Here's the bottom line on the Palin speech, I didn't see anyone who I would want to be president on stage while she was talking.
She's a nice enough person, but I don't see her in the Oval Office, or being a 72 year old heart beat away from the oval office.
And I worry about the mental processes of a guy who would choose her for that position.

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“ The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.”

Adam Smith , The Wealth of Nations 1776

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"
FDR's second Inaugural Address