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Say what you want about John McCain, but he's certainly not afraid of taking a risk. How else to describe a 72-year old cancer survivor choosing as his candidate for vice president an unknown first-term governor who thinks victims of rape and incest should be forced to carry pregnancies to term, supports the teaching of creationism in public schools, doesn't think global warming is caused by humans, withholds emails to obstruct an ethics investigation, and supported Pat Buchanan's bid for President?

And this is supposed to appeal to those who shed sweat and tears in support of Hillary Clinton? I think not. But maybe McCain didn't really know what he was getting:

John McCain today announced a running mate whom he met only six months ago and whom he spoke with just once on the phone about the position before offering it in person earlier this week.

It is said that the choice of running mate is the first "presidential" decision a candidate has to make, and that the real litmus test is whether that running mate is qualified to assume the presidency in a tragedy or crisis. In this, John McCain has utterly failed. More than any of the negative campaigning or flip-flopping he has done to this point, his choice today makes apparent that John McCain is concerned about only one thing: Election Day. He does not care one bit about the day after that, about what it would mean to actually govern, and he is certainly not, as they say, putting the country first.