John McCain sur­ro­gate Carly Fio­r­ina, speak­ing to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell about Sat­ur­day Night Live’s por­trayal of Sarah Palin last weekend:

I think, of course, the por­trait was very dis­mis­sive of the sub­stance of Sarah Palin, and so in that sense they were defin­ing Hillary Clin­ton as very sub­stan­tive and Sarah Palin as totally super­fi­cial. I think that con­tin­ues the line of argu­ment that is dis­re­spect­ful in the extreme, and, yes, I would say sexist in the sense that just because Sarah Palin has dif­fer­ent views than Hillary Clin­ton does not mean that she lacks substance.