As is well-understood in most Democratic, Independent, and Republican circles by now, John McCain seems to have chosen Governor Palin chiefly because she is a female.
Former President Ronald Wilson Reagan documented in his best-selling 1990 autobiography, An American Life, that his opponent in the 1984 presidential election, Walter F. Mondale, chose his running-mate, U.S. Representative Geraldine Ferraro, mostly because she was a woman. Reagan considered this to be a fatal error in Mondale's campaign, as there were several other women governors who would have been better than some Representative of whom nobody's ever heard and putting her a heartbeat from the Presidency.
Should McCain learn from his hero, Ronald Reagan, and have appointed someone more qualified, rather than someone just because she's a woman?
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