I love the continuing battle over Sarah Palin's readiness to join John McCain's ticket in 2008. Nothing will change the minds of people who like her, and nothing will change the minds of people who dislike her.
But I did read the latest. And got all the way to the end. If Palin was so unprepared to be vice president, why did McCain and his campaign select her? Because they were unprepared.
Part of the reason the campaign struggled to deal with Palin was that they were still seriously considering another VP pick--Joe Lieberman--until just days before the convention.
"Roughly up to a week before the convention, we were still talking very seriously about Senator Lieberman," Schmidt says. "But Once word leaked out that he was under serious consideration, the blowback was ferocious."
A campaign focused on a possible bad decision tries to blame Sarah Palin for being Sarah Palin. It's time to move on.
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I, for one, am overjoyed at the outburst of relative preparedness we've seen from the winners, FML*.
*Flowers Mounding the Land, or however you want to work the backronym. ;)
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