McCain on Rudy (mayoral experience)

Horsley did not note, however, that McCain had previously said that "having been mayor of New York City" on 9-11 did not constitute foreign policy or national security experience. Indeed, as TPM Media's Greg Sargent noted in a June 18 blog post, The New York Times quoted McCain saying of Giuliani's 9-11 experience: "I don't think it translates, necessarily, into foreign policy or national security expertise. I know of nothing in his background that indicates that he has any experience in it." From the September 5, 2007, Times article:

Senator John McCain took a more aggressive stance toward his Republican rivals on Tuesday, saying they lack his knowledge and experience on national security issues and questioning whether the leadership that Rudolph W. Giuliani displayed after Sept. 11, 2001, translates into foreign policy expertise.

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"I think the nation respects the mayor's leadership after 9/11, and I do, too, and I think he displayed leadership at a time that Americans needed some steady hand, and I think that his conduct was very laudatory following 9/11," Mr. McCain said, when asked why so many voters identify Mr. Giuliani with the issue of terrorism.

But he went on to say: "I don't think it translates, necessarily, into foreign policy or national security expertise. I know of nothing in his background that indicates that he has any experience in it, with him or Romney."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200806200005

So not only doesn't Palin have any foreign policy experience, but Alaska is less than 10% of the size of NYC.

to foreign policy or national security expertise.

You have to be mayor of Wasilla for that.