You know Pat is correct. McCain took a big risk in picking Palin, but McCain is the underdog, and he has to take a risk.
I love his choice, and I too hope it pays off in the end.
It looks like a risk but I don’t think there was much risk there at all. McCain had apparently had his people doing background-”vetting” on Sarah Palin for a long time and thoroughly. He knew how she would react to the scheissfall that would immediately occur from the bolsheviks. His risk was more that the MSM would congratulate her and then ignore her. That would have minimized her effectiveness altogether. That wasn’t much of a risk, though. MSM folks and bolshies are pathological.