Wallsten disses McCain's VP pick

LAT reporter (perhaps columnist would more accurate) Peter Wallsten expresses his shock at McCain picking Sarah Palin for VP. Wallsten calls her obscure and largely unknown and suggests that her selection calls into question McCain's judgment and motives. McCain picked Palin solely to get more female votes, Wallsten says, and he failed to put the country's needs before his own. Wallsten adds that Democrats on Friday -- he doesn't identify the Democrats which could mean he's talking about himself and his significant other -- argued that McCain passed up more qualified candidates such as Olympia Snow, as if the Republican Party wouldn't rebel if he put a left-wing RINO on the ticket. Wallsten also quotes one Matthew Dowd as saying: "Americans don't necessarily want somebody in a time of crisis to be overly emotional." Whether Dowd was talking about McCain or Palin, that's a stupid thing to say. 

What does an LAT reporter know about VP picks? And why does he think Palin is obscure and largeley unknown? Wallsten may know nothing about Palin but Bill Kristol and Larry Kudlow have been pushing her selection for months and Maria Bartiromo interviewed her for a September television special only days before her selection. Wallsten apparently lives a sheltered life.