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Wow
Riehl World View — Just got back in. Wow. I didn't think he'd pick Palin. She was my first choice in a recent blogger poll. How awesome is that? McCain picks a woman for Veep and Obama/Biden get screwed. The Right's already in love with her and the Left is just sputtering talking points. Talk about a split in the Democrat Party - in order to attack her they have to do everything that will tick-off Hillary supporters. They'll attack Palin, no doubt. But every time they do one more member of an important demographic will slip away. ...

This is the Week!
The Reaction — By Carol Gee Update for The Reaction -- Memeorandum reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is McCain's VP pick: source. The mornings after the Democratic National Convention (DNC) this week, I was often struck speechless. The DNC was so very big, bold and beautiful along the way. Fast paced, and yet somehow at ease, the convention moved towards the last day with ascending excitement. Media coverage of the week was available to cable and satellite TV viewers in pundit-driven or gavel ...

What was McCain thinking? He should have picked Christine Todd-Whitman!
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... When I first read her name on Memeorandum, all I could say was "Who?" followed by a "WTF?!?!" Is an anti-choice, hunting loving semi-nobody from Alaska the best the Republicans could muster to be their stand-in for Hillary Clinton. ...

Gov. Sarah Palin, Vice Presidential Nominee
The Next Right — ... reasonably happy with a VP Sarah Palin.  The Republican Liberty Caucus says this "shows effort to court libertarian vote."  Reason's Hit and Run has a number of relatively positive (or, at least, neutral) posts that seem at least open to the idea of a VP Sarah Palin. David Harsanyi calls her "as libertarian as you can hope for on a major ticket." I don't know if I've ever seen a single story that captured so much of the front page of Memeorandum. I don't think it was an ...

Flop Sweat
Balloon Juice — ... I guess there will be folks among the legions at memeorandum who think this is a daring and bold and mavericky pick (mostly in the media, I would wager), but I just guess I am not one of them. It seems so transparently cynical, so deeply poll-driven and focus-grouped, and so manifestly just a bone to the wingnut pro-life base and the 8 PUMA holdouts, that I really can’t treat this pick seriously. ...