Of course it is, and you know why it is... for the same reason the Surge Worked. Because the media said so. And I think that this time, I might agree. Now this is just opinion, based on nothing but what I glean from my magic 8 ball, but I think it makes sense. Follow me across on this one...
John McCain has a problem.
No one likes him. He is a very unlikable fellow, except to the media, who have perpetrated his image of a maverick although all signs of maverickitudiness have been drained from his corpse-like body.
And he says stupid things all the time and is basically unchallenged on most of it (his house keys being the only exception).
But the man-of-a-thousand-houses showed a crack in his facade, and the media loves to poke their fingers into cracks in facades, so he was in real danger of being exposed by the media for the fraud he is. What does he do? In typical Rovian politics, he creates a diversion.
Enter the Grand Poobahess of Alaska. In her bright baby seal fur coat, polar bear muff and AK-47 pointed at some poor teenage boy's head, she will distract all attention from McCain. He will, at some point, come in and tell everyone to stop picking on a woman, and the media will fall back into line. And will have forgotten about the crack in his facade.
No one chooses who they vote for based on the vice-presidential candidate, do they? Dan Quayle was elected Vice-President, in spite of the fact that he was a raging buffoon. Palin will hang around long enough to finish creating this diversion, and then be relegated to high-impact campaigning like being the keynote speaker at the National PUMA Convention at the back table of the Denny's in Paducah, Kentucky.
And McCain will have dodged a bullet.
Now this is just a theory, and only a theory -- like evolution and gravity -- and only time will tell. There is only one way to stop it:
TALK. OFTEN. TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW. TELL THEM WHY YOU SUPPORT OBAMA.
READ. GET INFORMED ON EVERY ISSUE.
DEBATE YOUR CO-WORKERS UNTIL THEY GIVE UP.
It's ok if all your friends and family resent you for soapboxing -- as long as you shake loose the Fox News talking points that are lodged in their heads.