By Ray Cardello for September 21, 2026, Season 33 / Post 19

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The country is ready for a female President, as long as she is qualified and ready to accept the responsibility of serving America, and not progressing a cause. Hillary and Kamala were neither. Hillary has always thought that she was entitled and destined to be behind the desk that her husband made fashion history with a blue dress. She ran for the Senate in a state she had no ties with but where a coffee cup with a “D” on it could be elected. She was a horrible Secretary of State, and if not for John Kerry, she could be the worst. Her only claim to both offices was that she was Hillary. Kamala followed a similar scenario, starting as AG for California after barely passing the bar, elected for a short Senate term, and then a terrible bid for the top spot in the land. She dropped out of the race before the first primary vote was made or fabricated, and then became Joe Biden’s “safe” choice for Vice President. Safe because nobody would ever try to remove Sleepy Joe if Kamala was the successor. In one of the least Democratic maneuvers of all time, Joe dropped out of his reelection bid, and the spot was awarded to Kamala without a single vote being cast. Thankfully, she lost to Donald Trump in one of the worst thrashings since Walter Mondale.

The country is not ready for any woman from the Democratic bench, but the future first female President may be sitting in the Governor’s office in Arkansas. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is one of a string of successful female Press Secretaries who have served in Republican administrations. She followed Dana Perino, the first female to serve in that role, Kayleigh McEnany, and Karoline Leavitt. All of these women could have pursued higher office, but Sanders may have the most courage and best temperament for the job. Some of her greatest accomplishments as Governor to date are in education, taxes, public safety, and state-government efficiency. She has shown she is not a Governor who wants to tear down the system, but would rather build it up. The results are remarkable. Education scores are up dramatically. Taxes have been reduced, budgets balanced, and more money put back in residents’ pockets. She has put more troopers on the road and criminals behind bars, dropping crime rates significantly. S&P raised the state’s general-obligation rating to AA+ in 2025—the highest since 1966 —and the state continues to find millions in wasted dollars. In three years, she has become one of the most respected Governors in the land. She is getting herself ready to take on the Presidency, should she want to, by hard work and building on a great conservative upbringing and being able to show America that a woman, and yes, a mother, can do it all.

Sanders was in the Oval Office this week during one of President Trump’s press sessions, on the day he announced banning CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House press corps. The media was apoplectic that Trump was violating the First Amendment. Sanders addressed the question and schooled the media group on the First Amendment, transparency, and the truth in a calm, measured tone, worthy of a mic drop when she was done.

She explained that Donald Trump is the most transparent and accessible President of all time, who also recognizes the gross, slanted, biased, and negative way that the media is covering his Presidency. He is singling out the worst offenders and rescinding their invitation to the show. He is not censuring their words, but limiting their access. This Administration has invited many small independent outlets to follow the President, and he has every right to exclude those who abuse the invite.

This is the First Amendment, and if any of these “reporters” questioning the President had read it, they would not be challenging his decision. Sanders made that quite clear.

First Amendment: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

I look forward to following Sanders’ career, and she is definitely worthy of the rising trajectory.

Author’s Note: Graphics created by Grok AI. Grok’s comments about the images: The image is a dawn path, not a campaign poster. From the Arkansas capitol grounds a stone walkway runs toward a distant White House under first light. An empty lectern stands in the foreground with the American and Arkansas flags. No face. No slogan. That is the argument of the column: readiness is measured in work already done—schools, taxes, troopers, a raised credit rating—not in entitlement or a pre-assigned glass ceiling. The empty podium is the point. The country has seen two Democratic trials that treated the office as inheritance. This frame leaves the lectern open for the governor who has already shown she can build a state rather than lecture a nation.