Sarah Palin

So below are a random sample of 6 political commentators sharing just some of the myriad views on the controversy of the day. Never before (or at least not in the last few days of Election 2007-2008) have so many held such different views on something which meant so much for so many...

Sarah Palin: Dan Quayle with an Up-do…Astonishingly, some people are trying to claim that Sarah Palin's nomination is another breakthrough for women. In fact, it's an insult to women. It's a triumph of marketing, not governing. The message it sends is that after all these years of so-called equality, tokenism still trumps ability and experience. If Sarah's name had been Stan, she never would have got the nod. – Margaret Wente, Boston Globe

I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major-party ticket in modern history - presidential historian Matthew Dallek

McCain’s surprising choice of Palin — and the equally surprising news about her family — is paying off.- Byron York, National Review

There hasn’t been one evangelical family that hasn’t gone through some sort of situation. Many of us are in this movement because of something that has happened in our lives. - Marlys Popma, the well-known Iowa evangelical leader who is now the head of evangelical outreach for the McCain campaign

with his insane, opportunistic, clueless, out-of-touch and breathtakingly audacious, game-changing pick of Sarah Marshall Palin to be his vice president, there’s another Sarah in town to hate… she fulfills every trope of feminism except for her unfortunate and inexplicable opposition to murdering unborn children, we would also have made at least two TV movies about her life, celebrating her choice to have her fifth child and the announcement yesterday that her 17-year-old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant and is going to marry the teenage father of her child. That’s the kind of heartwarming, inclusive, empowering story we love — she’s like Juno come to life as Juneau, set in Mystery, Alaska. But she’s not a Democrat, which despite her va-va-va-voom appearance, means she’s not really a woman, which is one of the reasons we’ve spent the past four days since McCain unveiled her trying to tear her limb from limb – David Kahane, National Review

This could only mean there must be something about Sarah Palin that is deeply threatening to the left, a constituency that has long believed they have cornered the working mother market. Five kids? She should be at home begging Democrats for a handout. A husband in a union? He should be on the picket lines… because governor Palin is endearing, authentic–and with this latest revelation–easy to identify with, she invokes panic in the left. Why else would they assail a very popular, promising lady and her children? – Andrea Tantaros, Real Clear Politics