Charlie Cook, the founder of the well respected "Cook Political Report" wrote six weeks ago:
"My father turns 90 years old next month and has joked that at his age, he doesn't buy green bananas anymore.
The folly of a 71-year old nominee picking a green, relatively inexperienced running mate seems much more serious, particularly if that presidential nominee sells as his strong suit that national security credentials are his "raison d'etre" for the presidency.
In a very challenging national security environment, putting someone on McCain's ticket who only has experience heading the Florida or Minnesota National Guard would seem a stretch given McCain's rationale for the presidency."
It turns out that McCain selected not the governor from Florida (pop. 18,251,000) nor the one from Minnesota (pop. 5,200,000) but the chief of ALASKA National Guard (population unknown, but a lot of salmon).
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