McCain picks Sarah Palin

And you really can't get mad at McCain for playing the politics game by picking a woman.

But that's exactly the thing - that completely goes against McCain's (old) image. You see, I used to like McCain. He said things like they were. He did things because they were the right things to do, not just because they would get him more votes. He was, for the most part, pretty reasonable. He knew that politics is a sleazy business and he would mock the stupid things that politicians did to get a few more votes. He didn't even really campaign in Iowa because he knew that the corn subsidies were a bad idea, and he wasn't willing to go there and lie about how the farmers in Iowa were what was making America great. But now he's just like the rest of them. The old John McCain probably would have chosen Lieberman because they work well together and he thinks he would be a good person for the job. The new John McCain realized that there was a possibility that more of Hillary's supporters would vote for him if he picked a woman - so out comes a woman.

It is a supremely political choice, not a choice for governing.