The Salt Lake Tribune is running an interesting editorial today calling for women voters to “send a message” about how unqualified to be vice president Sarah Palin is. Click through the jump if you’re wondering what in the world would make a Barack Obama supporter think that anyone else is unqualified for their job.
Palin reminds me of Bush’s pick of lightweight Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court. Those on the ideological right, such as former Bush speechwriter David Frum and conservative activist Linda Chavez, knew that Miers didn’t have the intellectual chops for the job and harangued the administration until she withdrew.
This time, there are no anti-Palin ad campaigns coming from the political right. It apparently cares more about who sits on the Supreme Court than who sits one-malignant-melanoma away from the presidency.
It is not partisan to say that a vice presidential candidate needs to understand this complex, dangerous world with nuance and depth. Palin doesn’t. And it is up to women to vote her back to Alaska, where she can see Russia, but thankfully not attack it.
Dear voting women of the world,
I’m writing on behalf of conservatives everywhere to ask that you do your best to keep talking about how “unqualified” Sarah Palin is to be vice president of the United States. Every day that you say this, voters will remember once again that their only other option is a candidate for president whose resume is thinner than hers.
You say that a “a vice presidential candidate needs to understand this complex, dangerous world,” which I agree with. What I don’t understand is why you would want to bring this up when Barack Obama who once referred to Iran as “tiny” and “not a serious threat” clearly doesn’t understand the dangerous world we live in. But who am I to question your judgment? If you think that reminding voters of Obama’s inexperience and shocking ideas about our dangerous world by talking about Sarah Palin is a good idea, far be it for me to stand in the way!
If Sarah Palin is “unqualified” to be vice president, who in the world is going to think Barack Obama should be president? Of course, your reasons for Palin being “unqualified” really aren’t “reasons” at all. It’s really more of a laundry-list of liberal talking points that have little to no basis in reality. You said that “[o]n Iraq, Palin has conflated what happened on 9/11 with going to war there. Is she really still confused about this?”
Are you really confused about this? Sarah Palin in a speech at her son’s army deployment said they were going to fight the people who attacked on 9/11. Just so we’re clear, al-Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 and al-Qaeda is fighting us in Iraq. You question her understanding of the Iraq war, but it seems that you’re the one that doesn’t know what’s going on over there. I hope though that bringing attention to made-up misunderstanding Sarah Palin has doesn’t remind voters that it is Barack Obama who really doesn’t have a clue as to what’s going on in the Middle East.
So once again, I want to stress how thankful I am that people like you keep bringing up that Sarah Palin is “unqualified” to be vice president. It just serves to remind voters how seriously unqualified your presidential candidate is. And that’s a debate we want to have because after all, it wasn’t us who brought up Obama’s lack of qualifications to be president first. It was him:
