08/29/2008
Palin comparison
Send the dogsleds! Minutes ago, the McCain campaign announced its selection of one-term Alaska governor Sarah Palin as its VP choice. TV commentators are frantically checking Wikipedia and settling into the pronunciation of her name (apparently it's PAY-lin, not PAL-in).
I don't know anything more about Sarah Palin than anyone else, but she strikes me as the choice of the Elisabeth Hasselbeck generation. Strong, young, beautiful, right-wing, pro-traditional family. Movement conservatives will love her. I can see Sean Hannity sycophantically flirting with her on Fox News right now.
What instantly strikes me is how this totally neuters Joe Biden in the Vice Presidential debates. We were all ready for him to eat a Tim Pawlenty or even a Mitt Romney alive. But a 44-year-old woman?
Still, it's another monumental risk for McCain. But if it spares me having to look at Romney's shit-eating grin for the next two months, I'm all for it.
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