I think that how any politician would do as president could easily be determined if we asked ourselves how that person would react in a given circumstance. What would Sarah Palin do if ...

1. Iran tested and detonated a nuclear bomb.

2. Russia decided to become aggressive and retake some of its former republics such as Georgia, Adzerbaijan, etc.

3. China decided that the US dollar has lost too much value and decided to dump all the debt they hold in treasury bonds.

4. Opec became tired of the low value and instability of the USD and decided to switch its oil trading currency to the Euro.

5. Venezuela decided to entirely expel all American oil and banking companies and nationalize those industries completely.

6. The current recession is not abated and there is a massive shortfall in tax revenue for the treasury, forcing the government to cut services. Which services would she cut, and how?

7. The rising costs of healthcare and elderly care force the government to cut pensions for the elderly. (A warning that Allan Greenspan gave to the goverment about 8 years ago.)

8. Latin American countries, disillusioned with the failure of American capitalism to improve the lives of the poor, decide to form their own economic block and independent banking system, thereby cutting off the US from its most lucrative business revenue since WW II.

9. The rising drug and violence in the drug trade causes the massive violence experienced in Mexico and Central America to spill into the US.

10. There is some natural disaster like Hurricane Katrina that leaves thousands of Americans in danger.

We could go on and on with real amd imaginary threats to the US. Those 10 I listed are a few of the ones that I can pick out of the top of my head. Many of them are completely unknown to the American public, such as economic threats in Latim America, China and Opec.

I think at this point there is no candidate out there capable of handling all that. Even Barrack Obama is having a hard time with this, and in the last election he was clearly the best choice Americans were presented with (even if many Republicans disagree, Obama was the better candidate). Could Sarah Palin be the person to tackle this kind of problems? I think she is very capable in many ways, and lacks experience in others. It would be foolish to underestimate her, and ever more foolish to overestimate her.