The theory that McCain is using Sarah Palin in a desperate attempt to get disenfranchised female voters suddenly becomes obvious.

What's the difference between the presidential campaign before and after the national political conventions? Lipstick. "You can put lipstick on a pig," Barack Obama told a rally in a reference to a line in Sarah Palin's vice presidential acceptance speech. "It's still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It's still going to stink after eight years."
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told an audience Tuesday that GOP presidential nominee John McCain says he'll change Washington, but he's just like President Bush.

"You can put lipstick on a pig," he said to an outbreak of laughter, shouts and raucous applause from his audience, clearly drawing a connection to Palin's joke even if it's not what Obama meant.

McCain's campaign called the comments "offensive and disgraceful" and said Obama owes Palin an apology. Obama's campaign said he wasn't referring to Palin and said the GOP camp was engaging in a "pathetic attempt to play the gender card." Obama's camp also noted that McCain once used the same phrase to describe Hillary Rodham Clinton's health care plan.

We just heard yesterday that it is confirmed that Karl Rove is working with the McCain campaign. But hearing that was unnecessary as these kind of tactics would have made it obvious.

I have been amazed at reports that Sarah Palin has revitalized the Republican party and breathed new life into the John McCain presidential race.

It seems to obvious that this is pandering at its most transparent. If I were a woman I cannot imagine that I would be swayed by this insulting attempt to get my vote.

Palin is woman who presents herself as a maverick conservative. But we have found that she asked for millions of dollars in earmarks for Wasilla while she was mayor, gets $60 dollar Per Diem payments for staying in her OWN home, was perfectly fine with the "bridge to nowhere" before it was politically doomed (yet still kept the money to build a road to where the bridge WOULD have been constructed), has used her power to punish those who dare disagree with her, and either placed her newborn in danger by giving a speech and then flying from Texas to Alaska after her water broke OR lied about being pregnant and is covering for her daughter Bristol's teenage pregnancy.

I cannot imagine just which past Hillary Clinton supporters would allow themselves to be manipulated like this.