Palin!
Wrong Palin, you say? Darn!
My insta-pundit take: the only Hillary supporters who are going to gravitate to McCain merely because he chose a woman are those Rachel Maddow has termed “post-rational.” This is a choice clearly based on the proposition that there’s a sucker born every minute…but that’s never worse than an even-money bet in American politics.
History will likely judge this as either an “inspired” or “lunatic” choice. For the present, the one thing it certainly does is re-boot the discredited idea that McCain is a maverick. Conventional Wisdom never saw this one coming…so even as it destroys the central premise of McCain’s campaign—that Obama is too inexperienced—it at least reestablishes the meme that McCain is a risk-taker.
The question all America is now asking, though: Are we ready to trust the judgement of a woman who named her progeny Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig?
