McCain's Running Mate

Meanwhile . . .

Sarah who????????????

John McCain actually chose as his running mate Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska? A woman who opposes recognizing polar bears as an endangered species and eats moose meat for dinner?

That's not the worst of it. Palin's government experience is limited to having been mayor of Wasilla, Alaska - a suburb of Anchorage - before serving as governor of a state with a population one-fifth the size of Chicago. She is a rabid reactionary ideologue who opposes abortion rights and apparently has no problems with the permafrost of her state melting because it'll make it easier to drill for more oil. The ticket has no geographical or ideological balance. Her only prerequisites for the vice presidency are being as mean as Hillary Clinton and as doctrinaire as Ann Coulter.

And John McCain is asking us to put this woman a heartbeat away from the most powerful job on the planet? A planet which, Palin believes, isn't being warmed by pollution?

I'm not going to joke about this choice - not because it's no laughing matter, but because the best jokes about Palin have already been made.