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This tendency of Palin supporters to compare her to Obama as a means of making her appear Presidential has always fascinated me.

What you are really saying is that if America can elect one fool with no resume, they can do it again with Palin.

Is that really the message you want to send? Is it all you got?

Jeez, I'm I the only one who finds this logic asinine?

Of course it is asinine, but they use it because there are strong similarities between the two. Both have scant experience, are not white males, and both have celebrity status. It is the latter which is the driving force.

The cult of the celebrity has evangelized our nation unfortunately and is the substitute for Presidential statesmanship. Palin represents the conservative “celebrity.” Abstract thinking or any thinking for that matter is substituted for emotion and connection and fame. Education, intellect, accomplishments and knowledge can casually be disregarded.

"What you are really saying is that if America can elect one fool with no resume, they can do it again with Palin.

Fool??? Sounds pretty personal. Did Sarah personally do something to you? Be stoic about your critiques. Name me your best president over the past 6 to 5 election cycles. Name me your best candidates......any flaws? All of them were "qualified" to be president? Could they garner enough votes in the nominating process? Electoral process? Fool? Was George W. a fool? Bill Clinton? George H. W.? How about Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter?

No, Sarah is no fool. If she can beat Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Jeb Bush, Tim Pawlenty, Jim DeMint, Newt Gingrich, Duncan Hunter, Mike Pence, Scott Brown et al for the nomination (policy vs. policy, personality vs. personality, supporters vs. supporters, strategy vs. strategy, money raised vs. money raised), she is no fool, just the nominee. If she can beat Barack Obama in the general by those same standards she is no fool----just the president elect.

“This tendency of Palin supporters to compare her to Obama as a means of making her appear Presidential has always fascinated me.
What you are really saying is that if America can elect one fool with no resume, they can do it again with Palin”

You still don't get it.
If 53% of Americans(the only people that count) were convinced that 0bama is qualified to be president of this country, and 50% of Americans still think 0bama is qualified to be president of this country(going by today's Rasmussen poll), then of course Sarah Palin is over qualified to be president of this country, given that she was one of the best governors in the entire country, if not the best(going by what the governed thought of her, by giving her approval ratings of over 90%. The proof of the pudding is in the eating).
Its not up to you to decide who is, and who is not qualified to be the GOP candidate. It's going to be up to Republican primary voters in most states, the same Republican voters who rate Sarah Palin very high right now, and have her ahead of the other potential 2012 candidates in the latest polls. That's what counts.