John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for his VP certainly meets the basic criteria outlined by yours-truly as far back as February; i.e., she’s a solid conservative. For that reason alone, I think, he chose well. The rest is gravy. It’s mind-boggling that the Obama people are criticizing her for lack of experience. As a successful mayor and governor in Alaska, she has real experience as an executive, getting real things done. By contrast, Barack Obama (who is running for president, not vice-president) has how much executive experience? Let me see; that’s right: zero. There’s precious little evidence he can give people orders and get anything real accomplished. (He couldn’t even tell the Clintons that they’d lost.) It’s beyond absurd for Obama to maintain that Palin is less qualified than he to be president, when she, after all, will at least have some kind of opportunity for on-the-job training as VP. Is she less qualified than him simply because she’s a mom from Alaska, instead of being some high-falutin’ elitist community organizer type from Chicago? It’s outrageous.

We shall see how Palin shakes out, but at the very least McCain has picked the right kind of person ideologically speaking (which was crucial for the base). Beyond that it is at least quite possible that he has hit another home run. It just seems a little too early to say for sure on the day she was selected.

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Obama’s acceptance speech last night didn’t entirely keep me awake, what with his laundry list of policy goals. Nevertheless, it was probably the right speech for him to give, and he’ll get some kind of bounce from his performance. It struck me, listening to his standard Democratic party lines, that just about any Democrat could make that kind of speech. It raised the question, then, of “why him?” Why is it someone up there who has served less than four years in the U.S. senate and achieved very little before that?

Then I started thinking, “what if?” Imagine if the Republican nominee were a guy elected to the senate in 2006 2004, who had been merely a lowly state senator previous to that. No great accomplishments to his name — just a couple of books about himself. Imagine, however, that this guy was a great speaker, and had been rallying huge crowds of conservatives and evangelicals and such like with mesmerizing speeches. His oratorical ability by itself was such that he beat out McCain, Romney, Giuliani and everyone else — people with many decades more real experience than himself. So he gets the nomination, and he accepts it in front of a crowd of 75,000 cheering, adoring conservative Christian-types in an outdoor stadium at night.

What would Democrats and all of those on the left be saying about such a guy right now?

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