John, don't take her away from me. You have my vote already. What else do you want?

Why can't you stay away from my beautiful Queen? Leave her alone John. She's mine. Oops..

I forgot. It's a VP steak. Okey…

Common John, what are you waiting for? My mom is giggling for the first time since December when she learned about the Governor (good + MSM negatives).

Gov. Palin is your chance to get my community's votes who are still enthralled with Hillary.

There’s no reason, and actually substantial negative, in McCain waiting to see what the Dems do first insofar as his picking Palin as VP, because, no matter who Obama picks, Palin is by far (and I mean far) the best pick for McCain and the GOP, especially in this time of GOP woes. The GOP can be seen as the party of real ‘change’ (albeit I hate that mantra, change, change, bla bla), while not really having to change from GOP core conservative values, which Palin more than represents.

In light of the current oil/energy situation, as well as the disaffected female Hillary voters situation, and growing focus on McCain’s age and health, Palin is more than perfect — now.

(Perhaps Team McCain is already on to this.)

Getting Jindal’s name out first — at Team McCain’s BBQ for instance — sets the stage for the obvious choice, Palin. For example, albeit Rush Limbaugh introduced Palin’s name, and later Jindal’s as good Veep choices, of late Rush has been praising the name of Jindal while on his very same shows discussing at great length the frustrated female Hillary voter and the global warming hysteria/need for energy development, without mentioning Palin’s name as the obvious beneficiary of those two issues. Rush walks a fine line, introducing Palin, yet can’t, at least yet, reiterate much, knowing that his praises may be counter-productive to many a swing, moderate and/or formerly Dem voter (who’s against Obama and switching to McCain). Moreover, while I feel that Palin has more real accomplishment, experience and qualification than Obama (and Hillary combined, albeit w/Obama the bar is pretty low), the only potential argument against Palin is she’s a newbie to the national scene. By having Jindal out there first as a VP prospect “passing” the “experience” and “new to the national scene” test, implicitly passes Palin as well. (For that matter Palin’s got as much if not more experience and accomplishment than Florida Gov Crist who’s only been Gov for 2 yrs — and the media has been touting Crist as a VP prospect.)

That’s my thinking at least.

Even better, Palin has a son in the Army (I'm a proud Army dad too!). Given that McCain's got a son serving in Iraq right now, between them they'd blow the "chickenhawk" talking point out of the water.

Palin as a VP nominee would also mean a ticket nigh well be unbeatable on Iraq and the GWOT (yeah, that's still going on regardless of what the State Department thinks). Both McCain and Palin have very personal stakes in ensuring victory…and they'll cordially remind Prince Charming of that fact every chance they get.