Then again, maybe you should. It is alot of what we are fighting right now.
Correct. But my point was that FDR "did" have experience as a federal executive other than president....not what he chose to do with it. There is no question that that experience plus similar experience at the state level (governor of New York) helped him get elected to the presidency.
Palin has EXACTLY the sort of experience "I" would prefer to see in a candidate...a progression from LOCAL government to State government to national government. She has seen and has "hands-on" experience at ALL levels of governance.
Just as I would like to see a similar progression of service at the legislative level (Congress). That is local to state to national. There is no more dangerous candidate than a "fair-haired boy" with NO experience running on name recognition and getting elected directly to "high" office. The learning curve is then very steep, and they have to make it in a single step.
Contrast Sarah's record as governor, for example, to that of Schwarzenegger. She accomplished more in two years than he has in his entire tenure.