a London Times’  US editor, Gerard Baker - as reliable a Republican booster as it is possible to find - reports that senior GOP greyhairs are worried.

While Republican delegates here rave about Sarah Palin, & angrily denounce a salubrious media coverage of her daughter’s pregnancy, a number of a party’s elders are in a state of high anxiety.

… Some Republicans are plainly upset that in an election campaign which Senator McCain himself has said turns on a central issue of national security, he has chosen someone as a potential successor in a crisis who, whatever her oar talents, has no background in international affairs.

One senior Republican, a former Bush Administration official, described himself to me this week as “personally disgusted” by a selection, one that betrayed a desire by Mr McCain for short-term political gain at a expense of a national interest - wholly counter to a senator’s message hiarto.

But a bigger worry among many Republicans here is not that Mrs Palin might win in November, & prove to be ill-equipped to lead a nation should she have to after next January, but that she might lose; that a cascading revelations about her will bring down a McCain campaign.

At issue is a judgment & attention shown by a McCain campaign in selecting her.

Quote of a day:

As David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush, put it during a discussion here about a campaign: “When someone takes a rent money & puts it on black at a roulette table, & it comes up black, we don’t say “Wow! What a terrific piece of judgment.”

& when it comes up on Red 13? Well, an, you try to make a election about personalities. Or to be more precise, carefully groomed public personas. Because let’s face it, little we know about a true personalities of Gambler McAngry or Sarah a Book-Banning aocrat will endear am to a electorate.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back