I think 2164th at 10:22pm pretty much nails it. And it looks like after an initial rush to foolishness, the Obama camp realize this is a decoy and trap and will avoid attacking her. In fact his team should go one step further and denounce all the media attacks on her. Obama should subtly play the protective alpha-male role that McCain is setting himself up to play.

In the post Hilary environment, attacking Palin is like blocking a woman’s shot while playing mixed sex basketball. Even though tactically you have helped your team, strategically you look like a fool. No one cares about vice President anyway. They should eventually nail her on Creationism but only after two or three of praising her.

What makes this a brilliant choice is that McCain has done a 180 degree turn on conventional thinking. Typically a vice Presidential candidate is carefully vetted to avoid any scandals. In this case the coming media frenzy will be a feature– not a bug. McCain wisely wants to muddy the waters and to avoid a direct Obama-McCain match-up. Every coming sentence that is wasted on Mr. Palin’s womanizing will only serve to distract the American people from any real issues and will hopefully turn off enough voters to let McCain sneak through with a victory.

Obama must get out in front of this and start attacking the media for attacking Palin.