This is the way McCain chooses a Vice President?

Is McCain taking this nomination seriously? I mean for real. He has said odd things such as, "We are just having fun" and now this mess. Did he ever expect to be a serious candidate after Bush/Cheney ravaged the nation and its assets?

...A Republican with ties to the McCain campaign said the team of a dozen communications operatives and lawyers assigned to vet Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until last Friday - a day before presidential nominee Senator John McCain announced her as his running mate.
McCain had his first interview with her on the Friday and "offered her the job moments later", the newspaper said....