Just Gotta Spin It Huh?

I heard a news anchor this morning make the statement that John McCain had announced his Vice Presidential choice to steal some of the media spotlight away from his opponent. Now, I know that she is not anywhere near the only anchor or reporter or other variety of talking head to say something like that, but that doesn't make it true.

The reason that John McCain announced his VP choice yesterday is because the Republican National Convention is next week, which makes this the proper time for him to both make a choice and to announce it. The reason that this "steals" some of the attention from the Democrats is because the dems pushed their own convention back by two weeks so that they wouldn't have to compete with the Olympics for News coverage. In effect, the Democrats handed McCain an opportunity to trump some of "their" news cycle. You can hardly blame McCain for going ahead with it.

Further, a lot of people on the news want to talk about this choice, and tell us if it was a good selection or not. Yeah, that's what I'm looking for, a bunch of liberals to find a way to spin this as a bad thing. The truth of the matter is that there were a lot of Conservative Republicans, like myself, who were not planning to vote for John McCain, for a great many reasons. With the single act of selecting Gov. Sarah Palin, he has changed all that. You can check a large number of Conservative sites all over the Internet, and you will find that all of those (read: us) disenfranchised voters are now absolutely electrified. McCain couldn't have made a better choice.

Martin Sieff of Human Events wrote this: "Sen. John McCain has gone crazy as a fox in picking Sarah Palin, bold as a lioness, for his vice presidential running mate.

The move was brave and brilliant, and it puts McCain right back in contention just when Barack Obama thought he was poised to open up a wide and perhaps insurmountable lead. Instead he and his team will be reeling from the straight right McCain has just landed on his forehead."

They also like to say that she has no foreign policy experience, but they seem to not understand that Alaska is a state that has involvement in foreign affairs, after all, it's not even connected to the Continental United States. Besides that, she has been a Governor for nearly 2 years, and has had some great accomplishments in that time. I will be saying a lot more in the coming days about what a great choice Gov. Palin is, and why.

Again, good job John McCain!