New poll shows RNC hypocrisy

The RNC threw up this nugget on its website over the weekend:

With ABC News reporting that Sen. John Kerry has commissioned "top-secret polls of various potential running mates," RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie today released the following statement:

"To John Kerry, the most important criterion for a Vice President, and therefore for a potential President, is not experience, accomplishment or judgment but polling numbers. Once again with John Kerry we see politics in place of principle."

First off, there is no proof that Kerry will pick the candidate who polled the highest. Also he did not poll how every single person would do, just those he had whittled down based on experience, accomplishment, and judgment.

Secondly,

"One [White House] adviser said the White House had examined polling and focus group studies in determining that it would be a mistake for Mr. Bush to appear to yield" and apologize for mistakes.

Politics instead of principle, indeed.