As the last thousand or so diaries scrolling madly down the list will attest, his choice of VP has generated more buzz than a hornet nest getting hit with a chainsaw.
But one thing that may have gotten lost in all the laughter, the derision, the sheer astonishment, is that John McCain did something with his VP choice that will, in fact, change politics in this country.
What, you probably don't ask, having been thoroughly and completely jaded by the hundreds of thousands of other comments on Palin you've already drowned in?
John McCain, with his choice, made it impossible for either a biracial man or a white woman not to be sitting in the White House in late January of '09.
Sure, she's not the woman any of us would like to see as VP, and he is most certainly not the man we want to see in the President's seat. But the screaming masses of real sexists and racists (and I'm willing to bet many who are one are also the other) now have no major party ticket to vote for that doesn't include either a woman or someone with more melanin than them.
John McCain, with one sentence, has doomed those people to the oblivion of futilely throwing their votes away on third party candidates. In doing so, he's probably done a tremendous favor to the Democrats, since I'm also willing to bet that more sexist/racists had previously been inclined to throw their vote to him. But no longer.
Now their narrow little minds have to weave and dodge through the traffic cones of uncertainty, trying desperately to decide whether they're more racist than sexist, more sexist than racist, or whether they're simply casting a pox on both the Democratic and Republican parties, and slinking off to electoral purgatory.
And I can think of no greater group of people I don't want to see exercising their voting rights than those who think wisdom is imparted by facial hair or a lack of melanin.
I salute you, John McCain. I doubt it's why you did what you did, but you've done a real service to the country here.