Late Breaking News: John McCain Flip-Flops on Affirmative-Action!!!

John McCain has selected Sarah Palin, the former 6-year Mayor of Wasilia Alaska (population 6,700) and current year-and-a-half Governor of Alaska, to serve as his Vice-President. Having navigated the difficult and sometimes treacherous political landscape that is Wasilia, Ms. Palin now seeks to assume a role that is "one heartbeat away" from the Presidency, when John McCain's old ass heart has already beat gazillions of times starting waaaaay back in yesteryear...  

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The Republican Echo-Chamber (sometimes refered to as Fox "News") is in full swing; already heralding her selection as great, and forward-thinking, despite the fact that they spent nearly two years attacking Obama's lack of experience before choosing Palin with a far thinner resume. Shit, New York City has High School Principals who've managed larger populations than Wasilia...

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Now this is not to challenge her qualifications on the basis of her gender... To the contrary, had McCain wanted simply to choose a female running mate, the selection of Condoleesa Rice woud have been cheered as a wise choice from any objective observer. Condy has a great resume, while not being a product of Washington. She has foreign policy experience, she is regarded as a leading expert on US-Russian relations, and she is quite the policy wonk. Her candidacy, like that of Hillary Clinton's would have been judged soley on its merits...

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McCain seems to have mistakenly believed that ANY woman would automatically assume the same level of gravitas. And while that will inevitably prove itself to be a tremendous miscalculation - hey, it's still good to see Oldey McSame give Affirmative Action another look...