Palin's Executive Experience (Page 1/8)
Formula88 SEP 27, 05:07 PM
I don't want to talk about her specific qualifications. Rather, what's everyone's opinion on what kind of experience you get being a state Governor vs. a Senator or Congresscritter.

It occurs to me, most of our recent Presidents have been former Governors, and not come from the Senate.

George W. Bush - Gov. TX
Bill Clinton - Gov. AR
George HW Bush - House of Representatives -> VP
Ronald Reagan - Gov. CA
Jimmy Carter - Gov. GA
Gerald Ford - House of Representatives -> VP -> assumed Presidency after Nixon's resignation. Never won a national election.
Richard Nixon - Congress -> VP

Thoughts? I'm talking more about general experience coming from a Gov. position rather than this election specifically. (trying to avoid some political flames - even if in vain)
randye SEP 27, 05:35 PM

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Originally posted by Formula88:

I don't want to talk about her specific qualifications. Rather, what's everyone's opinion on what kind of experience you get being a state Governor vs. a Senator or Congresscritter.

It occurs to me, most of our recent Presidents have been former Governors, and not come from the Senate.

George W. Bush - Gov. TX
Bill Clinton - Gov. AR
George HW Bush - House of Representatives -> VP
Ronald Reagan - Gov. CA
Jimmy Carter - Gov. GA
Gerald Ford - House of Representatives -> VP -> assumed Presidency after Nixon's resignation. Never won a national election.
Richard Nixon - Congress -> VP

Thoughts? I'm talking more about general experience coming from a Gov. position rather than this election specifically. (trying to avoid some political flames - even if in vain)



Congressional experience gives a candidate, well...congressional / legislative branch experience.

Gubenatorial experience gives a candidate government executive as well as legislative experience.

You have to realize what congressional people mean when they use the term "leadership" and what that same term means in an executive capacity. There *is* a big difference.
Toddster SEP 27, 05:59 PM
I liked what Barry Goldwater Junior said about Nancy Pelosi, Chris Dodd, and Charlie Rangle in relation to the bail out. He called them Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest. In as much as not one of them has any credentials in economics and yet they are slapping this thing together and trying to ram it through Congress before they even bothered to discuss it with the GOP member of Congress first.

I really get worried about legislators trying to jump over to the executive branch. But in as much as McCain and Palin both have executive experience, I am not too worried. I wish McCain's was more current but his years of working closely with the Various administrations from 1982 to the present gives me a little comfort. Palin is young but she is the only candidate with actual hands on executive government experience.

Joebama on the other hand...ugh!
randye SEP 27, 08:07 PM

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Originally posted by Toddster:

... yet they are slapping this thing together and trying to ram it through Congress before they even bothered to discuss it with the GOP member of Congress first.




Yes, like the, Dem crafted, odious provision "D" for 20% of any recovered revenues to go to the HTF which will funnel millions of dollars ACORN and La Razza and other frauds.
Even when the boat is sinking, these dimbulbs are STILL trying to scam the passengers.
partfiero SEP 27, 09:04 PM

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Originally posted by randye:
Even when the boat is sinking, these dimbulbs are STILL trying to scam the passengers.



Dude you have to run for office. If McCain would have used that line last night, It would have been lights out for the dems.
randye SEP 27, 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by partfiero:


Dude you have to run for office. If McCain would have used that line last night, It would have been lights out for the dems.



Lets see:

Do I have more executive experience than B. Hussein Obama?

Yes

Do I have more "foreign policy" experience than B. Hussein Obama? (in this case meaning that I've travelled abroad more than he has)

Yes

Do I have current associations with domestic terrorists, con artists or Marxists?

No

I guess I'm qualified!

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Wichita SEP 27, 10:17 PM
Governors have been popular in recent Presidential elections is because the electorate likes candidates that are outside of Washington D.C.

Unless you have the name recognition of being a Vice President, then being a Governor was the second best thing going for you.

Since 1900 there has only been two sitting Senators that have won the Presidency and four as the nominee but lost.
Formula88 SEP 27, 10:57 PM
I found the topic interesting because of all the talk of Palin's experience, yet so many of our presidents have come directly from the state Governor level. I don't recall this being a big issue before.
Wichita SEP 27, 11:07 PM

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Originally posted by Formula88:

I found the topic interesting because of all the talk of Palin's experience, yet so many of our presidents have come directly from the state Governor level. I don't recall this being a big issue before.



It's because she's female.

That is really the only reason. I mean, she doesn't fancy me as somebody I would elect, but I know she is being attacked as an inexperience dame, because many people feel (primarily left leaning people) that women in general are unqualified and inherently inexperienced.

If she was flipped as a male, there wouldn't be near or if any attacks on the experience level of that candidate.

People have to remember that Women Suffrage (Allowing the women the right to vote) was passed by a Republican President and a Republican controlled Senate and House. Republicans have always been, since the Party's inception, the Party to liberate and spread rights to all Americans.
Jeremiah SEP 28, 09:38 AM
This thread is bizarre since no governors are running for president. And every elected VP which has managed to keep his seat has come from the legislature over the course of most of our lives

Cheney - Senator WY
Gore - Senator TN
Quayle - Senator IN
H.W. - Contress Tx 7th
Mondale - Senator MN
Rockefeller - Governor NY (who was not elected by the people but rather, as you know, by the SENATE (Goldwater voting against him!)
Ford Congress MI 5th
Agnew - Governor, Maryland (resigned.)
Humphrey and before him Johnson and before him Nixon and before him Barkley and before him Truman --- THE SENATE!


In fact, you have to go all the way back to Calvin Collidge's VICE PRESIDENCY before another governor is found to have taken the spot.

Which makes this thread even more bizarre.

But, if you can find good omens in a dish of chicken bones or the history of the last 5 presidents (two of which have been disasters), then good on ya.

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