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including some pretty good ones And some that were average at best. If we’re citing success of Presidents who lacked executive experience before office, let’s not forget to analyze the current president who seems to be letting his lack of experience show. Unlike Palin supporters, I’m not willing to pin all my hopes on someone with less of a career, hoping that she‘ll turn out to be Calvin Coolidge. Just because she shares my ideals doesn’t mean she has the political shrewdness to make those ideals reality.

Except for Kennedy, everyone on that list was older. Some where much older, having far more life experience than Palin will have in 2012. She’s never been an army general and so I'd have to disagree. And none of them were so deeply hated (except for Lincoln later in office). Sarah Palin herself admitted that she underestimated the deep seething hatred leftist had for her.

To me, Sarah Palin is an uncertain, very risky and volatile candidate who, if she does reach the Presidency, will have to waste much of it defending herself. That gives me great unease considering her political adversaries successfully forced her to resign as Governor.