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So, is Palin going to run in 2016?

This reminds me of something.  I recall how the left tries to ruin candidates, like Palin.  It is reminiscient of the Bentsen-Quayle debate in 1988.  In fact, the entire political discussion since then has been one long Bentsen-Quayle debate.

I've thought a lot about that debate.  Quayle was winning until that insult.  What is galling about it is how those on the conservative side, like Quayle, tend to accept the premises of the left.  One premise that night was the qualification issue that led directly to the insult.  Quayle was asked the same question 4 times.  If he had stopped the whole thing after the first question, maybe things would have been different.  Who knows?  But it is quite undignified to accept the left's premises and have to justify your very existence.  That's what the meaning of that question was, and how Bentsen turned it to his advantage, and to Quayle's disadvantage.

Palin may have made the same mistake.  I didn't see the Couric interview, but if it went anything like what that debate did, the interview went straight to Palin's qualifications to be President.  That shouldn't have been allowed.  What could Palin have done?  End the interview on the spot.

Note:

After having written the above, I checked out the interview with Couric on YouTube, and it does look like Couric was establishing the premises of the left and Palin was in a position of having to defend McCain, who was her boss, and does accept the premises of the left all too often.  This probably led to the insulting climax which was all too inevitable.  But I stopped watching when it became clear to me that that is where the interview was going.