The day he introduced her, the Friday immediately after Barack Obama's big night accepting the Democratic nomination, was an obvious attempt to blunt the admiring coverage of Obama's acceptance speech and the historic moment that was.
McCain was outside, at the podium, I forget where, and made the formal announcement and called her up to the podium. Yes to the Hail Mary pass and all that. However, his behavior totally gave the game away. She stepped forward to the microphone. He stepped back behind her and over to one side. And throughout her first big speech, I watched him stand there fiddling with his wedding ring and shooting sidelong glances over at her ass. Throughout her speech! Here and there, when he figured nobody was looking at him. Just kept on glancing over at her ass. And fiddling with his wedding ring while he was taking in the "nice view." As his wife was standing right there, too, on the other side of the podium where Palin was speaking, just a few feet away from him! Well, I was looking at him. I noticed immediately! The gall! It was the same thing my dad used to do, shooting furtive glances at some nearby babe, while his wife was right there, and he too assumed nobody was paying attention while he was ogling the girl. Never even occurred to him that somebody'd notice. That's the same thing John McCain DID, that day. Busy watching the birdie.
That's when I knew - he'd had to make a decision on a running mate. The moment had come. He'd weighed everything, experience, appeal, personality, beneficial age differential, cute family, and other valuable intangibles. And what I'd BET went through his mind was "gee, all other things being equal, I could sure stand to look at that for the next four-to-eight years."
I seriously doubt he'd ever admit that. All the male political Palin groupies have lots of nice safe cliche-ridden explanations, including him. But I'm convinced THAT'S what finally tipped the scales for him. THAT'S why he picked her.
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