Let's call it out...Palin would've been a great pick if she didn't have an unmarried pregnant daughter.
That piece of information didn't come out until a couple days after the selection, and until it did, even CNN was calling the Palin pick a stroke of genius by the McCain campaign. However, it wasn't long after the reveal of Bristol's pregnancy that the left-wing media began to slut-shame her and even Sarah by proxy. Yes...the same part of the political spectrum that is now obsessed with the #metoo movement had no problem calling Bristol every name in the book. The story has it that the Obama campaign didn't condone using Bristol as an object of the campaign, but the left had plenty of surrogates doing it for them.
It all became moot once the market collapsed (McCain's chances of winning the election dropped to 0 at that point), but many people forget that ever-so-brief window of time when Palin was considered just the jolt of energy that the sleepy McCain campaign needed at that point. Arguments about the effect Palin ultimately had on the election results usually ring specious to me, but nobody can make the supposition that she was a bad pick from day one.
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