I enjoy Andrew Sullivan's blog. He's an insightful writer, has interesting opinions, and writes frequent updates. And most of the time, he's very thoughtful and reasoned. On the Palin issue, he's sort of lost his mind. And in his latest post indicates that he's really losing it: "I'm beginning to wonder if McCain will have to withdraw. Or can they switch after the nomination?"
Come on, Andrew! The situation's not that dire. I agree that the Palin pick looks bad right now and is likely to look bad when all is said and done, but it's early and a bad VP pick has rarely been fatal to a candidate. A lot of voters still think very highly of McCain; there's no reason for the Republicans to think about replacing him at the top of the ticket.
This statement is also somewhat ridiculous: "He got the nomination by default." That's not true. The Democratic primary was unusual in that it had two extremely popular candidates with huge followings. The Republicans had a bunch of flawed candidates, but there were certainly candidates who had followings: Romney is loved by the fiscal conservative base; Huckabee by the evangelicals. Actually, these three are a great example of the three separate policy areas I discussed in the last post - the hawk, the fiscal conservative, and the social conservative.
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