How qualified to be vice president of the United States could a Republican be who:
Is young – under 45 years old?
Speaks in favor of economic development of Alaska?
Advocates and engages in exercise for personal fitness?
Has lived in the wilds of the American Northwest?
Fishes, hunts, and loves the great outdoors?
Has a reputation, not as an environmentalist, but as a conservationist?
Has at least five children?
Is a moralist for whom every issue is a struggle between good and evil?
Is a reformer who has taken on the GOP’s “good old boy network”?
Believes corporations should be controlled, but not strangled?
Said, “These fools on Wall Street think they can go on forever. They can’t”?
Has made some powerful enemies?
Believes the military needs to be expanded?
Has shown a brilliant sense of political symbolism and timing?
Believes the people, not the courts, should determine their own policies?
Is not a lawyer?
Has never been elected to national office?
Is on the GOP ticket for VP with less than two years in the governor’s office?
Pretty well qualified, as it turns out.
The year is 1900, and the candidate for vice president is Theodore Roosevelt.
- JP
Is this young governor qualified to be VP?
Let's take a look...
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Dan Spencer
Jeff Emanuel
Neil Stevens
Caleb Howe
Nice comparison Josh...loved the ending....;^)...n/t
Attack Mode (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 1:25PM EDT (link)n/t
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conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
Thanks! I aprreciate you kind comment.
Josh Painter (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 1:43PM EDT (link)Unfortunately, I left out “Is not a lawyer?” and “Has never been elected to national office?”. I lost the EDIT icon, so I can’t revise it.
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Nice job Josh
ekevlar11 (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 1:44PM EDT (link)I went looking for VP and P comparisons as I’m having arguments with a friend who can’t get through her skull that Obama is less experienced then Palin. Just shot your research off to her.
Erik
Seems strange how....
madtrapper (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 1:49PM EDT (link)…..our youngest President (42) was not only one of our greatest, but one of the best known Political machine smashers ever to enter Washington!
November will bring us two more.
“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled, and less than that no man shall have.”
T. Roosevelt, 1903
even without the edit it stands on it's own....n/t
Attack Mode (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 1:50PM EDT (link)n/t
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
Steel-Belted Radial Right Winger
“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.
I logged out/in and the Edit icon is back.
Josh Painter (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 2:21PM EDT (link)So I added the two lines…
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Josh, this is the definitive experience column
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 2:43PM EDT (link)and mine was damn good.
http://race42008.com/2008/08/29/thirty-five-years/
you are one of the best man
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I loved the 1900 model - the 1912 model...not so much. n/t
pilgrim (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 3:25PM EDT (link).
I loved the 1900 model - the 1912 model...not so much. n/t
pilgrim (Diary) Wednesday, September 17th at 3:58PM EDT (link).
Wow, I'm humbled.
Josh Painter (Diary) Thursday, September 18th at 12:11PM EDT (link)Coming from you, sir, whose work I have always admired, that is more praise than I’m used to. I’ll have to go soak my swelling head in cold water now…
I would love to be able to do this for a living. haven’t quite figured out how, yet. I just keep putting my stuff out there in as many venues as possible and hope that it gets noticed by the right people.
Thanks again, gamecock!
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Great column, Josh. Maybe you could send
janis (Diary) Thursday, September 18th at 12:39PM EDT (link)it over to the guys at Powerline. Paul over there is the worst one about sneering at Sarah’s qualifications, but the rest of them could use a spine-stiffener as well.
I emailed this to several friends and family members for wider dissemination.
I think they're still bitter that Pawlenty wasn't picked.
Stinger808 (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 2:18PM EDT (link)Hopefully, they’ll get over it.
My highest Recommendeation
AceInTX (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 3:37PM EDT (link)Break out the Rum ye scurvy dogs!!!
Awesome, Josh
redneck_hippie (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 3:58PM EDT (link)Yesterday I was thinking about the robber barons and centuries that have turned.
Really like how you put it together!
The best pirate name
Flagstaff (Diary) Friday, September 19th at 7:09PM EDT (link)EVER.
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5 x 5! History proves Sarah is well-qualified
David123 (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 9:36AM EDT (link)Once I started learning about Sarah Palin, I started to think about how similar she is to Theodore Roosevelt. You’ve informed us of even more similarities.
We know Sarah Palin is well qualified to be vice-president, and if necessary, president. History proves it!!
David123
Thanks Flag'
redneck_hippie (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 10:01AM EDT (link)I wanted Blackbeard but GC beat me to it.
Talk Like a Pirate Day needs to happen every time we have a financial market volcano, IMHO.
Not quite apples to apples...
Orca Saturday, September 20th at 3:46PM EDT (link)Teddy Roosevelt, when he was tapped to be veep had already served on the federal level as Asst. Sec of the Navy, incharge of preparing our navy for the Spanish-American War. He had also graduated from Harvard and attended Columbia Law School. He was a published author of politcal history. He had years of activity in state and local politics.
