Actually somewhat smart – picking a woman in hopes of tempting angry Hillary supporters. Now lets shake the tree, and see what falls out. And of course, she’s the perfect conservative:

• Supports teaching creationism in school.
• Opposed to gay marriage.
• Signed a gay-partner benefits bill “under protest”.

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I’ve said in the past that if McCain has any sense at all, he’d pick a woman as his running mate (a black woman would have an even better political choice). I didn’t think he’d actually be able to bring himself to do it, but he has. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is his VP choice. I don’t really know much about the Alaskan governor, but from a demographic standpoint, I think she stands to help McCain out a bit. The biggest plus for McCain is that she’s a female. There’s still alot of Hillary supporters (though a minority of them) who ...

We watched a bit of the Democratic National Convention last night. Well, I watched it while Brian worked on computery type stuff. When I asked him if he'd like to watch it, his response was, "Do I have to?"I think it was a line from the West Wing in which some network executive, who is arguing that the networks don't want to cover the political conventions says to a presidential advisor, "You somehow make choosing the leader of the free world boring!"Yeah, pretty boring. I was thinking of some ways to both continue the charade that something interesting and/or important ...

Was Hillary Clinton in the short list? Who cares? Look Hillary Clinton lost. She lost. The race was hers to lose and she lost it for whatever reason. The one way that Barack Obama could turn himself into the wimp that Maureen Dowd from the NY Times, has been trying to paint for the last 18 months is to cave to Hillary supporters and select Hillary Clinton. I just don’t understand why (some) folks can’t see that Hillary Clinton as a Vice President would be a bad thing. If Barack Obama ever wanted to actually run the White House, ...