Alternative view on Palin - (National Review) - "Palin has the foreign-policy right stuff."

[Kablooie]

Palin’s Instincts
Don’t discount Palin’s foreign-policy credentials.

August 30, 2008 10:36 AM

By Tom Gross

Critics are already trying to damn Sarah Palin for her perceived lack of foreign-policy experience, but what they are not allowing for is something more important — that she has the right basic attitudes and sense of priorities. She understands that aggression has to be resisted and commitments have to be honored.

Certainly there is every sign that she will be better for at least one of America’s closest friends and allies, Israel, than Joe Biden.

It is true that Biden talks of his support for Israel in principle, but the reality is that he has done his utmost to thwart keeping the possibility of a military option open to stop Iran acquiring nuclear weapons. As a result he was even praised recently on the Iranian regime’s official propaganda arm, Press TV.

It is no accident that Biden was dubbed “Tehran’s favorite senator” in an article in the Washington Post last week.

By contrast, the very first reference to foreign policy that Palin made in her acceptance speech after being chosen as John McCain’s vice-presidential candidate Friday was that Iran must be stopped from getting nuclear weapons. She mentioned this even before she mentioned the issues of Iraq and Russia.

Palin has a record for integrity and for getting the job done matched by very few politicians, as shown by her success in tackling the corrupt Republican-party establishment in Alaska, and her highly effective economic program there.

The U.S. and Israel can have every confidence that, like McCain, she is a doer who means what she says — not someone like Joe Biden who may come out with fine sentiments but seems unwilling to get to grips with fundamental problems posed by Iran and Syria.

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So there!
Experience?
Not an issue if you have the right attitude!
Just keep threatening other countries an you're fit to be leader of the world! Easy!

I was wondering how they could defend her.
And here they go.

[baldguy]

1. So then we should withdraw from Iraq & back Russia in their defense of S Ossetia?

[Curtland1015]

2. Say! I want to start doing at home brain surgery!

I don't have any experience, but I've got the right attitude!

[Faygo Kid]

3. That means I can become the double-naught spy I always wanted to be.

Finally, freed from the shackles of competence and qualifications!

[Hugin]

4. Hahahaha! That is the largest heap of bull I've ever seen...

EVER! LOL!

[DCKit]

5. The wingers are demonstrating the concept of diplomacy in MN, right now.

Guess the 80%+ disapproval ratings on their style of "fern relayshuns" aren't sufficient to get their attention.

[Tutonic]

6. Better for Israel than Tehran Biden hahhhhaaaa!

These right wingers are feasting off of their own carcasses. Israel views Biden as a longtime ally and despite Palins long association with the local PTA, I seriously doubt that Israel or any other nation views her as good for restoring peace and order to an unstable world.

[CitizenPatriot]

7. she believes these are the end of days, too -- so that will be of great help

I imagine her gleefully pressing the red button, head bowed in prayer -- as she realizes all of her dreams; the second coming OR, the end of days! what's at risk if you believe we're already at the end???

Oh, yes, that's the right attitude alrighty then. Good to know there isn't much to being VP or President. Don't know why we bother having debates - why not have cheer rallies instead to determine who has the most spirit?

SARCASM

[AdHocSolver]

8. The old adage comes to mind: "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

After watching Bush and company royally botch Iraq, why would Israel, or any ally, want to see any Republican of their ilk in the presidency.

Moreover, it is McCain, addled, dim-witted, geography-challenged, hot-tempered McCain, who would be setting policy. Palin would merely be a sycophant in the White House, a heartbeat...a heartbeat...away from the presidency. How any thinking American could possibly vote for those two... Oh, yeah! I forgot. Thirty percent of Americans are unable to think.

P.S.: I don't mean to imply that they have good intentions. That is merely the wording of the adage.

[AdHocSolver]

9. Deleting dupe. The internet tubes are slow and goofy tonight. n/t

[ThoughtCriminal]

10. Ideology can replace experience and thinking

It's the GOP's equivalent of Chairman Mao's "Little Red Book".