That would be twelve years of executive experience for Palin. None for Obama.we got bammy with no experence [and with malign intent] doing a horrendous job and we want to elect palin who has no experence either?
She gained both a legal and political advantage over her adversaries by quitting the governorship. She also saved the state and her family a lot of money.not to mention quit her elected postion. how stupid.
surely there must be someone else to run for president. i think she’s great, but just not as a president. not yet at least.3 posted on 11/16/2010 4:42:41 PM PST by lonster
You know, it's a funny thing. There are hundreds of thousands of adults in every Congressional District. You would think, if we elected the smartest person in our district to be our congressman, that Congress would qualify as a chapter of Mensa. And yet anyone who talks to any of these people gets the impression that nine out of ten of them aren't any smarter than your average shopowner. If that."Liberals" vaunt the intelligence of Obama, but all I see is hubris. He says he doesn't pretend to be an engineer, but he presumes to override engineering decisions as if he were technically qualified. And I don't even exclude Republican congressmen from that critique. I just think that who gets to be considered presidential timber has a lot more to do with fortune than with intelligence.So we have a situation where Sarah Palin, who made smart enough decisions to be a well-regarded governor, has been elevated to a presidential ticket and has the experience of campaigning nationwide. I agree with Thomas Gray's ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCH-YARD:
Full many a gem of purest ray sereneAny number of people, given Palin's life experience, might be more capable as president. But where are they? We don't know them, and we know Sarah. We can judge her intentions, and we can judge her level of self-awareness, her ability to stay grounded and to seek and to evaluate expert advice. We can be pretty sure that if elected president she'll make some good decisions and some bad ones. As did Reagan, or any other president you could name. That would be true as well of Gray's "gem[s] of purest ray serene" as well. None would be perfect. Of all the ones we know, I say Sarah is good enough to serve if elected, and able enough to be likely to get elected if nominated. Over the objections of Associated Press Journalism, which is a given for any Republican - even a RINO like McCain.
The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.I advocate uniting behind Palin before they foist another McCain on us. We simply can't afford that.
I advocate uniting behind Palin before they foist another McCain on us. We simply can't afford that.
There is much to be said for that observation.
You would think, if we elected the smartest person in our district to be our congressman, that Congress would qualify as a chapter of Mensa.
This whole question of "smarts" needs to be addressed. Most administrations seem to purposefully hire "the best and the brightest" -- which usually translates to an Ivy League reunion.
Yet, is it not these "best and the brightest" who have maneuvered the country into its current sorry state? Didn't they make the mess that somebody like Gov. Palin (a graduate of Idaho) will have to clean up?
Buckley posed the notion of being governed by the first six-hundred names in the Boston phone book. It strikes me that six-hundred names picked at random from the alumni lists at Idaho, Oklahoma State, Michigan Tech, Southwest Louisiana State, Wooster and Prairie View A&M, etc., could do a better job than the Sons of Harvard, Princeton and Yale have been doing.
I’m voting for Palin for prez in 2012. The ball is in the Republicans’ court at this point. If they want my vote, they nominate her. If they don’t, too bad for them.
“I advocate uniting behind Palin before they foist another McCain on us. We simply can’t afford that.”
Great post. Sarah Palin is not perfect. But she is very, very good. She’s an actual conservative and has some of the best political instincts that you’re going to find.
We can sit around trying to find the perfect candidate, or we can say what we have in front of us is “more than good enough.” I’m for more than good enough. The stakes are too high.
BTTT