DAVID BROOKS ON MCCAIN AND PALIN: “My worry about Palin is that she shares McCain’s primary weakness — that she has a tendency to substitute a moral philosophy for a political philosophy. . . . He really needs someone to impose a policy structure on his moral intuitions. He needs a very senior person who can organize a vast administration and insist that he tame his lone-pilot tendencies and work through the established corridors — the National Security Council, the Domestic Policy Council. He needs a near-equal who can turn his instincts, which are great, into a doctrine that everybody else can predict and understand.”

That, however, isn’t — and shouldn’t be — a job for the Vice President, as I’ve noted elsewhere. That’s a job for a Chief of Staff. Maybe McCain should announce that choice before the election?