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Choices That Are Made
Matthew Yglesias — ... taxes; she’s more supportive of gay rights than the current GOP orthodoxy (while stopping short of backing same-sex marriage); she has a more conservationist record than your typical GOP pol, but supports drilling in ANWR; she’s an evangelical but she isn’t a southern evangelical … and if McCain loses, she can run at the top of a Palin-Jindal ticket in 2012! He likes the politics, nothing to say about the substance. Or here’s Yuval Levin: The positives, though, are exceptionally great. She will connect ...

A Bold Pick
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Yuval Levin acknowledges Palin's drawbacks, but is ultimately pleased: The biggest drawback for me is that she has no more foreign policy experience than Obama and fairly little (though, as Mark points out, more than Obama, Biden, and McCain combined) executive experience. I don't quite agree that foreign policy experience doesn't matter, and I think concern about that has had a lot to do with the success of the "he's not ready" charge against Obama--it's not only because he has so little political and governing experience in general, but also ...

More on Sarah Palin
Sister Toldjah — ...  some of the positives Palin brings to the GOP ticket and to the presidential campaign on the whole.   I linked up earlier to Ed Morrissey’s pro argument. NRO’s The Corner has had a lively discussion today about Palin, and some of the pro arguments can be found here, here, and here.  Con arguments can be found here, here, and here (that last one is a pro and con).  Mark Halperin has ...