We hear a lot now about Sarah Palin being so well qualified to take over the top US job if necessary because of her "executive" experience as Governor of Alaska. The closest recent example I know is the governorship of Texas by George W. Bush. I lived in Texas at the time and the state ran pretty well. Then Bush got propelled into the White house - and, as they say: "the rest is history"!
I rest my case without drawing the obvious parallel.

Except to say that Texas seems to be run by an already-in-place "good old boy" system (where "old boy" is not about gender but refers instead to cronies). These sometimes put up in office a figurehead (someone they can control). The two states are similar, except that Alaska is Texas times a factor of two or three - perhaps the same systems are in effect. This, in my mind, puts Palin's "executive experience" in question