Wait a minute, the hockey mom comes right from the pit bull's mouth. She painted herself as a hockey mom (pitbull with lipstick), not the media. Her term, not the meida's. And yes, hockey mom's do become mayor of a small town. the governor thing I'll give her her due, that is impressive. Does it qualify her for VP, I don't think so.
Yes, that seems obvious unless you believe individuals in small population states are worth more than individuals in big population states. 1000 people are more important than 1 person, so long as the 1 person isn't having his/her basic rights violated.
I'm curious then, if extend such thinking from a state level to a national level, would you consider India and China more valuable nations than United States?
In terms of how complex it is to govern, hell yes. Wasilla, Alaska has a population of something between 5,000 and 10,000. Fewer people voted in the election that took Palin into office than vote in most high school student body elections. The state of Alaska has a population of about 670,000. That's far less than the city I live in (San Francisco). Palin has her attributes -- I actually like her persona a lot, though I find her politics and her penchant for using power to settle petty scores to be deplorable -- but her "experience" in Wasilla and Anchorage isn't high among them. Republicans should just concede the point and move on instead of engaging in this ridiculous resume-padding, pretending like being the mayor of Wasilla counts for anything. It doesn't. SR
So you believe that this makes them inherently more qualified, if they govern a large state versus a small state, to be the Vice President or President of the United States? Say...the Governor of California is more qualified than every other Governor to be VP or President of the United States? I mean, that is what your train of thought is implying.
But this thread is about how Tina Fey, a hollywood comedic actress is more qualified than the Governor of a State. So you believe that Tina Fey's experience dealing with television producers and actors is more valuable than governing a small town and governing a State of the United States? And I don't know what high schools have 5,000-10,000 students. That sounds crazy!
That's not what it implies. I simply spoke to how I value states. I also value basketball teams by on-court success, but that doesn't necessarily mean I rank GMs by winning percentage. I think the concept of a "state" is quite an arbitrary structure, and people are the key thing. The word "state" doesn't create a certain value. The people who are affected are what creates an importance. If, hypothetically, a state had 0 people, what would be the point of attaching "value" to it, from a governance standpoint?
I'm taking it here in the context that was posted earlier which seemed to imply that Governing Alaska was less important of an experience in government, almost to the point of ridicule. I presume its based on its population and/or relative lack of news events that seem to come from there, being geographically isolated from the contiguous states. The general "vibe" that comes from the leftist side of things is that Palin's experience in Alasaka basically amounts to nothing, given what Alaska's "value" as a state is perceived to be.
Well anyway, to answer Xericx's question of who is more or less qualified. Well to be honest. Palin isn't very experienced, especially with respect to being VP. Tina Fey is clearly less experienced, and not qualified for VP. The same issue could be brought up with Obama and on qualification for President.
Sorry, I just jumped into the thread. I am agnostic on Fey vs Palin. I would never, ever vote for either of them, for anything. I do find both to be hilarious, however. Wasilla is (marginally) bigger than most high schools, obviously, but high school elections have higher turnout rates than did Wasilla local elections, apparently. Palin got exactly 617 votes in the 1996 election that made her mayor of Wasilla. Six hundred seventeen votes. The student body president at Grant HS in Northeast Portland, where I went to school, absolutely gets more votes than that. Again, Republicans would be better off if they just admitted her resume is slim but that her other attributes offset that, instead of making ridiculous arguments that her domination of small-town politics (she crushed her opponent by 200 votes!) is great training for the presidency. SR
So would you agree with the sentiment that being the mayor of a small town is a worthless job, not worthy of any commendation? What about Governor?
