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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I would have done it  Opportunity knocks. |
If she was actually interested in making a significant difference and learn about the national issues without the burden of being one heartbeat away from the presidency, she was far better off running for the Senate or even the House of Representatives than for VP. If she cared enough about her country she would have said "No, I am not ready to be VP yet" to McCain. By running for Congress instead she would have certainly been able to parlay her popularity in Alaska (a very solidly Republican state) into a substantial role with a national platform. Instead she opted for the glamourous choice to go into the national spotlight and was (and still is) completely out of her league and caught off guard by all of the attention. What did she think was going to happen?
I don't buy the fact that she wasn't properly briefed for the interviews. If someone is of Vice Presidential calibre, they only need to be really briefed on recent events that are not particularly well covered by the media but are still important enough to comment on. The Bush Doctrine represented a fundamental shift in US policy and occurred 6 years before the interview. Handlers aren't there to teach the basics. They are there to reinforce the details.