I too found her inconcise, with fuzzy thought processes in her response to Gibson’s questions.  She is misleading as well.  Attention please—-MIS-leading—a warning of what is in store for her supporters.
The Republicans have done an outstanding job of marketing her.  All she had to do was faithfully recite a Bush speach writers words, over and over and over again. And the gullibles went gah-gah.  What a remarkable marketing phenomenon!  Republicans are the sexist for marketing her like a product. 
One person I spoke with today thought Gibson tried to trick her.  There was not one iota of trickery in his questions.

Rubberpimple;
You are correct, she was “plucked” for the VP job, I was speaking of what she had already accomplished. If you had done the same, I would be praising you as well.
I don’t believe that I am of the only opinion that our current Congress is doing poorly, unless of course, those dang pollsters are lying again. Let’s take a look at the lowest approval rating of any Congress since we have been tracking them via opinion polls. Again I digress, for “bashing” is wrong, as it does nothing in helping a bad situation.
We need to replace the chair of the Federal Banking committee. We need to put BACK the rules that were in place that actually DID look at how much money a person made as to the amount of money loaned. I am talking about the housing mess that is currently going on.
Next we need to take the Oil commodities off of the trading block until we can prove that foreign oil companies ie: LUK oil, are not manipulating the market through off shore fronts. Do some homework on former KGB operatives and their own mafia syndicate.
Just these two items will greatly enhance our American economy.
Unfortunately, we can’t regulate greed, and that my friend, would solve the rest of our problems.

To Dan:

That’s just it…she HASN’T risen through the ranks. She was plucked from obscurity to act as a symbol, an ornament of mass distraction. Everyone is shocked at the “personal attacks” made on poor miss Palin. Listen to her answers to substantive questions, they always come back to HER. She has nothing else to fall back on. She can believe what she wants to believe, but objectively, honestly, she is not qualified for this position.

And really, this tired line about the Democratically controlled do-nothing congress. It is completely disingenuous to blame the state of the congress on the Democrats just because they happen to hold control at the moment. 2 years is not enough time to undo the previous 6. This is a joke of an argument.

Why bother to even comment on this. Half of us in this country are nit-whits, thirty percent are thinking beings and the other twenty percent don’t bother to vote.

How on earth do you think GW served two terms?

It is pretty easy to be “the most popular governor in the United States” when you are the governor of an energy-rich state and are unafraid to tax oil companies and use energy derived state income surpluses to provide annual monetary rebates to your constituents.  Throw in no state sales or income tax and active pursuit of federal earmarks, it would be hard not to be the most popular.   

However, energy-rich is not the situation the vast majority of governors in the United States find themselves in nor is Alaska’s fiscal policies ones that would be embraced by Senator John McCain who prefers to give major corporations tax breaks rather than tax them and is against all federal earmarks.

In this respect, perhaps Governor Palin should be at the top of the Republican ticket.

I watched the whole thing. Fascinating. Gibson was very much like trying to get questions answered by a stubbor child or a trained robot, having to repeat over and over anything she had not memorized the answer. I don’t fault her a lot for this, she is over her head; she is what my conservative wife calls a ‘hick’, a bumpkin who has no idea what to say if it hasn’t been programmed into her borderline intellect. The uncomfortable parts were watching her sqirm when the pork barrel questions came and the Rove-written rote answers didn’t cover the bases and she had to go off script, and a few other times when she sounded (call me sexist, everyone) like a beauty contestest being asked an altruistic question and giving a nebulous answer that sounded frankly stupid, like the one about gun control.
The problem isn’t Sarah Palin, it is John McCain, picking a person like this to be potentially POTUS when there is a statistical likelihood he may not be around to serve a term if elected. He owes the country better decisions that this.

Although we know Palin’s disdain for individuals with resumes and experience, John Dean’s “How Republicans Have Proven Themselves to Be Bad For a Good Economy,” would have been an interesting economic topic to dicuss:

“Our country’s best and brightest economists have. . . been traveling the land to warn of the coming economic crisis. Championing this cause are a number of former government officials, both Republicans and Democrats, who have gathered at the Concord Coalition.

Peterson, a founding partner in the Blackstone Group, which manages some $80 billion dollars for investors, started the Concord Coalition in 1992. He knows his way around the economy . . . has been expressing his concern about the way Republicans have handled it.

“he . . . finds George W. Bush’s performance “breathtaking” in his ability to turn what was a projected federal surplus of $5.6 trillion, when he arrived, upside down and into an even greater deficit. It is not easy to dispose of over $10 trillion.

. . . It is no longer a question of who caused the problems. . . Rather, it is a matter of who can best fix the mess. That, too, is pretty clear.
Republicans and Democrats Have Changed Places on Fiscal Responsibility, with Democrats Now Better Suited to Repair the Damaged Economy

. . . Professor Jeffrey Frankel, an MIT-trained economist, has examined and documented the. . . now conspicuous change in the economic philosophies of presidents of the contemporary Democratic and Republican Parties. Comparing the records of Presidents Carter and Clinton with that of Reagan, Bush I, and Bush II provides the evidence at which voters should look in 2008.

Professor Frankel’s . . . points out that the turnaround extends far beyond the Republican presidents creating deficits and Democrats creating surpluses. . . He notes. . .Republicans claim to be inflation fighters, “in practice, . . . Reagan and the first Bush pressured the Fed to ease up on monetary policy - sufficiently so that Paul Volcker decided the chairmanship was no longer worth having. . . ” and threatened to leave. In comparison, President Clinton “deliberately and unprecedentedly” allowed Alan Greenspan do his job without pushing him.

This is not the view from the left, claiming credit for the right. To the contrary, Frankel reported that his “characterizations are shared by economists from across the political spectrum,” as is clear from studies by other economists. Not only are the Democrats better for business, they are more likely to be able to start the heavy lifting of repairing the damage done by too many years of Republican rule.

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20080208.html  [John Dean]
How Republicans Have Proven Themselves to Be Bad For a Good Economy

Must be what happens when you step off the “Straight Talk Express”—-answers so unclear, indecisive and so much dancing around the issue…the “sorta, maybe, kinda, perhaps” don’t equate with definitive, resolute, forthright, secure, Governor Palin. VP’s aren’t just sent for photo ops and filling up the passport. The unfortunate reality is that listening to Bush has dulled our senses, dumbdowned a large segment of the American people to the point that Sarah Palin’s words “resonate”. Sad and VERY scary. Given what we saw in this interview, it is CRYSTAL clear how inexperienced and inappropriate a pick she really is to be VP. Shame on you, John McCain for caving into your Repub advisers; by doing so, you showed how little you truly think of the American people.

Having actually watched all of the interviews with “Charlie”, I feel that she did a good job. I can’t understand the personal attacks that are being made on this woman. I admire anyone who has risen through the ranks, and achieved the political aspirations that she had. Sure, her views may not align with everyones, but seldom does that ever happen. I disagree with her on some issues, but overall, I must say I agree with the direction that she and McCain want to take this country. Lest not forget that we have had a Democratically controlled house and senate for over two years now, and in this time period look at what has happened.

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She says nothing.