One likely reason McCain showed up after all: Couric's Palin interview

[jpgray]

Seriously, just look at some transcripts. On the bailout:

That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity.

That and many other answers she gave were frighteningly incoherent, and will seem so to any and all reasonable voters, no matter what their politics. It's like all the talking points are in her head somewhere, but they come out in a turbulent, disconnected jumble. Since I can probably infer that she wasn't -this- bad with the Alaskan press, are we seeing the big spotlight of the national stage starting to erode her confidence?

[Two Americas]

1. it is pathetic

I can't get over how bad her answers were.

[No Elephants]

2. She was semi-coherent, at best, but the reason that he showed up, IMO, was that people saw his

grandstanding about missing the debate as a political ploy and a negative, not as the heroic move he'd hoped.

[FrenchieCat]

3. Just shows that he really is "out of touch"

[Kahuna]

5. Then of course there's internal poll numbers. nt

[opihimoimoi]

4. Was she speaking in tongues??

[DailyGrind51]

6. If Palin couldn't handle Couric, can you imagine her dealing with Putin?