Move over 'New Coke' guy, Neville Chamberlain and the brainiac that thought Michael Vick was a better draft pick than LaDainian Tomlinson, there's a new clubhouse leader for really BAD decision making: John McCain.
It wasn't enough that the 72 year old cancer survivor chose a completely unqualified governor -- from the most sparsley populated state in the nation -- to take over from him when he unexpectedly drops dead, he did so with full knowledge that said Governor's 17 year old daughter is knocked up. This girl has been pregnant for more than 25 percent of her mother's ENTIRE tenure as governor.
Governor Sarah Palin (as in "she's palin' in comparison to everyone else McCain was considering) says she's happy that she's going to be a grandma. Well, isn't that sweet. How does it look when the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States can't even get her daughter to practice the sexual abstinence her party insists is the only way to prevent unwanted teen pregnancies? Maybe she told her daughter that the stork brings babies. Considering Palin believes creationism should be taught in school, it wouldn't suprise me if little Bristol Palin thought some great big bird would deposit a precious bundle of joy on her door step eight months after she missed her first period. John McCain decided that Sarah Palin would bring Hillary Clinton voters to the GOP ticket. What does that tell you?
Of course, this is only the latest in a string of mind-bogglingly BAD decisions by John McCain.
Remember, he insisted Iran was training Al Qaeda for missions in Iraq even after Joe Lieberman corrected this obvious gaffe. He also claimed the names of his squad-mates he gave his interrogaters in Vietman were actually those of the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive line (a claim he made in an interview with Pittsburgh media) but in his book said the names were the offensive line of the Green Bay Packers. He has mistaken Somalia for Sudan, Russia for Germany, Czechoslovakia for the Czech Republic and/or Slovakia and swaps Sunni and Shia as if they are interchangable.
This isn't even to mention his really BAD policy decisions: keeping American soldiers in Iraq for 100 years, making the tax-cuts-for-the-wealthiest-one-percent permanent, advocating more right-wing Supreme Court justices, pushing for billions in tax breaks for oil companies that are reaping record profits and supporting the failed administration of George W. Bush on torture and wiretapping (just to name a few).
Of course, it was Cindy McCain who explained why Sarah Palin has sufficient foreign policy experience to be on the GOP ticket... she said "Alaska is close Russia." Doesn't that say it all? Not only is this exactly how Republicans think, this is how they believe we think. They're betting that we are as stupid as they are. That's a really BAD decision.