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WILMINGTON, Del., Aug. 29 — 

Oh, John, you sly candidate, you. Pick a woman running mate with little experience to capture the pissed off Hillary supporters. This is a huge gamble, and I doubt it’ll do much to stop Obama’s momentum.

She’s a Washington outsider and kinda homily—pure GOP eye-candy. Her husband isn’t just a commercial fisherman, he’s a consultant for BP on Alaska’s North Slope. Some other interesting thoughts…

-- Sarah Palin, the presumptive Republican vice presidential candidate, has been in the governor’s office less than two years. So I guess the argument that Barack Obama has little experience doesn’t really matter.

-- Palin’s son is heading to Iraq, something McCain’s son did. John is quite reluctant to talk about it, Sarah isn’t. But what does that do? Little—Biden’s son, Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden is poised to ship off with the Delaware Air National Guard in October.

-- The media was completely off in reporting this pick. Pawlenty, Romney? Nah, most outlets didn’t even have recent file photos of Palin.

-- This breaks the Senate-only circle of candidates.

-- Palin is 28 years younger than McCain. Obama is three years older than Palin and is 18 years younger than Biden.

-- Palin’s previous job? She was an on-air sports reporter for an Anchorage TV station.

-- Wikipedia notes that she’s an NRA member and has smoked marijuana.

-- Is this a problem? On July 11, Palin dismissed Walter Monegan as Commissioner of Public Safety and instead offered him a position as executive director of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, which he subsequently turned down, according to Wikipedia. Monegan alleged shortly after his dismissal that it may have been partly due to his reluctance to fire an state trooper, Mike Wooten, who had been involved in a divorce and child custody battle with Palin’s sister, Molly McCann.

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