Experience Math IV: Well, we now have a definitive solution to my speculations on how many years of legislative experience are equivalent to a year of executive experience. It was provided by the delegates at the RNC last night, chanting "Zero! Zero! Zero!"
Thus, in my equation representing Palin's experience vs. Obama's:
10X > 11Y
The ratio here has to be less than 1.1, and, certainly, 0 is less than 1.1.
Thus, when you apply that across the board to the candidates of both parties, you get this:
| McCain | : | 0 |
| Palin (leg) | : | 0 |
| Palin (exec) | : | 10 |
| Total | : | 10 |
| | | |
| Obama | : | 0 |
| Biden | : | 0 |
| Total | : | 0 |
This causes a bit of a problem for the Republicans, though, as they've made the argument that the Democratic ticket has the less-experienced man at the top of the ticket. But given the fact of Zero! Zero! Zero! it's pretty clear that by the Republicans' own logic, their ticket is upside-down, too -- Sarah Palin should be the nominee and John McCain should be the VP.
Or course, an argument like this has no legs at all -- as one blogger put it today, the Republicans have a form of ADD that means that whatever they said 60 seconds ago, no matter how vehemently they argued it, is now inoperative. All that matters is what they are saying now, and suggesting they are inconsistent is just nitpicking.
Or so the argument that the traditional media will dutifully lap up from the Republican operatives will run.
