My initial reaction to the McCain VP pick was outrage, followed by more outrage, followed by “WTF?” followed by “did he just seal his victory?”

Because I tend to have doomsday reactions to any and all political news, since the last time I attempted to be optimistic (2000) we got Bush.

Anyway, Kevin pointed out that it kind of undercuts the whole argument McCain has been making about Obama’s inexperience.

Additionally, she’s really very conservative, which undercuts his “maverick” act.

Apparently he only met her face to face once before picking her, but that could be rumors. She did say in an interview a few weeks ago that she really doesn’t know what the VP does.

So I don’t know. On the surface this looks like a stunningly stupid move by McCain – since already the media has dug up 50+ things on her. Most of them are little, but if the media decides it doesn’t like her they will fixate on this.

But on the other hand, I can’t help thinking that there’s NO WAY the McCain campaign could be this stupid, and that this is some brilliant, manipulative political move.

I hate her already.