What exactly qualifies Sarah Palin for the VP spot?

Question

PLEASE

do not include her morals, her family, shes a woman, her 2 years of executive experience(20 million dollars in debt later), shes a hunter, shes a fisher, the bridge to nowhere(which she flip floped on)

I am looking for more things that actually matter, and that will benefit her somehow to be the VP or even Commander in Chief, which is more than likely to happen

If you want Obamas experience look at his website,

If you want to compare the candidates you have to compare Biden and Palin, thats the VP's its not Obama vs Palin

Answer 1

Nothing disqualifies her.

Technically,  to serve as Vice President, this is all one needs to be qualified:

--be a natural born U.S. citizen

--35 years of age or older

--lived in the U.S. for at least 14 years

--not be "constitutionally ineligible to the office of President"

There used to be a desire for citizen statesmen, not career politicians. That's why these are all the requirements our Founders saw fit to lay down as qualifications for office.

Answer 2

Well what disqualifies her?

Look at the actual requirements for a V.P. and tell me where nominating her is wrong.  

Answer 3

If you want Obama's experience look it up on the web??  Where?  I haven't seen it yet.  A community organizer.  143 days in the senate.  Sorry- Palin's 2 years as a governor much outweigh Obama's.  As for V.P.  Biden has run for president how many times?  Obama should have picked Hillary.  He was dumb not to.

Answer 4

And even as VP she's more qualified than the "present" Obama and his 143 days in Senate.

Trippi Warns Democrats to Not Underestimate Pick of Sarah Palin

Posted: 01 Sep 2008 10:33 AM CDT

Here is analysis by Joe Trippi, a Democratic political consultant, on why Democrats had better be careful in underestimating John McCain's pick of Sarah Palin for Vice-President:

I have seen a lot of commentary on why John McCain’s pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is a cynical and transparent ploy to bring disaffected women who supported Hillary Clinton to his cause - and why this ploy would fail.

But I don’t think John McCain and the people around him are that stupid.

Something else in his speech introducing Palin as his choice caught my attention and I believe shines some light on the real reason McCain chose the Alaskan.

McCain said of this pick “I have found the right partner to help me stand up to those who value their privileges over their responsibilities, who put power over principle, and put their interests before your needs...I found someone with an outstanding reputation for standing up to special interests and entrenched bureaucracies; someone who has fought against corruption and the failed policies of the past."

The McCain campaign plans on making an assault on Barack Obama’s strength as a change agent. And challenge, what the McCain campaign will describe as, Obama’s weak or non-existent attacks on corruption within the Democratic Party and other institutions throughout his career.

Like the Swift boat attacks of 2004 on Senator John Kerry, a decorated Viet Nam Veteran -- this assault will be on what is now a strength of Barack Obama's -- his focus on changing a broken system in Washington.

To make this assault, McCain picked in Palin someone who has taken on the corruption in the GOP in Alaska, turned against her own party’s establishment, and fought for reform.

The McCain/Palin duo will challenge Barack Obama’s claim of “a new kind of politics” and chastise Obama and Democratic vice presidential Nominee, Joe Biden, for their “silence” in taking on corruption in their own party in Illinois, Delaware and Washington, DC.

The McCain campaign intends to claim that “more of the same” in Washington means Barack Obama and Joe Biden and will make the argument that if you want to “shake things up” then McCain and his reform minded running mate from Alaska will get the job done.

My initial reaction was that in picking Palin, McCain had taken away the argument that Barack Obama wasn’t ready to be president. I now think my initial assessment on that score was wrong. Over time, the McCain team will insinuate that if you think a first-term Governor isn’t ready for the number 2 slot, are you really sure that a first-term Senator is ready for the number 1 spot?  

Answer 5

Basically, you're asking us to tell you what qualified her to be VP, but you've asked us not to list her qualifications?

OK, can you tell me what qualified Obama to be President? Oh, and you can't include his service in the US or Illinois Senate.

EDIT: Obama and Palin both have 11 and a half years experience in elected positions, plus Palin has held appointed state-level positions.