Lies and cover-ups

Are much easier to do than vetting someone.

emptywheel:

Lies and Cover-Up as Governing Strategy

And so, Palin's selection followed by the cover-up says more than just that McCain will make rash, dangerous decisions because he hasn't done his homework. It also suggests how he would "live with the consequences" of those ill-thought out decisions if he were President. He'd lie and obstruct his way out of them.

I guess that shouldn't be a surprise. That's not much different than the way the Administration has covered for its poor decision to invade Iraq, to make up stories about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, to sponsor whitewash investigations about the intelligence leading to Iraq, to even impede the investigations into the corrupt execution of the Iraq war. And it's similar to the way McCain got out of his own biggest ethical morasse in the Keating scandal--to PR his way out of his own failures.

But the Iraq parallel demonstrates the problem with such a governing strategy: no matter how you try to spin it, such ill thought out decisions can results in thousands of deaths, not to mention the financial bankrupting of the country.

McCain's campaign has just exacerbated their failure to vet, it seems, by embracing a strategy of lies and cover-up.