To be president, you have to be able to understand a HUGE array of topics, in some real depth.
I mean, just being a mayor...
running a city is a nightmare of laws, security, education, environment, water, garbage, economy, etc etc...
Now multiply that by 1000 and you're at the level of understanding a president must have. I mean, mayors don't have to worry about other cities wanting to nuke them, ya know?
FOR ME, a person must show some ability to understand these thigns. Getting an advanced degree would be a start. Having a decade experience running a state might qualify. But shit man... 18 months as Governor, and you want her to run the world? Sorry. Obama was barely qualified, with a law degree and 10 years in senates. She, with a stint as mayor and a year as governor - no, just not experience.
You add that lack of experience to the fact she's failed to ever deliver anything remotely resembling an intellectual contribution to the world, and i ask you - Why would you give the most important job in the world to a person who has yet to prove herself?
I woudn't. I would select a person like Mitt, with 20+ years of governing and advanced finance. or a Rudy, with a decade of practically running a small country (NYC) and another decade learning the world thru his organization. I would choose a huntsman, who knows chinese finance better than most and has run a state for a while, along with plenty of business experience.
I would NOT give the most powerful job on the planet to Palin, who has yet to prove herself in any experience or intellectual way. All the spunk in the world doesn't give you those things. I WOULD consider her to be a viable candidate in about ten years. Not yet.