Oh, say, like Barack Obama did? Yes sir, he was a senator for all of maybe 2 years and then bingo! He was instantly qualified to become president.
Don’t make me laugh. Sarah Palin was ready and able to be President if she wanted it. I think she is enjoying her freedom now to pick and choose her own path in life.
Although I’m terribly disappointed that she didn’t enter the race, I’m sure she made the decision prayerfully. Her family has been through enough, and it hasn’t stopped yet. What a spine of steel this remarkable lady has!
Saying Palin was more qualified than Obama is damning with faint praise.
Everyone can grow and improve, learn and hone their philosophy and how to communicate it.
I actually had in mind Reagan: his experience with SAG, the GE speeches, Goldwater, the “A Time for Choosing” speech, his extensive writings on abortion and recording for the AMA, and his two terms as Governor of California...
Over these 25+ years Reagan grew and improved greatly - to become the greatest conservative president. He first ran for President at the age of 64/65.
Sarah is 48 now. I’m not saying she should wait fifteen years; I’m saying she has many years left and if she spends them as productively as, say, Reagan, she will be that much better a candidate and a president.
One way of looking at it would be to say that in 1938, while some people of vision might have wanted Winston Churchill in 10 Downing Street, it just wasn't time yet. The full awfulness of Neville Chamberlain's fatuousness and French dithering in the face of German aggression had to play out "for some reason" before Churchill could come to the fore and make his bones as the greatest PM in British, and probably world, history.
s The distance between 1938 and 1940 was very, very great ... and that goes for America, too.
Sarah’s no dummy. She’s collecting a lot of IOU’s that she’ll cash in when the time is right.