Many, many pros on this... and very few cons... but there are cons, and we must be mindful of them, because the fringe left infesting us will never let us forget them.
Among the other pros is the immediate problem Palin as VP becomes to Oh?
SHE is the gender that O should have picked, Hillary notwithstanding. Palin as VP pick will be difficult for O to attack because she is a she, and he already has a huge gender problem, as we all know. As a new mother with young children, beating her up (Isn't that one of the two main reasons O picked Biden? To be his attack dog?) ain't gonna be easy. That will be a very bad visual.
The fringe left feminists will go into spasms. They would have us vote for a woman merely because she is a woman, much like the 99% of the black vote will go to O merely because of his color... (as racist a vote as a white voting for McCain because of HIS color) not to mention his blatant pandering.
Well, now there's a woman on the ticket. Now, a major candidate and party showed "change" in an undeniable way, much like O picked Biden in an utterly inexplicable way.
Comparing the two major candidates and their VP picks side by side... who's the "change" agent, again? And who showed a level of political tone-deafness that NO hearing aid can help?
Her choice will be a major step in getting conservatives on board. She is much more than a pretty face (and she is that... imagine her and Biden in the VP debate!) she also actively hunts, fishes, engages in outdoor activities of all types... doing things that make Empty Suit/Stuffed Shirt look like couch potatoes.
A Washington outsider, she apparently has Schwarzenegger-like political muscles, and the Alaskan political landscape is, according to Fox talking heads, "littered with the political bodies of those who've tried to cross her."
Her oldest son is in the Army... much like McCain's son is a Marine. In this instance, we have the CHILDREN of candidates more qualified in many respects to be president then either of the two democrats at the top of the ticket.
Her selection should tie Oh Drama and Biden and the entire DNC into knots, particularly in the short term.
The cons:
She is problematic to the "experience" argument. Her experience is inarguably greater than O?'s but it is also short term and thin. Experience is a problematic issue. The early DNC response was all-too typically moronic, whining about her small town experience without mentioning she is a governor, and to complain about her lack of foreign policy cred is the typical height of hypocrisy exhibited by the left.
She, in fact, has little to no foreign policy experience... but how can that be a negative for the left since their top guy has no experience of any kind?
That she is a mother with small children (she recently (last April) gave birth to a baby knowing he had Down's Syndrome) and in my experience, uber-conservatives will find her recent motherhood and the fact that she has small children problematic.
Since the left will (and has) resort to any slimy, scummy attack (Factual or imagined) they can come up with, expect surrogates (Moveon.org, Kos and so forth) to lead the way in this regard, while Oh? What? keeps his hands clean.
Conclusion:
At this point, I have to give credit where it is due. I will not be supporting McCain (not that it matters in the moron-voting state of Washington...Commissar OhDrama owns the socialist republic) because I cannot stomach his illegal alien viewpoints.
That said, when considering the available candidates for the job, I can think of none who jammed not only a stick, but an entire forest into the spokes of the OhDrama campaign like Palin. McCain will get votes now that he otherwise would not have recieved.
Given the many problems OhDrama has now with female voters due, in large part, to his shear political incompetence, this represents the best choice I believe he could have made.