1. It’s probably asking a lot of a woman who was baptized Catholic and has family in the Church but who’s spent most of her life in Assemblies of God and then non-denominational congregations and got her education in the faith there to think like a Catholic on this sort of thing. Actually, no “probably” about it. It is asking a lot.
2. I think that line, as the context shows, was as much or more out of frustration with current administration policy than a literal statement of Palin Administration policy. You can rightly deplore how she said it, and still admit she has a point. Nidal Hasan is not just your normal garden-variety federal employee gone postal. The Tsarnaevs aren’t just college kids whose prank went horribly wrong. Islamic terrorism, organized or irregular, isn’t just a crime, it’s war and should be treated as such. Waterboarding isn’t necessary. Torture isn’t necessary. Being honest with ourselves about the nature of the situation is.
3. The behavior of much of the professional class, and even some of the rank-and-file, in the GOP and conservative movement toward Sarah Palin from August 2008 to the present has been, and continues to be, to their shame.
Plus Catholic voters oppose her, and her party and her pro-life politics.