Karl Rove must be pulling out his last remaining hair follicle this morning, as McCain picks Sarah Palin as his running mate for the GOP ticket.
44 year-old television celebrity Palin was the Mayor of a town of 7,500 people in Alaska a year ago.
If McCain were to win, she'd be one heart-beat behind a multi-melanoma-suffering older gentleman from being our Commander in Chief.
There goes the GOP's main "Obama/Biden have insufficient experience' argument..
Palin has also been under an intense state probe about corruption since taking over as Alaska's Governor a year ago ("McCain ticket hits Alaska iceberg"). Pressure from her staff to fire a state patrolman who is her sister's former husband ... led the Chief of Police to resign in disgust.
The investigation has been all the Alaska political news the last few months ... and it's not the only issue about her experience;
Palin has another problem. After Alaska's public-safety commissioner Walt Monegan was fired (Monegan has said he felt pressure to dropkick the trooper) Palin replaced him with the former police chief of the city of Kenai. But he quit after it became known that he received a reprimand after sexual harassment allegations were filed against him in his former post.
At the very least, that incident raises some questions about Palin as a chief executive .
The celebrity argument was also just crushed -- former beauty-queen Palin will now be the GOP's Paris Hilton.
Romney's chief strategist said last night on CNN after the phenomenal success of the DNC in Denver that it's probably a really good year to get the call that your candidate was NOT chosen to be GOP VP.
I'm sure he's feeling even more that way this morning.
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