Originally Posted by ratbastid

Jesus christ, this is SMART to you? Look at what the stories are saying--how weird this choice is. I mean dear god: McCain could shoot himself in the head and grab the headlines for a week or more too.

Don't you see, he now has to RUN with this woman? Her positions contain significant mismatches against his, she has WAY less experience than Obama does and is actually YOUNGER than Obama--so now the old "not ready to lead" saw is out the window--and no state in the nation has fewer electoral votes than hers (although a few, including Vermont, North Dakota, and the District of Colombia tie for least). And she's ALREADY got an active pseudo-scandal working in her state administration. That may turn out to be nothing, but even so, where the hell were McCain's vetters?? Literally ALL she has going for her is her vagina.

I can't fathom what the McCain campaign thinks it's doing here. This choice is just bizarre. The only thing they did right was, as you say, otto, the timing.

Obama just brought a MASSIVE piece of firepower into his campaign. McCain brought in an arguably tained puffball. I think I hear echoes of Harriet Myers' SCOTUS nomination....