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Palin-monium (trademark)

By "Milbarge" and "Fitz-Hume"

So McCain went with the VP choice I'd been hoping for. Just becaue she was my first pick, I was convinced he was gonna go with someone safe and boring. Milbarge and I have already traded emails on our thoughts on the pick. Maybe the relevant back and forth can be summarized into another post.

For now however, I just wanted to mention that when the pick was announced, it generated an incredible amount of enthusiam at the office where I work. I of course have been reading the emails that get posted in the Corner. But people I've worked with for years that I didn't even know followed politics were talking about what a great pick it was. To a man/woman they were all talking about how much they like Governor (not Mayor, as the Obama campaign would have you believe) Palin. Her politics, her toughness, her story, her family. All of it. This pick has created interest, and actual excitement about the Republican ticket for the first time this election. Excitement that is visible in actual people and not just on the interwebs. The fact that the excitement has to come from the VP and not from any of the large original slate of candidates speaks to what Glenn Reynolds calls the GOP's need to work on their farm system. But the excitement is there none the less.

If she holds up in the debates with Biden, and I think she will, (McCain better have run her through some drills before making the call) then this one pick will have done more to change the election than anything that gone before in this 2 year process. This pick was genius, and not just because it's the one I would have made.

I have signed up on the McCain - Palin website. Only the second time I have done this for a campaign. And if life allows I may be doing some volunteering. This is gonna be fun.

UPDATE: Unsurprisingly, Mark Steyn sums up Palin better than I ever could.

Full post as published by Begging the Question on August 30, 2008 (boomark / email).