Kevin Drum wrote Sarah Palin Explodes. "It's now plainly obvious that neither McCain himself nor anyone on the McCain team knew the first thing about Palin before they put her on the ticket. Among other things, they're refusing to say precisely how McCain found out about Bristol's pregnancy; the Washington Post has discovered that the supposedly pork-fighting Palin was actually a grand champion at hoovering up federal pork when she was mayor of Wasilla; and Edge of the American West has dug up a bunch of local dirt on Palin's, um, rather personal management style as mayor. Greg Sargent rounds up the whole thing here. As he says, it's a pretty remarkable performance for a mere few hours on a holiday weekend."
Do see the list that Greg Sargent put together.
So now the story is about how well the McCain team vetted her. McClatchy found no evidence of a vetting process. Josh Marshall writes how "the McCain camp had just sent a team of GOP lawyers up to Alaska to do what I guess you'd call a post-vetting of Sarah Palin". He ends with "the real issue here is what this slapdash decision says about [McCain's] judgment."
dday writes that Yes, Sarah Palin Was Vetted, "She was vetted by the only group that matters - the super-secretive Council for National Policy." She ends with:
"Oh, she was vetted all right. By the religious right. The question is whether or not Palin's extreme, radical philosophy is distasteful to the wide swath of Americans. In a sane world, the support for creationism and questioning of man-made global warming and rejection of birth control would indeed be disqualifying. What this also means is that she was totally forced on John McCain, which must call into question his erratic, shoddy judgment, and his ability to carry out anything but the most extreme agenda."
So who does McCain get to prep Palin for her wednesday speech? South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew, the GOP Operative Who Helped Smear Him in South Carolina in 2000. What a sell-out.
Update: Oh yeah, that vetting was tough, no one called the Wasilla City Clerk.
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I think one of the most entertaining bits of info is the fact that she was a staunch Ted Stevens supporter, and a link to video of a Ted Stevens commercial disappeared from her site at about the same time that she was tapped as McCain's VP pick.
I'm afraid the pregnant daughter thing might actually get some of the "she's like us!" vote from the redneck republicans whose daughters are knocked up (or whose sons knocked up Betty Jo down the road.) *I* see it as a hypocritical issue, but if the Christian conservatives were rational Bush wouldn't have been president for the last 8 years, so it's something to worry about.
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