Great Cafferty File Question, Does John McCain undercut his own message.....

[Heather MC]

FROM CNN’s Jack Cafferty:

http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/29/how-can-gop-top-dems-convention/#comment-529415

All we have heard from John McCain for months is, “Barack Obama is too young. Barack Obama is too inexperienced to be commander-in-chief. Who do you want answering the phone in the White House at three a.m.? Blah, blah, blah.”

So what does McCain do? He picks someone to be his running mate who is even younger than Barack Obama and has less experience.

Sara Palin is 44 – Obama is 47. Sara Palin is in her first term as governor of Alaska, a state that has 13 people and some caribou. Obama is a member of the United States Senate from Illinois.

It’s not a big deal, except for this: If McCain wins, he will be the oldest person ever inaugurated for a first term at 72. He has a history of health problems that include bouts of melanoma, a potentially deadly form of skin cancer. It is reasonable to consider that McCain’s running mate could be called upon to be our president.

Meanwhile, some may see this as a move for McCain to attract disaffected women who voted for Hillary Clinton and aren’t yet behind Obama. But that might not work for a few reasons: Palin, like McCain, is pro-life. Also, she might be a woman, but she’s no Hillary Clinton – when it comes to her experience or her ideology.

At some point, voters will have to ask themselves who they would want running the country if it ever became necessary: Joe Biden or Sarah Palin.

Here’s my question to you: Does John McCain undercut his own message by naming someone even younger and more inexperienced than Barack Obama to be his running mate?

Tune in to the Situation Room at 4pm to see if Jack reads your answer on air.

And, we love to know where you’re writing from, so please include your city and state with your comment.

Filed under: 2008 Election • John McCain • Sarah Palin

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. McCain is so senile that he forgot he ever said that.

and if he forgot, it never happened.

[Overseas]

2. Today John Sidney McCain III is seventy THREE !!

Yes he sure does undercut his message by choosing Palin whose experience is limited to Alaska.

[demo dutch]

3. This sums up the MSM GOP pundits sofar, Joe S and Imus pretty suggested the same this AM

[Supersedeas]

4. McCain probably needs to re-tool his message.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Couple of good responses from OP article

Christine writes:
I am a true-blue Hillary supporter, but I am sure Hillary did not mean to put 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling so that a pro-life, pro-gun, home-schooling nobody from the frozen tundra of Alaska could slide in. Go Obama.

Doug writes:
Had I known that being a hockey mom, being under 45, and having virtually no political experience was the desired VP running mate for McCain, I would have asked my wife to throw her hat into the ring… McCain has just handed the presidency to Obama.

[Phredicles]

6. No question that, if Palin is qualified, then Obama is ultra-mega-qualified.