From Fred Kaplan at Slate,

"At times like these, I'm relieved that I don't cover elections. There's bum DNA in my heart, and the agita might send me keeling over.

How else to react to the sight of sophisticated people saying, with impressively straight faces, that Sarah Palin is qualified to be vice president--even president--because she's been the mayor of a town of 6,000 residents (the population of Wasilla when she served there in a job that even she admitted was "not rocket science") and the governor of Alaska, which has only 100 times as many people and a legislature that meets a mere 90 days a year?

...Let's get real. If a Democratic candidate had picked such an off-the-wall running mate, the Republicans--Giuliani, Gingrich, and Gaffney among them--would be howling with derision. And rightly so."

The Democrats did pick an "off-the-wall running mate" for Joe Biden and that man's name is Barack Obama. To the objective observer, he would seem to appear to be less qualified to be President, or for that matter, Vice-President, than Sarah Palin.

To be honest, being mayor or a member of the state legislature is way too Mickey Mouse to be included as a qualification to be President (and, yes, I even said the same thing about Rudy when he ran for President).

However, being mayor of a small town is certainly better preparation for the presidency than being a member of the state legislature because it's an executive position.

Moreover, being governor of Alaska is unquestionably better preparation to be President than merely serving as a senator. Sure, Palin has only been there two years, but Barack has served for four years, two of which have been spent running for President. So again, advantage Palin.

So, who's more qualified to be President? The answer is Sarah Palin -- and she's only McCain's VP while Barack Obama is in the top slot. The idea that liberals like Kaplan are so oblivious to that fact that they actually want to aim arguments at her that better apply to the guy at the top of their own ticket is almost startling.

Are they simply that oblivious to reality, that dismissive of a "mere" conservative woman in the VP slot, or are they just so arrogant that they believe they can play this little game without the "rubes" in flyover country ever catching on? Whatever the case may be, the dumbest attack they could make against Palin is that she's "too inexperienced" to be Vice-President in an election where the two people battling for the presidency are John McCain and Barack Obama.