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I disagree with most of your thinking that Palin would not be a problem. I scares me that getting the job as president does not include the simple vetting that a police officer, FBI agent or even a worker in a high level financial job would receive. If your elected president do you need to summit to drug testing, psych evaluations, lie detector tests, background test, neighbor and friend questionings; too my knowledge this level of basic testing testing dose not happen if your elected president.

Without such testing how can we be assured that said person will not snap and push the button because the stress off office got to be too much? Palin in her only other political job (under 2 years)simply quit when the stress of all that litigation concerning her misuse of office got to be too much, so who is to say that the dingbat wont push the button?

People don’t pick a president, gawd does.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/us/politics/11trooper.html

Is Sarah Palin more likely to use nuclear weapons against the people of the United States than the ba$tard currently in the White House? Not a freeking chance
by bigheadfred

I disagree with most of your thinking that Palin would not be a problem. I scares me that getting the job as president does not include the simple vetting that a police officer, FBI agent or even a worker in a high level financial job would receive. If you're elected president do you need to submit to drug testing, psych evaluations, lie detector tests, background test, neighbor and friend questionings? To my knowledge this level of basic testing testing does not happen if you're elected president.

It is absolutely the case that Democrats who get elected president (Clinton, Obama) are people who don't inspire confidence in Republicans as people whose only interest is the welfare of the American public as a whole. At the same time, are you willing to give the FBI veto power over who we can and cannot elect to be POTUS?
The vetting should be done by the political parties, and by free and independent journalists. Our problem is that we have a free press, when we need independent presses. We only have a single press, because all our presses are associated. That's what the AP does - it functions as a union for newspapers and broadcast news. With the result that we have a press which is empowered to pursue the interest of journalism as if it were the public interest. The interest of journalism is to have the public hanging on its every word, believing that journalism is an oracle. The public interest is that journalists of various perspectives compete to make sense of the world from every angle, and the interest of journalism to be considered objective is at odds with that.
Journalism calls politicians who align themselves with the interest of journalism "liberal" or "progressive" - or whatever positive label they think will be most helpful - and give "media anal exams" to politicians who oppose them.

Without such testing how can we be assured that said person will not snap and push the button because the stress off office got to be too much? Palin in her only other political job (under 2 years)simply quit when the stress of all that litigation concerning her misuse of office got to be too much,

Palin's Achilles Heel was her strength - an adamant insistence on probity in office. That's how she progressed from victory to victory, culminating in a successful tenure in the governorship right up to the time she was nominated for the office of VPOTUS.
Saul Alinsky followers ruthlessly responded to that nomination by using specious claims of ethical violations to jam the gears of the Alaska state government.
The rationale behind term limits, which most FReepers support, is that over time elected officials tend to lose their focus on the interest of the public, and become time servers. Palin didn't lose her focus in 2 short years, but she did find that her adversaries had successfully compromised her effectiveness. The effect was the same. So she decided that the interest of the Alaskan public was not served by her remaining in office, clutching the salary and perquisites of that office to her breast like some Democrat (or like Senator Murkowski, unfortunately). Her resignation was intended as a service to the public (tho some say that the lieutenant governor has been a disappointment in the governor's chair). And also to free her from the vice in which the Alinskyites had trapped her. Yes, also freeing her to write her book, go on tour, and become more involved in national politics.

so who is to say that the dingbat won't push the button?

There is no real rationale for denigrating Palin which is based in fact; it's all media spin.