“This election is not about issues,” said Davis [Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain]. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

I’m sure Davis and McCain would like this election to be about how people feel about the candidates and not the issues, so that “blah, blah, blah, I’m a POW” would win the election, but it should be about the issues. There are a lot of things the next President is going to have to face and deal with, and wouldn’t it be nice if we picked someone up to the task? Or at least knew where they stood on things? Hopefully voters other than myself are as concerned about the issues as I am.

From the same article: Davis also said that Palin’s acceptance speech “is critically important to defining who she is to the American public.” But then, there’s this:

As for the speech itself, Davis said a generic, “masculine” speech was being prepared before the pick was made and, now that Palin is the choice, she is adapting the speech to her own needs and personality.

How is a speech, generically prepared before anyone was selected as the running mate, going to define who Palin is? And is she incapable of writing her own speech defining herself rather than plugging in things Mad Libs style? Inquiring minds want to know!