This is an old interview of Sarah Palin from February 2008, before she became McCain's VP candidate. It was on C-Span.
She sounds like an engaged governor! She knows how many doctors are in Alaska, and she says she's working to make the number higher. She gives an intelligent answer to a caller's question on taxes, saying that the cost of living in Alaska is quite high and so a person making $80,000 a year can use a tax cut. When a caller says that the sailor of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill was exonerated, she offers additional information that demonstrates his culpability. She didn't have that deer-in-the-headlights look, but she responded with facts to an unexpected question. Even when she uses cliches and talking points, she does so glibly and intelligently--it's not like she's resorting to them because she doesn't know what to say. She even knows how Juneau became the state's capitol!
I wish we saw this Sarah Palin more in her interviews as a VP candidate!
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 1
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 2
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 3