Photo credits: Boston.comLeft-wing bloggers have been going wild in their efforts to trash Sarah Palin since McCain first made the stunning announcement of his VP selection on Friday morning. The vetting or non-vetting of Palin quickly became a focus for the Left’s attacks on the assertive, well-spoken and youthful governor of Alaska.
However, in this morning’s Washington Post, staff writers Dan Balz and Robert Barnes report that McCain’s “fellow maverick” survived a thorough vetting process:
“Far from being a last-minute tactical move or a second choice when better known alternatives were eliminated, Palin was very much in McCain's thinking from the beginning of the selection process, according to McCain's advisers. The 44-year-old governor made every cut as the first list of candidates assembled last spring was slowly winnowed. The more McCain learned about her, the more attracted he was to her as someone who shared his maverick, anti-establishment instincts.
‘"He looked at her like a kindred spirit,’ said one close adviser, who declined to be identified in order to speak more freely. ‘Someone who wasn't afraid to take tough positions.’
“Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager and the person at the point of the vice presidential process, said there was no abrupt change of course in the final hours. Nor, he said, was Palin selected without having gone through the full vetting process that was done for other finalists. That process included reviews of financial and other personal data, an FBI background check and considerable discussion among the handful of McCain advisers involved in the deliberations.”
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