McCain Picks Gov. Sarah Palin

Here is what I, and I think every half intelegent American thinks about McCains pick of Gov. Sarah Palin. This is was published the New York times by PETER BAKER: August 29, 2008:

"Senator John McCain spent the summer arguing that a 40-something candidate with four years in major office and no significant foreign policy experience was not ready to be president. The selection of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska proved quintessentially McCain daring, hazardous and defiantly off-message. He demonstrated that he would not get boxed in by convention as he sought to put a woman next in line to the presidency for the first time. Yet in making such an unabashed bid for supporters of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, he risked undercutting his central case against Senator Barack Obama.

Here’s what I’m worried about, said Ed Rogers, a Republican lobbyist and former aide to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George Bush. McCain had to protect his reputation as an opponent of status quo Washington. He had to pick someone with the shortest Washington résumé. He did that. He picked someone the right wing is going to be happy about. But it’s a gamble. The question is, Mr. Rogers continued, what does it do to the argument that Obama’s not ready?

The question is particularly acute for Mr. McCain, who turned 72 on Friday and would be the oldest person elected to a first term as president if he won in November. His campaign now needs to convince the public that it can imagine in the Oval Office a candidate who has spent just two years as governor of a state with a quarter of the population of Brooklyn."