Politico: "McCain ad: Palin more qualified than Obama"

[bidenista]

I have no words. Was this their plan all along? To run their VP candidate against our Pres. candidate?

McCain ad: Palin more qualified than Obama
By MIKE ALLEN | 9/3/08 7:21 AM EST

Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, John McCain said he is buying a TV ad arguing that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has more experience than the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama.

In an effort to rev up conservatives, a campaign statement issued a list of critical media mentions that it called “smears” of Palin, who speaks in primetime at the convention on Wednesday night.

The campaign announced: “The McCain campaign will launch a television ad directly comparing Gov. Palin’s executive experience as a governor who oversees 24,000 state employees, 14 statewide cabinet agencies and a $ 10 billion budget to Barack Obama’s experience as a one-term junior senator from Illinois.”...

Source: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13111.html

[BeyondGeography]

1. Dumb...only the fan club will buy that one

They really are running an awful campaign.

[NightWatcher]

2. given that, doesnt she have more experience than McSame. and didnt Bush have a ton of exec exp.?

and how did that work for us?

[emulatorloo]

3. According to McCain's new criteria, McCain is not qualified to be President. Their logic amazes me

Surely they can't possibly believe their own talking points.

[Ashy Larry]

4. Nobody cares about this argument.

This is a distraction. We should focus on the policy differences which are vast. McCain/Palin support policies that are already unpopular, we just need to let people know what their positions are versus the popular policies that Obama/Biden are proposing.

[WinkyDink]

6. Americans care about policy differences? Since when, no, really? Check out what they/we READ.

[Ashy Larry]

9. I get your point but

I think we will have a much easier time winning if we can get people to understand what the policies are. Not get into an esoteric argument about whether experience as a governor is more or less valuable then experience as a legislator. I do think its good to point out that Palin knows nothing about foreign policy, but thats less of an experience question and more of a general competence question (I'm sure there are some Governors who have a lot of foreign policy knowledge). I just think more people would be persuaded by the policies and if you have noticed, that is what Obama and his campaign are focused on. I have talked to several people recently who thought that John McCain was pro-choice and pro-enviroment. This experience argument distracts from the needed work of correcting misinformation. The McCain campaign knows that.

[TheKentuckian]

8. They need to be made to get on issues

and off the lame ass talking points they have constructed.

NO MORE EXPERIENCE TALK!

It allows them to stay off message. What are these "Mavericks" going to do for America other than buck their party and bring reform?

[WinkyDink]

5. Response: "Why Is John McCain Afraid of Comparing Himself to Barack Obama?"

[zbdent]

7. By their own logic ... she's more qualified than John McCain ...

so ... what's she doing as VP???

[Alter Ego]

10. Who will this ad win over?

Certainly not anyone who's not already convinced.