Sarah Palin is taking on Republicans

Sean Hannity’s softball interview with Sarah Palin was devastating (1 2). If she can’t give substantive answers to leading questions from one of the biggest hacks on FOXNews, she will die under any real scrutiny. Worst?

HANNITY: Explain when you were governor and, as governor of Alaska, how you took on your own party.

PALIN: Yes.

HANNITY: There’s this — you know, you still have a very high approval rating, but there are people that still weren’t happy about it. How did you take on your own party, specifically? And do you think you’d be able to do that, as well, in Washington?

PALIN: Well, I just recognized that there — as John McCain talked about on the campaign trail, also — it doesn’t matter which party it is that is just kind of creating the good-old-boy network and the cronyism and allowing obsessive partisanship to get in the way of just doing what’s right for the people who are to be served. And I just recognized that it’s not just the other party. Sometimes it’s our own party that just starts taking advantage of the people.

And I felt compelled to do something about it, decided to run for office, got in there and with that mandate that I believe the people had just given me, via their vote, they expected the changes to take place, that reform. And we’re living up to that. And as we do, we are ruffling feathers.

She was asked twice to explain specifically what she had done to “take on [her] own party” and she answered with “Yes” (meh?) and some vague generalities. Hannity wasn’t even trying to trip her up, he was genuinely interested and sympathetic. The most demeaning thing about it is that a lot of her supporters aren’t even expecting much out of her.

~ by Yuri Guri on September 21, 2008.