Calling Obama a flip-flopper is not going to be enough to win. It’s just not. It’s going to be better over the course of the next weeks and months to proclaim and describe his inexperience and his incompetence and to say that these flip-flops are really just the result of incompetence and inexperience, which are leading him to make goofs, which are leading him to lie, which are leading him to flounder around.

All of these flip-flops have got to be referred to as the result of inexperience. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing. When he’s off a prepared speech, when he’s off the prompter, when he’s on his own, when he doesn’t have some campaign aide, then he’s off the beaten path and as such, he’s on his own and so this has to be chalked up to inexperience.

And how little experience does he have?

Cheri Jacobus, who is a brilliant woman, a Republican strategist, she lives in Washington, she’s worked on Capitol Hill, posted a little blurb:

“Just how much Senate experience does Barack Obama have in terms of actual work days? Not much. From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged–”

How many days experience, from the time he’s inaugurated in the Senate, sworn in, until he announced his presidential exploratory committee, how many actual days of work experience in the Senate for Barack Obama?

It’s 143.

“After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days -”

I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that…

“In contrast, John McCain’s 26 years in Congress, 22 years of military service including 1,966 days in captivity as a POW in Hanoi now seem more impressive than ever.”

So there you go, 143 days.

So this is the key. All of these so-called flip-flops, all these changes in position, they are due to his inexperience. His inexperience and his incompetence lead him to make goofs, to lie, to flounder around. I think if people see Obama as dangerously incompetent and floundering, it might lessen his appeal.

Calling him a flip-flopper, you know, been there, done that with John Kerry. He owns that.

You look at Kerry and you see a sandal, a flip-flop.

So you can’t tag that to Obama. It’s gotta be incompetence, it’s got to be inexperience.