Speaking of lots of inexperience, Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale's Hail Mary in 1984, was only a third-term congresswoman of Queens. And let's not forget John Kerry's North Carolina sidekick, John Edwards. Rich and almost as pretty as Palin, he was a trial-lawyer-turned-first-term-U.S.-senator.
With Obama and his thin resume atop their ticket, Democrats are throwing rocks at Palin from a glass house. But Republicans look as silly by insisting that Palin is "ready to lead on Day 1" if McCain falls over dead at Thanksgiving.
Republicans should speak the truth -- that while Palin is smart, competent and conservative, she obviously doesn't know diddly about foreign policy today.
But, GOP bosses should say, she's cramming like crazy and we're praying that President McCain lives at least four more years so she can learn on the job -- just as tough guys like Coolidge, Truman, Nixon, LBJ and Bush I did.
Bill Steigerwald
Bill Steigerwald, born and raised in Pittsburgh, is a former L.A. Times copy editor and free-lancer who also worked as a docudrama researcher for CBS-TV in Hollywood before becoming a reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and a columnist Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Bill Steigerwald recently retired from daily newspaper journalism..
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