How could this have happened? Maybe, just maybe, the Palin VP pick wisened up some folks that the McCain Campaign is as reactionary, desperate, and misguided as Democrats have been suggesting.
For as much flack as Sen. Obama got for picking a Washington hack as his VP, at least he knew what he was getting. It's obvious that John McCain didn't vet, let alone even know, this woman. From the NYT:
“I started calling around and asking, and I have not been able to find one person that was called,” Ms. Phillips said. “I called 30 to 40 people, political leaders, business leaders, community leaders. Not one of them had heard. Alaska is a very small community, we know people all over, but I haven’t found anybody who was asked anything.”
The current mayor of Wasilla, Dianne M. Keller, said she had not heard of any efforts to look into Ms. Palin’s background. And Randy Ruedrich, the state Republican Party chairman, said he knew nothing of any vetting that had been conducted.
But Sen. McCain's some sort of "maverick" after all, which explains why a seventy-two year-old would pick somebody younger, less experienced than Sen. Obama to be so close to the presidency.
Nevermind that her previous executive experience has been divisive and disastrous.
Nevermind she believes any and all American military action is part of God's divine plan.
Nevermind she admires her daughter's "choice" to keep her child while advocating denying any other woman that choice.
Nevermind the governor was a member of a political party advocating Alaska secede from the United States. Hell, I thought that was something only liberal elitist punks like myself would endorse?
Alaska State Rep. Mike Doogan (D) probably puts it best:
“Either Sarah Palin has talents and skills we were not aware of”, or “John McCain fell down and hit his head.”
And evidently 50% of Americans agree...
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