The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

McCain has settled on someone with 1.5 years of experience as governor of a state with fewer than 700,000 people - an unknown outside of the political junkie circles. Here is what I know about her:

• She is currently under legislative investigation, accused of firing the state's public safety commissioner for not firing her former brother-in-law.
• She is a hard core proponent of drilling in ANWR, which would make sense - her husband does work for BP.
• She is a mother of five who just gave birth in April to a son with Down syndrome.

So a month ago she didn't even know what the VP really does... and now by accepting she is implying she is ready to rule the free world if Grandpa McCain keels over? Righhht…

This pick is nothing more then a nakedly desperate political ploy to get women, and I don't think it will work any more than putting Alan Keyes on the ticket would score black voters. My guess is that any of Hillary’s supports that still refused to vote for Obama are going to sit it out if they are true democrats. Surely after the eight years of dealing with ideologues, they won’t risk four more with a completely anti-choice, anti-woman, conservative ticket.

Here’s Obama’s response:

"Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency. Governor Palin shares John McCain's commitment to overturning Roe v. Wade, the agenda of Big Oil and continuing George Bush's failed economic policies -- that's not the change we need, it's just more of the same," said Bill Burton, Obama Campaign Spokesman.

Nice.