Sarah P. has barely been outside the country, has zero real foreign policy experience, took years to get a BA (4yr degree) in Journalism after attending 6 schools.
Comparing Sarah Palin and Teddy Roosevelt is an example of the dumbing down of American History and shows disrespect for TR.
So, you're voting for McCain, then.
Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 3:55PM EDT (link)Given that the experience of hers that you’ve just finished dismissing is in fact still greater than that of the Democratic candidate for President.
Good to know.
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madtrapper (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 4:03PM EDT (link)…..Mr. Lincoln, the very man who preserved our union, was a dope for being self taught????
Go Sarah!!!!!!
WTF?
Orca Saturday, September 20th at 4:11PM EDT (link)You know when you leap to such big conclusions you are likely to pull a muscle.
This article and thread is about comparing Palin and Roosevelt. Obama and Lincoln are not part of this equation.
Regardless of what the experience levels of Obama,Lincoln or Millard Fillmore are (or were) I still say Palin is no Teddy Roosevelt. You do yourself no favors by showing ignorance of American History.
No answer. No surprise.
Neil Stevens (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 4:16PM EDT (link)The Netroots idiots can’t make a substantive argument for a substanceless ticket. They lack the wits to even try, so they just attack women instead.
That’s been the pattern since New Hampshire.
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Moe Lane (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 4:19PM EDT (link)Please master its use.
Oh, and lose the attitude before I make you start apologizing for having one.
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Thar' she blows
madtrapper (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 5:10PM EDT (link)Harpoons at the ready men, the orca has surfaced!
Not every one is as awe struck by Harvard
Vegas_Rick (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 5:19PM EDT (link)as liberals appear to be.
We happen to admire someone who basically worked her way through college as best she could. No appeals for government money to pay for her education. No elite Hawaiian prep school, no minority preferences. Just hard work.
Believe it or not, there is value in that.
“God is great, beer is good and people are crazy.”- Billy Currington
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” Calvin Coolidge.
so TR failed to matriculate thru Columbia?
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 5:34PM EDT (link)Had Lincoln left the Country? Carter and Clinton had, and both made fools of them selves abroad.
Harvard? and? The stupidest ideas ever offered require degrees from Ivy League schools.
And how does one get “foreign POLICY experience”? would negotiating treaties qualify?
Palin did that with Canada.
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Yes!
DavidS1787 (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 8:00PM EDT (link)Gov. Palin is very Qualified to be Vice President of The United States .
Qualification
DonPMitchell (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 9:41PM EDT (link)Orca, I’m assuming you’re an Obama supporter. I’m not, but nevertheless you make a good point about Palin’s poor educational background. Obama has been a Senator and went to Harvard, where he was president of the Law Review. There’s no question in my mind he is intelligent and knowledgeable, I just don’t agree with his leftwing philosophy.
I was talking to another older Republican I know, a businessman, and he had the same concerns about Palin as I do. There are a lot of us who are very unhappy about Palin. Her energy and personality are wonderful, but she seems totally unqualified to be president. And after all, that is the most important issue with a VP, could she be president? The major of a tiny town, governer of Alaska for less than two years, a young-earth creationist, a journalism major from third tier schooling. What was McCain thinking?
Goldwater: In your heart, you know he’s right
Personally, I thought 'Blackbeard'
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 10:51PM EDT (link)should have gone to blackhedd.
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Blackbeard called SC home. case closed-nt
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 11:07PM EDT (link)5
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Tongue in cheek, eh?
Flagstaff (Diary) Saturday, September 20th at 11:19PM EDT (link)You wacky Goldwater fans.
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GWB in a dress
FranklinMews Sunday, September 21st at 5:39AM EDT (link)“Is a moralist for whom every issue is a struggle between good and evil?”
Do we really need another one?
Heh, the banned guy thinks Obama can't distinguish evil (nt)
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Thank you!
Josh Painter (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 12:47PM EDT (link)Fortunately, I didn’t have to soak my head to keep the old ego from puffing up too much.
All it took was a read of Bill Whittle’s latest at NRO.
I feel a bit like Sonny Rollins must have felt when, after hearing John Coltrane, he almost gave up the saxophone…
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Read the post again.
Josh Painter (Diary) Monday, September 22nd at 12:59PM EDT (link)Where did I say that Gov. Palin was another TR? That was not the message of the post. The message was that there are some interesting parallels between the two, and that Palin is no less qualified than some vice presidents who, when fate suddenly promoted them to commander in chief, rose to the challenge above all expectations.
“An armed society is a polite society” – Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
Crack
MottdeWitt Wednesday, September 24th at 1:59PM EDT (link)Anybody that thinks Sarah Palin is fit to hold TRs jockstrap must be on crack. Compared to TR she is an intellectual midgit. Quit deluding yourselves.
Crack
MottdeWitt Wednesday, September 24th at 1:59PM EDT (link)Anybody that thinks Sarah Palin is fit to hold TRs jockstrap must be on crack. Compared to TR she is an intellectual midgit. Quit deluding yourselves.