There's never a vet when you need one.

I've been thinking a little more about the Palin pick, and how the McCain organization has seemingly failed to properly vet the Republican nominee for VP. It seems to me that if Dobson, Limbaugh and co. were going to impose a running mate on McCain, then they themselves should at least have properly pre-vetted that person.

I will be surprised, though, if Sarah Palin gets dropped: unlike George W Bush, who simply co-opted their line, she's the real deal, if a little low-calorie, so to speak. Belonging to the Alaskan Independence Party in the 90's, and the association with her pastors, far from being disqualifying, actually reinforce her bona fides with the Christianist/Dominionist wing of the Republican Party

This is post-invasion Iraq all over again, in the sense that these people care only about a very small set of criteria (the usual positions on abortion, etc..), and don't even care that the people they're placing in positions of responsibility should at least be moderately qualified for the job, if not actually good at their jobs. The problem with that attitude is that these people only know 2 ways to solve a problem: a prayer and a hammer (the more heavy handed, the better). We're seeing that in St Paul, this week, with the way the authorities are dealing with the protesters. It doesn't bode well.

I have have just one request. Guys, if you're going to be fascist tyrants, could you at least be competent fascist tyrants, and put a little elan into the job? What you're doing right now, well it's just amateurish and embarrassing, and not worthy of a 3rd world banana republic. Truly.