Remind Me to Avoid Town September 25

Sarah Palin is appearing at a fund-raising luncheon in Woodside  September 25th.  That'll be a traffic headache. 

Gov. Palin should feel at home -- Woodside is pretty small, just like Wasilla.  But there aren't any box stores -- just Robert's. 

I have the 2006 Alaska Democratic examination of Palin's record  on my hard drive.

In 2006, when Sarah Palin ran for Governor of Alaska, the Democrats (unlike the Republicans of 2008) vetted her. The documentation is extensive, and was published online.

She is hardly prepared to be Commander-in-Chief or to address any of the pressing issues facing the United States.

Senator McCain, your slogan is "Country First".   Naming Gov. Palin is not putting the country first, but your desire to win the election.

Update: Here is Andrew Halcro's SWOT analysis of Sarah Palin.  Halcro ran against Palin in the 2006 gubernatorial election, and will continue to follow the Palin story.

Update #2:  Gov. Palin's mean-spirited digs as "community organizers" has been rebutted here: Hall of Fame, Community Organizers Division

Update #3: Petition to "release Gov. Palin to the journalists"

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Comments

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David Frum on Sarah Palin

David Frum: The most important difference: I value executive skill more than most conservatives do I think. Some NRO readers seem to imagine it's just a matter of having the right convictions and sticking by them. I think it is way more complicated than that. A good executive requires convictions yes. And backbone agreed. But a good executive needs a solid floor of background knowledge so that he / she can sift sense from nonsense in policy proposals. A good executive must be willing to listen to a wide range of views, including some that are not immediately acceptable. A good executive must have a sense of timing: avoiding the equal evils of haste and procrastination. A good executive must have the power to explain and defend his / her actions to a wide variety of audiences, from the largest to the most specialized.

Eric Hosemann: As an elitist (And trust me, having taken your writings on literature to heart, you're an elitist— but totally in the good, Allan Bloom sort of way...) you understand the necessity of refinement in intellect, art and politics. But what of the ore? What of the raw material that shows itself amenable to refinement by pursuing an education, or a career in representative government? Are we to dismiss it outright unless it sprouts directly from the Ivy League, portfolio in hand?

David Frum: Did I say anything about the Ivy League? I don't think academic credentials matter at all in the presidency. (Unlike eg the Supreme Court or the Federal Reserve.) I even believe that there is rapidly diminishing marginal utility for IQ. Clinton was surely smarter than FDR, Nixon smarter than Reagan, Adams smarter than Washington. We are talking about a particular set of decision-making skills - and there is NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER that Palin possesses them. Worse, from my point of view, is the assumption that because she is a conservative Christian that she therefore has intelligent conservative views on every other subject, from what to do with Fannie Mae to what to do about Iran. That's a greater leap of faith than I can make.

More on David Frum: Wikipedia; His own webpage