[supercat]

100+ posts and nobody's mentioned the most important thing about the pick, when compared with Obama's: the Obama/Biden ticket is a charismatic guy, plus an unexciting pick who won't threaten to outshine him. The McCain/Palin ticket is an unexciting guy with a wonderful pick whom he knows is going to outshine him.

To my mind, that shows a side of McCain's personality I had never before observed. And it suggests that regardless of ideology, he understands the key philosophy that separates liberals from conservatives: liberals believe that if they eliminate all other sources of light, their own illumination--such as it is--will appear greater. Conservatives believe that if they bring in other sources of light, their level of illumination will be made greater.

From that philosophy, conservative ideology will follow.

[Yosemitest]

"Conservatives believe that if they bring in other sources of light,
their level of illumination will be made greater. "

This ain't where McCain is coming from.
McCain knows conservatives can't stand him. So he becomes a coat-tail to Governor Palin.
Governor Palin is the bait on the mouse trap. I hope she can resign in disgust if McCain returns to the Democrat side of the isle.

Conservatives don't really care about their own illumination.
Conservatives care about "what's right".
Conservatives want government "off our backs".

We want others to "think" ... not feel ... and realize that

man-made government is always "a beast" and needs to be controlled.