Paul Mulshine of the Newark Star-Ledger is one of the few journalists in America who offers clear-eyed commentary on Sarah Palin, with neither the infatuation of the right or the venom of the left. He says: "What makes someone who has never won election before a polity bigger than Bergen County's think she could handle the most power[ful] job on the planet? Whatever it is, it's not pretty - though she certainly is. But if she had a bit less ambition and a bit more humility, Palin would realize that without her looks she wouldn't have appeared on the national political scene in the first place."