Perhaps McCain will be kind enough to explain Governor Palin's qualifications to be CIC. After all he 72 years old.

Previous experience: Mayor of Wasilla (pop 5500)?!! You could fit 50 of them into Anaheim.

Lol I will love watching the Dems accuse our 2nd from the top of not enough experience, when she has been in elected office for longer than their 1st from the top, and with MUCH more executive experience. Actually she's the only one in BOTH tickets who can say she's RUN a government before.

Talk about glass houses...

David Zenger, the Eeyore of the blogosphere. Always the critic, never a solution.

D'anconnia, I'm still a Republican and this choice strikes me as as pretty strange. There were no other women in the party with some plausible experience? She's been governor of a small population state for 2 years. And before that she was on a city council of a tiny town 40 miles outside of Anchorage.

McCain spent all summer making the big issue Obama's lack of experience, and now we're just supposed to hope he stays healthy so his VP selection won't have to deal with Putin?

David:

Strength of character and heart are a huge elements of leadership. Frankly, I think Putin would take a conservative, moose-hunting reformer who has been successfully dismantling an entrenched political establishment than he would be by a latte liberal like Obama who's judgment is bad, who's gotten ahead by going along and who's political spine has the rigidity of a wet noodle.

Jubal said:
David:

Strength of character and heart are a huge elements of leadership. Frankly, I think Putin would take a conservative, moose-hunting reformer who has been successfully dismantling an entrenched political establishment than he would be by a latte liberal like Obama who's judgment is bad, who's gotten ahead by going along and who's political spine has the rigidity of a wet noodle.

Hmmmm...isn't this thread about Palin, or are you defaulting to throwing around the "liberal" handle cuz you're at a loss for words, knowing Palin was a part choice on McCain's part?

Wha...?

Is Obama a liberal, or not? Is Palin now on the ticket runnning against Obama, or not?

Do you have a coherent point, or not?

"moose-hunting reformer"

Well, let's hope she shoots straighter than Dick Cheney. She'll be totin' a rifle not a bird gun.

David-

Even though Palin may not seem like the most obvious choice, once you get to the nitty-gritty of her persona, you'll see why she was picked on top of other women who are more qualified in terms of experience.

The fact that she is from a small town, for example, will play well with middle America and will continue to draw the contrast that McCain-Palin can identify with "bitter, clingers" a lot better than Obama-Biden ever could.

That, on top of the fact that she is a proven, brilliant debater, is one of the many combination of reasons why this was the best choice for the McCain team to make.

Like I said, this was a brilliant choice.

"Palin may not seem like the most obvious choice"

Well we can certainly agree on that point.

Thanks, Matt- for the shout out! I really appreciate it. And yes, as far as everyone can tell- I was the first to declare/call it.

Um, on point & back to Jubal's original post . . . .

Credit where credit is due folks.

Cudos to Jessica Austin!

Via con Dios.

"she is a proven, brilliant debater"

D'anconnia, forgive me for being just a little skeptical about this statement. Whom has she debated, and in what forum?