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Here are my Palin posts, before McCain's introduction of her as his running mate on August 29th:

The bold parts are the ones where I'm particularly prescient, I think . . .

Tuesday, August 19:
Palin is, I think, my preference for McCain’s VP.

Whitman would be a bit more of a “hail mary” (forgive the confused but somehow apt analogy) that McCain might have needed if he was already down 5-10 points. But he’s not—he’s even, possibly even a bit ahead of Obama right now.

Palin keeps what’s left of his conservative base intact, but still gives all those PUMA Hillary supporters an affirmative-action reason to look at punching the R chad in November.

So, Palin for me.



Saturday, August 23:
I’m still rooting for Palin . . . Romney isn’t a game-changing choice, in my opinion. Palin really upsets the dynamics of the campaign, I think.

For those who say Palin doesn’t have the experience—I think she’s got more experience than Obama for the job. She’s actually RUN a government, unlike him. Palin on McCain’s ticket just further highlights how little real experience Obama has.

Plus, the vision of ol’ Grins-and-Lies Biden getting nasty and snippy and condescending with Palin at the VP debate would be worth it. And you KNOW in your heart that he wouldn’t be able to avoid doing it, either.

Later on Saturday, Aug. 23:
I think of the relative quality of the R VP candidates vs. the crew that Obama had to choose from, and remark that McCain is in the enviable position of choosing which parts of his campaign to enhance, while Obama had to choose which of his weaknesses he had to shore up. He picked foreign policy (with good reason). Now, judging from the guffaws from the rightie-blogs and the moaning from the leftie-blogs, it’s apparent that Biden really doesn’t give Obama very much.

Personally, I favor the bump and buzz that I think McCain would get from Palin, but Romney, Pawlenty, or some of the other front-runners have definite electoral strengths, too. I just see Palin as a game-changing, strategic pick (take a few percent of the most pissed-off PUMAs and a few more of the soccer/security moms), while the others would be more typical tactical Electoral College picks.

The one highly amusing thing Palin does is highlight just exactly how inexperienced Obama is—I mean, even Palin, with her rather short resume, has more meaningful governmental executive experience than Obama and Biden combined do.

But I’ll be happy with any of a number of potential R VP’s. It’s just that Palin’s potential to drive the D’s into an absolute pretzel of hypocritical contortions pleases me greatly.

They oughta pay me for this . . . assuming of course that I wanted gainful employment!