All on the Left, and some few on the Right, are a-twitter about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s lack of foreign policy experience, being only a “single heartbeat” away from the presidency. I’m of a different mind.
I live just outside the Washington DC beltway, and work inside the beltway. Foreign policy experts are a dime a dozen here; foreign policy experts with diametrically opposed opinions are two for a quarter on any street corner.
When I go to the polls to vote, I look for three things: conviction, courage, and common sense.
Conviction – a coherent moral and ethical philosophy that captures his or her world view.
Courage – the ability to stand up and speak out for his or her convictions.
Common sense – the ability to weigh competing opinions enroute to a decision; more succintly, a finely-tuned BS detector.
From what I’ve read so far, Gov. Palin has all three.
Experience is vastly overrated. As I see it, three or four years of increasingly responsible experience is a bit more valuable that one year of experience repeated 20 times.
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