From MSNBC:

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Advisers said Palin went through a rigorous process that included a three-hour interview and a survey with some 70 questions, including:

Have you ever paid for sex?
Have you been faithful in your marriage?
Have you ever used or purchased drugs?
Have you ever downloaded pornography?

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Wow! A whole three hours! And I’ll bet they asked her twice to make sure they got a second opinion. But nothing about whether she could find Iraq on a map.

I wonder if they’re going to post the answers to those questions.

I think I may have to concede this one to you. Today (2 Sept) things look a bit different.

I didn’t count on McCain totally ignoring his responsibility to at least do a background check. It appears now that no one in a position to know about Palin was even asked about her. The FBI has done a much better job checking my background.

So far (and there are probably still shoes to drop on this centipede) …

We have a youthful drunk-driving arrest
An unmarried but pregnant daughter
An unknown level of intensity on her own corruption charges in Alaska (what goes around, comes around)

None of this stuff really bothers me. In fact, it might make her slightly more attractive as a candidate since it connects her with the ‘real world’ in a way that most politicians aren’t. Not attractive enough to vote for, of course. She’s still a wilderness raping, bible-thumping, wild-eyed zealot for the most part. Just slightly more attractive than she was.

But I’m ready to admit that it’s looking more and more like McCain fumbled after all.

Palin is supposed to appeal to the religious right base. These folks have a fairy-tale view of the universe and Palin isn’t fitting in. It’s entirely possible that McCain thought she would appeal to the Hillary Holdouts, too. I don’t think so. Those folks like Hillary for all the qualities that Palin doesn’t have.

The question comes back again: Why did McCain do it? It now appears that he couldn’t get his party to back him on his actual first choice, Joe Lieberman, and he was up against the wall, out of options he liked, and lashed out at random.

Heck of a way to pick somebody who would have an EXCELLENT chance of becoming the ‘leader of the free world’ but I can’t see another sequence of events that explains what we know about it any better.

But as for the Republicans having, “a candidate with no risk of being arrested in the Minneapolis airport men’s room.”

Ummmmm …. I don’t know. The women in Alaska are known to go after what they want.

At least she is providing some fodder for the comedians –

New motto for the Republican ticket – Gidget and the Geezer.

Senator John McCain shook up the presidential race Friday by choosing Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin to run with him on the Republican Party ticket. If nothing else, the senator stayed true to form. He dumped Mitt Romney for a trophy running mate.

GOP convention delegates gathering in Minnesota Friday were overjoyed by Sarah Palin’s selection. It fit the party’s most pressing need this week. They had to have a candidate with no risk of being arrested in the Minneapolis airport men’s room.

Sarah Palin was slammed by environmentalists for her record on wildlife issues Friday because the governor favors shooting wolves from the air. In Alaska they call that predator control. In the Democratic Party it’s called keeping an eye on Bill.