(If you needed open heart surgery, would you hire the first plumber who showed up promising to do his best and apply his real-world experience to your chest?)

Your “that’s the best the Dems can offer up?” question is just silly. First, not everyone offering these criticisms are Dems. Second, not all Dem criticisms come from a single oracle of Dem spin. Third, if you think that’s the only or best criticism being offered of Whitless you’re not paying attention. Fourth, the lesser part of this issue is the voting record, the greater part is the blatant dishonesty — the total lack of integrity in answering reporters questions.

Your Kerry comment is completely off-base. The man has had a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Senate, wrestling with a great number of the very issues he would have been called upon to deal with as President. The Reps had many criticisms of his qualifications to be President, but they had nothing to do with his expertise on national policy or his fulfillment of his basic civic responsibility to vote.

Your final comment is beyond comprehension. You defend Palin’s nomination because unlike Obama she actually has “experience in being an executive in government.” But you say this as a wrap up to post in which you are intending to defend Whitless’ complete lack of experience in government (to this point of not even voting). Which is side of this argument are you on?

Whitless is another egomanical CEO who is tired of seeing her picture on the front page of the business section and wants to see it on the front page of the A section. Having made a series of massive blunders at E-Bay, she is seeking a different legacy in the political realm. And tired of having to put people on the payroll to kiss her ring, she is hoping to be elected to a position where she will be respected and honored merely for the significance of her title. She is also bored in her post-CEO life, unable to boost her low self esteem with philanthropy or speeches to mindless “motivational seminars” in convention halls, and now feeling kinda special in a Sarah Palin-like way with all the national Republicans calling to tell her how amazing she is.

In other words, Whitless is the next filthy-rich lamb striding eagerly to the political consultant’s slaughterhouse. Her path is well paved by the likes of Unz, Zschau, Huffington, Simon, Riordan, Issa, Checchi, et. al.

Hey, keep reading those briefing books, cabbage-patch Meg. You’ve got a lot of catching-up to do!

Which brings me to the ridiculous question about whether Ms. Whitman would have hired Ms. Palin at eBay. Frankly, I wouldn’t do it either. They are not the same thing. I agree with Meg that Ms. Palin would not be a top choice to run one of the biggest dot-coms in the world. But she does have the experience in being an executive in government – something our current President does not have.

Thanks for that…

Unfortunately, history shows that Whitless is probably right. Reporters and editors will cave to the pressure to talk about something new instead of demanding that she answer the unanswered questions and correct her erroneous statements.