This keeps coming up. The answer is great: The mastermind behind Reaganomics which gave us prosperity well into the Clinton years had a degree in....economics. What a coincidence. Maybe education factors into this after all?
Abraham Lincoln spent only a year and a half in school, so by your standards, he would have been totally unqualified for the White House and must have been a terrible president.
“The mastermind behind Reaganomics which gave us prosperity well into the Clinton years had a degree in....economics. What a coincidence.”
No, what a non-sequitur. If you do any research on Reagan, you’ll know that, on his own, he processed available information on most of the important issues of the day, and came to his own conclusions on the best way forward. They became his convictions and he carried them with him to Washington. It’s a weak argument to say that just because, among the perhaps hundreds of people Reagan consulted with regarding economics, some of them had economics degrees(!), and therefore it wasn’t Reagan who was the key to his own economic policies. But following your logic, why do you allow Reagan the leeway to have consulted with economics people, but somehow conclude that Sarah Palin would not do the same, or somehow has not already?