Some Hillary Supporters are Smart

Googling something else, I came across the below from a Hillary supporter, which predicted the Palin pick plus gave her high marker...

Sarah Palin Would Make A Great VP Pick For McCain - June 22, 2008

f McCain is smart, he'll pick Sarah Palin as his VP.

McCain-Palin would be a great ticket.

The article above says insiders will convince McCain he should ignore Palin because she hasn't been in office long, and because Alaska is already guaranteed GOP territory.

That's a colossal mistake.

The Obama ticket can never call anyone inexperienced, because Obama is the least qualified candidate who's ever run for president. It's true.

Palin's been governor of Alaska for 2 years, and already has racked up serious accomplishment that's given her a 90% approval rating (the highest of any governor in the nation).

She's smart, tough, hardworking, and a great mom (5 children, including a son who's joined the military).

The Politico article's also wrong in saying picking Palin won't make Clinton supporters flock to McCain -- it's not as simple as that. Any Clinton supporters who are PUMAs or DeMcCrats or whatever you want to call them, already support McCain on some level, and are just looking for an excuse to jump over and leave the Democrats for good. Any excuse will do for some people. So, having Palin on the ticket -- a woman who is qualified to be president, albeit not THE MOST QUALIFIED PERSON, PERIOD to be president (which is Hillary Clinton) -- is just the excuse some people need to ignore generations of party affiliation and vote Republican for the first time in their lives.

We don't think this would happen with Senator Hutchinson, or Carly Fiorini. There's something different about Governor Palin, though. When you start reading about her, you can't help but like her, even if you don't agree with her 100% of the time.

She's a great governor, a terrific person, and, in our book, the best choice for McCain's VP.

It would also force a serious blunder from Obama -- if McCain picks Palin, our best bet is Obama will feel pressured to pick Claire McCaskill or Kathleen Sebelius as his VP, which would be a disaster. There are two people who PUMAs truly despise, outside of the Dean/Brazile/Pelosi/Reid circle -- and those two are Bill Richardson and Claire McCaskill. Sebelius did a terrible job delivering the Democrats' response to the State of the Union address - but, more than that, any woman but Hillary Clinton would be seen as a major slap in the face to all Clinton supporters. So, how does Obama effectively counter Sarah Palin?

He doesn't.

There's no one he could pick that would match her.