I know what you are thinking.  Many of you believe McCain just picked Palin on a whim, without vetting her properly. Not true.

This little nugget appeared in yesterday's Washington Post.

"Nor," Rick Davis said, "was Palin selected without having gone through the full vetting process that was done for other finalists."  Rick Davis, of course, is John McCain's campaign manager.

As you can see, John McCain has learned everything he needs to know about Sarah Palin.  Little things like Sarah's former membership to a secessionist group, or that the governor's 17 year old daughter, Bristol, is pregnant, does not present a problem for John McCain.  Obviously when Palin was vetted last week, McCain learned that Sarah was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it; but that didn't concern John.  No.  Not a bit because McCain found in Palin something that others clearly do not see.  John McCain found a "partner and a soulmate."

Who knew?

Yet I have one thing to say.  If Palin is McCain's best, can you imagine how many skeletons are in Pawlenty's, Romney's, and Jindal's closets?