From “The Caucus” blog of the NY Times, more than you could ever want to know about reactions to Sarah Palin, the GOP vice-presidential candidate. The clincher for me (not that I needed one):
“I’m so hot and sweaty, because we’ve been jumping around and hugging,” Lori Viars, a social conservative activist in Lebanon, Ohio, who had been a staunch Mike Huckabee supporter and had previously struggled to muster enthusiasm for Mr. McCain, told our colleague Michael Luo. “It is too good to be true,” she added, after attending the announcement rally in Dayton. “This is better than we could have ever expected.”
From a different Times article, a snort-inducing lede:
Senator John McCain spent the summer arguing that a 40-something candidate with four years in statewide office and no significant foreign policy experience was not ready to be president. And then on Friday he picked as his running mate a 40-something candidate with two years in statewide office and no significant foreign policy experience.
Here’s my comment that I put on a friend’s Facebook wall:
She’s a total MILF! I’d drill in her protected wildlife preserve any day!
For my real thoughts on this pandering, cynical choice, you can check out the Locally Grown thread on the DNC and RNC – or just re-read the first clause of this sentence.