Friday August 29, 2008
And Sen. John McCain’s camp just let fly that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will be his vice presidential candidate. Yikes.
He couldn’t have picked a less-likely running mate. How many electoral votes does Alaska have? Three.
It makes Connecticut’s seven electoral votes look huge. Even though her experience is a fraction of what Connecticut Gov. Jodi Rell has had, Palin’s conservative enough to satisfy red-meat Republican types.
It leaves Joe Lieberman, who still have some socially liberal cred, free to become a cabinet member if McCain is the next president.And if that happens, Rell can appoint herself, or U.S. Attorney Kevin O’Connor, or state Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, to serve in the U.S. Senate until the 2010 elections.
