
Experience in the Senate can be cited as a qualification, but it is not the only qualification. Moreover, for all of his experience, John McCain frequently displays a lack of understanding of important issues. For instance, he just today appears to have figured out for the first time how the Social Security System works and called it a "disgrace". Another factor is what was accomplished during those years of experience. McCain got himself embroiled in the Keating Five, authored an immigration bill that he now says even he wouldn't vote for, voted in favor of a disastrous war, opposed tax cuts that he now supports, and gained a reputation for having a terribly bad temper to such an extent that even a Republican colleague such at Thad Cochran gets nervous about the idea of McCain's finger being on the nuclear trigger. Yes, he has experience, but is it the sort of experience you want to see repeated? |