John McCain Picks Governor Sarah Palin as His VP

Got it? That's what McCain's VP pick is reminding me of--a woman picked as VP for reasons of political expediency and not much else. And if you're not quite up to speed, McCain picked Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska. A woman. Awwww.

Any Hillary-ites out there want to speak out?

If this is a ruse to get the angry Hillary voters to sway McCain's way, I doubt it will work. Palin is hardly Clinton, and beyond that: you really think women are stupid enough to vote for a candidate based on her gender alone?

Come on, now.

I don't get the feeling that she's really what he respects--but for what he needs now, she'll work.

She's young, she's a woman, and she's fierce.

...And under-experienced. Even more so than Obama. So there goes that argument for both sides. The biggest argument McCain had--Obama's inexperience--most likely just became Obama's greatest argument:

"How can Senator McCain ever criticize my lack of political experience only to then run off to pick a co-candidate with even less experience than I do? What does that say about him and his pick?"

Do you see?

It just seems too politically expedient for McCain--what better way to respond to Obama than with the popular conservative maverick Alaskan governor Sarah Palin?

Honestly, it's like we have Bizzaro Obama in the McCain-Palin ticket. On the Democratic side, we've got history in the making with an African-American nominee and then his old white dude for VP. On the Republican side, we've got old white dude with history in the making with a woman VP.

Obama actually gained much more of my respect by not picking Hillary. It would have looked too much like catering to the masses, like "lookit, a woman AND an African American in the white house! Beat that, McCain!"

It would've looked more dramatic than it should've been. Instead, Obama was his own man and chose someone based on his own merits. Not gender, race, religion or ethnicity. Merits.

I don't know much about Governor Palin. What I have read has been impressive, I'll grant, though she has her own little scandals in the closet. Who doesn't in politics anymore, though? I just don't trust McCain these days. I can't. Something seems off, and this little surprise isn't helping.