Love her or hate her, this is what would be called in chess, a double exclamation point move. Precisely because after Obama beat the “hope and change” drum until we were all deaf, and then chose an inexplicable “safe” running mate, McCain shows us what “out of the box” means.
The “hope and change” talk from the Obama camp is going to sound so tinny at this point, he’s going to end up like the man behind the curtain on the Wizard of Oz.
And to be sure, this is out of the box, not because she’s a woman, but because, like McCain himself, she’s a maverick who defies pigeonholing. And also like McCain, she’s a consistent crusader for clean government.
So let the cookie-cutter politicians try to portray themselves as reformers. Nobody but the yellow dogs are going to fall for that, coming from a couple of professional panderers.
