John McCain VP - A Flea Flicker!!!

While everyone was watching to see if McCain would select Mitt Romney, Joe Lieberman, Tim Pawlenty or even Tom Ridge, a private plane flew from Anchorage, Alaska to a small airport outside of Dayton, OH, where John McCain has said he will announce his VP selection today.

Sarah Palin, the first term governor of Alaska, appears to be the somewhat surprise selection to join the McCain ticket. Here is what you need to know about her:

At 44, she is the youngest and first female governor in Alaska history. Like Barack Obama, she is in only her first term a high profile position. Politically, she is known as a no nonsense person who has stood up repeatedly to corruption in government, especially in her own party. She is pro-life and a member of the NRA. She is opposed to same-sex marriage, but has enabled legislation to be enacted that provides benefits to gay state employees and their partners.

Socially, she is a very interesting person indeed. A hunter and fisher, she was first runner-up in the Miss Alaska beauty pageant when she was 20. Her husband is an eskimo and they live about an hour north of Anchorage. Like Joe Biden, she has a son in the military who is being deployed in the Fall (Biden's son Beau, State Attorney General in Delaware is being deployed as well).

This will have some very interesting implications for the Fall Campaign.