The hard-core Dems and the news media are in a feeding frenzy about John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential pick. Yeah, I did that too. However, liberal NY Times columnist Bob Hebert has a warning for all of us. Don't be too quick to bash Palin and her typically Alaskan family. It could be a trap.
Don't the Palins seem like a family right out of the off-beat '70s comedy 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman?' (Today there is a news report that Bristol's boyfriend Levi Johnson is headed to St. Paul to appear with the Palin family.) There is a slim possibility that this family may strike a chord with broad centrist electorate. Yeah most liberals and Democratic activist think that goverment should be run like a 'West Wing' episode, but a lot of Americans realize real life is a lot messier.
Yeah, McCain is probably an impulsive lunatic and Palin would scare the hell out of your PTA much less the whole country. But the GOP is uniting and you never know. One would hope the yapping class will stop for a moment and rethink its humanity.