{"id":1470,"date":"2009-11-17T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/2009\/11\/17\/this-is-the-best-they-can-do"},"modified":"2009-11-17T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T20:16:00","slug":"this-is-the-best-they-can-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"This is the best they can do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This just in: The presumed frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is not qualified to serve as commander in chief, according to recent polls.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/16\/cnn-poll-most-americans-say-palin-not-qualified-to-serve-as-president\/\">http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/16\/cnn-poll-most-americans-say-palin-not-qualified-to-serve-as-president\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet there she is, the subject of water cooler talk all across the nation as she hypes her book, &#8220;Going Rogue.&#8221; I&#8217;m talking, of course, of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who quit her statewide office halfway through her first term.<\/p>\n<p>Slightly more than half of all Republicans think Palin is qualified. A fraction of Democrats would say she is capable of serving as president. Independents split somewhere between partisans on both sides. All this comes from a CNN\/Opinion Research Dynamics survey, which is generally considered to be one of the better political polling outfits in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have no shortage of potential candidates who are actually qualified to serve if elected. Former Govs. Mitt Romney (Mass.) and Mike Huckabee (Ark.) come mind.<\/p>\n<p>But their standing pales in comparison to Palin&#8217;s &#8212; at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness that nothing is permanent in politics, which is something Palin is likely to find out the longer she lingers under the glare of the public spotlight.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This just in: The presumed frontrunner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is not qualified to serve as commander in chief, according to recent polls. http:\/\/politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com\/2009\/11\/16\/cnn-poll-most-americans-say-palin-not-qualified-to-serve-as-president\/ Yet there she is, the subject of water cooler talk all across the nation as she hypes her book, &#8220;Going Rogue.&#8221; I&#8217;m talking, of course, of former Alaska Gov. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=1470\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This is the best they can do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}