Frosstbyte

Unless wikipedia's description of her politics is grossly inaccurate (which it may be), I don't really see the point of this nomination. She comes pre-packaged with an abuse of power scandal (not really what anyone coming after the Bush-Cheney ticket needs) and comes up a big fucking goose-egg on all of the social policy issues that Clinton represented as a female candidate.

Sure there's going to be a lot of press about it, and why not? But I don't really see how this is likely to be the "end of the election." Seems a very strange choice to me-one calculated to gain immediate attention without taking into account the big picture situation. She may very well be the most electable woman in the Republican community (she might also not be, I have no idea) but she's no replacement for disenfranchised Clinton supporters who don't know what to make of BO.

Also, I don't really think it's an enormous loss to the dems to not have 100% attention on the nomination speeches of last night. They're all puffery and nonsense, and they know that. The people who care(d) were all paying attention and got swept up in the message. You don't get swing votes with nomination speeches or coverage.