From the Fairbanks Daily News - Miner

Palin unqualified to serve as vice president

quote in part:

"Sarah Palin's chief qualification for being elected governor of Alaska was that she was not Frank Murkowski.

She did not win because of her conservative credentials, her grasp of policy details or because of her track record as the mayor of Wasilla, an office she won in 1996 by collecting 617 votes.

Perhaps the strangest claim repeated endlessly on the news channels is that she has proven she can cut taxes and reduce the size of government in Alaska. She may have cut taxes as mayor of Wasilla, but that's not the same as cutting taxes as governor of Alaska, where there is no state income tax or sales tax to cut."