So Sarah Palin did not sell the state plane on E-bay. She listed it but ended up selling through a dealer. Did she say she “sold it on E-Bay” or did she say she “put it on E-Bay”? And then John McCain said she got a profit. The state bought the plane for $2.7 million. She put it on E-Bay for $2.5 million. The dealer sold it for $2.1 million. What was the depreciated price or the book value? If that was lower than $2.1 million then she did sell it for more than book and it was a profit.

Did she try to ban evolution in the schools? No. Just a rumor.

Did she support a Nazi sympathyzer? She wore a Pat Buchanan button when he visited, but she supported Steve Forbes (my favorite candidate) in the 2000 election, not Buchanan. Another false rumor.

Did she fire a town librarian and try to ban books in the library? May be some truth to this. She was pressured to hire the librarian back and did, and said the book banning comment was taken out of context. ???

She attended 6 colleges in 6 years? Appears to be true. So what?

She voted against the bridge to nowhere, but she originally supported it? OK.

And there are a bunch of pictures of her as a young hottie. I like the one in a very high hemmed leather tight skirt and spiked heals. The one in an American flag bikini with a rifle is a digitally synthesized fraud. I don’t know which ones are real.

Palin was sprung on us without a lot of public vetting so we are getting a lot of it now. Some of it is legitimate. We know she is pro Life. Will she try to overturn Roe Vs Wade? To many voters this is a deciding litmus test issue. How tolerant is she of gay lifestyles?

My guess is that she is a woman of action and decision, and that she may likely have made some regrettable decisions. Anyone with leadership experience has, especially when they start in leadership positions so young.

But there seems to be a lot of half truths and deliberate misinformation. We need to learn about her, but be very skeptical about what you read. I have chastised a lot of the lies distributed about Obama. We should be equally intollerant of lies about Palin. Lover her or leave her- base it on the truth, and hopefully something more important than much of the tripe I have been reading.

She comes from a working class background, sports union membership, has fought corrupt Republicans in her state government. She is successful and powerful in her own right, smart, and poised.

If she was pro choice, Sarah Palin would have made an ideal Democrat nominee.

But for her stand on this one litmus test issue, Palin would be the epitome of the role model for the modern woman. Her pro life stand makes her a target for political heresy subject to the kind of viciousness usually reserved for black heretics who dare to be called Republican.

She is tough and fearless. She had no problem turning criticisms into points of attack. “..being mayor of a small town is sort of like being a ‘community organizer’, except you have real responsibilities.”

It is interesting that they compare her experience to Obama, not Biden. She speaks better than Obama; her presentation had more memorable lines and metaphors. She spoke clearly and flawlessly and supposedly with a broken teleprompter. It must infuriate some to a rabid froth that this Alaskan hic can out speak the Ivey League savior, and without the lavish Hollywood props.

Historically VP candidates do not have much impact, and that may or may not be the case here. Rather than placating the opposition, Palin energizes the base. Palin stands for something, and will thus be a force to be reckoned with.