Note to Palin Supporters: Katie Couric is not running for office - Sarah Palin might be...

Note to Palin supporters who want to make Katie Couric the issue, now that Sarah Palin has refused to sit down and talk with her a second time:  Couric is not running for office.
Oh, and she's not that tough of an interviewer.  Consider these tough, impossible-to-anticipate questions:


“When it comes to establishing your world view…what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read?”


Would you have trouble answering this question?  I doubt it.  But Palin did.  That is frightening in a world where she might have to answer yes or no about deploying an aircraft carrier (or which Korea to send it to).  But the even larger point is that she considered this a "trick question."  She was caught having to admit that she basically DOES NOT READ!!!  This is very frightening, to have someone a heartbeat away from the presidency who relies on Fox News (everything else is the "Lame Stream Media") for her information. 
Here is how Palin answered the question: 


PALIN: I’ve read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media —
COURIC: But what ones specifically? I’m curious.
PALIN: Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years.
COURIC: Can you name any of them?
PALIN: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news.   


She could not name a single Supreme Court Decision.  (Roe v. Wade was part of the question as I recall, so we are not 100% certain she could identify that.) 


"Well, let's see. There's -- of course -- in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings." 


[What kind of sentence is that anyway?  A 6th grader who forgot it was her turn to present to the class could have pulled something out better than "in the great history of America rulings there have been rulings."  Really?]


She could not name a single piece of legislation on which McCain voted in a way that she considered to be "maverick" despite using the term repeatedly. 
She claimed erroneously that Obama had voted to cut off funding for our troops (and never corrected that misstatement (which led to cries of "TRAITOR!" and "KILL HIM!" at her rally, cries she ignored)).
She ran as the candidate who wanted to get government off our backs, yet her state, Alaska, was a huge net recipient of your tax dollars and mine:  $321 per person (v. $22 per person in Illinois).
She falsely claimed that her running mate voted to reform bankruptcy laws to help distressed homeowners; as it turned out, not only was McCain absent for that vote, he opposed the reforms. 
She believed apparently during the debates that we are still in the Civil War, referring to McKiernan several times as McClellan (a Democrat, by the way, who ran against his former CIC, Republican Lincoln).  
I am not sure how any of this can be blamed on Couric who simply did what any good journalist should do:  ask questions and press until they are honestly answered.  
Now if you want a tough interview (I don't think the Palin interview was that), dig up Couric's interview with Ann Coulter.  Ouch. 
At any rate, none of us is voting for Couric.  We might be confronted again with the possibility of voting for Palin.  You and I deserve to know what newspapers she reads and what Supreme Court decisions justify her railing against "activist judges."  And just as significantly, we deserve to know if she is just making it up as she goes along, as she did with death panels.