How John McCain Can Get His Bearings Straight
June 30, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Best case we’ve heard yet for John McCain to pick Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his running-mate. From “Fox News Sunday”:
BILL KRISTOL: You have to go for the gold here with Sarah Palin. She’s great. She’s a reform governor.
JUAN WILLIAMS: Mother of five, I believe.
KRISTOL: Mother of five. Ethics, incredible record of cleaning up — she took on her own corrupt Republican Party in the state, cut spending.
CHRIS WALLACE: Of course, they’d have a problem on ANWR, since she’s for drilling in ANWR and he’s against it.
KRISTOL: And she could persuade McCain to take the last step to the sensible position on energy and gas, which is to be for drilling…
WALLACE: Can we please get off Sarah Palin?
KRISTOL: … for drilling in ANWR.
UPDATE: What would a McCain-Palin ticket look like? Perhaps this.
Ted said,
June 30, 2008 @ 2:44 pm
Yep, and here’s the theme song when Palin appears for Veep at the Republican National Convention later this summer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWNtLt-pJik
ted said,
July 1, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
It appears that it’s all down to Alaska Gov Sarah Palin or Mitt Romney, and team Romney fears Palin now has the best shot, so Romney camp is mounting a blogosphere-wide assault via Politico.
The tip-off that Politico is just a “promote Romney” piece is that it mentions EVERY NAME in the next two tiers of Veep prospects EXCEPT SARAH PALIN!!! — even names far more unlikely than Palin (since Romney camp knows Palin is the ONLY ONE who tops — I’ll say tops by far — Romney as McCain’s best pick).
Bottom line, Romney and Politico fear Palin most — as do the Dems and the MSM. (By the way, the Dems and MSM do not fear Romney the most — which says a lot.)
AOL, a main on-line pro-Obama/pro-Dem player, is now carrying the Politico piece promoting Romney buzz.
Clearly AOL wants McCain and the GOP to lose the general elction — hence they gladly promote Romney (no mention of Palin).
Also, CNN had Romney — kind of out of the blue — attacking Obama. Again, CNN, wanting McCain and the GOP to lose, gladly promotes Romney (to attempt to avert the Palin threat).
All the media frenzy which will surround the remarkable Palin “story” — essentially free to McCain — will be worth millions and millions of dollars of coverage and PR (more money than Romney would provide anyway).