Well, McCain didn't pull the trigger on Lieberman after all. It makes me glad that I didn't write all those posts about how sure I was that it was going to be Lieberman.
Sarah Palin is a safe choice for the right wing. She's pro-life and has five kids with one of them being a Down's Syndrome baby. Palin's also a kind of political reformer who ousted an ethically tainted governor. That means she won't be easy to associate with the Mitch McConnell/Tom DeLay corruption wing of the Republican Party.
Two points:
1. Given that the Palin announcement came the day after Obama's speech, I'm not sure there's going to be much of a "Palin Promotion Blitz" before her own nomination next Wednesday.
2. Palin is going to have to answer a lot of questions about her knowledge of foreign policy in general and domestic policy in the other 49 states. There's reason to suspect that she's never been interested in much outside Alaska.
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I'm truly puzzled by this choice on many levels.
First, it's a transparent "Hail Mary" on McCain's part. He is obviously pandering for women voters that he's not going to get.
Second, it completely cuts the legs out from under McCain's argument that Obama is too inexperienced for the job. This was the only valid argument he had against Obama. Now it's put to rest. Palin has been governor for less than 2 years, and before that was the mayor of a town with 9,000 people in it.
Third, Palin is in the middle of an ongoing ethics investigation in Alaska. Apparently, she put pressure on the public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper who happened to be her ex brother-in-law who was embroiled in a bitter divorce with her sister. When the commission refused to fire the trooper, Palin fired the commissioner.
Fourth, Alaska is associated closely with Ted Stevens. Enough said.
I don't know why McCain didn't pick Huckabee, who is well-known, well-liked, and would have brought in the evangelicals. If McCain really wanted a woman on the ticket, Kay Bailey Hutchison would have been a better bet.
I'm really scratching my head on this one.
I don't see much mystery here. Not that I ever heard of Palin, but it wasn't going to be Lieberman and Huckabee is too narrow of slice of the pie. I also think his humor wears thin after a while if that is his public appeal. This is typical McCain. Too bad someone didn't remind him that this was already done before with Dan Quayle. She is the female version of Quayle. Will play out about the same. McCain-Palin is toast. It just may take a bit longer in the election cycle for this to show its reality.
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