Sarah Palin did extremely well on her first interview, considering the confrontational pounding that Charles Gibson gave her. What I heard on the news, today was that as the media and Obama keep concentrating their attacks on Palin, they are deminishing Obama, rather than the other way around.
It was the plan of the Obama campaign to go after McCain on the issue of age, by attacking his VP candidate. They had their ads and talking pts already to go for Mitt Romney and Pawlenty. McCain threw them a curve, and they have failed to adjust their swing. They just keep striking out.
As Karl Rove pointed out in the WSJ, yesterday, Obama can’t win by running against Palin. It makes him look like he’s not even qualified to be VP.
Oh, I definitely think she got over the bar of “what she needed to do.” But I think she’ll have to keep showing rapid improvement.
And make no mistake: I’m glad the consensus here is that she did well. This place is a great barometer of how the Republican evangelical and conservative base sees her. And it’s clear from this thread that the base isn’t disappointed in her performance. So I take great heart in that.
My main worry is about how that interview would play with fence sitters. that’s the lens I tried to view it through.