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.