Is Sarah Palin more qualified than Olympia Snowe, Kay Bailey Hutchinson and Condoleeza Rice?

Question

And would any of these three have had to defend their qualifications the way Palin has?

Answer 1

NO - h**l I'm more qualified than Palin!!

Answer 2

They are much better candidates. This is why if McCain wants a woman, he could have chosen one of them but instead he chose this... this... is it because of her looks?????

Answer 3

The Constitution of the United States sets the qualifications for the office of President and, by default, Vice-President.  Those qualifications are:

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

All the women you mentioned fulfill those qualifications and are thus equally qualified to be Vice-President.

There probably is, however, a difference in their credentials.

Answer 4

I think Snowe and Hutchinson have more qualifications than Palin.  I don't think Snowe would fit in politically.  Hutchinson could have been a realistic choice.

Palin has more qualifications than Rice.  Rice may be smarter than all of the other three combined when it comes to international relations, but that wouldn't make her a good VP or President.  She's never run for political office in her life and has a rather narrow specialty range.

Answer 5

Yes, Palin is as qualified as anyone else McCain would have picked.

Palin brings energy to ticket, but lacks foreign policy cred

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/9673

Sarah Palin's Resume vs. Barack Obama's Resume

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsSYE4gf...

Answer 6

She cannot be compare her with Dr Rice for god sake  

Answer 7

Neither Snowe, Hutchinson, nor Rice would have had to defend their qualifications.  However they would face other challenges that prevented them from being the nominee, as would the more experienced governors Jodi Rell (R-CT) & Linda Lingle (R-HI).  Rice would have faced the challenge that she is seen as partially responsible for an very unpopular war among moderates and independents (not just Democrats).  Snowe & Hutchinson do not meet the standards of the religious right like Palin does, and ultimately McCain was convinced to make a choice that energized his base rather than reach out to moderates and independents.

Answer 8

Killer - heres the real Resume - not a youtube video

and No she is not mroe qualified than any of them

PRE-POLITICAL EDUCATION:

Palin: University of Idaho. B.A. in Journalism

Obama: Occidental College,Columbia University,Harvard Law School- B.A. in political science and international relations. Professional Doctorate (J.D. or Juris Doctor) magnacum laude from Harvard.

PRE-POLITICAL EXPERIENCE:

Palin: Winner of the 1984 Miss Wasilla beauty contest, 2nd in the Miss Alaska pageant. Won "Miss Congeniality" award for playing flute. Breifly a sports reporter for KTUU-TV in Anchorage. Also helped her husbands commercial fishing business.

Obama: 4 years at New York Public Interest Research Group, a non partisian political organization. 3 years as a community organizer on the south side of chicago. Editor of Harvard Law Review, later elected President of Harvard Law review. Director of Illinois Project Vote. Teacher of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years. Associate and counsel of Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm for 11 years. Founding member of the board of directors Public Allies. Served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago. Served on the board of directors of The Joyce Foundation. Served on the board of directors of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge for 7 years. Served on the board of directors of the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Center for Neighborhood Technology, and the Lugenia Burns Hope Center

POLITICAL CAREER:

Palin: 1992-1996- Served 2 terms on city council then 2 terms as Mayor of Wasilla Alaska- population 6700 people.

Obama: 4 years as an illinois senator- population 12,852,548 people. Chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.

Palin: 1 year as Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commissioner. Then moved on to serve almost 18 months as governer of Alaska- population 683,478. One of three directors of "Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service Inc". Lifelong NRA member.

Obama: An additonal 4 years as a U.S. Senator. Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Environment and Public Works and Veterans' Affairs. Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and more.

MAJOR POLITICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Palin: In 2007, pressured lawmakers to get the Alaska Gasoline Inducement Act passed to build a natural gas pipeline to deliver 35 trillion feet of North Slope natural gas to market. ....Alaska's first woman governor.....

Obama: Sponsored over 800 bills to reform healthcare, ethics in washington, veterans benefits and more. Passed a bill that expanded healthcare to over 100,000 people in Illinois.. Passed a bill that set up community health centers to serve underserved populations. Passed a bill that provided the earned income tax credit to thousands of Illinois families. Passed a bill reforming the death penalty that had sent innocent people to death row. Passed a major ethics reform bill that banned excessive gifts from lobbysts. Co-sponsored a bill to mandate regular inspections of Veterans hospitals like Walter Reid.

http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=...

http://www.votesmart.org/bio.php?can_id=...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obam...

barackobama.com/issues

http://obama.senate.gov/committees/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/0...

Answer 9

Do you mean 'defend against' the main stream media & the Democrats who are under the thumb of the main stream media? h**l Yes...the Left has no standards....there is no level low enough....where they won't go. It seems they will attack anyone...eeer that is...that doesn't support their agenda.

The Truth Hurts...go ahead report me cuz you can't take it.

Answer 10

Considering Senator McCain is running for President, yes.

The situation would be different if, say, the republican nominee were Governor Huckabee or Governor Romney.  They are different people, different governing philosophies, and the chemistry would not be the same.  Chemistry is important in choosing a VP.

Secretary Rice has repeatedly said it is a job she would not want, and two negatives are that she is too closely linked to the current adminstration and she has never campaigned for any elected office before.

From the opening day of the DNC:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 11

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Answer 12

No.  But she was chosen to get the Hillary Democrats.  I am a Hillary Democrat and I would vote for Romney, the current governor of Louisiana, anybody before I would vote of Palin. Choosing her just points out McCain's extremely poor judgement.  I think he's gone senile.

Answer 13

All 3 of those women would have been MUCH better candidates.  

Answer 14

h**l NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 15

LOL Heck no. There is a reason the media sees this as a confusing pick. It is... It adds weaknesses instead of strengths.

Answer 16

Those three women lack the radical evangelical agenda that Sarah Palin brings to the ticket!

Answer 17

Condi Rice would be very qualified.  However, she carries way too much baggage from the current administration and would cost McCain a lot of swing votes.

And yes, any candidate is going to have to defend her qualifications.  That's how it should be.

Answer 18

Unfortunately, both Obama and Palin have had to defend their qualifications to millions of people who do not even know what the qualifications for the U.S. President are.  

Personally, I really wish that both Democrat and Republican supporters would stop talking about "qualifications."  If by qualifications, you mean federal government experience then both Palin and Obama should drop out.  

Come on people, this is not a race for some corporate job, in which the most experienced person with the most tenure wins.  

The American spirit of the U.S. Presidential election is that anyone who is a U.S. citizen and of a certain age can run for the office of the President.  Even a 35 year old immigrant who became a legal U.S. citizen and has no leadership experience can run.  

It is not about who has the most Federal government experience or most executive experience.  It is about who will make the best decisions for America as a whole and who has the best character for the office of the U.S. President.  

Answer 19

Political qualification is valuable,

Answer 20

Hmm good point.