Conservative Against Palin (George Will)

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Context for Journal Entries: I'm in the process of compiling all the columns/articles written by "conservatives" against McCain and/or Palin. Yes, I know that many are frequently posted in the Editorials or Other Articles. However, they're always mixed in with the many articles on other topics and I, personally want a "set" all in one place, for easy reference when discussing issues with conservatives. So, I'm posting them in my journal.

Impulse, Meet Experience
By: George Will, Washington Post, Sept. 3, 2008

The word "experience" appears 91 times in the Federalist Papers, those distillations of conservative sense and sensibility. ...
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So, Sarah Palin. The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience.

Any cook can run the state, said Lenin, who was wrong about that, too. America's gentle populists and other sentimental egalitarians postulate that wisdom is easily acquired and hence broadly diffused; therefore anyone with a good heart can deliver good government, which is whatever the public desires.
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Clearly, experience is not sufficient to prove a person "qualified" for the presidency. But it is a necessary component of qualification.
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1. george will just goes on and on about

shit, doesn't he?

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2. A pretty condescending piece in general

And not just against Palin. Typical George Will.

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3. I think he, like David Brooks, struggled with

... their intellectual honesty here ... and both columns show it.