A week ago we were enlightened with the choice of John McCain of his VP pick - Sarah Palin.  While I for one am impressed with her credentials and her nomination, I am still not a McCain Palin supporter.  Although I am leaning in that direction.  I still have to get over the top of the ticket.

Apparently many others do as well - or have decided to ignore it and focus on the lower half of the ticket.

I have noticed that many democrats, Obama/Biden included, are somehow under the mistaken impression that Palin is running for president.  Since the announcement, that seems to be the focus of their rants, tirades, and barbs.  mcCain has almost taken on the role of an also-ran.  They seem to want to run against Palin instead of McCain.  The reasons are many, and none the least of which is that a Palin/Obama race would be on a more even footing as the weakness of each would offset, so no one could really point them out.

But I have also noticed that many wavering republicans have also jumped on the idea.  They are not pushing her to the top of the ticket, as much as using her as justification to come back to the party and support it.  She is a solid conservative, yet not a moonbat (as say a Pat Robertson is).  And she has the qualifications that McCain lacks, while lacking some that McCain has.  She is a good fit to the ticket.  But she is still only running for VP.

I heard a liberal caller to the local talk show state that it seems to him - "Obama is running against 2 Presidential Candidates, not one".  IN that I do agree with the caller as that is what it appears to be.  But I cannot fault the republicans for that impression.  After all, it is the democrats that have made Palin the issue of late, trying to belittle her accomplishments and qualifications in order to make Obama's appear better.  For some reason, the caller seemeed to miss the fact that McCain picked her as his running mate, not as his co-president.  And while I am sure he is not going to dismiss that notion - in order to bring the base back to the fold - the democrats did not and do not have to go along with that strategy by jumping on that campaign tactic.

Yet they are.  So they have only themselves to blame for focusing on the VP, and not on the President Candidate.  If it continues, McCain will have done what very few candidates have been able to do - deflect the attention from their weakness and encourage (I was going to say force, but no one is forcing the democrats to do anything) to waste time attacking a ghost.  For Sarah Palin may one day be president, but not this year.

Sarah Palin appears to be just what McCain needs, and just what the democrats want.  But in that, the democrats seem to be forgetting what they are in the game for.