Jimmy Higgins
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Because it was a fluke. You'd know that if you read enough of the Wiki to see she stepped down as Governor of Alaska, because she couldn't govern the state because she managed to burn all of the bridges just to get elected. She had no idea what she was doing.Why was Palin unqualified in YHO? She was a state governor, mayor, city councillor, chair of the Alaskan Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after all. Why does that make her unqualified?
Palin managed to fly up to become the Governor of Alaska as a fluke. What put her on the national radar was that she did it so quickly (part of the fluke). She became mayor of Wasilla by making the race about being pro-life and anger. She was good, temporarily, at framing an election, however, a flash in the pan, real hot, real bright (not metaphors), very short lived. This would be confirmed later on in her attempt to maybe run for President in 2012, but what ultimately would be a mini-Trump in getting people to donate money to her so she could get paid to roam the country and talk shit. Her political career had set almost as quickly as it rose. A cheaper version of Stockwell Day (I realize only Canadians will catch that reference).
Palin was a lightweight of a lightweight. Took 6 or so years at several colleges to get an undergraduate degree. She was wholly unprepared for the job, and she was exposed for being a simpleton really early on, almost immediately. VPs in the past haven't necessarily been heavyweights. Pence and Quayle were the notable lightweights.
But the good news about Palin was she was one of the final Pandora boxes to be opened to lead us to the Teabaggers turn MAGA base. She dipped into the ugly deplorable movement that was more about tearing down the last 40 to 100 years of progress (depending on who you talk to).