If they get the lie out soon enough, and have it repeated often enough, these Rovians operate under the assumption that the American voter is too stupid to remember anything from American History.
Let's review the Executive Experience of the Presidents in the last half of the 20th century in order to determine the bullshit lie they are spouting:
Start with Harry Truman, a men's strore owner for a few years before the Depression, had no Executive Experience at all. Yet history shows he made some excellent decisions and achieved greatness in the eyes of its citizens.
Lyndon Baines Johnson started out as a school teacher and then became a professional politician, He had "0" Executive Experience, and his results reflect that.
But Richard M Nixon also had "0" Executive Experience and widely popular with Favorability numbers in the mid-60's, until Watergate unravelled.
Jimmy Carter had commanded a nuclear sub, and had been Governor of Georgia so he brought Executive Experience to the White House, and it didn't help him a damn bit.
Now another President who had some experience was Ronald Reagan and while he's seen as "Saint Ronnie" by the Right, a good case can be made that ALL our current problems stem from what was done by his advisers.
George H.W. Bush's only Executive Experience was when he was Chairman of the Republican National Committee - 2 years. He was the head of the CIA longer than that.
Bill Clinton had plenty of Executive Experience but only as the Governor a small state. His decisions over his terms as President were first-rate, popular and very effective. Balanced against that were more than a decade of incredibly poor personal decisions so it's hard to tell how much that experience set him up to fail.
Chimpy's resume looked great, Harvard Business School, entrepruneur in the oil business, Managing Partner of a successful baseball team and the Governorship of Texas. On paper, he's the best of the bunch. None the less, he will go down in history as the Worst President Ever.
Now, just for comparison let's review Obama's Executive Experience. I'm just going to a brief resume and let you decide....
Barack Obama's resume
Studied two years at Occidental College on a scholarship
Transfered to Columbia University in NYC - majored in political science with a specialty in International Relations. Graduated with a B.A. from Columbia in 1983.
Worked at the Business International Corporation for a year and then at NYPIRG ( both non-profits) for 2 years before moving to Chicago.
Worked Chicago from 1985-1988 as Director of the Developing Communities Project - a church based community organization containing 8 Catholic Parishes - DCP set up job training and college prep tutorial programs and tenant rights seminars.
Entered Harvard Law School in 1988-1991 Editor of Harvard Law Review- Elected President of Harvard Law Review in 1990 graduated in 1991
Director Illinios Project Vote 1992 - a voter registration Drive registering African Americans to vote in Illinios.
University of Chicago Law School - 1992-2004 Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law while doing pre bono work in civil rights law and later became a partner in a law firm specializing in civil rights.
ILLINOIS State Senate from 1996-2004
US Senator 2004-present . Serves on Foreign Relations,Environment Public Works,Veterans Affairs and recently HELP and Homeland Security and Government Affairs and chairs the Foriegn Relations subcommittee on European Affairs.
This is the man the GOP says is not qualified to be President. WTF!!!
I call BULLSHIT! How fucking stupid do they think we are?