The real trap, which the McCain campaign people should have protected her from zealously, was the fact that the interview was taped, not live.
Conservatives should never consent to a taped interview with hostile liberal media -- ever.
Palin was heavily edited by a hostile editor. Bad mistake, taping an interview with an attack 'Rat like Couric.
That said, the main axes of the Gibson/Couric/'RatMediaPlex attack should have been mapped and anticipated, and Palin better prepared to meet them.
Too, the thought has occurred to me that, an honest woman herself, Palin may have been staggered just staring into the basilisk eye of someone as rotten as Couric and seeing all that evil boiling and writhing inside her. Palin may simply have been shocked, to meet someone as intelligently malefic as Couric.
I suppose so, but most successful national politicians have mastered the art of not answering the questions they don't want to answer. That should have been part of Sarah's skill set before she went up against hostile interviewers.
The MSM has convinced a large number of voters that Sarah is an idiot. Unless she can correct that impression, she won't win the presidency. She has to prove herself. I think she can do it.