The McCain campaign has more or less most all it’s eggs in one basket: Obama is too inexperienced to be the president. That’s been the dominant message of the whole campaign. But there is no stronger endorsement for the presidency that a presidential candidate can give than to select someone as their VP. By selecting her as his VP, McCain is saying, “If I can’t be President you are the person, out of the entire nation, I think would do the best job as President.” That’s a much stronger endorsement than any voter (who must select from available choices) can give a given candidate. Either McCain is knowingly not putting the best interest of country first, or he is giving an unsurpassed vote of confidence to Palin’s ability to be President (and not just to be a president, but to be the best president possible other than himself).

That means that, in McCain’s view, experience is not a necessary qualification for the presidency. Yet that’s the polar opposite of the assertion he’s based his entire campaign on up to this point. When he’s reiterated over and over that experience is an integral qualification for the presidency, then suggests that the best candidate for the job (other than himself) is a politician who has none, who is really being the hypocrite?