Palin's Alaska Record Short on Trade, Immigration Decisions

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Source: Bloomberg

Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- By now, many Americans know Sarah Palin's views on guns, gays and abortion. When it comes to matters like trade, immigration, Social Security and Medicare, her record is mostly a blank slate.

Palin, 44, nominated last night to be the running mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, has dealt with few of the economic issues that concern Americans the most, focusing during her 20 months as governor of Alaska on energy policy above all else.

The reasons: Alaska, whose population of 670,000 is smaller than that of all but three states, has no income or sales tax, few manufacturing jobs and even fewer illegal immigrants. And its economy is based almost entirely on natural resources and tourism.

``She has a limited amount of experience, so we don't know what her stances are'' on larger national issues, said Alaska state House Speaker John Harris, a Republican supporter of the governor.

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1. AND leadership, AND foreign policy,. BUT WAIT, there IS the corruption thing! GOP points!

On the plus side, if you want to know how to kill a moose or shoot wolves from a chopper, she's your girl.

It is really funny to watch the GOP talking heads trying to make her out as some kind of experienced politician when everyone including her mother-in-law knows she was a silly knee-jerk selection by a desperate campaign. But hey, Alaska is near Russia, and Canada for that matter, and she is CIC of the Alaskan National Guard, but hasn't issued any orders or directives. So that's "foreign" policy experience (intended emphasis on "foreign").