John McCain: Vetting is for Wimps

Achenbach has an enviable sense of humor about the Sarah Palin pick:

The Sarah Palin saga may be appalling for some viewers, and deeply
disturbing, but I find it inspiring. Once again we see why America is a
great country. You can be anyone, from anywhere, with any level of
professional qualifications, including none at all, and still grow up
to be a vice-presidential nominee.

You can go from beauty queen to sports anchorwoman to snowmobile
saleswoman to mayor of a town so small that the town hall looks,
according to Carville, like a "south Louisiana bait shop" — and still,
in just a couple of years, with a twist of fate here and there, wind up
first in line to be the Leader of the Free World.

You can engage in small-town politics, like trying to get your
brother-in-law fired and then firing the guy who wouldn’t do what you
said. You can support an organization that wants Alaska to secede from the United States. You can be gluttonous on federal pork and
then pretend you don’t like the stuff. And still, thanks to the miracle
of modern political marketing, you might be propelled to within a
heartbeat of the presidency. Thank you John McCain! Thank you America!