Difficult to watch.
But I think Couric did a public service here.

fiery wreck.

a penumbra of privacy emanates from the fourth amendment–griswold.
palin knows less about the Constitution and the bill of rights than most HS honors students.

Jane, I hear you on watching or listening to Palin. You know the person is making themself look stupid and whether or not you like them you feel so embarassed for them that is painful to watch.

I hope tomorrow will be very painful for Palin!

This would be funny ,if it wasn’t real life!

Much more effective than waterboarding.

Every time I hear this woman speak, I can’t help but think she’s playin possum. I hope that is not the case – I’d hate for her to come to the debate tomorrow night and throw down on Biden.

Of course if this is really all she is capable of, McCain truly is a selfish fool for having chosen her. If he wanted a conservative woman to satisfy the base and woo disaffected Hillary supporters, there were many better and more qualified options.

There is no quote from Thomas Jefferson even close to the one Palin is struggling to recall–at least in any of the big quote dictionaries, nor among the intensive catalog of works at monticello.org

However HL Mencken did say, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.”

Here is precisely what is Palin’s conundrum during the debates…

Does she try and fire up the turnout of the base of social conservatives by throwing them the necessary “red meat” to march to the polls on issues like abortion, homosexuality, creationism, etc.

Or does she risk alienating them by trying to sound utterly moderate..saying “I think people have been misinformed about my positions on this…I actually don’t agree with everyone in the right wing on these issues.”

Her statements to Couric actually could have been pushed a bit more…Couric could have asked “So your PERSONAL position is that abortion is wrong and you would only use counselling as your influence here…not any legal restrictions on peoples personal choices? Isn’t THAT a PRO-CHOICE position?”

The pro-CHOICE position isn’t that people should be COMPELLED to get abortions…it’s that women have the right of access to a safe abortion. Having the “right” gives people the choice…the option…of exercising their own ethical and moral choices. Legal restrictions remove the ability to exercise ones moral faculties. It makes us robots.