hmmmm. I think it depends on what the vetting committee finds. I'm sure they're going to size up the legal issues pending before the Alaskan legislature. They might try to convince the legislature to drop the charges.

the other thing people haven't heard abut much is the replacement she chose for Monagan wasn't vetted until after she chose him. He had pending sexual harassment charges. He resigned within 2 weeks and went home with 20 g's. Monagan got zip.

come on NOBODY wants to give me an over/under on this?!?

interesting article on the subject:

Let's assume that Sarah Palin is exactly as smart and disciplined as Barack Obama. But instead of the year and a half of nonstop campaigning he has behind him, and Joe Biden's even longer toughening-up process, she comes into the most intense period of the highest stakes campaign with absolutely zero warmup or preparation. If she has ever addressed an international issue, there's no evidence of it in internet-land.

The smartest person in the world could not prepare quickly enough to know the pitfalls, and to sound confident while doing so, on all the issues she will be forced to address. This is long before she gets to a debate with Biden; it's what the press is going to start out looking for.

So the prediction is: unavoidable gaffes. The challenge for the McCain-Palin campaign is to find some way to defuse them ahead of time, since Socrates, Machiavelli, and Clausewitz reincarnated would themselves make errors in her situation. And the challenge for Democrats is to lead people to think, What if she were in charge?, without being bullies about it.
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/arc....php

i don't think mccain would accept it.

pawlenty would have been a much better choice for him.

www.youtube.com/watch