So now the party boys will try to make her out to be qualified in spite of what we have seen, or haven't seen, of her ability to lead this nation. Everyone tries to hold up her experience as Governor, her defense of our nation from invasion by the dreaded communists, and her fiscal policies that provided prosperity for Alaska as the foundations of her viability as a world leader.
The population of Alaska is around 700,000. A population smaller than that of Austin Texas. Not exactly a challenge. Factor in that Alaska has a guaranteed income from the petroleum industry and her experience running that economy becomes even less of a validation. Alaska is a state with 80% of its revenues derived from petroleum extraction. This means that even if she was financially retarded her state's economy would still prosper with the current oil market.
Palin was a city council member from 1992 to 1996 and then became the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1996 to 2002 ... pop about 6,000 in the year 2000. She then failed in her run for lieutenant governor, but did chair the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 after which Palin got elected to govern the Sate of Alaska in 2006.
Her experience managing the affairs of a city with a pop of roughly 6000 people does not qualify her to run America. Handling the economy of a state ranked 47th in population with a guaranteed income nets her very little financial experience and NO experience in foreign affairs.
The military did not count on her to run the defense of our country as been alluded too by the party boys in their attempt to bolster her qualifications to be on the ticket. She is 100% lacking in any qualifications to make that claim, though some would like to believe otherwise.
This woman is not qualified to run our country, but I like her. She's not going to be accused of being a mental giant, she's a control freak and a religious zealot, but she has done well in improving the places she has been put in charge of. She does bring a history of getting things done to the table, but only on a very limited scale in a very well controlled environment. She is totally lacking in the experience that congressional and senate level offices provide. Foreign affairs, world economics, national social management, and hard grunt politicking are not something she has been involved with on the scale she would be exposed to if she made it to the White house ... and the top job is not a place for OJT.
She's young. Give her another ten years at the national level and if ... IF ... she rises above her peers to the upper levels of politics on her own merits, not because someone running for Presidential office is looking for window dressing, and if ... IF ... she's not morally corrupted as most all of the rest are at that top level she might be ready. Now? Nope.
