Palin Blinks

YouTube - Sarah Palin Interview-Part 1

I hate to be the one who points this out. The whole thing is over in 2 minutes or less.   Gibson *points to the camera* and opens with a direct question:

(from transcript)

Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?"

Governor Palin replies, *blinking six times* while looking at the interviewer, not the camera:

I do, Charlie, and on January 20, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, will be ready. I'm ready.

30 seconds later, Palin:

I answered him yes because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink, you have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink.

So I didn't blink then even when asked to run as his running mate.

Sure, its a figure of speech, but  six times?  Show some respect for us, Governor.  I had braced myself for some direct, unequivocal, "Yes." But, no - she can't do it. She lays down some back-pocket lines and can't even look us in the eye.

Nerves, sure, but with such a "central" question it's kind of scary, as she explains.

Later, after not identifying the Bush Doctrine, she defends the policy:

we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go and who we target

Yikes.