Cindy McCain, dimwit

By Michael J.W. Stickings

I posted yesterday on Cindy's upcoming pity play on today's This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Basically, she claims to be "offended" at the criticism of her husband for not knowing how many houses he owns. It's really, really hard being a wealthy heiress, after all.

But that wasn't the only example of Cindy's dimwittery on display.

In response to Stephanopoulos's point that Sarah Palin "has no national security experience," she said this:

You know, the experience that she comes from is what she's done in government, and remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. It's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here.

So... what she's done as mayor of Wasilla? And in two years as governor?

As governor of the state closest to Russia?! That's her experience? That's her qualification?

Seriously, how do you respond to such dimwittery? It's such an amazingly stupid point. (Our next-door neighbours are Korean. I suppose this makes me an expert on all things Korean? Perhaps I should talk to the prime minister about sending me as Canadian ambassador to Seoul.)

"The mind reels," as Benen puts it.