I don't tend to watch much cable news, so I rarely have a good sense of how things are playing. But sitting around the airport all day, I've got a direct feed of Wolf Blitzer into my brain. And the McCain flacks have begun melting. down. One just got into a shouting match with (I think) Campbell Brown. "NO, YOU COME ON CAMPBELL!" You've got CNN anchors arguing with the campaign from the position that Palin is unqualified. You've got them replaying McCain standing in front of the camera and gravely saying that his top criteria for a VP would be "finding the person most qualified to step in and assume the presidency." Read that quote: "Most qualified." You can argue a lot of things about Palin, but no one can suggest she's literally the "most qualified" running mate McCain could have chose. You can't even argue she's in the top 25. This is not going well for them. The base may be happy, but the coverage here is reminiscent of nothing so much as the reception that greeted Harriet Miers.
