What seemed like an odd pick at first will work out well for McCain. Palin can be the "pit bull" while McCain takes the high road, and she certainly seems willing and able to fill that role. And Palin appeals to the Republican base in ways that McCain never could. She's as anti-abortion as one can get, and she's a lifetime member of the NRA. Palin also presents the image of a Washington outsider who is reform-minded. And I'll even say she comes across as more authentic than most politicians, but her selection and nomination to the ticket is only historic in that it's the first time Republicans have chosen a woman as vice president. The Democrats broke the gender barrier 24 years ago with Geraldine Ferraro.
The McCain campaign keeps pushing that Palin has more executive experience than Obama and Biden combined. If this is in fact true, then she also has more executive experience than McCain.
Personally, I think experience is over-rated. Bush was the governor of a large state for 6 years and a businessman before that. Look where the economy is now. Cheney had tons of foreign policy experience and so did Rumsfeld. Look where their foreign policy experience has taken us. How did we get to our present state of affairs? Lack of experience or bad judgment? I believe it was the result of bad judgment.
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Your points about Bush and Cheney's experience are excellent. Still . . .
"Bush was the governor of a large state for 6 years and a businessman before that."
Texas has a weak-governor setup. Being governor there is nothing like being governor of New York, California or most states.
If you examine Bush's record as a businessman, you'll see he would've gone bust if he hadn't had a wealthy family and plenty of family friends to bail him out and prop him up all along the way. The only real success he's had is in politics — with other people and business interests paying his way.
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