Mr Sobrino's Librarian

"That naughty librarian vibe" that Palin has. Maybe. Though Carmen wants to know what movies you have been watching lately (we suspect it was not "The Music Man").

We chuckled. And then I said "Well, that wraps up the Randy Old Man vote." Carmen started laughing and said "And we know that's a HUMONGOUS voting bloc!"

At least one reader at NRO seems to agree with Mr Sobrino, though he simply says "total knockout sexually," which is a bit blunt*. But it is NRO after all.

Maybe McCain is on to something after all though. It could work. In fact, in one major sense it already has: the Religious Right aka the Evangelical vote now seems excited about the McCain ticket and might actually bother to get to the polls. Dobson immediately came out and supported the ticket. This won't win him the election but it is necessary for him to have a shot at it. And the same people seem to have donated over $7 million within 24 hrs of the pick. If Paris was worth a mass, then how much more Washington ...

Also, and this is important I think, she represents a new face to the Republican Party that desperately needs one. What we have had for 8 years has been neither Republicanism nor Conservatism. Her anti-corruption credentials, if they hold up, will help. Some people who genuinely want to overturn the Bushite revolution but are nervous about Demos might now be able to vote for McCain.

But spare me the unconvincing and rather lame equation of experience. It is not playing to her strengths.

*I myself was always partial to Tansu Çiller, Turkish PM, shown here addressing the troops. Notice the soldier with the bullhorn. But then, I always was a xenophile.