The WaPo takes on the rumor that Palin was insufficiently vetted, and appears to demolish it.
My perception is that McCain was impressed from the first by Palin and was especially taken with her maverick, reformer quality, which he sensed right away. I’ve also think the McCain campaign’s ability to keep this a secret until the announcement of her candidacy shows a capacity to be tight and well-organized, which bodes well for a possible McCain Presidency.
[ADDENDUM: More on the vetting issue.]
Found in the comments section of Michele Catalano’s PJ article on the Palin baby brouhaha (links don’t seem to work, but the time stamp is 1:06 PM and it was written by “4Heavenssake”):
The first baby was probably a C-section scheduled at a level 3 hospital @ about 6-1/2 to 7 months into the kid’s pregnancy. What do you want to bet that Bristol’s pregnancy with her 2nd child will be one of those really, really long ones? As in she’s not as far along in her pregnancy as her mother is saying?
And here’s the video for the occasion:
I think Palin’s nomination has caused much of the Left to flip its collective wig, or what’s left of it (puns intended).
The rumors about Palin’s baby—that it really was conceived by her 16-year-old daughter and that Palin faked her own recent pregnancy—make National Enquirer stories look like well-researched doctoral theses.
And now the Left should be proud—and pleased as punch—that the vitriol of many of its members has managed to out a 17-year-old’s unwed pregnancy and imminent marriage, the news of which should have been allowed to emerge in its own sweet time and way. Good work, Kos Kids (and congrats to Andrew Sullivan—to whom I will not link but who actually was once an actual bona fide journalist, although that was long ago and far away). Continue reading →
The blogs and airwaves are alive with Democrats looking down on Sarah Palin.
She’s inexperienced. She’s just a pretty face. She was chosen merely for her gender and her “Movie of the Week” life story.
Sound familiar? Just change the pronouns “she” and “her” to “he” and “his,” the word “pretty” to “handsome” and “gender” to “race,” and you’ve got our Democratic nominee for President: Barack Obama.
One huge difference, of course, is he’s running for President and she for Vice-President. Continue reading →
I’ve thought about this question myself: does Palin’s VP candidacy change Hillary’s calculus for 2012?
I think it does. As Ms. Althouse says, it presents her with a conundrum: whose election would be best for Hillary? The way this campain is shaping up—Obama’s Biden move and McCain’s Palin countermove, and all those ads and answering ads—makes me think of it as a particularly knotty game of chess.
And there are more than two players in this game. There are at least three, and Hillary is most definitely one of them.
It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. The Democrats and the Obama campaign are accusing Sarah Palin of being too inexperienced to be Vice-President.
This would be an excellent plan of attack—after all, she is relatively inexperienced for that high office— if it weren’t the case that Obama is clearly even less experienced, and he’s running for an office far higher. Continue reading →
…doesn’t strike me as the smartest move on the part of the Obama campaign.
First of all, that’s more executive experience than Obama has ever had. Second of all, it’s been superceded by the fact that she also has some experience as Governor—an executive office of even greater magnitude—and has done rather well. In fact, her tenure as Governor is longer than Obama’s time as Senator before he left the job to begin campaining.
I begin to wonder just how smart Obama’s advisors are (actually, that’s a lie; in fact, I’ve been wondering for quite some time). Continue reading →
It occurs to me that if the McCain/Palin ticket were to win, both the President and Vice-President would have sons who would either be presently serving or have served in Iraq. And the same is true of prospective VP Biden.
Palin’s nomination has kept me grinning ever since I heard of it. Continue reading →
It occurs to me that McCain’s choice of Palin puts Democrats in a remarkably uncomfortable position regarding that glass ceiling. Not only are they perceived as having dissed women in their choice of Obama plus Biden and their rejection of Hillary, but now it’s necessary for them to criticize the person who has just become only the second woman nominated for Vice President by a major party.
And all this after they’ve already thrown the first one—Democrat Geraldine Ferraro—under the bus for daring to say an inconvenient but non-PC truth about candidate Obama.
[ADDENDUM: I just heard an interview with Ferraro on Fox News. She rightly points out that people vote for President and not Vice President. She also called the choice “exciting,” and said it will appeal to PUMAs who had been disaffected by the Obama campaign. Did I detect a small note of glee in her voice?]
John McCain has announced the stunning choice of Sarah Palin for Vice President.
It’s stunning not only because she’s gorgeous. It’s stunning because it shows that John McCain isn’t quite as predictable and stuck in an old-white-guy rut as the opposition might want to paint him. Continue reading →