Republican VP Nominee Vetted The Same Way Stalkers Find Things Out—By Googling Her

Googling someone has a certain creepish or egocentric quality about it, doesn’t it? You’re either G’ing yourself (sound so dirty) to see where you come up in case that job you want is actually interested in you; you’re said job snooping around your internet history; or you’re stalking someone you just met at a bar. So sure, when the John McCain camp started vetting Sarah Palin to be his Vice Presidential nominee, a Google search was in order–but it shouldn’t have been the only investigating they did before naming her, as the LA Times reports. If they actually talked to people, maybe they would’ve found out about her preggers daughter… or that she was (still is?) part of a Alaskan secessionist group… or that the hockey mom used to have really, really bad hockey hair.

One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate’s closest supporters as “keeping their fingers crossed” in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin’s potential pitfalls. Just over a week ago, Palin was not on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, the Republican said.

We’re not going to get into a political debate here, so we’re just going to say this–if we were going to Google Sarah Palin, it’d be to find the photos of her in a bear-fur bikini, just like Wilma wore in The Flintstones, not to make sure she was fit to be the second most important person in the world.
With Palin revelations, McCain’s gamble is clearer [LA Times]
Image [ABC News]