Is Sarah Palin qualified? Is Barack Obama qualified? To be president or vice president of the country what is needed, really? What kind of experience?
It seems to me that increasingly identity politics is more and more important to people when they choose who they want to lead them. Arguably, this has always been so. But when a candidate, John McCain, is all of a sudden doing well after adding Sarah Palin to his ticket, one has to look for reasons why. She is not an expert of any kind, except perhaps at parenting (though that’s also in contention, what with her own daughter’s underage pregnancy). She has no experience dealing with foreign leaders. She has only been in public office for a handful of years and was a sportscaster prior to that. So why is Sarah Palin appealing?
She is pro-life and pro-family. So? How does that equate with experience?
Her personality and beliefs are what’s appealing. Not what she’s done.
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