The biggest problem with Palin is the hypocritical nature of it all. McCain definitely shot himself in the foot.
I don't disagree with that at all. But, doesn't Biden fall under the same category? Obama wants to end the influence of lobbyists in Washington, yet picks a guy who's son lobbied for a bankruptcy bill that he played an important role in getting passed. And now people are paying the price during this housing mess.
They're going after Palin because 1) she's not Hillary and 2) she's an easy target because she's unknown.
Naw, it's just 2. McCain totally did this to himself, though. He wanted to zig when everyone thought he was going to zag, and went with a "surprise" vp pick. Sure it got a lot of press attention, but he had to know that since she was such an unknown on the national stage that there would be a feeding frenzy to find out who she was and what she'd been up to.
He's totally backed himself into a corner now, too. If he sticks with Palin, it shows that he doesn't have the judgment to be President because he made a shitty decision and was too stubborn to admit it. (sound familiar?) If he boots her, it proves that he doesn't have the judgment to be President because for the most important decision he's had to make so far in the campaign, he totally fucked it up.
Either way, McCain is fucked and Obama is our next President, which is pretty much as it should be. People who don't like governing and on top of that suck at it shouldn't be allowed to do so. Americans can be pretty slow, but they're figuring this out.
One last note- it's absolutely hilarious to watch these GOP flapping heads put their asses on the line defending this pick when it is becoming more and more obvious that Johnny Short Arms done fucked the pooch harder than Michael Vick. The media and lefty flappers need to consistently throw her record into their faces whenever they try and sell that "reformer" bullshit. Someone should also be keeping a database of all the dumb shit elected officials and flappy heads are saying in defense of Mayor Boobies McMooseburger so that it can be used to stab them in the back later on.