Huzzah For Vice Presidents
So McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as his running mate which on the surface looks like a solid choice. On the record she seems to be a person who acts according to her principles, which McCain has of late not done, and can help persuade him to not go into a binge of tax cutting with the mistaken idea that as taxes go to zero economic growth and federal revenues go to infinity. Maybe some of that executive experience can also convince him that he’s not going to balance the federal budget on his cloudy spending cuts. Maybe she can convince him that the single most important national security issue we face in the next twenty years is the economy - and that nobody’s going to listen to him rattle his saber if the American economy can’t back up the talk.
In any case, it looks like McCain is positioning all of his hopes on “doing better than” in the debates. I am filled with utter dread at the thought of him pulling “to quote a great American president, I won’t hold my opponent’s youth and inexperience against him” out when Obama makes a procedural mistake.