Well, I Was Wrong

It's Biden and Palin, meaning I airballed on my VP predictions. Palin is certainly an interesting choice for McCain. Her big (huge) downside is that is that she will make it more difficult for McCain to credibly attack Obama for his lack of experience. Palin has only held significant office since 2006 and like Obama has no military expertise. McCain now has to be careful about attacking Obama's lack of experience to make sure the attacks don't apply as well or better to Palin (that is, of course, if he had any shame or if the mainstream media would ever do its job of pointing out McCain's hypocrisy).

Another benefit for the Democrats is that every time the above argument gets trotted out, the next sentence (either implied or spoken aloud) is that Palin's inexperience is all the more relevant because McCain is old and he might die in office. And it's always a good thing when something that can put attention on McCain's age without an Obama surragate saying "Hello?!! He'd be 76 when he left office. If he doesn't have the beginning stages of Alzheimer's now, he sure might in four years."

I'm happy with the pick. If I were McCain I would be happy with how the campaign was going and I'd pick Mr. Boring, Pawlenty. Palin has the potential to push the race in McCain's direction, but the past month or so has been excellent for him, so I don't mind at all him doing something bold to shake things up.

And if I can think outside of partisan politics for a minute (yeah, right), let me be one of many to say: we'll either have a female vice president or a black president. That's cool.