It is becoming increasingly clear that before selecting Sarah Palin to be his running mate John McCain read Supreme Courtship the new comic novel by Christopher Buckley.

Spencerblog is reading it now and enjoying thoroughly for lines like this one:

"... the United States Congress, whose members understand their main job, their highest calling, their truest democratic function, is to take money from other states and funnel it to their own. What greater homage to the Founding Fathers and the men who froze at Valley Forge could there be than a civic center in Tulsa paid for by the taxpayers of Massachussetts?"

As for TV Judge Pepper Cartwright, President Donald P. Vanderdamp asks his steward at breakfast if he is familiar with her court TV reality show.

"Watch it every chance I get, sir."
"What do you think of the judge - Judge Pepper?"
"Oh," Jackson smiles, not servant to president, but man to man, "I like her a whole lot sir. She's a smart lady. She hands it out good. And she's awful..."
"Go ahead, Jackson."
Jackson grinned. "Awful easy on the eyes."

After having two highly qualified Supreme Court nominess torpedoed by a Bidenesque ideologue, Vanderdamp nominates Judge Cartwright and hilarity ensues.

Spencerblog bets McCain calls Palin "Pepper" in private.