Jennifer Rubin writes:
Obama and his supporters never tire of telling us that we should assess his ability to govern as president by his performance in the campaign. Fine — let’s do it.
Has he shown grace under pressure? Not exactly. Has he controlled his own message? Nope. Did his own personnel pick (the serially obnoxious Joe Biden) set this slow-motion pile up in motion? Yup.
So here’s the rub: Palin has energized the GOP base, driven women and independent voters into McCain’s camp, and flummoxed the MSM, but her greatest accomplishment has been to unveil the Democrats’ true liability.
That basic liability has nothing to do with the fact that they are ultra-liberals and lack credibility on national security issues. Their biggest problem is that they have never led, never managed, never navigated during a crisis, and as a result never demonstrated calm under fire. It is one thing for the GOP candidates to state that in a speech — as many did at the Republican National Convention — but it is quite another to see it being played out before your very eyes.
The Democratic primary systematically eliminated their most experienced candidates, leaving the three least experienced, then the two least, before settling on the least experienced of all, a man who has never been in a seriously contested race. By taking advantage of the Democratic primary’s bizarre rules, he was able to win the nomination despite losing every big state to Hillary Clinton. It seemed inevitable that Obama’s inexperience would show as soon as his campaign faced adversity, but he never really faced adversity until now.
(Via Instapundit.)
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