Uh-oh, the National Enquirer is digging...
Yep, the National Enquirer is now looking into Gov. Sarah Palin's life. Okay, go ahead and roll your eyes, just remember what they did to Gary Hart and John Edwards.
A lot of people now believe that McCain's vetting of Palin consisted of mostly Google searches, and the National Enquirer smells red meat. It's like throwing chunks of bloody fish into the water and telling the sharks to back off.
Everyone knows that once the tabloid focuses on a target that it deems newsworthy, it keeps digging for anything that will spark brisk checkout stand sales. Sometimes it isn't entirely true, but sometimes it is...
It's okay with me that the NE is trying to uncover the facts about Palin, given the short amount of time we have to get to know her, we should welcome any scrutiny she receives. Not just because I am against Palin (I am voting Democratic) but because the rest of the country needs to know what sort of person Palin is in order to determine whether she would make a good VP.
An Australian newspaper says that Palin is flying in her prospective son-in-law to stand with her daughter as Palin gives her speech tonight. So she's using her daughter and a high school boy as poster children for the "pro-life movement"...I truly feel sorry for those two unfortunate kids.
The Washington Post now confirms that the McCain campaign did, indeed, begin its in-depth vetting of Palin just last Wednesday.
McCain wants us to believe that Palin was properly vetted, but it looks more and more that his picking Palin was a rush job -- only undertaken after Karl Rove convinced him to drop Lieberman. The team investigating her arrived in Alaska on Thurs. and he announced the pick Friday morning.
I'm assuming he didn't want the Democrats to bask in their post-convention glory and build up any momentum with the public and press.
So McCain made an important decisions on the fly...like a student cramming to get his final assignment in on time.
Beware folks...making snap judgements is a dangerous governing style in today's scary world.
