So Ian thinks Michael Palin would have been a better choice as John McCain's running mate, personally I think he should have chosen John McLean, the Die Hard quadrilogy hero, but there you go, maybe that's why I don't often comment on American Politics even though it was one of my subjects at Uni.
Anyway Sarah Palin seems to me to be the ideal choice, she's ticking all the boxes that Obama has neglected in the choice of his male running mate.
First and foremost, she is a woman, so that's got to appeal to all those girls who were hoping for Hilary.
She's a MOM. What do Americans like best in the whole world? Mom and apple pie. No doubt we will soon be hearing about the delicious apple pies this moose hunting Mom knocks up in her spare time.
She's good looking, she used to be a beauty queen, now she wears school ma'am glasses to try and get the media to take her seriously.
She appears to have oodles of kids, one not very old, who happens to have Downs syndrome. She knew this before he was born but declined a termination! What a truly special person.
Her husband has Inuit blood in his family, thus picking up the racial baton that Obama had so firmly been holding onto.
We now learn her teenage daughter is five months preggie, but Mom is supporting her and she is going to keep the baby.
She hunts, shoots and probably enjoys chewing tobacco and drinking moonshine with the good ol' boys of a Friday evening.
Apparently she is also politically astute, and has an 80% approval rating in her state of Alaska.
At first I thought she was a cynical choice, just getting a girl on the ticket to pick up Hilary's votes, but now I see she has been chosen to pick up everybody's votes, an astute move by Johnny Mac.