Hubris?

So it’s hubris when Sarah Palin accepts the offer made by John McCain to be his running mate?

Apparently so, if you accept the interpretation offered by Charles Gibson during the portion of his interview aired on ABC last night. Mr. Gibson offered that someone as inexperienced as her should have had some pause before being willing to accept a position that many – including, apparently, he – feel she is not ready for.

Make sure you understand this – it is hubris when a governor of a state, with an established track record of executive branch experience – is asked by someone else to be on the national ticket, and accepts without agonizing over the choice.

So is it hubris when a first-term Senator with no executive branch experience and a thin record of achievement in the legislative branch decides, on his own, that he should head up a national party ticket?

Was it hubris for the governor of a relatively small rural state to decide, on his own, to take on a sitting president with an incredible resume back in 1992?

Was it hubris for the governor of a rural southern state to decide, on his own, that he was the one to heal the nation’s wounds, taking on a sitting president, again with an incredible resume, who had devoted much of his time and attention to the same back in 1976?

Why is it, in the minds of our elite teachers in the out-of-touch “mainstream” media – which, by the way, is a term that merits some re-thinking, in view of such outlets’ decreasing market share – such questions are only valid when someone like a Sarah Palin is the candidate in question, as opposed to Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter - or Barack Obama?

I think we all know the answer(s) to that question.