Sarah Palin - sacrificial lamb?

[Night_Nurse]

Sarah Palin is going to go the way of Harriet Miers. She is,ironically, the sacrificial lamb of McCain campaign strategists (read:
Karl Rove).

Palin wasn't the campaign's first choice for VP running-mate, someone else was (and still is). However, the preferred choice was one that wouldn't have been initially palatable to the Christian base, a rather large voting-bloc that had never been all that
crazy about McCain to begin with. Not wanting to further alienate that base, the running-mate would have to be a fundamentalist Christian - something the the preferred VP candidate was not. The campaign would have to choose someone else, someone who would fire up the base and strengthen their support of McCain, someone who would steal Barack Obama's post-DNC thunder, yet also someone who could easily be disposed of when the time came. Enter Sarah Palin.

http://www.blogher.com/just-so-you-can-say-you-read-it-here-first