McCain picked WHO as his running mate?!

[JTG of the PRB]

Are you SERIOUS?!?

Don't get me wrong - I know there are a lot of women in leadership position in this country - intelligent, passionate, courageous women - on BOTH sides of the aisle that are just as qualified to lead this nation. Some day, one of them will become Vice-President or even President of the United States. It's not a question of it, but rather when - and that time will come soon.

But come ON! Sarah Palin, a first-term governor from Alaska? McSame could have done better that her, couldn't he?

I'll admit, that this selection caught me off guard. I mean, who honestly saw this coming? She's young, she's a woman, and she's (supposedly) a reformer. It could win the minds of those voters who hoped McLame would balance an old, old, VERY old ticket with some youth, and it could help being more women voters to the GOP ticket.

Honestly, I figured it'd either be Tom "Color-Coded Terror Alert System" Ridge, Mittens, or Joe Loserman who would stand at McShame's side as he drove the GOP bus straight off the road and into a lake. Those "candidates" would have at least added a bit of credibility to McBush's efforts to continue his rabble about being the more experienced candidate.

Now, he can't use that line any more because his credibility in that area is gone. Where is Palin's experience? Barack Obama has MUCH more experience than she does, and Joe Biden is going to run circles around her at the Vice-Presidential debates. It's not even close - our Veep is a thousand times more qualified than their Veep.

John McCain just shot himself in the foot with this one. This woman is nobody, she is nothing, she is insignificant. If McCain just put her on the ticket because he thought he could capitalize off the support Hillary Clinton garnered in her run for the Democratic nomination, then that is an insult not to every woman in this country, but to every free-thinking American who was honestly excited to see a woman go this far in a major election nomination process. To try and replicate Hillary Clinton's success from this no-name, first-term governor from the farthest flung reaches of our nation is simply madness, and it simply cannot work.

Whoever is advising McCain to make these sorts of choices is not doing their job right... And I, for one, hope that this person stays on with McCain's campaign to the cold, bitter, lonely conclusion it will reach on November 4. The way things are going now, McCain could be heading for an enormous defeat.

You don't hear me complaining about that!