Palin and the Experience Issue

The Democrats seem thrilled to be able to pounce on the issue of experience with Sarah Palin, who has served as small town mayor, Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and 2-year governor.

A couple of thoughts:

-No matter who McCain chose, there would be open avenues of attack (e.g. Romney fired people as a consultant, Pawlenty is boring and has no national experience, Lieberman is a turncoat or a shill for Israel, Ridge is pro-choice, etc.).

-Ms. Palin, though nationally inexperienced, has more executive leadership under her belt than all the candidates combined.

-It will be interesting to see how she stands up to Biden, who is smart, experienced, and savvy and the Dems now say the experience card is no longer McCain's to play, but let me pose this question: Let's say that McCain wins and then dies two years into office. Isn't it reasonable to say that her time as gov and two full years as VP would make her more experienced than Obama would be on day one of his administration?

In the end, if Palin removes the experience question and Biden invalidates the post-partisan change message from the debate, i'm fine with that. Let's get down to the real issue at stake here: do the American people want more overall government control and decision making in their lives or do they want to preserve and perhaps advance the cause of individual liberty? This is a serious philosophical question that I hope earns some serious debate.