This blog's name comes from former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan's off-camera description of the process that John McCain employed in choosing little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate in the 2008 presidential campaign.
Before becoming a full-time candidate, Christine O'Donnell crusaded
as a religious right activist, including a national tour proclaiming
that homosexuality was curable. Living then in Los Angeles, O'Donnell
hired a young spokesman for her organization, The Savior's Alliance for
Lifting the Truth (SALT).
That young spokesman, Wade Richards, had supposedly been cured of his homosexuality through a sort of evangelical boot camp. Soon after touring the country with O'Donnell, he came (back) out of the closet.