I find it fascinating that Palin posts such sophisticated and informed, yet hard-hitting and in her voice, commentary on Facebook. Yet in TV interview after TV interview she speaks in platitudes and generalities.
What is it? Did she overlearn the sound-bite aspect of TV journalism when she was in school? Is she still unaware that a good portion of America would like her to speak with more specifics than apparently her constituents in Alaska care to hear? Has she been so successful with the stump speech that she’s still insecure veering from it? This is a bright woman who has beat the media at its own game unlike any pol since, yes, Reagan. Is it because if or despite that that she still skates unnervingly on policy discussions? Will she grow into greater comfort at greater depths? I thought that’s what her time at Fox would perhaps help her to do, but she’s hosting a show for has-been celebrities instead.
I’m curious and perplexed.
Maybe she’s just being wise and picking her battles and battlegrounds.