"I Think About Whether That Person Who I Select Would Be Most Prepared To Take My Place."

            John "DoubleTalk" McBush III said that to CNN's Dana Bash in April. 

     So a right-wing Alaskan idealogue with a focus-group vagina is the result of McBush's "experience" and "judgement"?  
     I never thought I'd quote Ronald Reagan, but I also never thought that Britney Spears' Mom would be the VP pick on the 2008 GOP ballot.

     But in his 1991 memoir, "An American Life", Reagan chimed in on Walter Mondale's choice of Geraldine Ferraro as the Democratic vice-presidential choice back in 1984.  

     Take it away, Gipper:

     "I believe that someday we are going to have a woman president, possibly during my life, and I've often thought the best way to pave the way for this was to first nominate and elect a woman as vice-president. But I think Mondale made a serious mistake when he picked Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate. In my view, he guessed wrong in deciding to take a congresswoman that almost nobody had ever heard of and try to put her in line for the presidency ... I don't know who among the Democrats might have been a better choice, but it was obvious Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro simply because he believed there was a 'gender gap' where I was concerned and she was a woman." 

     Here's Sarah Palin, just one month ago:

     “As for that VP talk all the time, I’ll tell you, I still can’t answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I’m used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration. We want to make sure that that VP slot would be a fruitful type of position, especially for Alaskans and for the things that we’re trying to accomplish up here for the rest of the U.S., before I can even start addressing that question.”

     You couldn't make this shit up.

     This is your country.