Scholars:Palin is least experienced, least credentialed person on major-party ticket in modern era

[maximusveritas]

Not like it took a scholar to figure that one out, but Politico went to the trouble of asking a few of them just to confirm. And yes, Palin is indeed the least experienced, least credentialed person on a major-party ticket in the modern era.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/13001

“Being governor of a small state for less than two years is not consistent with the normal criteria for determining who’s of presidential caliber,” said Goldstein.

“I think she is the most inexperienced person on a major party ticket in modern history,” said presidential historian Matthew Dallek.
“The fact that he would have to go to somebody who is clearly unqualified to be president makes Obama look like an elder statesman.”

When you really finish looking over her background and positions on the issues, Palin is just a less-qualified version of George W. Bush. And we can't afford to take a chance on that.

[mwb970]

1. Clearly, they are throwing the game.

You can't tell me Karl couldn't discover all this if we can.

[maximusveritas]

4. Maybe they figured they have such complete control of the media and elections

that they can nominate anyone. And it's much easier for them to control someone like Palin who owes them everything.

[Tesha]

7. Mr. Tesha wrote a comment to a CNN story suggesting exactly this...

...but it must not have fit their planned narrative as the moderator
never approved his comment for display.

Tesha

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. Republicans hate government and want to shrink it down to where

even a horse breeder could run FEMA or a former village mayor and PTA member could be handed over a country where nothing is left to manage.

[Wetzelbill]

3. A couple thngs

McCain is way out of touch. As are Rove and the screeching talk radio mavens who championed her. McCain is even more out of touch than the rest, he wanted Lieberman, which was absolutely game over. I would have went out and gotten drunk and celebrated if he did that. But I think that the people who picked her for him and convinced him to go that way actually think she could bring Dem women who a pissed at Obama over, and that will not happen. Not in the droves they think it will, maybe a few dead enders would vote McCain, but women aren't stupid. They know SCOTUS is on the line, etc.

But also, I think they partly didn't want to put a bigger figure on a sinking ship because it would hurt a potential candidate in 2012 or beyond. The GOP bench isn't that deep right now either. Why ruin the future of somebody like Romney who could do some things still? Or even Pawlenty? Sarah Palin would never get to be president, because no woman is going to win a GOP primary. Plus she's young enough so that she could still be a factor in Alaska and maybe in Congress too eventually. Getting trounced here doesn't kill her in her home state and she could still win a Senate seat or something eventually and slowly get back into the national scene. She is at once a desperate pick and a throwaway pick. Nobody wants to go down in flames, and also nobody wants to get trounced by Biden in front of millions of people and still try to come back and run for president etc.

[maximusveritas]

5. You may be right

I think the Republicans got fooled by all the media hype about the PUMAs. They heard all the rhetoric from Hillary about being female and putting holes in the glass ceiling and thought that having a female candidate would be able to exploit that. I don't think it'll happen for the reasons you state.

[Wetzelbill]

6. yeah again, I agree

It's a typically shallow thing to think that women will simply vote for another woman. Hillary is an icon, not just because she's a woman, but because she has endured through things women identify with, such as attacks about who she is, a cheating husband, the hatred of good ol' boys. And Hillary has withstood that. Women, well people in general, are suckers for a fighter who overcomes tough circumstances. They love redemption. And Hillary is nothing if not a fighter who has redeemed herself time and time again. Sarah Palin doesn't have that. She doesn't have that place in women's hearts that Hillary does because she hasn't earned it. Nothing against Sarah, but no way can she exploit that and win women over in masses in just a few months. Not going to happen. :)

[BlooInBloo]

8. Lucky for her Americans HATE smart people, so this isn't as much of a problem as it should be.