Don’t blame Palin

McCain was behind in the polls being trampled consistently by Obama until late August.  He chose Palin which electrified not ‘the base’ as the pundits are now saying but everyone.  It had been a long drawn out campaign everyone was well known and genuinely this woman plucked from obscurity piqued the interest of everyone outside stalwart Democrats.

Her failure to make good on that freshness by revealing too limited a knowledge of international affairs, looking like she lacked credibility to carry the office should McCain pass away in office, embarking on a shopping spree of $150,000 and in the latter days plotting her own career beyond 2008 election.  All of this certainly failed to make good the boost in the polls that she had initially given McCain.  But failing to convert on promise and ‘losing it’ for the Presidential nominee are two very different things.

Palin was McCain’s choice.  All the evidence shows that he had not done enough homework.  But he was always going to have a tough time to differentiate himself from an unpopular President Bush.  But he was always going to have a tough time in the present financial crisis.  One of his least significant problems was that he had a running mate who was a bit too passionate, a bit too wet behind the ears and a bit too provincial for the majority of America to accept.