I agree with the "Hillary voter factor"...McLame had two choices, if'n he was going to pick a woman.

Pick Hutchison, and move himself towards the center, and try to nab Hillary voters. I thought that was what he was going to do, because I think that would have added more votes in the long run. Remember, every Hillary vote that is added to his tally counts double...those are voters who should be voting for Obama.

Pick Palin, and he has actually moved himself even farther to the right...she's female, but she's far from being a feminist. She comes from a commercial fishing family, with ties to Big Oil and Big Energy, and is against a woman's right to choose. Not exactly a stunning resume to steal Hillary's followers...which she won't, not by a long length.

I think this was McSame's pandering to the "even farther right than himself" crowd, many of which disdain his "maverick" stances, even though they are more ephemeral than smoke...he's about as maverick as a Ford Maverick.

This might be the Dems wet dream...because McSame's VP choice was going to be instrumental for stealing Hillary supporters, and like Hank, I don't think this helped them much. Sure, there are some Hillary supporters who would vote for anyone, so long as that anyone has a vagina, so they'll get them...but that ain't very many.

Instead, this will be the final push to send the vast majority of Hillary supporters over to Obama, if they weren't there already.

Her legal problems won't go away too easily, but like I said earlier, this might actually take some heat off of her from the investigators...the investigators are Alaskan, too, and they'd love to have an Alaskan in the White House.

I'd give it a "C" for average...the goods balance out the bads just about perfectly...if he had chosen Hutchison, I'd have given the choice a B+.

Fish on...

Todd