Presidential candidate John McCain had met with his VP-nomination apparently only once before -- Sarah simply appeared like a rabbit from a magicians hat, or a bunny from a cake.
Perhaps his biggest blunder was claiming that the economy was safe and sound less than a day after Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch had disappeared from the map of Manhattan.
The flagship healthcare reform has ground to a halt, and his actual achievements in foreign policy have not stood up to the lofty rhetoric of his speeches.