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Daily Kos — The news will soon be about Gustav, but in the meantime, more about the next-door-neighbor who got tapped for VP so McCain could be change-lite... Jonathan Capehart: But this is one mystifying Hail Mary pass by the senator from Arizona... Palin is a darling of the Republican conservative base. That McCain is still trying to get a deeply skeptical base to love him on the eve of his nominating convention spells trouble. Charles Krauthammer: I'm batshit insane, and even I don't get it. ...

Uncharted Territory
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Nate Silver puts it well: Palin is the most manifestly ordinary person ever to be nominated for a major party ticket. In this year of bittergate and Britney-gate and McCain-has-seven-houses-gate, that could conceivably be a virtue; it's certainly less tone-deaf than a selection like Mitt Romney would have been. But Palin isn't merely playing at being ordinary, the way that Bill Clinton (Rhodes Scholar) or George W. Bush (son of a president) or Hillary Clinton (wife of a president) might. She really, really comes across that way -- like someone who ...