And her name is Sarah Palin.

One read of her Wikipedia biography easily leads one to dismiss criticism of her political inexperience. She’s served at what can only be seen as a variety of levels of government which included city council and state commissions. She’s had to lead and make tough choices as both a mayor and govenor. Unlike Obama, she visited the wounded at Landstuhl in July of 2007 lond before she was mentioned as a VP candidate.

She has tremendous approval ratings as govenor from voters yet not so from reporters and legislators.

According to Gregg Erickson of the Alaska Daily News, Palin’s approval rating among reporters and legislators would be “in the teens or twenties

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Bage of honor in my book, almost as much as getting an Olbermann worst person in the world award.

Ed Morrissey has more that dispells the criticism of Palin. Morrissey runs some of the numbers here:

….Obama is a US Senator of three years experience, and Palin is a governor of 20 months’ experience. Only Barack Obama has spent two of those three years not in the Senate doing his job but running for President. Before starting his bid, he had a grand total of less than 150 days in session in the Senate. Palin, on the other hand, has run her state for more than triple that time.

Fox liberal commentator Kirsten Powers adds this:

I can’t help wondering if this is a trap. The McCain camp watched and learned as Obama supporters offended Hillary supporters by their treatment of her. The McCainiacs had to know that this group is incapable of behaving, that Palin would bring out their worst instincts

Powers, a former member of the Clinton administration, was and remains critical of the Obama campaign.

Obama’s argument thus far has been that experience isn’t what counts; it’s judgment. By attacking the Republican woman relentlessly on this issue, Democrats are undermining their own man.

The McCain campaign have played their cards brilliantly with both the timing and intrigue of the Palin selection stunned the Democrats and stole the oxygen from Obama’s Thursday night exstravaganza. What’s been even more critical has been the increasing reality that Palin is the real deal and an extroidinary candidate. One commentor said that Palin may prove to be Maddie Hayes to McCain’ s Rooster Cogburn.

A McCain-Palin win nine weeks from Tuesday will vault Palin to the front of the discussion as the Republican Party’s future presidential candidate and one that will prove quite a problem for Hillary Clinton whom Palin saluted in her remarkable speech yesterday.