Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin

Gov. Palin's nomination has created quite a furor in the blogosphere; here is an interesting article from the American Thinker on how to answer some of the criticisms:

Defending Against the First Attacks on Sarah Palin

By Patrick J. Casey

As John McCain has shocked pretty much everybody with his pick of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, it's important to prepare for the attacks on her that will be launched, starting this afternoon, by the Democrats and the media. For attack they will, relentlessly. And they'll start with these three things:

First - "Palin has no experience". That's an easy one to dismiss. Sarah Palin has had more executive experience, meaning experience in running either a business or a government, than either Barack Obama or his running mate, Joe Biden. She has more executive experience than even her running mate, John McCain. Governor Palin served as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska from 1999 to 2002. She was elected as President of the Alaska Conference of Mayors. She was elected as Governor of Alaska in 2006. And she has quite a few concrete achievements, considering the amount of time she's been in office.

Click on the title for the rest of the article which goes on to address the scandal that the opposition keeps trying to create regarding her firing of Alaskan Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan.

---Katie