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Posted on: January 30th, 2011 No Comments

President Palin’s lack of experience refudiates her from the mainstream


I love Sarah Palin. She sure makes for amazing television.

And as a Palin fan, I was thrilled to see her in the news so much lately. Bristol is not pregnant, her husband is slated to be on the next season of “Dancing with The Stars,” and “Sarah Palin’s Alaska” tanked.

But the really interesting piece of news is that the GOP establishment has been incredibly slow to embrace the every(wo)man candidate. Dick Cheney has yet to pull the trigger with the idea of Palin having a clear shot as President. He’s been quoted as consistently sidestepping reporters hunting for his opinion, not wanting to take shots in the dark.

“I’m not getting into the business… of saying this one is [ready], this one isn’t,” Cheney was quoted as saying in an interview with Politico.

It was suggested in a New York Daily News story that George W. Bush was against Palin running for President, and that John McCain using her as a running mate led to a “lousy campaign with an unqualified running mate and destroyed any chance of winning.”

Many others in the GOP establishment have either voiced their indifference or uneasiness with Palin. I think the uneasiness stems from her being so incredibly different from former GOP candidates.

First of all, she doesn’t have a degree in economics, political science, or one of those pesky law degrees. She has a journalism degree (with a minor in political science) from The University of Idaho. And heck, why should the leader of the free world, or his/her significant other (I’m looking at you, Michelle Obama), have a law degree and an Ivy League education?

This country also doesn’t need someone who has any kind of political experience at a smaller post. Every president for the last 100 years has either been a senator or served multiple terms as a governor. Look where that’s gotten us. The Chinese are smogging up the world like it’s 1990 while we lose a large portion of our jobs to them. It doesn’t have to do with underfunded education or an attitude problem in the culture at large. We need new political blood to solve our problem. What we need is the drop-out governor of one of the most rural states in the U.S.

Palin has shown a firm knowledge of foreign and domestic policy via Twitter and Glenn Beck, probably the two most reliable sources for such things. Calling in to Beck’s radio show, Palin expressed just how firmly we should stand by our North Korean friends and allies.

“But obviously, we’ve got to stand by our North Korean allies. We’re bound by treaty,” Palin said in her always spot-on analysis before being corrected by a blubbering Beck.

The Islamic center was another hotly contested issue that Palin commented on via Twitter, the micro-blogging site that only offers 140 characters to fit an educated, researched, and valid opinion.

“Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn’t it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.”

After inventing a word, Palin then proceeded to compare herself to arguably the greatest literary genius of all-time, William Shakespeare. It’s an easy comparison to make, because Shakespeare didn’t have any political experience either.

This country needs someone new to turn this country around. It’s heading in a direction that is too free-thinking, too open, and too far away from the free market credit collapse of the Bush years.

This country needs Sarah Palin.

You betcha.

jameyer@mesastate.edu

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