Campaign Foot-in-Mouth

This time it's Nevada's junior senator John Ensign, who clearly wants McCain to lose by badmouthing his running mate:

“Well, I do not think that Barack Obama or her are experienced enough to be president of the United States — neither one of them. And Hillary Clinton was much more qualified to be president than Barack Obama was, but that’s who the nominee is,” Ensign said Thursday on the Las Vegas news program NewsONE.

“John McCain is much more qualified than Barack Obama, and certainly Joe Biden is much more qualified than Sarah Palin is. I’d rather have the most qualified person at the top of the ticket, not number two.”

The remarks may be true, but Ensign didn't score a whole lot of points.