jwaneeta

Even if picking a female veep is intended to woo disgruntled Hilary fans - you know, the ones the media patronizingly insists are all shrill and hysterical and have brains too tiny and hormone-addled to care about policy issues, poor little things - I don't think it'll work.

Pretty much the only thing anyone knows about Palin is that she's a committed pro-lifer, and McCain's entire grab for Hilary voters is premised on keeping them in the dark about his position on reproductive rights. Now that his ticket is unambiguously pro-life, I think that particular outreach effort is a write-off.

Which isn't to say that I disapprove of his pick on the merits. Palin seems like a nice person, and the GOP doesn't have a lot of those anymore.

She campaigned for Buchanan once upon a time! Doesn't believe global warming is man-made, wants creationism taught in the schools. She drank all the Kool-Aid.