What Mark Said

I've had a lot of thoughts about the selection of Sarah Palin as VP in the past 24 hours and the more I think about it, the more I like it. First off, I'd take her over Obama any day of the week. Obama supporters, please feel free to compare their accomplishments side by side. When you do that, Obama comes off as what he is - a pipsqueak meeting moth who kissed the rings of every political power broker he could as he climbed his way to power through all kinds of election chicanery.

Meanwhile, as Mark Steyn points out, Sarah Palin isn't just all-American, she's hyper-American. He's got an outstanding post today that captures my thoughts very well. Here's a tidbit.

(R)eal people don't define "experience" as appearing on unwatched Sunday-morning talk shows every week for 35 years and having been around long enough to have got both the War on Terror and the Cold War wrong ... Sarah Palin and Barack Obama are more or less the same age, but Governor Palin has run a state and a town and a commercial fishing operation, whereas (to reprise a famous line on the Rev Jackson) Senator Obama ain't run nothin' but his mouth. She's done the stuff he's merely a poseur about. Post-partisan? She took on her own party's corrupt political culture directly while Obama was sucking up to Wright and Ayers and being just another get-along Chicago machine pol.

Read the whole thing.