I totally agree. Palin's nomination risks costing Obama the election, which the Dems feel would be a disaster. Got it.
You know when the various species of liberalis domesiticus start choir-howling in agony, you hit them where it hurts. This is a strategic blow to the Democratic party, and the fault lines from it may shatter the feminist side of the coalition. They can't hemorrhage women voters for long before their electoral chances completely bleed to death.
Read this next line and weep, Democrats: Every woman in your party will silently judge you for the lines of attack you use on Palin. If you go after her like you went after Hillary, those women will desert you for the Republicans.
Heh.
The other thing is that Free Republic is energized and motivated like I haven't seen it in months. Maybe years. McCain rolled the dice big time, and early indications are that he won big.
McCain did not roll the dice. It's chess. His ego kept Obama from taking Hillary and with no foreign policy experience Obama needed Biden. That was his own pitfall. With Biden he left a mile wide gap up the center, and McCain was smart enough to go for it. The choice of a woman at that point was so obvious even I am smart enough to see it. Quick search of senators and governors turns up a pretty short list, and it wasn't hard to pare it down to Palin.
But 90% of life is being smart enough to make the right moves when they stare you in the face. The other 10% is nowing what success would look like if you could get it. Palin meets that one too, and Biden didn't. So McCain might be smarter and better prepared for the big legues than everyone thinks he is.