President...Palin?
No, McCain isn't considering that Palin. He's considering this one:
At 44, Sarah Louise Heath Palin is both the youngest and the first female governor in Alaska's relatively brief history as a state. She's also the most popular governor in America, with an approval rating that has bounced around 90 percent.This is due partly to her personal qualities. When she was leading her underdog Wasilla high school basketball team to the state championship in 1982, her teammates called her "Sarah Barracuda" because of her fierce competitiveness.
Two years later, when she won the "Miss Wasilla" beauty pageant, she was also voted "Miss Congeniality" by the other contestants.
Interesting snapshot of Gov. Palin. A former beauty queen and a 90% approval rating to boot! Quite impressive. That means nine people in Alaska approve of her perfomance as governor, yes?
Bottom line on McCain's VP pick, whoever it might be: the pick will be judged in the context of their (un)readiness to be Commander in Chief on Day One simply because of McCain's age.
Who do you want sitting in the Oval Office after President McCain is gone -- Romney? Jindal? Huckabee? Pawlenty? Palin? The extent to which Americans see any of these people as presidential material will have to color McCain's judgement -- or else.
As for this, I snort in derision:
Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal said Sen. McCain should run against a corrupt, do-nothing Congress, a la Harry Truman.
Oh that'll work just fine because Barack Obama is soooooo much like Tom Dewey.
And while he's at it, McCain might as well go all the way and promise to restore honor and dignity to the office of the Presidency, too.
Seriously, McCain has one homework assignment in this campaign: figure out how to untie the dead weight of George (Mr. 25%) Bush from around his neck before his candidacy sinks to the bottom of the pond.
What is it with ladies named Sarah. Isn't that good enough? It's always Sarah-Something, never content with just the middle initial or just plain Sharah. (Maybe the book title Sarah Plain and Tall explains it.)
There's Sharah-Jessica Parker, Sarah-Michelle Gellar. Now this one.
Just one thing about her choice, her popularity with the fifteen people who give a crap about the lower 48 aside -- doesn't picking her completely undermine his argument that Obama is too young and inexperienced?
Of course, logic was never something that stood in the way of a stupid GOP strategy.
I, as were so many, was completely struck dumbfounded by the contrast between Obama speaking at the GOP convention site and McCain's green-screen moment (that got pre-empted). It was almost a shame that Hillary had to step all over it with her "It's all about me" speech -- not that it was classless and stepped on Obama's moment (it was), but that it took away from the obviousness of McCain's role as sacrificial lamb. He was pitiful and pathetic.
If I was a GOP operative right now, I'd be looking to see if there are any job openings at the local used car dealership.