The Answer Revealed

I’ve been wondering for a while now what it is, substantively, that Sarah Palin would bring to a McCain administration. This old article from December 2007 explains McCain’s thinking:

McCain said his staff hates it when he discusses his shortcomings on economics, even though he has read widely and studied the subject.

“I’ve never been involved in Wall Street, I’ve never been involved in the financial stuff, the financial workings of the country, so I’d like to have somebody intimately familiar with it,” he said of a potential vice president.

It was a bit prescient of him to recognize that familiarity with the world of finance was a quality he’d need to add to his team. That surely explains why he went with Alaska governor and former local TV news sportscaster Sarah Palin rather than, say, Mitt Romney who wouldn’t have been able to contribute on that front.