The Experience Question
Okay, so for over two days I’ve been hearing that Sarah Palin’s lack of experience is a problem.
Here’s my question. What experience, as a Vice-President, do you want her to have?
Remember here, folks, that she’s not running for President. All these “one heartbeat away from the Presidency” arguments from the Democrats are a smokescreen. Nancy Pelosi is two heartbeats away from the Presidency and her executive and foreign-police experience is pretty darned thin as well. We are electing a Vice President – someone who can assist the President, give him knowledgeable counsel, support his decisions, and act as his representative around the world.
Sarah Palin has been a Chief Executive. She’s done it at the local and state level. She’s put together budgets that have worked. She’s handled the natural tension between business concerns and public funding (and, in the case of oil companies, even gotten them to grudgingly accept a higher tax rate!). She’s dealt with legislators of both parties and has gotten things done for her constituents. As Governor, her approval rating is ridiculously high even though she had directly opposed the entrenched Republican machine there.
As for dealing with other countries, Palin is the only one who has actually negotiated an agreement with another country. She had to do that in order to ink the deal that will bring a new oil pipeline between Canada and Alaska. In doing so, she again bucked so-called Big Oil.
Of the four nominees for President and Vice-President, Palin is by far the best-informed about energy concerns. She’s been living with them pretty much all her life. She’s had to deal with them directly while on the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and while as Governor. Combined with her husband’s expertise in the industry, no one can speak with greater expertise on ANWR or the environmental effects of oil drilling than she.
I am almost obliged to say at this point that the worry about Palin’s experience is laughable when you look at how Barack Obama’s notable lack of meaningful experience in any level of government has gone largely unexamined by the MSM and blithely ignored by half of the Democratic party. If Barack Obama is an acceptable President, then Sarah Palin is a more than acceptable Vice President. If you objectively compare the two of them, there is no contest. Palin is more experienced at handling a government than anyone on either ticket.
Let me return the questions to the doubters. What executive experience does John McCain, Joe Biden, or Barack Obama bring that qualifies them for the job? Have they every run anything, much less a government? Have they worked through a budget? Have they dealt with an entire legislature, from outside it?
Answer those questions honestly and just maybe I’ll take the talk of Palin’s lack of experience seriously.
Other Posts of Interest:
- This is Reason Two Why Sarah Palin Was a Great Pick
- Attention PUMAs! Attention All PUMAs!
- McCain’s Veep is Sarah Palin. Conservatives Rejoice. (Updated with Extra Democratic MSM Snarkiness. And Fred! And Van Palin!)
Category: Joe Biden, Johnny Mac, Sarah Palin, The Obamessiah
Very good points, Jimmie, that are largely ignored and shushed by the Dems and MSM.
I'd also like to add this: For all of Obama's public pillow talk about reaching across the aisle and bringing about true change and reform, how much of any of that do we really know he's capable of and willing to do?
Now in the case of McCain, whose closest political ally is a Democrat turned Independent, we have seen ample proof that he can and will cross the brigde of partisan politics to serve the common good. And the way Palin has shook up the Alaska kleptocracy, who can doubt her ability to bring about change and reform?
In my opinion, the whole "change we can believe in" tirade is now just hot air. If you're serious about change, why would you believe that Obama can bring it, when you can be certain with McCain and Palin?