I’m not a politician (just a doc) and I could have ripped off several bad SC decisions just in the last year or so: eminent domain case, no death penalty for child rapists, habeus corpus rights for gitmo and other enemy non-combatants. Not a good moment.
Problem with Kelo v. New London is that the oil pipeline that she touts as an accomplishment is currently being held up by scores of private property owners who are objecting. The State of Alaska is confiscating loads of private land in court. No use to give the libs anything to scream “hypocrisy” about.
Besides the problem caus by dumb silence, the question could have been viewed as a softball had she been prepared. Hell, less then three months ago Gov. Palin sent out a press release complaining against the Exxon v. Baker decision which greatly reduced cash won by Alaskans in the Valdez case. Additionally, the campaign (admittedly before her addition to the ticket) spent a great deal of time railing against the recent decision that overturned death for child rapists. I fear that as attractive as Palin’s ideology is, and as mad as it makes libs to have her on the ticket, her shortcomings may outweigh her strenghts in the end.