Picture this scenario…
One month from now, the Palin pick has proven a bonanza for the McCain campaign. A large chunk of Hillary’s 18 million voters have been won over. Conservatives are unified and energized, and the previously-undiscovered “Maxim magazine vote” is suddenly giving McCain large margins among young males.
Joe Biden will disappear from the campaign trail, and we will later learn it was to see a doctor. A previously-undiscovered, vaguely ominous health issue will be discovered, and Biden will sadly announce that he cannot continue as Obama’s running mate. With a sudden need for a new one, Obama will turn… to Hillary Clinton.
Call it the Torricelli gambit.