I will just ask my GOP friends to put the kool-aid and talking points down for just a second and honestly ask yourself if the shoe was on the other foot and someone with her experience were on the Dem ticket if you all would not be howling with laughter.

I will agree that being governor of some states, such as California or New York, could provide the type of experience that is being pushed forward by the GOP spinners. Alaska is not one of those states that I would put in that category. With under 700,000 people it is smaller in size than many congressional districts, is running a budget surplus due to oil revenues (while governors of most states are trying to manage real spending cuts due to unfunded federal mandates and the down economy) and deals with a legislature controlled by her party. Taken as a whole the "executive" experience being touted is a stretch to say the least. Alaska politics and Palin's limited experience in it, is not the forge needed to temper someone to be a heart beat away from the Oval office.