Joe Trippi has had a couple of days to consider John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as running mate, and he has thought better of his initial response.  The man who created the Howard Dean on-line phenomenon warns his fellow Democrats not to underestimate Palin as some hick-town rube.  Instead, Trippi sees McCain’s real purpose:

McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.

The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” and chastise Obama and Democratic vice presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, for their “silence” in taking on corruption in their own party in Illinois, Delaware and Washington, DC.

The McCain campaign intends to claim that “more of the same” in Washington means Barack Obama and Joe Biden and will make the argument that if you want to “shake things up” then McCain and his reform minded running mate from Alaska will get the job done.

My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time, the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first-term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are your really sure that a first-term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot?

Maybe Trippi spent some time at Hot Air this weekend.  After all, I explained this on Friday morning after her selection had been confirmed.  While the Left continued to spin conspiracy theories about Palin’s children and laugh at her for winning a beauty contest as a teen, the mainstream media started to figure out McCain’s purpose the next day.  By that time, we had already shown how Obama’s attacks on Palin’s experience boomerang against his own utter lack of executive, military, and diplomatic experience.

At any rate, this shows that reality has begun to dawn for the Left.  The massive support for Palin on the campaign trail, the enormous fundraising boost, and the sinking poll numbers for Obama point to the conclusion that McCain made a wise choice.  He will attack Obama at his supposed strength and point out what a pair of empty suits the Democratic nominees are on reform and change.

Trippi says that Democrats will make a mistake in ridiculing Palin.  Unfortunately, just like his analysis, it comes at least a day late.