You can hear a pin drop during the McCain speech....

[Danzig]

of course mccain picked palin. she was one of the ones offered, he saw a chance to appeal to women voters, and took it. thing is, i don't think his folks did as good a job checking her out as they claimed, and it turned out to be a horrible choice.
i know some were very concerned when there was talk of lieberman, but i think he'd have been a good choice, and would have shown mccain was what he claimed to be, middle of the road, bipartisan-a lot of indies would have tilted his way.
but he and his advisers thought they needed to appeal to the far right, and now he's lost partly because of that strategy.

but face it....he mainly lost due to the current financial crisis, and because of the sitting, incredibly unpopular president.