John Tracy for Governor

I'm just throwing it out there. Palin wins her bid for Veep, Parnell takes the House seat...

Colberg ain't got nothing on JT.

Jumping the Barracuda

Wow. What can I say? I moved 3,000 miles to get away from the wacky world that is Alaska and here it is back on my doorstep.

It seems I can't swing a dead cat in the office without catching a, "...and she sold the jet on eBay." or "I just can't vote for a woman who went back to work two days after giving birth to a child with Down syndrome." (It's refreshing to work somewhere where people admit to having political views before finishing two pitchers at Moose's Tooth.)

Nevertheless, it was an amazing "Hail Sarah" pass by the McCain campaign. In my incubator of jaded newsies and Alaska aficionados, the move has played as a last-ditch effort by a 72-year-old who can't raise his arms above his head to comb his own hair and doesn't use the Internet.

But it turns out from the public radio shows I listen to, the move may be working.

Still, I don't think Chelsea Clinton could have delivered a moment as fantastic as this: