Once Again About Experience

Sarah Palin is not ready to be president, she has no experience. At least that is what all the Democrats are trumpeting about her and in the long run it really doesn't matter. First off the majority of the voters are voting for president, not vice president. Neither Obama or McCain have experience as president either. Only Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush have any experience as president of the United States. Obama if elected will have to start from scratch. He will have to pick a cabinet, advisers and any number of other appointments just to start. He will approach this task having never done anything larger than setting up an office staff as senator.
The same set of circumstances face McCain if he is elected and he has no more experience than Obama. Unless something happens to McCain in the first few months after the election Sarah Palin will not have to set up the office. That's right she will have a cabinet and advisers already in place if something happens to McCain. Of course in due time she will bring in her own people but she will not have to start with nothing. Also as a mayor and governor she has experience as chief executive. She has had to make appointments, work on budgets and deal with all manner of emergencies large and small. I know that there is a difference of scale but she does have experience no matter how meager the Democrats try to make it look.
No, the Democrats are not worried about her lack of experience, they are worried because she is a game changer. This move makes McCain look progressive and forces people to look again at John McCain. The Democrats are going to have a harder time saying that McCain represents the past. In fact Sarah Palin make Joe Biden look like a step back to the same old same old for Obama and the Democrats. Sarah Palin makes it harder for Obama to be the agent of change with a running mate that has been in the senate since 1972.
The Democrats need to back off the experience issue and start asking about what Sarah Palin really believes. Ask about her views on Right to Life, gun ownership, taxes, reform and the War on Terror. When you find out about her stances on those issues then maybe her experience can become an issue.