It's a girl?

"I think [John McCain's] going to evolve into eventually supporting ANWAR," Sarah Palin told Larry Kudlow (above) recently, adding that "Obama is way off on all of that."  Watch and listen here, and see what you think. She's Governor of Alaska, a mother of five and only 44 years old — younger than Obama! — and John McCain is rumored to want her for VP. Like Aldo Cella and Elisson, John McCain knows what women like.

"Going back to the dynamic of the McCain campaign, they want to shake it up, and this is definitely something that will shake it up," Karl Rove is telling Fox & Friends midmorning as rumors fly that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is Johnny's pick:

She is very smart. She is very personable. She's one of these people who's very approachable. People are going to like her.

You go, girl!

Fun fact update: Biographical snippet from Wikipedia re the Idaho-born Sarah, who moved with her family to Alaska when she was an infant:

Sarah and her father would sometimes wake at 3 a.m. to hunt moose before school.

While pampered liberals slept.

More fun facts from Wikipedia:

She earned the nickname "Sarah Barracuda" because of her intense [high school] basketball play …

In 1984, Palin was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant … winning a scholarship to help pay her way through college. In the Wasilla pageant, she played the flute and also won Miss Congeniality …

She hunts, eats moose burgers, ice fishes, rides snowmobiles, and owns a float plane … holds a lifetime membership with the National Rifle Association … admits that she used marijuana when it was legal in Alaska, but says that she did not like it.

Palin holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Idaho where she also minored in politics. She briefly worked as a sports reporter for local Anchorage television stations while also working as a commercial fisherman with her husband, Todd [a Native Yup'ik Eskimo], her high school sweetheart.

You want audacity? This gal is soakin' in it.

Update III: Charles Krauthammer on Fox is saying McCain should pick someone "safe" like Fred Thompson. We LOVE Fred, of course, and our sis will remind us that we have a heart too soon made glad, but the Governor of Alaska gets our girls-just-wanna-have-fun juices flowing. Sarah, get your gun!

The Mother of All Updates: Sarah's the one!

The Father of All Updates: Instalanche! Thanks, Professor. More on all that in the next post.

Update VI: "She's real," raves Amy Kane of Atlantic Ave, tossing us a link:

Genuine, bright, articulate, confident, striking all the right notes (for me) and no teleprompter.  That's my assessment of her first speech as McCain's running mate.

Lots of women I know are going to identify with her and like her, whatever their politics and ultimately their vote in November.

As Amy says, "Oh yeah!!!"

Comments

[Gayle Miller]

I hope it's Palin but who knows. All kinds of rumors are flying this morning. Kind of takes the luster right the heck off of Obama's speech last night (not that there was much there to begin with).

McCain's campaign knows how to keep a secret and his last word was that it was Wilfred Brimley!

[goomp]

Sarah sounds good to me. I like Mitt but Sarah also has the brains plus great charisma.

[Teresa]

I just got the email from WSJ saying it is Palin. YAY!!! That's terrific, what a great pick.

Also, congrats on the Instalanche!

[Mister Snitch]

Don't want her for VP. Want her for P.

[Ramona]

Wow, an incredible pick! I am so excited, I am going to donate time, money and enthusiasm to the Republican ticket this fall.

And I say this as a registered Democrat.

[Gayle Miller]

I predict that once the election is over and McCain/Palin has won, Hillary will be so solicitous of President McCain's health that he'll want to scream! Hill does not want Palin to be the first female P!

[FSS]

This is awesome. Now Hillary's supporters have a great reason to vote for McCain.

What a great move!

[Tom Bowler]

I think McCain belted one out of the park with this pick. Hillary who?

[ed]

Mr Snitch: She will be as soon as Crazy Johnny departs for the sky carrier.

[Meryl Yourish]

I watched John McCain come out in front of the cameras in Ohio, and I thought, "Wow, Sarah Palin has managed to make me feel excited about this boring old man."

I mean, I was going to vote for him anyway, but now, I'm going to VOTE! for him.

I've been hoping he'd pick Palin for weeks.

[Laura Lee Donoho]

I am thrilled. Simply thrilled!!! She pronounces nuclear weapons, "Nucular." I love it!

[Carol Ward]

Wow. Now that was a dynamic speech. I am not big on identity politics, but she brings a dynamism that seems like true fresh air. Is it because she is a girl? I am not sure I'd use the term "spunky" to describe a man, but she seems spunky, and I like it a lot.

[hnav]

Congratulations to all.

Gov. Palin is a wonderful choice.

A CEO, a Washington Outsider, NOT a Senator, accomplished, attractive, sound principles, well spoken, youthful, etc.

I wish they would tone down the vapid Clinton placation.

But all in all, the best decision I have seen the Maverick make in so many years.

A good day.

Hoping this inspires all to vote GOP.

[uncledip]

Flash: HRC now on suicide watch at nearest hospital.

[Binah]

Oh yes :)

Declined according to gender, it's "determined" for a man, and "spunky" for a woman ;-)

Shaken up

[Jill]

I'm over the top with McCain's selection.

Sarah Palin is awesome.

A woman who made it on her own. She is so fresh, real and authentic. She's so American. How refreshing to see the working class who really work.

Her life story is inspiring. The First Dude is a hunk and she's already a corruption-buster who took on the ole boy network and won.