On Friday, I noted that Fox News airhead talking head Steve Doocy had made the absurd comment that Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience because Alaska is near Russia.

Well, it appears that Doocy was just ahead of his time, because now, Cindy McCain is saying it too:

Matthew Yglesias sums up just how absurd this comment is:

This is absurd on its face, but note that it’s also barely true. An uninhabited part of Alaska is near an (also uninhabited) part of Russia, but Alaska’s Anchorage population center is hundreds of miles from the Bering Straight. There are no roads going to the part of Alaska that’s near Russia. Has Palin ever negotiated with Russian officials about anything? Why don’t they try Canada? UPDATE: Also: “understands what’s at stake here?” What is at stake here? Are the Russians threatening Alaska? Even in Red Dawn that didn’t happen.

Please, Republicans, just admit she has no foreign policy experience can get on with it.

Jeremy Hinton at Bearing Drift agrees and argues that Palin’s defenders are making a mistake by relying on a fundamentally absurd argument:

Er…does that mean Gov. Jennifer Granholm (MI) is an expert on relations with Canada? How about Gov. Bill Richardson (NM) with Mexico? Gov. Charlie Crist (FL) with Cuba? While I am sure these governors may concern themselves with some international issues, I would presume it’s not that significant, nor are they that authoritative. I find this talking point to be one which is proceeding down a very slippery slope

And the fact that the wife of the Presidential candidate has picked up on something that started out as the dumb remark from an intellectual lightweight on Fox News is, when you think about it, a little disturbing.