I have been hard on Senator John McCain. Very hard in fact, since the beginning of the Presidential primary season.
I feel like he has made all the wrong moves, said all the wrong things, shook the wrong hands, and kissed the wrong babies. Until now.
Politics and philosophy aside, I honestly believe John McCain made a brilliant choice when he chose Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.
She is everything McCain is not. The antithesis to his big business politics. He is the oldest man ever to run for president; she is youngest governor of Alaska. He is jaded and bitter due to decades in Washington D.C.; she is from a small town in Alaska. Her only leadership experience before being elected to the governorship was being mayor of a town with a population of 9,000. That means she is fresh and uncorrupted by Washington lobbyists.
She has only donated to two political campaigns in her life, both times were in the year 2004. She listed her occupation as homemaker and house wife on the donations.
She is a very conservative, fundamentalist Christian. John McCain is on his second marriage with an heiress for the nation's third largest beer distributor company in the nation.
With this pick as VP, John McCain manages to steal back some of the spot light from the Obama camp. Now, McCain, too, is running an historic campaign. He is doing what George W. Bush should have done in 2000. He put a minority on the Presidential ticket. (Bush should have put Colin Powell or Condoleezza Rice as his choice, but instead he was manipulated by his VP search committee head Dick Cheney who chose himself.)
McCain is making a broad reach sweep for the millions of female voters who feel disenfranchised by Hillary being left off the Democratic ticket.
I have got to hand it you, Mister McCain. Hand well played.
McCain's Brilliant Move:
Sarah Palin Edition
