“the media drive their wedges into the conservative base.’
There is no bigger driver of wedges into the Conservative base than McCain. He revels in it. I lament it. People attacking me as no Conservative because when the choice was McCain vs Romney I choose Romney. Now to disagree is one think but some of the a$$hats around here got personal without any discourse.
That's all well and good but has nothing to do with the anti-Palin wedge that the media is trying to create (just now I see the headline that she was for the Bridge before she was against it). There are just two relevant facts, (1) no pick is perfect, (2) Palin is a very conservative pick. Her appeal as a maverick and a woman are just McCain throwing a hail mary. But with the pick McCain also makes up for some of what he has done against conservatives.