did...Bill Clinton had an IQ of 180...and...was a disaster..as far as any of the qualities I mentioned...and...he wakes up every fuggin day thanking God that he had a Republican congress...which held his feet to the fire as far as spending goes...

Instinct, I suppose she has good instinct to say a limited set of replies because she knows what side her bread is buttered.

Judgment, only in the same sense as the above is true.

Character. She has none. She is very flat and two dimensional. But maybe because of the above again.

Honesty, not with the say she has screwed with peoples jobs.

Principles. Same again. Trying to get people fired if they don't agree with her ideals.

Grounded. Um, don't see it.

Leadership. Yeah, she has experience. And it looks like she is a pretty rotten leader.

Passion, um, back to that flat, two dimensional quality again.

Strength. I don't see any in her. Looks more like she is propped up. A puppet. Say this, never stray from it, and be a good little girl and we will let you be VP.

I think the republican party is treating her like a doll they can parade around. Something pretty to hang of someones arm.

well...she is beautiful...you sound jealous young lady...like most of the women on here...as I've said before...women are so catty....

just read Newt...he's got it right...

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President Bush's proposed bailout plan is a "dead loser on Election Day" and urged Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., to come out against it, saying that the GOP nominee cannot be for it and maintain his claim to be a reformer.

"I don't know how he can vote for this and with a straight face go around and say that he's for real change and he's the reform candidate," Gingrich told ABC News.

Gingrich's comments were the latest sign that the presidential campaign could be upended by the Bush administration's $700 billion plan to buy up and hopefully resell troubled mortgage-backed securities.

If McCain were to come out against the bailout plan, Gingrich said that Republicans would rally to his side and it would become possible for the McCain-Palin ticket to style itself as "taking on the Bush-Obama establishment."

"Either McCain is going to go along" with Obama in supporting the plan, said Gingrich, "in which case the establishment will have the fix in . . . or you are going to see McCain decide, much in the way that he did in picking Palin, that, in fact, he is a genuine maverick, that he genuinely defends the taxpayers, and that this is a terrible bill."

"If the latter happens," Gingrich continued, "I think you will see the emergence overnight of a 'McCain Reform Wing of the Republican Party' and you'll see House and Senate members siding with McCain by overwhelming margins and then you'll be in a very different political environment. You'll have 'Bush-Obama ads' on the one side and 'taking on the Bush-Obama establishment' on the other side, and that will be, frankly, one of the more amazing elections."

Left unsaid by the former Speaker is the possibility that the bailout plan would simply die if McCain were to come out against it, which in turn, could deprive the McCain-Palin ticket of the opportunity to run against the "Bush-Obama establishment."

"If McCain doesn't come out for this, it's over," a top House Republican told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday.

Gingrich is against the bailout plan because he thinks it is "inconceivable" that the Treasury and Fed can manage Wall Street.

While coming out against the bailout plan, Gingrich forcefully rejected the contention that he favors doing nothing and laid out a conservative alternative.

Gingrich's four-point plan includes: (1) suspending immediately mark to market provisions (the accounting practice of valuing a financial position in an investment at its current market price) in the hopes of stopping the downward spiral in asset values and eventually replacing it with a three year rolling average; (2) repealing immediately Sarbanes-Oxley, the 2002 accounting law Gingrich described as "an enormous drag on small business"; (3) setting the capital gains tax rate at zero "matching the Chinese and Singapore" (to encourage private capital to flood into the market picking up properties without the taxpayers being at risk); and (4) passing an "extraordinarily powerful" energy bill ("to return $500 billion a year to the American economy that are currently going overseas").

Gingrich spoke with ABC News in Washington, D.C., after participating in a polling presentation sponsored by American Solutions, the group he established last year which works to identify issues that have a majority support among Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

Liberals always see as IQ as the path to a great presidency...how misunderstood...instinct...judgement...character...honesty...principles...grounded...leadership...passion...strength...these are just some of the qualities that make a GREAT president...

is it too much to ask that, someone who is going to run the most powerful nation in the world, know something about the world? is it too much to ask that that person be asked tough questions and be tested as to how they react to those tough questions? we don't know what Palins instincts, judgment, character, and principles are. she had done something like 3 interviews. and has done fairly poorly in those.

is it at all possible that we get some sort of understanding why she is qualified to potentially be president of the united states???



According to the ABC News/Wall Street Journal Poll
Are the VP candidates qualified to be president if the need arises

Sarah Palin 40% yes.... Joe Biden 64% yes

I'm doing just fine...you know something I learn each and every day...Liberals are ALWAYS so miserable...oh woe is me...hand wringing...so negative about the country...did you ever wonder why there's no Liberal radio talk shows ?...because no one would listen !!...everyone would be depressed...contimplating suicide...