Can Palin also galvanize the U.S. left?

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0441271720080904?sp=true

"Everybody pays attention to the mobilizing affect on the right but equally important is the mobilizing affect that Palin's nomination makes for the left," said Michael Lindsay, a political sociologist at Rice University in Houston who has written extensively on the U.S. evangelical movement.

"In many ways she is a much more mobilizing figure for both sides than John McCain because he is seen as much more of a moderate middle of the road political figure," he said.

Abortion rights activists said Palin gave them a target and threw McCain's own views into sharp relief.

"His selection of Palin has cast his position (against abortion rights) in a bright shining light that can't be ignored," she told Reuters.

I thought I was done with donations for this year, but now I'm planning to donate again.

I don't want Sarah Palin in control of nuclear weapons (which she will be if McCain-Palin wins and McCain dies.)

I donated twice during the RNC convention. And to Planned Parenthood as well.

O's FISA vote, I briefly flirted with McKinney, but O's magisterial acceptance speech started bringing me back around.

Half-baked Alaska's selection sealed the deal. I now plan to contribute to O from my Sept 15 and Oct 15 checks and also plan to volunteer in October.

Hell yes I'm energized! Caribou Barbie scares the shit out of me. And I happen to be partial to wolves.

I've never seen any one thing spark such outrage among their ranks -- including the war.