Palin? Really?

I thought that "first do no harm" was the most important rule for VP picks, but apparently John McCain is too much of a maverick for that. The pick was made on her ability to go after angry Clinton supporters (who cares) and rally the religious right to the campaign (not enough cred to do so), but it's starting to look more and more like an absolute disaster. Chris Bowers runs through her ever growing list of problems, but I just can't past what this does to McCain's message.

All summer, McCain has been setting up the argument about Barack Obama's youth, and attempting to make this election debate of youth vs experience. As if those attacks never happened, 72 year old John McCain picks Sarah Palin as vice president. Argument destroyed, message lost.

Oh yeah, and if everything else wasn't enough, there's this:

"[A]s for that V.P. talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the V.P. does every day?"

Ooohhhhhh boy. To quote Bowers' response: "She doesn't know, huh? Hopefully, she has read The Constitution since she made that statement."

And bookies are taking bets on her being pulled from the ticket starting............... now.