[Brices Crossroads]

” “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).

[dalight]

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”.

Awesome. A good post is a delight to the eyes and mind. You clearly have this guy's range.

[John Valentine]

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”

When Patrick Henry wrote that in 1775 there was no such thing as “government experience” as the term is understood today.

Here’s the difference: In 1775 people had experience in self-government. In 2010 they have experience in the “governance” of others. I have no problem chosing which kind of experience I would prefer in a leader.

[Al B.]

Thanks for the ping. The Beltway panic increases over Sarah Palin.

[onyx]

I am just getting here and have read the comments 1 - 45 but not the article. I’ll go read the article now and use your ping as my placemarker.

[onyx]

I don't quite know what to make of R. Quin Edmonson Hillyer, do you?

I think he was bored and thought he'd write a piece about Sarah to please his colleagues.