John McCain says that Sarah Palin is the most qualified Vice President candidate in recent history. Really? More qualified than Dick Cheney? Than George H.W. Bush? While one can disagree with the policies of these two Republican VPs, they were manifestly hyper-qualified, by virtue of both intelligence and previous government experience as Congressmen, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director, Ambassador to China and the United Nations, White House Chief of Staff, among other positions.
This is objectively an absurdly incorrect statement. What could he possibly mean by this? Will he simply say anything to get elected, no matter how disconnected from reality?
Or did he possibly mean that because she doesn't have any experience in Washington at all, that that makes her the most qualified? That is at least plausible. I know fed-up ordinary people, sick of politics as usual, who would buy that argument. (You know who I mean, don't you.)
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