Here's a scenario for you. You have a very serious heart ailment and require immediate surgery. You have chosen one of the best surgeons in town because he has a reputation for getting the job done.
The doctor enters the operating room accompanied by another person. He introduces his companion as Dr. Sarah Palin, a recent graduate of medical school who has always wanted to be a heart surgeon. Before they put you under, he just wants you to know that should anything happen to him during your operation, this person will be there to take over.
There....now isn't that reassuring? What? No?
Well, that's what Dr. McCain just told you. and unfortunately for you, Dr. McCain isn't looking so healthy these days. Hey, good luck.
McCain's VP pick is utterly amazing on so many levels. Not only is this choice silly, the players are as well. The Palin selection makes every decision that John McCain makes from here until he retires from public life suspect. Here is a man with health so bad that he will not release his medical records to the public, and has only allowed a couple of journalists to look them over privately. If ever there's a red flag, this would be it. Apparently, John is under the impression that he will live forever and that this lady will never need to demonstrate whether she is up to the job or not.
Then there is the matter of Sarah Palin herself. She must be supremely confident in her own ability to even consider accepting the nomination. After all, if you or I were asked to serve as vice-president, I doubt that we'd accept. I, for one, would need years to learn the things I need to know just about foreign policy. Perhaps Sarah is counting on her new VP to help her learn on the job That would be....Nancy Pelosi. Yes, that should work well. Obama has Biden to advise him if he has questions on a world scale that need answering, and, if somehting were to happen to Obama, you would be left in the hands of Joe Biden. Not exactly the samething, is it?
If John McCain chose her to mollify the far-right wing of his party and get them out there voting, it will probably work. Well, it will probably work if the abortion issue, race and gun-rights trump job creation and their childrens' futures. But the cynicism and disdain this decision shows should make everyone, left and right, very nervous about this man.
As my Dad used to say, "We shall see what we shall see."
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