Money isn’t a problem for John McCain.

Couldn’t they find a less politically-extreme U.S. Senator to call Sarah Palin an extremist?

One bit of evidence of voter backlash against the mainstream media.

David Brooks finds McCain has the “heart of the insurgent” and  Sarah Palin the benefit of “freshness.”

Charles Krauthammer, no friend of the Palin selection, figures it out: Ah, maybe she can succeed through “sheer elegance, intelligence and power.”  But that was really the point wasn’t it? If you are going to pooh-pooh popular appeal it seems inconsistent to say “Well it will be okay if she does it really well.”

Rich Lowry is right: a reformer with basically conservative tendencies is the only model for McCain that might work. It also happens to be who he is.

Nothing like having your moronic talking points released to the media after the premise of the points is exploded before 40 million people.