Political Bloviation

dnA riffs on Jonah Goldberg, but I find a more important point in the tail end of the commentary regarding the media’s lack of scrutiny of GOP candidate’s inexperience:

I Wonder Who Jonah Goldberg’s Favorite Candidate Is? - The Carpetbagger Report
I also feel obliged to note that while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both faced criticism based on their “lack of experience,” Fred Thompson’s lack of qualifications, his one and a half term spent in elected office, have drawn less scrutiny. Likewise, Rudy Giuliani’s campaign may be plummeting to Earth, but it’s not because the press did an effective job of vetting his claims of “foreign policy experience”.

Questions about the qualifications of Republican candidates are better discerned not by their expertise in matters of policy, but by the width of their shoulders or what they smell like.

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