Reply #20: Yeah, but there's no way they could guarantee that result. [View All]

[SteppingRazor]

Don't get me wrong, I'd agree with you f there was a way the GOP could guarantee the sort of coverage we've seen. But there's no guarantee of it, and in fact there have been a lot of negative stories (everybody and their mothers have been calling her out on the Bridge to Nowhere lies), and it will probably only get worse in October as the Alaska state legislature issues subpoenas in their troopergate investigation.

So ... if John McCain knew all of this, knew it was gonna go down, why take the risk? It seems like it would be much easier to just grab a much cleaner patsy, then shaft them after the election for whatever scandal you could pin on them. Hell, even more than that, why not just pick the person you want? Rice would've energized the base just as much as Palin.