John McCain to Choose the fmr Mayor of Wasilla? Really?

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 5:46 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 05:46

Rumors about John McCain's running mate are flying high right now. It's quite apparent that two things have really put John McCain in a very difficult position:

his non-answer on the number of houses he and Cindy own

Obama selecting Joe Biden as his running mate

Number 1 ruled out Romney (and Whitman and Fiorina, if they were ever seriously considered).

Number 2 ruled out Pawlenty and most everyone else in the GOP. Most of them would be eaten alive by Joe Biden in a debate (thanks to Biden's great mom, as we learned this week).

So, will McCain really go for the unconventional pick and choose a person who two years ago was the mayor of a town of 8,471?

A lot of signs right now are at least pointing in the direction of Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and former mayor of Wasilla.

Looking at her biography, she'd generally be a great pick. She went up against the corrupt Stevens-Murkowski-Young machine and beat incumbent Gov. Murkowski in a primary in 2006. She's got a high approval rating in Alaska and she comes across great on TV (and, no, I'm not talking about looks here). She's also got an interesting personal story, five kids - the oldest serving in Iraq right now, and the youngest born a couple of months ago with down syndrome.

Sure, there have been reports in her trying to get her former brother-in-law fired but I think that's a minor issue, really.

The big issue is this:

Sarah Palin is inexperienced.

Compared to Palin, Barack Obama is a seasoned and experienced politician. Palin was mayor of the small town of Wasilla just two years ago. Her main qualification is running one of the smallest states (by population) for one and a half years. If it's really McCain/Palin, then McCain's campaign better not utter "inexperienced" again. Cause he'd have a former small town mayor just a heartbeat away from the presidency.

McCain/Palin would take away one the McCain campaign's biggest arguments for McCain: experience.

Is he really that desperate?

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