"Based on what exactly? What about her CV gives you the idea that 70,000,000 Americans will decide that she has the expertise, knowledge and experience to pull the world's largest economy back from the brink and fight two wars and deal with the Mid-East and deal with the Asian Dragon and deal with a resurgent, aggressive Russia and deal with a collapsing European Union and....."
See, the thing you should be thinking about is this...If you can't provide a convincing argument on Palin's qualifications to accomplish all the above and more and at the same time here on a conservative site then how in God's name do you expect tens of millions of moderate/middle/independent voters to be persuaded?
That, my young friend, is the Palin problem....when the emotion is stripped away there's just not very much in the way of genuine POTUS class experience or expertise.
Perhaps the number one experience, that no one today can match is the hate filled and vile rants of the left, media, and plain dumb people. And she has done it with grace, but not backing down. You can tell whom your enemies fear most by who that hate the most. Bush, Reagan, and now Palin!
She did all these things and her critics say, she not smart enough. So, all the people who hired her, voted for her, worked with her, did it because she wasn'tt smart enough! Her experiences of just being a woman and doing what she has done, makes her smart enough!
Some people think she is not smart enough ... they think that no woman is smart enough. Neither Obama nor Hillary Clinton can match her experiences.
No one in politics today can match her in the most important qualities that Jefferson said George Washington had. " He administered the government with fairness and integrity, assuring Americans that the President could exercise extensive executive authority without corruption. Further, he executed the laws with restraint, establishing precedents for broad-ranging presidential authority. His integrity was most pure, Thomas Jefferson wrote, his justice the most inflexible I have ever known, no motive of interest or consanguinity, friendship, or hatred, being able to bias his decision.
And yes I think Sarah Palin has these same qualities that Jefferson said Washington had!