by Dick Morris

Sarah Palin does not simply represent an opportunity to appeal to women voters and to add a new, charismatic presence to the ticket. Her selection signals the rebirth of John McCain, the courageous, independent senator who seemed to have been anesthetized during the long primary process.

Liberal Media Display Pro-Abortion Bias

by Gary Bauer

The media were shocked by the announcement that Governor Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol, is pregnant. This news was not a surprise to Senator McCain, who knew about it before he made his vice presidential selection.

New Palin Details May Help, Not Hurt

Fishing permit violations. A blue-collar husband who racked up a DUI citation as a 22-year-old. An unmarried teenage daughter who is pregnant and a nasty child custody battle involving a family member.

Obama Ad Slams McCain on Abortion Rights

Barack Obama has launched a broadside against John McCain's opposition to abortion rights and moved one of the most divisive issues in modern American politics to the airwaves on a large scale for the first time in this presidential campaign.

Lieberman: Obama Not Ready to Lead, But McCain and Palin Are

by Joel Rosenberg

What a remarkable sight. We've never seen anything like it, and I don't know that we ever will again. But there was Sen. Joe Lieberman -- a lifelong Democrat, the Democrats' Vice Presidential nominee in 2000, a man who with Al Gore earned some 51 million votes running against George Bush and Dick Cheney -- at a Republican convention to say without hesitation that Sen. John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin have more experience, better judgment and more qualifications to lead America than Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

Defiant Sarah Palin Comes Out Swinging

Sarah Palin, who vaulted from obscurity to controversy as the Republican candidate for vice president, cast herself Wednesday night as a reformer and a fighter, gleefully tearing into Democrat Barack Obama.

She Shoots, She Scores

by John Fund

Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher. If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments of his term will have been what he did before it started: helping to fill the Republican Party's future talent bench with such a fresh and compelling figure.

Sarah Palin: Readers Respond

Judging from the participation in our Opinion Journal forum today, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is inspiring intense reactions across this fair land. Read some of the comments.

Palin Skips Anti-Abortion Event, but the Crowd Is with Her Anyway

by Wayne Slater

These were Sarah Palin's people, all except the woman who jumped onto the stage waving the sign "Pro-Life = Universal Health Care."

Evangelical Faith Drives Palin's Pro-Israel View

Sarah Palin displays an Israeli flag in her governor's office in Juneau, even though she has never been to the country, and attends Protestant evangelical churches that consider the preservation of the state of Israel a biblical imperative.

Palin Stirs Up Presidential Race

by Tim Lambert

McCain made the campaign much more interesting when he picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. I've had several people tell me they are now thinking about voting for McCain when had they had once said they would never do it. These people are conservatives who are sick and tired of being told one thing by the Republicans and being delivered another.