Was Palin Vetted?

This could turn out to be a ton of fun


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McCain Camp Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper Archives
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/mccain-camp-didnt-search_n_122823.html

The McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Sarah Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process. But evidence continues to suggest that the Arizona Republican made his VP choice with surprising haste.

On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown newspaper.

How does he know? The paper's (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire.

"No one else had requested access before," said the source. "It's unbelievable. We were the only people to do that, which means the McCain camp didn't."

Three comentators (one from Fox news) said that she was unqualified, an irresponsible choice.

before her selection. That's not good. When you do op research you're supposed to be ahead of the curve.

McCain's people failing to check her hometown newspaper is extraordinary.

But it's boring, hard, often thankless and not sexy, so none of this really surprises me. Everybody wants to be a "strategist."