Sully's been inflamed for quite some time now about John McCain, and the "lipstick" impbroglio has enraged him. His entry today, however is notable for his succinct dismissal of McCain:
McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.
Can we PLEASE get some version of this said by every Democrat, every surrogate, and, eventually, nearly every pundit? Because it's true; Palin is a sideshow. Too many of us are paying attention to the wrong thing. It's time to pivot to what Sully is talking about: There's more than enough evidence that Palin has no business being on the ticket, and the fact that she's there is John McCain's fault. No one else's. It's about McCain.
It's about McCain. No one else. Question his decision-making abilities. Question his sincerity. Question his belief in experience. Question his maverickness, for, whatever else you can say about her, Sarah Palin is a conventional politician.
Obama has made the remarks he needed to make about Palin; now I expect he will attack McCain about Palin. It's the obvious course. I often don't agree with Andrew Sullivan, but we're on the same page here. If McCain wants the Presidency so bad that he's willing to gamble away everything he has stood for his entire life, that's the most compelling reason of all to deny him the opportunity.