You're Kidding... Right?

So John McCain has decided that the way to go after a dream ticket like Obama/Biden is to pretend like Sarah Palin is somehow the equivalent of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

To quote a line from Firesign Theater, "It's an interesting approach... but it isn't us."

On Wednesday night Senator Clinton brought her historic campaign to a close when she came to the floor of the Democratic Convention, took her name out of nomination and asked that the delegates nominate Barack Obama by acclamation. It was an amazing political moment, a classy act, and shrewd politics. It was the act of someone who knows what she's doing and has been doing it for most of her life.

To the contrary, John McCain has just chosen a woman whose entire political career consists of being the mayor of a town of less than 10,000 and being Governor, for all of eighteen months, of Alaska, a state with a population (670,000) smaller than most large cities in the U.S. THIS is her entire experience, and THIS is who John McCain puts up as some sort of equivalent to Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

There are plenty of people who I am sure will fall for this ruse, but please, let us not fall into the stupid argument that there's anything about Sarah Palin that makes her the political equal of anyone on the Democratic ticket. The campaign that has been ranting about Barack's inexperience to govern has just provided us with a candidate for Vice President who could not be LESS suited to high office. It's too bad that John couldn't have tapped the small though significant list of far more qualified Republican women... But those women likely would have been too much for him.

Nice try John... and it IS indeed nice to see the Republicans nominate a woman for the nation's second highest office.

Next time, could you maybe nominate someone actually CAPABLE of holding it?