Sarah Who??

Wow...that was unexpected.

I went to bed last night thinking the VP candidate was going to be a governor...but not the governor of Alaska. I was caught off guard like everyone else. I had heard her name once or twice and dismissed her as a long shot.

One of my first thoughts was this: How many commercials did the Dems have 'in the can' against Romney ready to launch? What a waste of money that turned out to be!

As you might imagine...I received a bunch of phone calls from friends asking my opinion...and giving theirs. All of the people I spoke to liked the pick. In fact one of them gave me a Texas Hold'em Poker analogy: McCain just flopped the Nuts and Obama is drawing dead!

I did find it interesting that the one person who did not like the pick was one of my mentors in the party. He pointed out that this pick takes away one of the biggest complaints against Obama: lack of experience. While you could argue that being Governor of Alaska is more managerial experience than Obama's 143 days in the Senate (before he started to run for President). You would only be splitting hairs. This was clearly an attempt by McCain to 'hit one out of the park' and go after the female vote (including the disgruntled Hillary supporters).

The best part of today was the fact that the McCain camp found a way to completely take the air out of Obamas balloon after his 'American Idol' like speach last night. That part was priceless!