[TopQuark]

I did not say she was not qualified at all: I questioned whether she is best.

You apply a rather low standard, by which you get upset only if a general cannot tell apart a plane and a tank. If he can, however, it's OK.

[hobbes1]

Not a low standard at all. The House Majority Leader, of a statehouse is a perfectly suitable appointee to the US Senate.

If her Last name was anything BUT Murkowski, and her qquals were the same, we would not be having this discussion, is all I am saying.