Sarah Palin has repulsed me from the beginning. She is an actress playing a part, a confidence-woman delivering a patently inauthentic schtick. Last night, when she talked about Obama's supposed lack of support for the troops, she feigned a look of severe anger, just before the cameras cut away, that was clearly manufactured for the moment. Then, next question, we're back to the "you betchas" and the "doggone-its" - the folksy little rising star act that her handlers don't have to tweak too much. In the Couric interviews, she laid the bull on so thick, she sounded like a high school sophomore trying to fake her way through an oral exam she hadn't studied for, but when challenged, again she pulls out the "get back too ya" stuff that is, in her mind, "folksy" code to the faithful that we should all be tired of this liberal-media probing.
I can see why the hard right would love her - they are always in the hunt for someone (like Bush) who simply confirms them in their "just folks" small-mindedness. But, I think the most amazing thing about all of this is that John McCain would have bought her act, too.
