NY Times: Palin Disclosures Raises Questions On Vetting

[1968again]

From the NY Times:

In Alaska, several state leaders and local officials said they knew of no efforts by the McCain campaign to find out more information about Ms. Palin before the announcement of her selection, Although campaigns are typically discreet when they make inquiries into potential running mates, officials in Alaska said Monday they thought it was peculiar that no one in the state had the slightest hint that Ms. Palin might be under consideration.

“They didn’t speak to anyone in the Legislature, they didn’t speak to anyone in the business community,” said Lyda Green, the State Senate president, who lives in Wasilla, where Ms. Palin served as mayor.

Representative Gail Phillips, a Republican and former speaker of the State House, said the widespread surprise in Alaska when Ms. Palin was named to the ticket made her wonder how intensively the McCain campaign had vetted her.

“I started calling around and asking, and I have not been able to find one person that was called,” Ms. Phillips said. “I called 30 to 40 people, political leaders, business leaders, community leaders. Not one of them had heard. Alaska is a very small community, we know people all over, but I haven’t found anybody who was asked anything.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/us/polit...amp;oref=slogin

[swanlee]

Awesome, so did Mccain draw her name out of a hat?

It's more than obvious that he did NO background checks on her seeing all the crap that has come up on her within a few days of her being named VP candidate.

[DirtyBirdNorth]

Awesome, so did Mccain draw her name out of a hat?

No, he pulled her out of the right-wing's rear.