Santos-McGarry

In retrospect, given that our dashing, voluble Santos (replete with adoring, hot wife and cute little kids) was already running against the older, freethinking (in reputation, anyway) Vinick, of course it makes sense to complete the script and pick McGarry. (And, note to Biden? Don't take chances. Call your cardiologist.)

I reiterate: Biden's fine by me. But I do wonder whether a dark horse might've been smarter, if only to inject a little more pizzazz into a campaign that seems to have reached wearying levels of media saturation even before the frenzy of the Convention. And I worry: we're undoubtedly a poorer planet for it -- believe me, I wish people talked like that -- but I realized many years ago that we just don't live in a Sorkin universe.