In just the eight hours or so since Sen. John McCain nominated Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, the vetting has begun by the bigfeet in the national media.
The Washington Monthly points out that Palin was for the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ before she came out against it today in her speech in Dayton.
The Caucus blog at the New York Times unearthed this Palin quote on the vice presidency:
I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does everyday? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that V.P. slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.
Also at the Times, is a story about an Alaska state ethics investigation about whether Palin improperly used her job as governor to mete out retribution against a top law enforcement official who would not fire her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper. Bloomberg and everyone else in the media are turning this story inside out.
The Green Blog, a Boston Globe property, has a good piece on Palin and environmental issues. The takeaway from this and other coverage of her pro-drilling, anti-Endangered Species Act stands: Big Oil would have another friend in the White House.
Howard Fineman, on Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC, when posed with the question of does Palin’s selection take the experience card off the table, Fineman responded that Sarah Palin makes Barack Obama look like John Adams.
The upside of this, because you know the McCain team has done its teamwork, is that every time the wrongly named MSM attacks Palin, the McCain-Palin campaign can now raise some issue about Obama-Biden.
Of course, Obama, or whatever his real name might be, Biden and their campaign, including the OMSM, do not understand this.
Why? Pure hatred drives them. That and the lust for power and the White House.
Look for them to really embarrass themselves and do further damage to His Rockstarshipness.
Let’s be real. McCain would have been better picking Grimace from the McDonald’s ads than Palin. At least people know who GRIMACE is:
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