My first reaction to Obama picking Biden as his running mate was that he had just lost the election. If when picking a running mate you decide to choose one of your primary opponents, I recommend choosing a serious candidate, not someone that had been laughed out of the last primary he had run in 20 years ago for serial lying and general buffoonery.
But I held back saying so because I knew it was well within McCain’s power to screw it up. Let say it picked Joe Liberman, or Huckabee, Chuck Hagel, George Voinovich, or even (knock on wood) Lindsey Graham. Fortunately it looks like all except the first weren’t under consideration. But all the signs were pointing to Tim Pawlenty.
Tim Pawlenty
Instead we get Sarah Palin.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) introduces his vice presidential running mate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin at a campaign event in Dayton, Ohio August 29, 2008.
She’s a commercial fisherman.
Palin, left, and her husband, Todd, pause from commercial fishing in Dillingham, Alaska, in July 2006.
Her husband is a steel worker on Alaska’s North Slope, and a successful snow mobile racer.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin standing beside her husband, Todd Palin, in Anchorage, Alaska.
She isn’t afraid to be photographed with the troops.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin visiting soldiers of the Alaska National Guard's 3rd Battalion 297th Infantry Regiment at the Life Support Area in Kuwait, Tuesday, July 24, 2007.
And as a lifetime NRA member she isn’t afraid to pick up a gun.
Lieutenant Col. David Cogdell helps Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin test out the Engagement Skills Trainer at the training village on Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, on July 24, 2007.
I’m afraid of getting too ecstatic over McCain picking her as his running mate. If she avoids having Quaylitis thrust upon her by the press (just let her say something like Obama said about 57 states and its all over) I think she and McCain will win.
Is it too much to say, “Our future Margaret Thatcher”. I hope not.
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Sarah Palin is a good leader. i can say that because she did some projects in alaska that helped lots of people .