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Business isn’t government, ay\ny more than government is business.

Cain has shown us that he is clueless about government.

That doesn’t mean that he is useless, I think he’d make a phenominal VP, and 8 years later a president.

Business isn’t government...

Right there is the problem. The Gov't should be run like a business. That is why we are in the mess we are today. As far as Palin being able to straighten out the Gov't using her expertise, I don't see it. She did do good things in AK, but did end up doing politically expedient things as well that raises red flags in my mind.

Palin's agenda has been dominated by an energy policy that, in part, bears more resemblance to the one put forward by Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and other Democrats than the one backed by McCain and the GOP. Obama supports a so-called windfall tax on oil profits; McCain opposes it. McCain also opposed repealing billions of dollars in oil tax breaks as a way of paying for renewable energy subsidies. "If that plan sounds familiar, it's because that was President Carter's big idea, too," McCain said of Obama's windfall tax proposal in June in San Antonio. Six months earlier in Alaska, Palin had signed a bill that increased state taxes on oil profits. The measure imposed a graduated scale, so the state's share would go up even more when oil prices rise. Palin dubbed her plan "Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share." Oil company profits are taxed at a 25% base rate, up from the previous 22.5%. The tax rate rises 0.2% for each dollar the price of oil exceeds $52 per barrel.

I'm not a big fan of raising taxes.