Palins recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, Ive been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. Ive also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.
Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and theres not much content there. Heres but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that were talking about today. And thats something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.
When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obamas numbers, Palin blustered wordily: Im not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see whos more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and whos actually done it?
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
