Why McCain Picked Palin - White House '08

A Campaign For More Oil
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... It seems that the main theme of the GOP this year will be that more domestic oil will solve all our problems. From Palin's interview with Time: ...

Even More on Palin
Swampland — Here’s a story my colleague Michael Grunwald and I whipped up today. It pulls from an interview two weeks ago I did with Palin for our “Hotshots to Watch” series. You can also listen to the interview, in which she talks about how she hopes to shape the Republican Party, her own rapid ascent and her compelling personal story, and read the transcript ...

Palin is seemingly unaware of McCain’s Iraq plan.
Think Progress — ... In an interview with Time Magazine today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) running mate, suggested that McCain has yet to share his plan for Iraq with her. Palin, who has ...

Time: Unclear What Sarah Paiin's Foreign Policies Are
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Time magazine's Michael Grunwald and Jay Newton-Small note that McCain's pick for vice president Sarah Palin does not have well-developed views on a number of issues: ...

Time: Why is everyone surprised by Palin pick?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... John McCain has spent most of his career in the Senate as a reformer willing to buck his own party for change, and ran on that theme during the primaries. Time’s Michael Grunwald and Jay Newton-Small look at the options for McCain for running mates in staying true to that theme, and wonder why everyone seemed so shocked that he chose Sarah Palin to join his ticket. In retrospect, Palin was the only candidate who filled all of McCain’s needs and didn’t dilute his message: John McCain needs to persuade swing voters that he’s willing to take on the Republican establishment. He ...

Time: ' Why McCain Picked Palin'
Hyscience — ... Michael Grunwald and Jay Newton-Small offer their reasons for believing that "politically, in a year where the Republican brand is so tarnished, Palin will help McCain make the case that he's a different kind of Republican." It's a worthy read in which they offer that Palin was the only candidate who filled all of McCain's needs and didn't dilute his message - not what I expected to see from Time. ...

The myth that Sarah Palin "came out of nowhere"
Stubborn Facts — ... But as Time adequately put the point, "the real surprise about Sarah Palin's selection as his running mate is that it's such a surprise." How is it that the MSM was caught off-guard (assuming that they actually were), when Palin's name has been in circulation among conservatives as a possible veep for McCain for months? Let's take a very short look at the history of what the MSM apparently didn't know. ...

And now for the end of that story
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... Oh, and one last thing. Yeah, I know this post has nothing to do with the election. I apologize for being so self-indulgent—it’s just my life and all. But I’ve gotta say I’ve been getting a wee bit annoyed lately whenever the pro-life folk get to thinking that they have some proprietary relation to Down syndrome. Why, sometimes the MSM buys into this as well, as when Time magazine described Sarah Palin as “pro-life in practice as well as in theory” because ...