McCain senior advisor: "We never used experience as the big argument"

By GottaLaff

I am now officially overqualified to be vice president. Yesterday, I discovered that by living in close proximity to Mexico, I have foreign policy experience. Today I discovered that by having raised teenage twins, I should be ready to jump right into the role of president of the good ol' U.S.A.:

"They had to pivot away from experience," said Republican consultant John Weaver, a former McCain advisor. "In a change election, they have to give that up now."

As recently as Wednesday, in the midst of the Democratic National Convention, a McCain television ad dismissed Obama as "dangerously unprepared to be president." But by this weekend, McCain senior advisor Charles Black was downplaying the idea that experience had ever been a central McCain theme. "We never used experience as the big argument," he said.

What?! You mean...? But I...? What the...? All those ads.... ? When did...? And that celebrity label was.... ?? How could they be so hypocr...?

And Sunday in St. Paul, the site of this week's Republican National Convention, House GOP leader John A. Boehner dismissed the importance of experience.

Boehner dismissed it too? Have they all gone mad? What happened to good old fashioned smearing? Where did all that derision of Obama's infantdom go? Oh I know! I get it now: It's because Sarah Louise Palin came along! You don't have to tell me something thrice (and yes, I just wanted to say "thrice")!

Boehner:

"We've all started new jobs from time to time in our career," he said. "And most of you can remember the first day that you spent on almost every one of those new jobs. Because when you got it, you thought, 'Oh my God, how am I going to do this?'

"Nobody's qualified on the first day," he continued. "I don't care whether it's Barack Obama or whether it's John McCain sitting in the White House."

Yeah, yeah, sure, sure, no biggie. Ya gets into the White House, ya picks up a few pointers, and ya deals with a few Ahmadinejads without a hitch... Easy as pie. Why, it's just like learning to ride a Segway.

Tamar Fenton, 45, of suburban Minneapolis, said she admired Palin, a mother of five, and was not bothered by the governor's relative lack of experience. "If you can go up against a teenaged kid," said Fenton, "you could go up against a world leader."

Nevertheless, Fenton said, she could not support a candidate such as Palin who opposes abortion rights and gun control.

Note to self: Next time I have to go up against a world leader, call my twins and thank them for preparing me.