South from Alaska

In what everybody seems to be calling a surprise move, the Gentleman from Arizona chose a hockey mom half his age with five children to be his running mate. John McCain’s birthday gift to the GOP as his vice presidential candidate is Gov. Sarah Palin, 44 (even younger than Barack Obama), of Alaska -- Wonkette’s favorite GILF. A woman of several firsts, she is the first female GOP vp contender and Alaska’s first female governor. And while she was an agent of change elected by the voters to clean up Anchorage, she’s not entirely squeaky clean either. She may “have tried to have her state official fire her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper.” She opposes abortion and is all for drilling for natural gas in Alaska, making her a schizophrenic choice for McCain. The consensus seems to be that she was chosen to attract young and the disaffected women voters. At their first appearance together in Dayton, Ohio, McCain praised Palin for having “got the grit, integrity, good sense and fierce devotion to the common good.” So what’s going to happen when he gets upset at her for her makeup?