"...after McCain’s speech brought the convention to a close, one of the campaign’s senior advisers stayed up late at the Hilton bar savoring the triumphant narrative arc. I asked him a rather basic question: 'Leaving aside her actual experience, do you know how informed Governor Palin is about the issues of the day?' The senior adviser thought for a moment. Then he looked up from his beer. 'No,' he said quietly. 'I don’t know.'”
--Robert Draper, the New York Times Magazine, "The Making (and Remaking) of John McCain," Sun. Oct. 26, 2008
It's only 11 days until John McCain may retire to his suite in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix and rue the day he gambled by picking a running mate so risky it cost him an election victory.
Here are two detailed, fascinating accounts of how the selectiuon unfolded, first in the New Yorker and then in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine. The Times Magazine piece begins its coverage about the Palin pick on Page 5.
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