DNC wraps-up. JMac nabs MILF.

New VP qualification: dead bear on sofa.

If the jedi owned Thursday, a governor had the headlines on Friday. No, one of Huckabee's kids didn't hang another dog. JMac tapped a little known Alaskan governor as his running mate. The good news: she's, and be prepared to hear this term quite a bit over the next 60 odd days, an "outsider," and, because of this, she has more in common with JMac than you may have thought. Here's some initial reaction from Obama's camp.

Before the GOP gets too erect and makes premature comments like this, she's under investigation. A little known state saga moves from the Anchorage Daily News to The Chicago Tribune to MSNBC. The gamut has heralded her as a fellow maverick, "a cross between a Fox anchor and a character on "Northern Exposure," and a potential "Dan Qualye in drag." Ouch.

Is JMac's move a trap to catch undecided Hillary voters? The world's worst political columnist, who works for the world's worst newspaper, ponders that same question.

WVPC's verdict: Once the buzz dies down, Palin will have her work cut out for her, particularly against Biden in October. Joe will want want to be stern but not bullying. Palin will gain the admiration of many women across spectrum of politics. She'll capture the hearts of those who don't really follow politics, the people, mainly middle class women, who want a mom in the upper echelons of Washington power. Her acceptance speech in Ohio played admirably with shout outs to Ferraro and Hillary, predictably with fawning over JMac's military experience, and regionally with energy policy reform. Columnists, bloggers, Dems and some cons will patronize her. We don't know if she has Reagan's Teflon quality or the jedi's charm. All we know is that now JMac doesn't have much of a case with that whole "Obama's inexperienced argument." But he'll push it anyway. The race will be close, and this VP choice isn't as bad as it looks.

The Dems have packed up their bags and left Denver. Obama delivered one of his better speeches of the last two months, but the convention failed to deliver a unified message. They need talking points, but they, at least until Obama's above average acceptance speech, delivered mostly pageantry, accolades to party veterans, and apologies to Hillary and her followers.

Palin's social views, at least one of them, come at the perfect time: the party platform's slam dunk issue that turns out the base.

If the 2008 campaign excites you so much that you're already salivating for 2012, here's something that will dampen your spirits. I hear an old red prop revving up its engine.