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The Palin "Scandal"

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Already Dems are focusing in a so-called “State investigation” into whether Sarah Palin pressured a Public Safety Commissioner with oversight of Alaska State Troopers to fire her former brother-in-law who is a state trooper. The state trooper had gone through a nasty divorce with Palin’s younger sister.

The Palin’s say they put no pressure on the commissioner to hire or fire anyone. They merely informed the commissioner of a death threat against the governor’s sister made by her ex-husband.

Trust me, folks. This story has no legs. If this is the best “scandal” the Dems can come up with in an attempt to discredit Sarah Palin, wait until the McCain campaign unleashes the skeletons in Obama and Biden’s closets.

There is a fairly balanced media story about this whole thing here.

Veep choice has Dems scrambling

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Democrat Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is being quizzed by Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC right now. She gives us some insight on how the Dems will handle McCain’s shocking choice. In a nutshell: Palin may be a woman but she is not a LIBERAL woman, therefore she is the WRONG woman. Unbelievable.

Now MSNBC is suggesting McCain’s choice alienates women because he passed over more experienced women in choosing Palin. Talk about grasping.

The Battle is joined

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John McCain has demonstrated the risks that true leaders take when they make decisions. The contrast between McCain’s VP choice and Obama’s could not be clearer. Obama took the wide and easy path (and we all know where that leads) and McCain made the riskiest decision in the history of presidential politics.

I said on this blog last Tuesday that McCain needed to choose a woman with the experience to deal with the number one concern of voters: energy. Sarah Palin fits the bill. I was hoping for a corporate executive, but Sarah Palin is THE best choice among the politicos on the short-list.

Media speculation about how Palin will fair in a one-on-one debate with the seasoned Senator from Delaware is a fair question. The Democrats talk a big game about “changing Washington,” yet they have two career politicans and Washington insiders at the top of their ticket. When Sarah Palin walks onto the stage for her debate with Joe Biden, he will look like the aged and worn out politician, and she will look like the fresh, new outsider. Palin can learn most of what Joe Biden knows about foreign affairs. Biden will never look like the fresh, new perspective the Obama campaign promises. John McCain has delivered that in Sarah Palin.

My colleague Hugh Hewitt’s comments are worth noting from his blog this morning:

McCain has turned the race on its head, and if Palin proves to be as able a campaigner as her fans say, GOP and American politics will have been changed in a way that fundamentally celebrates opportunity and talent.  What a contrast to Obama’s rhetoric of last night.

John Mark Reynolds on The Speech

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McCain made Obama the “celebrity candidate” and Obama got angry. He lashed back tonight, a major mistake. The vice-president attacks, but the presidential candidate is above it all. Compare the kind advert that McCain played tonight praising Obama for making history with the red-meat rhetoric Obama used on McCain.

It was beneath Senator Obama and did not elevate him or effectively tear down McCain. I predict that McCain will save his tough rhetoric for terrorists and dismiss Obama gently. Obama should have treated McCain with kindness like a father a bit past his time.

Read the entire post here.