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Rudy’s Logic – McCain’s Executive (In)Experience

Posted by TONY CAMPBELL, Columnist in Politics.
Sep 4th, 2008 | Comments

As I watched Rudy Giuliani’s speech last night, something he said made an impression with me that may have escaped the notice of other people, the fact that Governor Sarah Palin has more executive experience than all three of the men from both parties.

Giuliani stated “as far as I’m concerned, the first day she was mayor, she had more experience as an executive than — than Obama and Biden combined.” Well, John McCain does not have one day of executive experience either.

According to Rudy’s logic, Sarah Palin is the most experienced person on the Republican ticket…so why isn’t she running for President instead of John McCain?

  • pico13
    The GOP gave up on consistent reasoning and logical arguments 5 days ago. From here on out it's all going to be talking points that are divorced from reality, massive spin, and ad hominem attacks. I really think it'll make 2004 look civil and high-minded.
  • WilsonMichael68
    Great article and interesting points.
    It's very interesting to see what impact it will have on the polls.
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  • JSpencer
    After watching the spectacle last night (I should have gotten the sleep I needed instead) it became clear it didn't matter how much executive experience either Palin or McCain has because all they're going to do is follow in the footsteps of George W. Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney anyway. They profess to love America (a creepy, exclusive sort of America) but what good is their rhetoric about loving the country when all they want to do is attack, attack, attack and continue dividing it? Haven't we had enough of that? If they truly loved America they would have all stayed home.
  • Leonidas
    JSpenser,

    Still trying to run against Bush eh? To bad he isn't running.

    If Obama loved America, he would have been the one who stayed home, and let Hilliary or Biden take the nomination and put America ahead of his personal jouney of discovery.

    Still not too late, all he need do is step down to the Vice Presidency and let Biden take the top spot to make the ticket 10 times stronger than it currently is.
  • elrod
    Biden is perfect where he is: as VP. He is not inspiring enough for the top. I'd vote for a Biden/Obama ticket, but I doubt it would have much appeal.
  • DLS
    Huckabee's speech was great, Guiliani's speech was great, Palin's speech was great.

    No wonder the lefties on here are lying and spinning like _little_, pathetic _little_ dust devils today.

    Why don't you hypocrites get real and honest and insist Obama exchange places with Biden if experience is so important? [dusting hands]
  • Jim_Satterfield
    Their speeches were great for the base. Not so much for anyone outside of it. A hardcore ideologue like DLS is incapable of comprehending that he is not in fact representative of the rest of the country.
  • SteveK
    DLS said: "No wonder the lefties on here are lying and spinning like _little_, pathetic _little_ dust devils today."

    On Oct. 22, 2006, the Anchorage Daily News asked Palin and the other candidates, “Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?”

    Her response: “Yes. I would like to see Alaska’s infrastructure projects built sooner rather than later. The window is now — while our congressional delegation is in a strong position to assist.”

    Palin’s support of the earmark for the bridge was applauded by the late Lew Williams Jr., the retired Ketchikan Daily News publisher who wrote columns on the topic.

    Williams wrote on Oct. 29, 2006, that Palin was the only gubernatorial candidate that year who consistently supported the Gravina Island Bridge, the Knik Arm Bridge and improvements to the Parks Highway.


    Hey DLS... your fly's open.

    UPDATE:

    Here's the link:

    Sarah Palin supported Ketchikan ‘bridge to nowhere’ during 2006 race for Alaska governor

    http://www.newsminer.com/news/2008/aug/31/sarah...
  • DLS... it's good to see you've found your messiah.

    I guess when you were mocking Obama supporters for their hero worship, you were just being jealous.
  • Rambie
    Poor McCain, he's just the pony for the GOP to use to keep the white house this election. They'll push him out for Palin, or someone else, in 2012 that the GOP can really trust.

    The GOP has never trusted McCain, just look at what they said about him in the past. DLS, and other right-wingers here never liked McCain until he was the candidate. Now they're just going to use him to ride into the oval office with a ultra-conservative VP riding shotgun.
  • DLS
    More misconduct from the other side, I see. [sigh]

    Leaving the mischaraterizations about me, from those who should know better --

    The McCain-Palin ticket is not "far right" or "ultra-conservative" or anything like it.

    And what kind of people would be most upset by that, anyway, even if it were true?

    [gloating over bonus points scored]
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