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Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:00 AM

McCain's big running-mate rollout

Romney and Giuliani helped supply Wednesday night's "paranoid" conservative politics, while Sarah Palin showed she's no Dick Cheney.

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  • Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:18 AM

    She sure as hell

    isn't getting the community organizer vote.

    I think people need to repeat the fact that at around 700,000 people, the population of Alaska would rank below the top 70 metropolitan areas in the US, including the Albuquerque and Baton Rouge areas. (I only mention these two cities because I've lived in them, and in my experience their mayors were certainly not VP material.) If executive experience is the key issue, then there are literally hundreds of people out there of both sexes and all races that are more qualified than her.

    And is anyone else here making the mistake of calling her home town Wasabe? I'm doing that a lot for some reason. I'll go back to eating my arugula...

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