I was initially very dismissive of Palin. Way too little inexperienced. But after watching what the dems did with Obama why not?
She could argue that as a mayor and governor she has executive experience and has been in charge of troops (Alaska National guard). She could then quite easily point out that neither Obama or Biden has any executive experience at all or have even run a corner store. Imagine her looking Biden in the eyes during the VP debates and making this case. The Dems are screwed!
If they raise the experience issue then it will bring peoples focus to the top of the ticket which people are much more concerned about. this hurts Obama way more than McCain.
Not only that, but as much as I hate identity politics it is the perfect place to play the female card. Palin “ Obviously Senator Obama thinks 143 days and no executive experience in the Senate is enough experience to be president for a man, what's different now.” Can you hear all the Clinton women pulling the levers? What a double standard it would be to expect the bottom of the GOP ticket (a woman) to need to be more experienced than the top of the dem ticket.
If the dems are smart they wont touch the experience issue. It raises Obama’s lack of it and stokes the flames of the women hurt by his upstaging Hillary.
McCain has obviously shown he is more than willing to go out of the box with this election so this is plausible. I personally think unless runs a very unique campaign this is a lost election.
This can’t be. Everyone knows conservatives hate strong women! ;-)