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Doom For McCain

Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain?s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain's age raised the stakes on this issue.

As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.

And it?s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O?Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She?ll already be up with her baby.)

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on August 29, 2008 (boomark / email).