Sarah Palin Is Wrong on Replacing Joe Biden with Hillary Clinton (She has 'em all lathered up!)

Picking Biden was a mistake in the first place, and would have been a mistake whoever McCain picked for his running mate. Sarah just made it a lot more painfully obvious. But once picked, they weren’t going to drop him during the last campaign, they weren’t going to drop him once he got elected, and they’re not going to do it now. Not unless he has an incapacitating stroke or something. And even then, they might do a “Weekend At Bernie’s” campaign with him. Stroke-muted Joe might actually be a safer bet for them than healthy Joe. But short of that, it’s not happening. It was a dead idea from the beginning. Palin and Mav just helped made it double-dog dead or maybe triple-dog dead. I’m surprised the administration bothered to make any answer other than laugh. I figured they were smarter than that.

And even if they did swap out Joe for Hillary (again, they’re not, but just for Joe’s brains and giggles, if they did) they’d just be trading one set of problems for another. Actually, two sets, hers and Bill’s. And on her own merits, rather than on the basis of being the candidate’s/Attorney General’s/Governor’s/President’s wife, she’s really not all that. She’s not as astute, politically or otherwise, as her formerly adoring press would have indicated. She’s not that compelling of a stump speaker. She’s not all that endearing a retail politician (that’s Bubba, not her). She’s not even all that physically attractive (oh, did I go there? yeah, I did). Other than that, she’s a great VP pick. Long story short, that swap either has no effect on the Obama campaign, or hurts it even more than Joe did.

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