Walter Reed Middle School backdrop to McCain's speech

In light of this strange photo confusion with the Walter Reed Middle School a thought occurred to me – perhaps they actually did vet Gov. Palin, but because their attention to detail is so poor they didn’t find out any of the things that the rest of the blogosphere and media was quickly able to come up with.

A little misspelling here or there….perhaps they interviewed people who know a different Sarah Palin.

Perhaps they got confused and vetted Gov. of Arizona Janet Napolitano instead. Honest mistake – she’s a woman, its McCain’s home state. She’s right below Palin in the alphabetical list of Governors (by state).

It would certainly explain no one showing up in Alaska until the last minute. He had a deadline. He wanted to announce Friday morning to step on Obama’s headlines and wasn’t going to change that.

I can see the staff now when she showed up for the final face to face with McCain and the top aides – “That’s her? Oh, crap! That’s not who we’ve been looking into.”

They’ve been scrambling ever since.