Palin and McCain’s Shotgun Marriage
Sep 7th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: OpinionFrank Rich: Sarah Palin makes John McCain look even older than he is. And he seemed more than willing to play that part on Thursday night.
By the time he slogged through his nearly 50-minute acceptance speech — longer even than Barack Obama’s — you half-expected some brazen younger Republican (Mitt Romney, perhaps?) to dash onstage to give him a gold watch and the bum’s rush.