Governor Palin still has more executive experience than Mr. Obama, loves America and believes in the constitution.

Actually, she has very little executive experience.

1) In 1996 she was voted in to her mayoral job of a town of less than 5,000 with 651 votes out of the total 1130 votes cast, and in her re-election as mayor, garnered 909 votes out of 1235 votes cast (not a lot of involved citizens in that town, evidently).

She immediately hired a city manager to do the “heavy lifting”, and occupied her time doing end-arounds the city council, one time using $50,000 of city money without authorization to redecorate her mayoral office. And most people have heard of the Sports Complex debacle.

2) In her first year as governor, without consensus, she pulled the executive branch out of the capital city, Juneau, and moved it to Anchorage, where 6 months after she quit her position, it remains. She established rapport with the Democrats in the state legislature to ram through new laws and taxes (what she later touted as her “reform”), upsetting most Republicans who’d backed her candidacy in 2006.

By the 2008 legislative session (Jan.-March) there were buttons worn by legislators on BOTH sides of the aisle saying “Where’s Sarah?”.

Why? Because by then she was delegating BOTH authority and responsibility (any competent executive knows you DO NOT do that) to her administrative staff for day-to-day state business, and she was home in Wasilla communicating with her staff on a Yahoo e-mail account (outside the official encrypted state system) via her ubiquitous dual Blackberries.

Right wing neocon Republicans came calling via a cruise up to Alaska in summer 2007, and Palin hosted a meeting with them (Palin had to make a special trip back down to Juneau to meet up with them). That might explain her distance and seeming disinterest in her job in early 2008, as she contemplated the rumors about her name being on John McCain’s “short list” as early as March 2008. She had some personal problems to deal with all the while, also, too.

As the new book “Game Change” indicates, she was not McCain’s FIRST choice, and she didn’t find that out until August 2008 — all the while becoming increasingly disengaged from her duties as governor. The rest is history.

Governor Palin still has more executive experience than Mr. Obama, loves America and believes in the constitution. Everything else she’ll need can be provided by good advisors.

That’s what Republican voters must have figured in 2000. Look how that turned out.

“Everything else” can be covered by advisors? When did Americans stop demanding a president who can do the job all by himself?

I wouldn’t call the GOP braindead, they’re more along the lines of listless, rudderless, without a plan or direction like they were in 1994. If they can come up with a plan or a direction they could really clean up.

Quite right. Whatever that plan and direction will be though—Sarah Palin isn’t the woman to formulate it.

Governor Palin still has more executive experience than Mr. Obama [...]

You mean, of course, besides the fact that Obama’s actually been president?

Well if this isn’t a LEFT tinged article I don’t know what is.

You are describing my article as leftish? Really? Do I really have to explain that the whole point of my article is that I’m desperately craving intelligent leadership of the Right?

If someone who [...] has no experience, no depth, no intelligence [...] explain to me how that person can have a best seller [...]

So according to your reasoning, Dan Brown should run for president?

The truth is [...] that everyone is against Gov. Palin EXCEPT the people.

That so? Then how do you explain for the fact that no more than two out of ten Americans who identify as “Republicans” actually want her to run the country?

If someone can govern (aka executive experience–something our current Commander-In-Chief had ZERO of) a state with a 93% approval rating, then she must be doing SOMETHING right. What is wonderful Pelosi’s approval rating right now?

If someone who–according to the left–has no experience, no depth, no intelligence–would someone explain to me how that person can have a best seller that reaches the limits of only three others in history, and still be said that she has no following, power, or future?

Come on now. The truth is, and I agree totally with one of the previous statements–that everyone is against Gov. Palin EXCEPT the people. And this nation–which is by and for the people–will be heard in 10, and 12, and I expect you will see this woman right in the middle of it all.

This is one Independent who is hoping she runs. You can keep “The Change”…I believe in the ideals and standards that are the foundation of the great nation.