1.0 link 123198 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/toby-barlow/candidate-mcswervy_b_123198.html It says a lot that McCain initially wanted either Lieberman or Ridge but - when opposed by the far right- he didn't use his power as the party nominee to force them into line and he didn't look for a reasonable compromise, say someone more acceptable but with similar credentials. Instead, he reached out four time zones away into the dark heart of the last frontier and pulled out Governor Palin, a woman we really know very little about except...

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