Political Training Wheels

It looks as though Gov. Who? won't be doing major media interviews without her chaperone, Sen. McLame. Noticing that evil, mean ol' Katie Couric drew some catastrophic material out of his running mate in recent interviews, McLame decided to accompany her and make sure she stayed on the maverick reservation and was defended from mean ol' Katie. Imagine (shiver) if she became President and had to face down those real meanies Ahmadinejad or Kim Il Jong. She won't just be able to read off of a teleprompter.

This is what political training wheels look like.

Job Interview

Yesterday, ABC's Charlie Gibson gave Gov. Who? her first real job interview, since McMaverick didn't do an adequate job himself. The verdict? Well, she had no clue about the main foreign policy doctrine that her party's President has operated under since 2002. She also thinks it would be grand to stick a thumb in Russia's eye by having Georgia (and Ukraine) in NATO. Thus, the next time Saakashvili sends troops into South Ossetia, and the Russians react, we can go to war with the Russkies! And then maybe Iran!

But don't take our biased view that she bombed by simply repeating stock, practiced responses to almost every question. A cursory view of wingnut websites (no links) shows that they are in a worried tizzy that Gibson would ask Who? such impertinent foreign policy questions. They know she didn't cut it, but they're blaming the interviewer and the questions. "Let's talk about lipstick on a pig!"