Agree Octo, I'd file this under the question "McCains judgement?". Picking his VP candidate was one of the more important decisions he had to make during this campaign, and Palin was the best he could do? That's just pathetic.
What made the Bush government so terrible was for a large part their way of picking completely incompetent people into positions of power for completely political reasons. It seems we would be seeing a lot of that from McCain too, which is really really bad. It seems he puts policies before qualifications. This is not always bad, but when you take it into extremes like this, it tends to lead to really bad things. (See: Bush regime 2000->)
If a politician can't find competent people with reasonably similar policies to work with, it's usually because his or her policies are not something competent people would agree with.
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