Published 8/30/2008
by FOXNews.com
at FOXNews.com
By Chad Pergram
John McCain’s decision to tap Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate reminds me of one of the greatest leads in the annals of sports journalism.
In 1956, New York Yankees pitcher Don Larsen improbably blanked the Brooklyn Dodgers with the only perfect game in World Series history. And the legendary Shirley Povich of The Washington Post documented the occasion with this line:
“The million-to-one shot came in. Hell froze over. A month of Sundays hit the calendar.”
That’s what happened with Sarah Palin’s stunner Friday.
It’s not that long ago that Palin was mayor of a town with 7,500 residents. In an outpost of the American political scene. And how many Americans even know what the Iditarod is?
But most fascinating could be the political landscape from which she emerged.
In the past couple of years, the darkest corruption clouds imaginable swirled across Denali. You think politics in Chicago or Louisiana is rugged? You ...
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