As I was working on a project Friday morning, I had access to a TV that happened to be tuned into Fox News, when the graphic flashed across the screen, “Fox News Confirms McCain Has Selected Sarah Palin As His Running Mate”.
I turned to the guy next to me and said, “That.  Pick.  Took.  Balls.”
Consider.  McZhamnesty had his comfort-zone options:  He could have picked the candidate who ran second to him in the primaries – Romney – but, as I’ve already stated – he stood to lose the evangelicals in the base.  A base he absolutely could not  afford to fracture at this point.
He could have picked Lieberman, whom potheaded fuckwit extraordinaire DJ Allyn claims  was McCain’s first choice, citing the NY Slimes – but then he would have completely lost the conservative base, and the election along with it.  Picking former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge, which whom he’s pretty much compatible idelogically, wouldn’t have been much better; the base would still have been left grumbling.
Picking Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty would  have put some conservative street cred on the ticket, but there’s no “wow factor” with Pawlenty.  Not to mention it’s not going to help McCain take Minnesota, anyway.
But out there just beyond the fringe of the national spotlight happened to be the governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.  She had made headlines recently by suing the United States government (specifically the Department of the Interior) over the listing of polar bears as an endangered species, citing its potential devastating effects on the oil & gas development industry.  According to Wiki, which is where I’m getting most of this – risky, yeah, I know – Palin
…had been under consideration since a private meeting with McCain in a February National Governors Association meeting. As the vetting rounds narrowed the candidate list down Palin was always one of the potential candidates.
McCain pulled the trigger on the selection on Thursday.
This is a brilliant selection.  In choosing Palin, McCain has managed to do three things:
1) reach out towards the PUMAs (Democrat women who have adopted the slogan “Party Unity, My Ass”) and bring them into camp – which appears to be having a slight effect:
Wow, Thanks so much to this Sarah Palin who never forgot us. She is a fighter. She paid her respects to our Hillary and Geraldine . They now no more think women in this country are 2nd class. You go girl and thank you for a refreshing pick Sen. McCain.
2) He’s brought the conservative base back to the fold with (again, according to Wiki, which is risky) $7 million in contributions hitting the McCain coffers the day of the announcement.
3) He’s pissed off the liberals.
Three major objectives in one fell swoop.  Three birds, one stone.
Brilliant.  Ab-so-effing-lutely brilliant.
For my part, Denizens, I was leaning towards holding my nose and voting for McCain – yes, despite all the criticism I’ve dumped on his RINO ass – as long as he didn’t pick Romney.  You see, I consider myself an evangelical, and I support the Bill Keller view that “a vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” because of the Mormon issue, and I do not want a cultist in such a high position of government.  Besides, there are about three people over at the Rott whom I would’ve taken a perverse pleasure in pissing off with that vote (no, Misha’s not one of them).
Now, however, things have changed.  I will, with great delight, vote for  the ticket containing the conservative – Palin.  And I think that more people are with me than will vote for the Obamessiah and Senator Hair-Butt-Plug (thanks, Azygos).
In short, guys, I think that – all things being equal and the McCain/Palin ticket doesn’t make any critical missteps the next couple of months – the Republicans will keep the White House in November.
You heard it here first.
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Spats,
While I like what I see in Mrs. Palin, I do have to wonder just how conservative she really is. The fact that she is willing to run as McCain’s number two makes her “conservationism” questionable. IMHO
David,
Look at her record as Governor of Alaska. Also remember she told Sen. Stephens what he can do with the pork barrel appropriation on that certain bridge?
By selecting Palin as his running mate, I don’t think it’s a situation of questioning HER conservatism as it is a situation that McCain realized a true conservative is what “We the People” have been screaming for from the GOP.