No. Every attack on her bolsters her position in the party. Half see her as a martyr and the other half just want to tear her down. She is a net positive to McCain.

No. She was a liability from day one.

I think she helps portray McCain as an agent of change and an underdog fighting the system.

I think that they need to get her out there more. She has a good mind on her shoulders they need to let her show it off and stop sheltering her so much. The media will destroy itself, trying to destroy her.

Yes

I'm uncomfortable with her after watching her interviews: ----- Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials. Palin: Well it certainly does because our - our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of and they're in Russia... ----- What does that mean?! I liked her at the RNC. But without sufficient coherence in her interviews, I'd have to agree that she has become a liability. She's being turned into a joke all over the Net, SNL, everywhere I look. I haven't seen a comparative level of criticism for Biden. This suggests an extent of liability. I'm hoping to hear a more articulate person in the VP debate. But after these interviews, I'm not very optimistic.

Well, now that the bail-out's been rejected, I'm sure her sharp economical mind will sort the country out.

I believe she has been from the get-go. Prior to the VP selections, I was on the fence about this election. Less than a week after Palin was selected, I learned enough about her to know that I cannot, in good conscience, be a part of putting her in the White House. She solidified me against McCain.

John is a liability for John...Sarah...lets just say they are a trip...

Yes I believe she is a serious liability, for further information please check the enclosed info and link. See it for yourself. GOP Doubtful After Palin's Awkward TV Interviews Campaign '08 Complete Coverage ABOUT THE CANDIDATES & ISSUES NEW YORK (CBS News) ― A conservative columnist who welcomed Sarah Palin's entry in national politics now says she's proven to be a dud, and called on her to step aside as John McCain's running mate. Kathleen Parker, writing in the National Review Online, says her "cringe reflex is exhausted" after watching the Alaska governor stumble through TV interviews and it's become clear to her that Palin is out of her league. "No one hates saying that more than I do," Parker writes. "Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does." Palin, new to national politics, boosted Republican presidential nominee John McCain in polls and excited the party's core conservatives when he chose the first-term governor for his ticket. Some of that shine has since worn off in polls. Parker said she thought Palin was a "refreshing feminist of a different order" when she joined the ticket, but it's become clear she doesn't know enough about economics or foreign policy to be president should that become necessary in a McCain administration. Writes Parker: "Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there's not much content there. Here's but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: "Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we're talking about today. And that's something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this." When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama's numbers, Palin blustered wordily: "I'm not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who's actually done it?" If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself." Parker suggests that Palin could bow out for "personal reasons," such as to care for her infant son: "No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first." Parker wasn't the only national Review writer to call for a shake-up in the McCain campaign. Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote that Palin is not coming off at her best in interviews, and notes that in keeping Palin on a tight media leash the campaign is potentially hurting the ticket more: "If Sarah Palin is John McCain's secret weapon, let her go, whoever is holding her back. And, frankly, if it turns out that the 'authentic' Palin of rallies and the Republican convention is just good speech delivery in a woman with some good spirit, I want to know that sooner rather than later. (Mitt's still available " http://cbs4denver.com/national/sarah.palin.interviews.2.827446.html

Not quite yet (September 30, 2008). Certainly, the Palin bounce has gone, but they have done a pretty good job of managing her ignorance. I think that before the election she is bound to go off script at least a couple more times. At that stage, she will become a serious liability.

I think that she fired up the base - which will get a lot of folks out who were lukewarm towards McCain. Everytime she opens her mouth when asked a serious question - I wonder seriously what value she brings to McCain in drawing any undecided voters.

Only for the liberals but they weren't going to vote for McCain anyway.

Nope..without her he'd be a dead duck right now. The GOP love her so because of her they feel a little better about McCain, whom they never really liked much. If something happens to her and she leaves the ticket, well, dead duck city all over again for McCain. Happy Tuesday, m'dear! :) ((hugs))

No, and John McCain defends his selection for VP> -

You betcha! "Palin is making it clear that she is not going to go away if McCain loses and it is clear she will try to run in 2012 for the nomination. That is a calamity for her party. She has proved herself in recent months not fit to be Vice President, never mind President, confusing stubbornness with principles . Palin appears to have a very limited capacity for growth or even basic understanding on economic or foreign policy." http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/iain_martin/blog/2008/10/31/