There are 13 Republican governors with more experience than Glasses McGee. Take out Jodi Rell because she was installed due to....wait for it....a corruption issue with then-Governor John Rowland. Take out The Governator because he is ineligible for election as a nationalized foreigner. That leaves 11 more qualified (by the definition of Shlockey Mom #1) folks to hold the job of Executive-In-Waiting-For-Ancient-Pseudo-Maverick's-Obvious-Destiny.
Did any of these 11 ever broadcast scores form the local high school hockey teams? No. Did any of their local hockey teams play in a public debt-funded arena pushed through by the mom of some hockey players? Was any of their hockey players' moms the mayor that took on the debt, then left for higher grounds? No.
I have no issue, however, with sportscasters. It just seems that if you trumpet your experience as tantamount to serving in the United States Senate or organizing communities in the nation's third-largest city, you should come correct. Palin isn't even the most qualified FEMALE Republican governor. Linda Lingle is.
Who is this Lingle you say? As Governor of Hawaii (see any parallels so far?) she actually took the state's coffers from a $230MM deficit to a $730MM surplus. Yes, a surplus. When every other significant GOPper is cutting taxes and bathing their fiefdom in long-term debt to cover their immediate tracks (while lining the pockets of friendly financiers fromforeign countries), she saw a way to create a surplus, lower unemployment, and sign important human rights legislation into law.
Prio to being a governor, she was mayor of an ENTIRE COUNTY!!! That county has a greater population (672,188) than Alaska (619,258), and she not only DIDN'T leave it bathed in debt, she helped improve public education and safety. Those accomplishments got her elected Governor. Not local celebrity, bombastic demagoguery, or pork-barrel jumping.
So why, you ask, wasn't this excellent public servant chosen over the political infant? Several very depressing reasons.
First, she is twice divorced with no kids. How would we have her pose on the dais? With Cindy's half sister(s)? Then there was the invective speech reading contest. When given equally falsified libelous speeches written in Karl Rove's bathroom, she exhibited only a fraction of the foam around the incisors as Mrs. Not-enough-time-for-my-special-needs-family. Finally, she doesn't really look very "hot" (see picture above). It probably doesn't help that she's Jewish.
So when you're casting aspersions on community organizers to throw a spell of "under-qualification" on career public servants with distinguished and, relative to tenure, impressive accomplishments, Grannytard, remember that you are nothing but a desperate political choice of the most hirsuit nature. You are there because you can deliver a speech. You will never know what the Bush doctrine is, because you are either a little too busy to care or lack the candle-power of Charlie Rose (whoa!). You were never an executive of any geography that you didn't either drive into long-term debt or soak tax-payers for hand-outs for your childrens' benefit. Your integrity is only undershadowed by your depth of qualification to lead.
It is with these assertions that I humbly accept the nomination as McCain's inevitable pall-bearer.
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