# McCain Supporters, please answer a question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-supporters-please-answer-a-question/462100>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 5, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-supporters-please-answer-a-question/462100 "2008-09-05T01:21:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-supporters-please-answer-a-question/462100/61 "2008-09-06T18:57:09Z")

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> [@Don\_t\_Call\_Me\_Shirley](#):
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> Thank you for proving my point yet again **Bobotheoptimist**. Once again, you refuse to discuss Palin’s qualifications, and try to change the topic to Biden. Why won’t you just discuss Palin’s qualifications? Why the constant attempts to change the subject? What are you afraid of?
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> BTW, I already called this bluff, and told what I thought of Biden in [this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=10155869&postcount=35) And, true to form, even after I told what I thought of Biden, you still refuse to talk about Palin.
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> ETA: Gore isn’t qualified because he doesn’t want the job.

I missed that part in your post because it was so boring I didn’t read it all. Much like a Biden speech 😉 (that was a joke, go take a pill and calm down)

Now, back to your whining… Where in the OP did you ask to discuss Palin’s qualifications? Where in my posts did I say she was the most qualified? Where in any post has anyone ducked the question “Is she the MOST qualified”? The question wasn’t “most qualified that’d also accept the job”, was it?

**Shirley** , unless you can ask a rational question, you’re going to get the answers that this thread is full of. Let’s go back and look again -

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> True or False: Sarah Palin is the most qualified Republican in the country to be Vice-President.
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> I asked this question in another thread and all I got back was “Oh yeah, well Obama’s not qualified either.” I will concede that Obama is not the most qualified Democrat in the country to be President, but that’s not really the issue. Millions and millions of people together made the decision to nominate Obama; Palin was selected by one person.

So, you’ve conceded Obama isn’t the most qualified and nearly everyone in this thread has conceded that Palin isn’t either. What’s your problem? Terrified that another independent jumped right with the Biden choice?  
I saw a bunch of direct answers to your loaded question, mostly “false” with an occasional “I don’t know” thrown in. And in an attempt to point out how idiotic the question is, a lot of posters threw other example back in your face of how rare it is to find “the most qualified” actually doing a job. Yet any attempt to demonstrate that the even the god-like Democrats don’t always get the “Most Qualified” gets your hackles up, so I suspect you still believe your question is intelligent and will make a big impact on someone.

I’ve watched a bit of the RNC and nowhere did I hear even the Republicans claim that she’s totally like the most qualified person evah!!! I think you’re building your own little strawwoman with this “most qualified” crap.

Did you really mean to ask “Is she qualified to be VP?”, because that could lead to a grown up debate rather than namecalling.

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