[beckysueb]

He started back in February.

[kosta50]

He started back in February

Actally, that seems to be false. It look more like there was no vetting whatsoever:

"A Republican with ties to John McCain's campaign says the team assigned to vet McCain's running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, had not arrived there until the day before McCain announced his vice-presidential choice." [New York Times]

The same source states later on (my emphasis):

"[McCain] had his first face-to-face interview with her on Thursday and offered her the job moments later. "

Apparently, McCain's campaign lied when it said "on Monday that Ms. Palin was 'thoroughly vetted,' a process that would have included a review of all financial and legal records as well as a criminal background check." [same source for all quotes]

Now it turns out that Ms. Palin was

"a member for two years in the 1990s of the Alaska Independence Party, which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede."

She belonged to a separatist (i.e. Anti-American!) political party in the 1990s! Do I want her to be my vice-president and a even a president (by default)? Hell no!

It has now been days after she has been picked for the Republican VP spot that McCain had a

"team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin’s background"!

Why would that be necessary if sh had been "thoroughly vetted" to begin with?

How "throughly" was she vetted?

"The current mayor of Wasilla, Dianne M. Keller, said she had not heard of any efforts to look into Ms. Palin’s background. And Randy Ruedrich, the state Republican Party chairman, said he knew nothing of any vetting that had been conducted.

State Senator Hollis French, a Democrat who is directing the ethics investigation, said that no one asked him about the allegations. “I heard not a word, not a single contact,” he said.

Mr. French, a former prosecutor, said that he was knowledgeable about background checks and that, he, too, was surprised that the campaign had not reached out to state legislative leaders."

Not very thoroughly by any standards it seems.

So, where do you get your information from? Or did you just make that up about February?