When the breaking news splashed across plasma screens around the country - for most Americans tuning in - the media jolt was startling.
Uh-huh!
On the heels of an announcement by the balmy ex-fighter pilot - that Sarah Palin was plucked up from relative obscurity to be his toasty second-in-command - voters were left scratching their heads.
Was this a clever ploy by McCain to gender ingest his political landscape?
Or - was it just a whimsical "throw of the dice" - calculated to blast wide-open a glass ceiling fraught with a million cracks by virtue of Hillary Clinton's failed bid for the Vice Presidency?
Meanwhile - a handful of frenzied analysts in the mainstream media - theorize that McCain's surprise "turn-of-the-screw" is a bold-faced effort to snatch up votes that are most surely twisting in-the-wind at the behest of disenchanted suburban housewives.
Think twice, buster.
As one Congresswoman quipped this morning,
"Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton."
In spite of it - pundits are now pouring over her qualifications like flies on sh** - what little there is of 'em.
In fact - one news anchor laughingly noted - she resorted to perusing Wikipedia to get a take on the former Ice Queen who holds sway as Governor of Alaska.
For those who accuse that McCain is in thick with the oil big-wigs - Palin taking a shot at the VP ticket - amounts to a stake in their heart.
Palin's husband, after all, holds a top-level position at BP Oil.
Notwithstanding, Ms. Palin has been stridently arguing to anyone within earshot - that drilling for oil in Alaska is not only conceivable - but falls way short of threatening wild-life environmentalists and animal activists are concerned about.
In sum, it appears McCain chose the "hockey mom" because of her energy expertise!
The out-of-the-blue upstart sure is lacking in the ethics department, though.
No cigar there, for sure.
For those of you not up-to-speed, the Gov is under investigation for unethical conduct which doesn't bode well for McCain or the Republican party out of the starting gate from the get-go.
Unless - their corrupt behind-the-scenes cronies are prepared to do her bidding with the power-elite behind the probe - of course.
In passing, it is duly noted that Palin is 44.
A double-barreled number, eh?
Which reminds me - she's pro-gun - and is a card-carrying member of the NRA.
In leisure hours, she thrills to the scent of blood and pines for the heart-pounding excitement of the hunt.
Stalking and mercilessly slaughtering the Lord's creatures is big in her neck-of-the-woods, I guess.
Given time - she'll be raping the land - left right and center.
On a slow-news day, Palin has managed to stride into the landscape and offer up a lot of juicy fodder to chew on, when hearts and minds would otherwise be idle.
There is a God, Obama!
You snooze, you lose...
