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I didn't say Palin was a genius or the next President but a lot of conservative pundits and members of the general public have bought into her credibility. I personally think she needs to learn a bit more and was a bad pick on some levels but I refuse to believe she is as dim as her enemies (including some of the McCainiacs) would try to portray her. The gentleman who said that Alaska is littered with the political careers of people who underestimated her wasn't blowing smoke. She has a lot more on the ball than people will give her credit for, and she was/is a Governor.
Sarah is learning what many of us learn when we come from a small town or a small state (population wise): it's a lot easier to be a big fish in a small pond than even a small fish in a big pond. IMO, Sarah's future hinges on getting Alaska's U.S. Senate seat. Without that, she will struggle to remain in the national spotlight until 2012. And her recent treatment at the Republican Governors conference tells me that, while she has many extreme right wing supporters in the ranks, there are those in the GOP who will do to her what was done to Julius Caesar given the chance. She better make sure that Karl Rove lands in her camp. If not, she may suffer the same fate as John McCain did in 1999. The family and its issues (real or created) are not off limits to Rove's shock troops. And the "truth" is whatever Herr Rove's propaganda machine says it is. Sarah has absolutley no idea what it's like to be (really) smeared. McCain survived it. Maybe Sarah can do it too. But unlike McCain, she remains a pretty divisive political figure. At the top of a ticket, the pro-choice women will seek to tear her a new one. And I expect a viable third party if the Evangelicals and neocons keep getting their way in the GOP. People like me will vote for that party, if not for the Democrats.
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She is used to being in charge and making decisions. You can praise Obama all you like, he is a tremendous speaker and he has shown some inkling of taking the party to the center, but I do not think for a second he has any real clue of just how hard this next 4 years is going to be. I wish him well, I hope he proves me wrong but I just cannot have the faith in a guy whose greatest accomplishments in actually running anything are his community organzing, and his getting elected to office. Being a politician is one thing, but being a leader and administrator is something you don't get as a Senator, and certainly not as one who spent most of his only 4 years in the US Senate plotting to take down Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
Well, Sarah didn't even know what the constitutional duties of the Vice President were. But generally, I think what you are saying is true: the difference between being an administrator and a politician. But I still prefer a "politician" with an obvious level of high intelligence over an "administrator" with questionable political ties and a debatable level of intelligence and world knowledge. The people of this nation have not seen anything like what we're seeing now in our lifetimes. Whether Obama or McCain, and certainly Palin, I doubt any of them could be fully prepared for the challenges of the office at this time. His politics are to the left of my own. But I have to admit, I like Obama's style and most of his actions thus far. Whether it's an act or not, the guy doesn't flinch. And the nation needs to see that the guy at the top isn't some 