In a Fox News interview today, Sarah Palin’s first since the debate last night, she was asked if the media had been going after her in a negative manner. As much as I hate to play negative left-wing blogger on this, I couldn’t help but notice her response. She could have said anything, literally, to boost her standing at this point. She even mentioned that there were topics she wanted to bring up in her recent interview with Katie Couric and at the debate, but she couldn’t because she felt restrained by time limitations.
She pointed out, and this was a point well made, that even when she jumped from topic to topic in the interview and debate, she was criticized for not being able to expand on any issue in particular. So one would think that when she was given the perfect opportunity to expand on these issues, she would seize it and show America what she’s made of. The opportunity was seized, and it was to show America what issues she had with Barack Obama. Considering this instance with her, not to mention how she handled the debate by expanding on what Obama had done “wrong” in the past, and the incessant attack ads from the McCain campaign, I’m beginning to wonder if they even have a platform to run on anymore that’s centered on any issue other than attacking Obama.
I’m not even against Palin anymore because I think she’s under-qualified, I’m against her because she has yet to prove she has a position on an issue that isn’t just purely anti-Obama sentiment. Here’s the “straight-talk express” coming to you from Fox News.