McCain compares Palin to Truman

[TheIndependent]

yeah, because when I hear Palin interviewed, she sound JUST like Truman... what's McCain smoking?

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081001/D93HS8980.html


The Republican candidate noted that when Truman took office, there were fears that he was not qualified for the job - which some have said about McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, 44, a first-term governor from Alaska who had been on the city council and the mayor of a small town.


However, Palin and Truman have little in common. Truman, a World War I artillery captain and then a businessman, was an elected administrative judge in Jackson County, Mo., for about 12 years before serving as a U.S. senator from Missouri for 10 years. He was Roosevelt's running mate in the 1944 campaign and, nearly 61, became president after less than three months as vice president.

[Uther]

I think he means that if she becomes President, she'll nuke somebody.

[JP]

Yet another McCain flip-flop.

Just the other day he was comparing Palin to Reagan!

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/McCain_compares_Palin_to_Reagan_and_Clinton_decrie s_gotcha_journalism.html
Sticking up for his beleaguered running mate, John McCain compared Sarah Palin tonight to Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, two other governors who were also initially dismissed by some when they sought national office.

"This is not the first time that I've seen a governor being questioned by some quote, 'expert' McCain said in a side-by-side interview with Palin on CBS's Evening News. "I remember that Ronald Reagan was a cowboy. President Clinton was a governor of a very small state that had 'no experience' either."


oh yeah, and Clinton. I wonder if he has any idea WHO that woman is.

[Mikkel_Knight]

Thing with Clinton is - he had charisma unseen since Reagan, and (as I recall) didn't seem like he was in over his head. Sure, I remember the fun poked at him because he was just a Governor from Arkansas, but there was some magnetism about him. Palin doesn't have the slightest bit of that now that the shiny new-ness of the Convention has worn off and all we've got left to look at are gaffe after gaffe

[procrastinator]

The other thing about the Clinton comparison is that Clinton had proven intellectual capability -- Yale Law, a Rhodes Scholar. While he and Palin were both "just" governors, that's where the similarity ends. Similar executive experience, perhaps, but vastly different potential.

[JP]

It's not just mental horsepower that separates Palin from Clinton. It's that Clinton (and Reagan) actually cared about this stuff. They were engaged with current events. SCOTUS decisions and whatnot interested them. Probably even before they were governors.

Palin may not be Rhodes scholar material, but she isn't a dimwit. But she also isn't knowledgeable, and this stuff doesn't engage her interest enough for her to get and stay knowledgeable.