It’s been a revealing week of excerpts from Sarah Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric. Let’s recap:
- Palin can’t name a single court case that she disagrees with other than Roe v. Wade.
- If a girl was raped and impregnated by her father, she would counsel the girl to “choose life.”
- Although her running mate is 72, voters have a choice between Joe Biden and his “tremendous amount of experience” or her “new energy, the new face and the new ideas.”
- Palin gets her news from “general sources.”
- Her worldview is not shaped by life experience: “The way I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world.” Yes, “mediums.”
- Palin can’t name a single newspaper or magazine that she read regularly prior to being picked.
- Alaska’s proximity to Russia and Canada is an important part of her foreign policy experience: “As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.”
- She can’t give a single example of where her running mate called for additional oversight of Wall Street. She said, “I’ll try to find you some and I’ll bring them to you.”