[Dilbert56]

Nomination accomplished at least five things:

1. Shored up McCain's support with conservatives.
2. Made a frontal assault on the Hillary supporters. The MSM are saying Hillary voters won't go to Palin because she's pro-life. What the MSM assumes is that all women are pro-abortion and they're not. If 10% of Hillary supporters defect Obama is toast.
3. Allows McCain/Palin to run as anti-Washington and anti-corruption. He now has a gun-slinger with credibility on tackling corruption. Biden? Son's a lobbyist.
4. Made Obama's campaign raise the issue of experience. They waited only minutes before attacking her lack of experience. Sarah Palin can really go after the Hillary voters by pointing out "experience" was cast as a negative for Hillary. She can say it's a Catch-22. If you're a woman and you have experience, it doesn't count. If you don't have it, it does.
5. Knocked Obama's convention off the front page less than 24 hours later. The conversations in the media are now all about Sarah Palin.

As McCain said to Obama Thursday night: "Well done."

[Brett66]

I’m starting to see McCain as that crafty old white-haired dude, that’s running strategic and tactical circles around the Obaminites.

They don’t even know what’s hitting them as they sink in the polls.