   
The question of who makes a better president, a senator or a governor, has been debated for a long time. The research for this article took me on many paths.
One of the more interesting finds was a quote from Joe Biden (current VP designee with Obama) from a 2004 article written by Peter DuPont. Biden's opinion was that “Senators who've served on the Foreign Relations Committee, he implied, would do much better (than governors in a presidential race).
This article also has supporting evidence that would disagree that governors make better presidents after polling 78 scholars. The difference between the experience of senators vs. governors is quite revealing. "The former have convictions while the latter have positions. That is, the nature of the senatorial job allows one to have positions that can be compromised, but the nature of an executive is to discharge duties to get results; that requires uncompromising tenacity. One (senator) knows the mysterious insider ways and incantations of the federal government, while the other (governor) has actually had to manage people and programs albeit on a smaller scale."
This poll leads to the conclusion that America is usually better off with a president who has executive experience before reaching the White House. Presidents lead, set a course, and come to conclusions. Senators can be very concerned, vote this way and that, and hope to gain the votes of citizens expressing the concerns (politics in other words). Men (women also) who show concern, consensus and compromise are much less likely to provide leadership for the country than men of principle, resolve and executive experience who make decisions.
Political pundits have had Sarah Palin on their radar screen for more than a year. These pundits saw Palin as an ideal choice: a governor, working woman, mother, pro-lifer, wife, conservative, Christian and budget-cutting fiscal hawk. She opposes pork barrel projects and favors drilling in ANWR.
Joe Biden is known as being an attack dog and it is questioned whether "poor Sarah Palin", being a woman can stand up to his attacks.
On April 22 under Palin’s direction, Commissioner of Natural resources, Tom Irwin, took on ExxonMobil by rejecting a proposal from the company to spend $1.3 billion to develop the high pressure, problematic North Slope gas field at Point Thomson. State officials did not trust the company to move forward with drilling and development. The unit formed by Exxon and 16 other companies was dissolved, causing most of their leases to expire and revert back to the state.
Palin knows her mind and where she stands. Going back to the traits of a govenor, she knows how to make decisions. She does not waffle back and forth and straddle the middle, as do senators to keep their voters. Governor constantly being make decisions. Senators debate, go back and forth, discuss, argue, change their minds and can vote "present" many times to avoid taking a side, as Barack Obama has done many times in his short time in the Senate. A decision maker is needed. Washington is broken because of the politics that dominate congressional leaders minds, instead of thinking about their constituents. Alaska, under Sarah Palin’s leadership, has invested $5 billion in state savings, overhauled education funding and put a Senior Benefits Program into place to provide support for low-income older Alaskans. Alaska’s Petroleum Systems Integrity Office was created to provide oversight andmaintenance of oil and gas equipment, facilities and infrastructure and the Climate Change Subcabinet to prepare Alaska’s climate change strategy.
Palin is all about ethics and openness in government also. Before becoming governor she was the state’s chief regulator of the oil industry. Committee members would not deal with corruption from within, Palin resigned her position and low and behold an FBI investigation took place which has so far indicted three legislators for corruption. From the Anchorage News, “In the roughly three years since she quit as the state's chief regulator of the oil industry, Palin has crushed the Republican hierarchy (virtually all male) and nearly every other foe or critic. Political analysts in Alaska refer to the "body count" of Palin's rivals. "The landscape is littered with the bodies of those who crossed Sarah," says pollster Dave Dittman, who worked for her gubernatorial campaign. It includes Ruedrich, Renkes, Murkowski, gubernatorial contenders John Binkley and Andrew Halcro, the three big oil companies in Alaska, and a section of the Daily News called "Voice of the Times," which was highly critical of Palin and is now defunct.”  Is Sarah Palin, the weak, inexperienced governor that Barack Obama, Joe Biden, the Democrats and the mainstream media would love for the voters to believe or has she rightfully earned her name "Sarah Barracuda?"
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