McCain picks Palin

The VP's are now chosen. McCain has picked the Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.
I love this choice. She brings youth to the ticket, which was very
important considering McCain's age. She also brings a fighting spirit
and dedication to ethics in politics as shown by her fight against
corruption within her own party in Alaska. She is also now the only
person on either ticket with executive leadership, be it only one year
as governor. I don't count her two terms as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska
as executive leadership. The town only has 6,700 or so people. Its
not really big enough to compare to a national or state leadership
position.

So we now have a race where one side has
the first Minority candidate and the other side has a woman on the
ticket. This is going to be pretty exciting to watch.

My only question regarding Palin is that
she is younger then Obama and has even less political experience then
he does, which is hard to do. One of McCain's weapons in his arsenal
was that Obama doesn't have the experience needed to lead the country.
But now that his VP has less experience then Obama, does this now mean
that he can't use the experience card anymore? Has he in essence
admitted that political experience is not nearly as important as a
person's decision making ability? If so he may have just shot his
candidacy in the foot. This being the first day of her being brought
on the ticket there is obviously going to be a lot of excitement. But
after the glow has dimmed will she hold up under the microscope and
intense scrutiny of a presidential campaign or will she become a
hindrance to the campaign? And how will the GOP hierarchy view this
pick? After all she has earned her reputation as a maverick by going
after members of her own party.

Let's see how things are going come late September and maybe we'll have a better idea of how good this pick was.