Someone whack me on the side of the head. Please. I don't get it. Does this sound like a bad movie script. A elderly presidential nominee, for reasons known only to himself, dissatisfied with his choices, almost on a whim picks an obscure young politician few have heard of from an isolated state to be his vice presidential pick. She has held statewide office for just less than two years, and before that was mayor of a very village. In fact she just recently got her first passport.
In the next scene, we see the obsequious political operatives falling all over themselves to explain 'her narrative' and the major press sopping up details about how the new candidate likes to hunt moose and totes a gun. They also hint about how the young mother is five is a major babe, er make that former beauty queen.
Now we see the bad old liberal media raising questions about how she was picked, spreading scurrilous rumors about her pregnant teenage daughter and wanting to know about what she really thinks about 'the bridge to nowhere.' Could Mary-Louise Parker be picked to play the part? Who would play her husband, John Cusack?
Sarah Pallin may be a wonderful person and would make a perfect neighbor. But vice president? Everyone thought they wanted a veep very different than Dick Cheney, but this is ridiculous.