The reason folks are quick to defend Palin is because of people like you who have insane bizarre standards for who is and who is not qualified to be President which mostly bend on whether that person is wearing a skirt. Jimmy Carter was a Nuclear Engineer, and a long time good ole boy Governor but it still didn't keep him from attempting to destroy America's economy and its credibility abroad at the same time.
The President is a politician. Ronald Reagan was charged all of the time with the very same slams as they are using against Palin and you are carrying their water. So don't be surprised if you get push back.
” “I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”
- Patrick Henry, 1775
“I told reporters what I still believe today: government experience doesn’t necessarily count for much.”
-Sarah Palin, Going Rogue, p. 84 “
Poor Quin Hillyer. I remember when he used to write for the Mobile Register. His vast experience is as a “little wannabe” from New Orleans, growing up a rich kid and thinking he hit a triple. However, he starts his little hit piece with two quotes from Patrick Henry and Sarah Palin. Both of them use the word “experience”, and that is as far as little Quin gets. (He must have done poorly with reading comprehension at Newcomb Nursery school in fashionable uptown New Orleans).
Let’s try again, Quin. Patrick Henry praises “experience”. Sarah Palin, in her quote, does not seek to diminish “experience”, but “government experience.” Hard as this may be for you to understand, since you are living in Washington now (You have finally hit the big time, but the price required is that you serve your masters there), “experience” is not the same as “government experience”.
I won’t bother to deconstruct the rest of his article, which is “cut and paste” job of Palin hit pieces of the last 18 months. If Quin doesn’t start producing a better product than this, he may find himself back in Mobile (or maybe Greenbow).
Jimmy Carter was a 2nd Lt. in the Navy program and took some nuclear engineering courses. He left the Navy before they ever launched a nuclear powered ship. I don't consider him a Nuclear Engineer.