The Palin family feud

TPM has been following the Palin investigation since long before anyone had ever heard of her. Too much good stuff to lift passages, read the whole thing. Whatever it does for the evangelical vote, it was a deeply cynical, pandering, and reckless choice. She doesn't have the temperament to govern The United States.

Much like the top of the ticket.

At 11 a.m. on Thursday, at the McCain vacation compound near Sedona, Ariz., Mr. McCain invited Ms. Palin to join him on the ticket. He hardly knew her, and she had virtually no foreign policy experience, but Ms. Palin was a “kindred spirit,” a McCain adviser said. Mr. McCain was betting, the adviser said, that she would help him reclaim the mantle of maverick that he had lost this year.

He chose her to "reinforce his self-image." Sheesh.