It appears John McCain has picked Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his vice president. The Democrats and sympathetic pundits will use her age, 44, she's even younger than Barack, as an opportunity to throw back at the McCain campaign the experience issue. It won't stick. Most Americans will accept if the presidential candidate is qualified, the veep, so long as he or she is capable (which Palin is), need not have as lengthy a résumé as the president.
Her being a woman is a big asset. As a Republican conservative, the feminists, using a variant of the charge lobbed at black conservatives, will shriek she is not "woman" enough, or some such, but again, it will not stick. The Democrats and the media are simply clueless how little most Americans care about and for feminism. Those who examine feminist complaints about Palin will quickly divine the hypocrisy behind them.
Romney, the favorite, would have been a dud. Picking Palin was a smart move by McCain and let's face it, it also doesn't hurt she's a babe.
UPDATE: Affirmation Palin is a home run for McCain is this gracious response from the Obama campaign: “Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency.” Nice work, guys: in one sentence you belittle small towns, bring up the age issue and remind voters once again the inexperience of Barack Obama, the one who wants to be president.
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