Vergee: ..But Sarah Palin just won't be able to handle it."

Even if Vergee wants to come off as a .. biased political pundit posing as a reporter, she shouldn't have poised her view on Gov. Palin's abilities; rather, she should have simply asked the question: "Sec. Rice. Do you believe Sarah Palin will be able to handle the job?"

Or / well, she could have poised it this way - using the imaginary 3rd person who exists in the second non-thinking emotional brain of our MSM journalists: "Sec. Rice. "Many people are being heard saying, that.... do you think they have it wrong um, right?"

What experence did Rice have????????? 

Now they grow nostalgic for Dick Cheney, even before he leaves office? Uh-uh. They pull this stuff all the time. This is what is called "Plan B" - when attacks on Gov. Palin's family and her parenting abilities didn't work (and backfired on them) the MSM switches to attacks on her experience and capabilities. If that doesn't work, they will switch over to "Plan C" and attack her positions on issues... "Plan Z" will be to desperately re-throw all the failed attacks at her...

McNotObama '08

The real question should be, how will President McCain involve Sarah Palin in his administration?  If he's smart (and at this point I think he's smart as a fox), he'll involve here generally, and task her with some very specific areas and agendas.

From everything I've heard about the Governor, she asks questions and gathers information until she adequately understands an issue.  Then makes decisions.

So, for the liberal media twits...Vice President Palin will have access to the very best intellegence, and analysts, and experts that this nation has to offer regarding any issue which may pique her curiosity.  I'd estimate it would take her less than a week to become a policy wonk on any issue she'd choose.  If John McCain includes her as a true executive officer, his number two in command...she'll be more experienced in three months than B. Hussein would be in three years.

Next stupid question, stupid media talking heads!

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I think that we are going to see ever-increasing incidents of ankle biting by Beltway Gerbils like Zain VerJee. They are members of the civil service who have successfully suppressed critical review of the performance their departments for a long time. No President since Reagan has been willing to go to war with these civil servants.

The State Departments permanent staff has performed so poorly for the last twenty years they are completely right to fear Palin. While Sarah Palin's areas of expertise are those of immediate, interest to Alaska, Canada, Japan, far eastern Russia, and the Star-Wars installation that the Alaskan National Guard operates. She certainly has personal knowledge and concern about the various nations that fish off Alaska, the various nations with oil companies doing business in Alaskan oil, and the various international airlines that make connections through Alaska. The thing the Gerbils most fear about the Hockey Mom is she has the United States' leading reputation for breaking up feather bedding cabals.

Well, now I know who wrote the following comment on one of those upstanding lefty blogs...

"Obama!!! We HAVE TO UNITE AND SUPPORT HIM, HE’S A GOD!!!!! He, and we are the one’s we have been waiting for, we WILL SAVE THE WORLD!!!”
— Posted by J.T. aka Zain Verjee 

Increasing Hate For Palin

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To be honest, I think Palin does not have the best experience.  But she certainly has more experience than Obama.  She has a 10 billion dollar budget to oversee in Alaska and 24,000 employees.  Obama has like a 2 million dollar budget as Senator and less than 100 employees.  Palin spent her time as governor governing.  Obama spent his time as Senator running for President.

This is where the liberal media double standard enters in.  Obama gets a complete pass on his lack of experience.  Palin is defined as "obviously" lacking experience.  I even heard someone in the media over the weekend trying to say Obama's campaign for President is what gives him experience!!!

Governors generally don't have a lot of foreign policy experience.

G.W. Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Carter, F.D.R, et al, all had no such experience.

However, for what it might be worth -- Alaska shares it's borders with Canada and Russia.  None of it touches the USA.  So perhaps she has more  foreign policy experience than she is givin credit for.

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Beyond the naive correspondent's presumption that Palin "won't be able to handle it," she makes the mistake that her shallow-thinking peers make (or get from talking points): Should President McCain die in office, President Palin would have to make foreign policy in a vacuum.

1. President Palin would still have the National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Commerce, UN Ambassador, the Director of National Intelligence, et. al. to assist with foreign policy. Those are the government officers most often in contact with foreigners -- not the President or Vice President of the US.

2. Governor Palin has the experience of directing a cabinet. She knows how to ask questions, weigh responses, make decisions, and execute policy.

3. Who would the liberals rather see negotiating with a foreign leader: VP Cheney or VP Palin? Is she really scarier to them then Dick the Devil? I mean, c'mon.

4. And who would you rather send to oversee Federal response to a domestic natural disaster: Beltway-Imperium VP Cheney or former-Mayor-Governor VP Palin? Could be a new role for the VP, no?

And to those sexists who wonder if she can handle being VP and mother of five? SHE'S ALREADY A GOVERNOR, FOLKS! That certainly requires more time and focus than being a VP. If feminism is about "choice," stop making her choices for her!

This isn't journalism, it is advocacy. I don't care what the advocate's opinion is, I didn't ask.

Besides, the advocate is a liar. She doesn't have the names of "a lot of Republicans". She's making that up to provide justification for her own opinion. I have enough of this crap. I e-mailed CNN and call her a liar. Make these advocates name names.

In addition to the Rice/Verjee interview, did anyone happen to catch Kiran Chetry's rude interrogation of a guest from TownHall.com on American Morning today? The guests were from Huffington Post and TownHall.com. As was expected, the woman from HuffPo got friendly and tame questions, with no interruptions from Kiran, but when Kiran gave the last word to the gal from TownHall, she allowed her to get in the middle of her remarks, when all of a sudden Chetry interrupts and snobbily starts asking the woman if it is smart for Palin to claim she is a reformer when she accepted earmarks while governing in Alaska. Now, if Chetry has asked the guest about the earmarks and she had danced around the question, that would have been one thing. But, she gave the woman the last word, and instead of letting her give her remarks, she, in a very surly tone, jumps in without having asked her a previous question about earmarks in the first place. You know, I think that new executive producer for American Morning-the one with the Univ. of Cal, Berkeley degree, is really having a profound effect on Chetry. Of course, Chetry was already on that side of the fence anyway, but perhaps the new producer has given her a little extra schooling to combat those wacky pro-life conservatives that support Gov. Palin. Oh, these liberal ladies are so afraid of this Palin woman. Even  normally good natured gals like Kiran are starting to show how nervous they are.

It wasn't really fair to put Rice on the spot like that. Anyway, audio from the exchange is up here.