Quin: I have it on the authority of none other than you in your
wonderful memoir
of the 1980 Republican Convention's veep drama that an overriding
concern regarding a veep choice is picking someone who will succeed
the president not in two days but in four or eight years. If we're
arguing about Palin's unpreparedness, it should be in such terms.
And if McCain is in such dire physical condition as you worry,
should he even be on the ticket?