Scholars question Palin credentials - Fred Barbash and David Mark - Politico.com

Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.

So unconventional was McCain’s choice that it left students of the presidency literally “stunned,” in the words of Joel Goldstein, a St. Louis University law professor and scholar of the vice presidency. “Being governor of a small state for less than two years is not consistent with the normal criteria for determining who’s of presidential caliber,” said Goldstein.

This is an excellent sign that the choice is correct — dipshit poli-sci dorks, ’students of the presidency’ no less, are stunned. I really like how all the elitism is oozing out of the tranzis, too — ’small state’??? Go piss up a rope, you blockheads…take a lint roller to your mortarboard or something. Dust off the diplomas on the wall, for the next visit from a moron journalist. Maybe look at a map, if you can find one.

Oh, a thought occurs — if the vice-presidency is, in the parlance of the times, ‘a bucket of warm spit’ — well, tell me what it means to be a scholar of the vice-presidency. Do you have to wait for a scholar of the presidency to die before you get to do something besides attend funerals of big donors?

FunctionalAmbivalent: Because the Way You Get Your Relationship With the Washington Media Off to a Really Good Start Is To Lie To Them, Right Off the Bat

Mass media careers are made chasing down dirt, and you know every reporter in the world understands that knocking a V.P. candidate out of the box can mean the difference between a career of page three bylines in Des Moines and a permanent seat next to David Gergen on CNN’s election night panel of experts.

Let me see if I can think of a couple of incidents in the news recently where “every reporter in the world” failed utterly to do what Tom is suggesting they do, ever & always. A guy whose name rhymes with Kohn Kedwards — that really got the mass media moving, looking for that seat next to Gergen, huh? How about a guy whose name rhymes with Jill Jayers? The dirt’s sure been flying over that one, right?

Spare us, Tommy, old bean. We can see who the mass media is in the bag for, and that’s why there are hundreds of them flying to Alaska right now. Meanwhile, the LA Times officially muzzles their ever-alert attack dogs to help out Kohn, and the Messiah bluffs and bullies his way through Jayers with a wink and a nod from your Gergen-wannabe pals in the guild.