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?
