Frat boy for President!

Of all the qualifications that one could have to lead this nation, why is it that we seem to keep coming back to the question of who you would want to have a beer with? Talking Points Memo has a quote today from Terry McAuliffe on Hillary’s recent photo op putting back a shot.

McAuliffe, asked whether her shot-tossing is phony, replied that “she loves to sit, throw ‘em back,” adding that “she actually beat John McCain in a shot contest. She’s a girl from Illinois who likes to throw ‘em down with the rest of us.”

McAuliffe added that Hillary had beaten McCain in a drinking contest years before, a charge which McCain denies. McCain did admit that Hillary “can really hold her liquor.” I’m not so sure the revelation that Hillary is a lush helps her to argue that she should be the President. I’ve met frat boys who could put away a handle of whiskey in a night, but I wouldn’t want them in charge of anything. It seems to me, the skills needed to win at beer pong are slightly different than those needed to run the nation.