Double Standards - It's Just Politics, or Is It?...

Senator McCain announced today that his pick for Vice President is the current Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin.

Almost immediately, both the Obama campaign and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued statements condemning Governor Palin as unqualified and having no experience for the position.

The evening before on the last day of the Democratic Party convention, former Vice President Al Gore assured the audience that while Barack Obama, like President Lincoln before him, has “no experience” prior to his election, Obama will go on to become a great President just as Lincoln was. Further, he said, that Senator Biden, as Obama’s running mate for Vice President, having years of experience will be of great “help” to Obama.

If the issue of experience wasn’t to be believed as critical for the Democrats before with regard to Obama, why is it so suddenly now a pertinent issue for them to apply to the Republicans with respect to Governor Palin?

Of course, Pelosi and her Democrat cohorts will try to press the “one heartbeat away” argument for Governor Palin – but if the same standard is applied equally to Biden, consider for a moment that as a Washington insider for the past 3 decades, he is every bit a part of the very problem that Barack Obama fervently wants us to believe we need to change with Obama’s election.

And when you get right down to it, other than rhetoric and the smoke and mirrors guise of appearing to be a “moderate” politician, what “change” is it that Barack Obama has accomplished so far? Based upon his voting record, he has the singular distinction of being the Senate’s Number 1 radical liberal, even beating out the self proclaimed “Socialist” Senator, Bernie Sanders from Vermont – and Joe Biden? Well, he’s the Number 3 liberal in the Senate – though they make the claim, they hardly represent the vast moderate electorate that makes up America!

Neither Obama or Biden have any tangible executive experience; in that regard, Governor Palin already has more “hands on” executive experience than either or even both of them put together!

As far as succession is concerned, a Washington “outsider” such as Governor Palin with a clean slate would seem to be more in keeping anyway with Obama’s desire for change, than a haggard and compromised Washington “insider” such as Joe Biden, who according to his friend, the former Democratic Mayor of New York, Ed Koch says of Biden, “brings his own baggage” to the ticket.

So as a practical matter what’s better for America – a President with no experience dependent upon on a Vice President who’s already a compromised “insider”; or, a President with vast experience assisted by a capable “outsider” Vice President with a real executive resume?