A few weeks back, my friend William Ruger made the case for Sarah Palin. He made several arguments:
- ”the attractive young governor . . . would provide much-needed energy and youth to a ticket whose main candidate is frequently on the receiving end of “he’s so old” jokes”;
- “Palin would give Hillary-voters frustrated by their candidate’s loss and still unsure about Obama a reason to shift over to McCain”;
- “Palin is as far from a Washington insider as you can get”;
- “Palin can help McCain focus on energy security, an issue that could be Obama’s Achilles’ heel”
- “most important, Palin could do something few Republicans seem interested in or able to do these days: Help fuse the two pillars of the Reagan Revolution, traditional conservatives and libertarian Republicans.”