<p>Kaufman, not a Sarah Palin as politician fan…but the question from Couric was ridiculous. She wouldn’t ask that of anybody else. I was as appalled by the question as Sarah was. But that’s why Katie is about to lose her job. Shes a terrible journalist.</p>
<p>You can’t possibly back Palin on that one. Couric was asking what she read to get her opinions before she became a tagged politician and she said “all of them.”</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Palin: I Read All the News](<a href=“Palin: I Read All the News - YouTube”>Palin: I Read All the News - YouTube)</p>
<p>I absolutely back Sarah Palin on that one. It was a truly idiotic question. If someone asked me what I read…good heavens…I read all kinds of stuff. I read the Financial Times and I read Nylon. I read the Bible and Ayn Rand and historical fiction and Econ textbooks. If you are a reader, it’s a stupid question.</p>
<p>Okay but would it have been that hard to say the US News or the NY Times? It was stupid of her to say all of them. And we know that she’s not a reader. If she was, I would think that she would have some idea of what the Bush Doctrine is.</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Sarah Palin Holds Forth on Bush Doctrine, Pakistan](<a href=“Sarah Palin Holds Forth on Bush Doctrine, Pakistan - YouTube”>Sarah Palin Holds Forth on Bush Doctrine, Pakistan - YouTube)</p>
<p>I don’t even know what y’all are talking about (I quit following Palin after the '08 election), but really I think you should try being interviewed on national tv without lying or saying something dumb.</p>
<p>There actually is not anything called the “Bush Doctrine”. That was a “made-up” media term. I just think that Sarah should stick with funny shows about her family in Alaska. I think she’s a great gal, and she was actually a pretty good governor, but I don’t think most of America will buy into her as a serious Presidential candidate.
[Five</a> tries later, there is no Bush Doctrine. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine](<a href=“http://www.slate.com/id/2200090/]Five”>Five tries later, there is no Bush Doctrine.)
Sarah made Charlie Gibson look stupid, too.</p>
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<p>The interview was before the election.</p>
<p>And I didn’t follow her until right before the election, as is probably obvious. I never really follow politics very closely, aside from polls and issues I actually care about.</p>
<p>Sarah Palin made herself look stupid. Couric’s question was not that difficult to answer. Really.</p>
<p>We already know that she isn’t very smart just by the fact that she’s willing to run for elected office in this current society.</p>
<p>No, she definitely didn’t make Charlie Gibson look stupid, although you are making yourself look pretty stupid right now. Gibson said the Bush Doctrine was “enunciated” before the Iraq war. That is a perfectly valid statement. Of course there is no actual piece of paper that is the Bush Doctrine, it is a term (NOT made-up) do describe his foreign policy principles. To think that I or anyone else believed that there was a thing called the Bush Doctrine is an insult to my intelligence. Bush’s major foreign policy move was to take a preemptive strike against Iraq. This is indisputable. Bush said, “And our security will require all Americans to be forward-looking and resolute, to be ready for preemptive action when necessary to defend our liberty and to defend our lives.” Palin said that the Bush Doctrine was his world view. Not even close to the same thing.</p>
<p>Anyone even with a marginal knowledge of politics knows that a political doctrine encompasses beliefs and policies. Not an exact codified system of following.</p>
<p>I must say, I find it odd that we’re still talking about Sarah Palin even though she didn’t really accomplish anything. In fact, before McCain selected her as running mate, most of the mainstream public would have said, “Who?”, if asked about her. The election in 2008 was a failure for the Republicans and I fail to see how she could be vital to the Republicans’ success in the future.
I would like to point out that she isn’t the only potent Republican candidate, right?</p>
<p>She didn’t accomplish much. She was a public support tool. I’m looking through prominent members of the Republican Party now trying to find a potent republican candidate. Sarah can get mass appeal, due to ties to the Tea Party movement.</p>
<p>I kind of really like Sarah Palin. She’s a complete idiot, and her opinion shouldn’t matter, but she still somehow manages to make people care about her. I have no idea how she does it, I mean there are her looks but it’s more than that.</p>
<p>I think with that sort of natural attractive quality, she could’ve made really history in politics if she were intelligent. Kinda sad.</p>
<p>Well they always have Donald Trump. Although the attack ads would be pretty easy against someone who’s catch phrase is “you’re fired.” In all seriousness though, even though the republicans did well in the midterms, that was to be expected, and with no strong up and coming republican candidates I don’t think anyone is gonna give Obama a run for his money in 2012. Especially now where only one incumbent presidential candidate has lost in 30 years.</p>
<p>^ The only person who can give the GOP a chance is Obama himself. He just might pull it off.</p>
<p>How about Chris Christie or Mike Bloomberg?</p>
<p>What exactly is wrong with Obama?
I mean honestly no sensible American can believe much can change in 4 years, much less 2.</p>
<p>chicken-your average american is saying “who and who?” and then voting for Obama. Hell I don’t even know who Chris Christie is and there is no sensible person who would vote for a Mayor for President. Not only that, he’s even richer than Bush which is nothing but negative PR. And Mosby that’s a ridiculous statement. The only way a presidential candidate loses the election for himself is by talking his way out of it and Obama would be the last person to do that.</p>