1 The Powerline guys really seem to be taking the Palin pick poorly. I think they'd already set their hearts on Pawlenty and are having to readjust. They've had nothing but complaining since Friday.

2 I agree (kinda) with Allah: Yeah, it may be an "affirmative action" pick, but can you really imagine conservatives getting this worked up over Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Carly Fiorina, or Meg Whitman?

3 ^bingo. The buzz is what is proving it's a wise move.

Besides, the Powerline guys and K-LO just need to get over it. And Allah will always be Allah: a defeatist/glass half empty/pessimist. Nothing will change him.

4

As some have said in the thread at Moron Central:  conservatives need a better class of pundit.  The Corner is a fucking disaster -- the elitist assholes over there are really showing their true stripes. How dare the VP pick be someone that hasn't had the priviledge of kissing the NRO staff's ass for years.

This pick has pissed off all the right people, on both sides.  Hopefully it will shake things up enough to continue the real conservative groundswell and sweep aside the old RINO hack elites.

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The Powerline guys were all a-flutter for Pawlenty because he was the hometown boy and, likely, they had a pretty good inside track on the guy so it would have benefitte them.

K-Lo is just a smitten Mitten and will get over it quickly, I think (I hope...at least we won't have to hear about it for at least a few weeks).

And, yeah, what nobody seems to get is that firing up the base is a huge, huge win for McCain: I've now gone out of my way to actually talk the ticket up where before I would just grumble and say I'm taking one for the team.

Needless to say, my BDS-afflicted father isn't taking the news very well which is another upside for the Palin pick (he's already spouting the "inexperienced" talking points and somehow thinks that Obama's years in the Illinois state senate were the ultimate proving grounds for future POUTUS'--all this before he even knows a damn thing about Palin other than she's female and that McCain is just "playing off the Hillary thing to get elected"--good thing the apple does fall far from the tree in at least some cases).

6 I also must add that the post directly above "Charles'" is certainly an interesting take on things...

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Hermit Dave, eggs-frigging-zactly.

I used to like Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol, no more. As for NRO, I only read Jay Nordlinger's Impromptues and occasionally Victor Davis Hanson.

The whole inside the beltway crew, on both sides, are a bunch of iceholes. They're so insulated and coccooned in their world, they have no more idea of how Iowans feel than does your average Guardian writer.

When they were all claiming that a Mitt, "I've been a conservative for about a week" Romney pick would have helped McCain, you knew they were idiots. 

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