There seems to be an odd Republican talking point about our nation’s recent history of a governor winning the White House (Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush) - two different McCain surrogates made the same point today in separate interviews on MSNBC (apparently MSNBC didn’t think much of the remarks as I was not able to find either video on their site). While the focus of both campaigns and the media has finally shifted to the Economy, the wisdom of the Palin pick continues to be questioned, today from within the Republican Party by Senator Chuck Hagel.
Hearing these remarks the fist time caught my attention. Hearing the same remarks a second time made me curious. A brief web search took me to a post on a DNC blog, headlined “Record of Republican Governors as Presidents” which I was more surprised to see was dated yesterday than that it was there at all. Was the DNC posting part of an attempt to control the Qualification Narrative and were today’s remarks the Republican response? Were the remarks independent of the posting and only an attempt to futher the myth of Governor Palin’s political experience and qualifications to be next in line to the Presidency?
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