What a roguishly maverick character, eh?
The race for the White House is about McCain’s experience and Obama’s charisma and celebrity, or at least it was until Sarah Palin was put on the ticket. By far the largest legitimate chink in Obama’s armor was his lack of experience. McCain has found a way to make sure that this is not a campaign issue. Obama can not attack McCain on his lack of celebrity without exposing the superficiality of his own campaign but McCain could use Obama’s inexperience against him, could that is until he tapped Palin to be his running mate.
Palin’s experience amounts to being governor of Alaska for a whopping 20 months. Being governor of any state is a tough job but does that qualify you to be president? Isn’t that like being the mayor of Denver with more parkland? That’s good resume’ fluff if you want to be vice president of the Red Cross but we’re talking about being VP of the United States, one heartbeat from the White House!
I think Sarah Palin was chosen because McCain hopes she will be able to get people excited, that she will be a celebrity. So, both candidates tried to patch up their armor with their VP picks. Its just that Biden’s experience helps Obama’s campaign and Palin’s inexperience helps Obama’s campaign. I do give McCain some credit though, if all he wanted was a conservative Obama then he could have put Joel Osteen on the ticket.