Unscripted and allegedly "in here element" and, if you believe what she's saying, she's ready and has that foreign policy experience.
So, what was her answer?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Governor Palin, there has been quite a bit of discussion about your perceived lack of foreign policy experience. And I want to give you your chance. If you could please respond to that criticism and give us specific skills that you think you have to bring to the White House to rebut that or mitigate that concern.
PALIN: Well, I think because I’m a Washington outsider that opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize and they can kind of try to beat the candidates here, who chose me as his partner, to kind of tear down the ticket. But as for foreign policy, you know, I think that I am prepared and I know that on January 20th, if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly we’ll be ready. I’ll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness.
And if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead and you can ask me. You can even play stump the candidate if you want to. But we are ready to serve.
She can't even give a specific example.
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One would think that McCain and Palin would have felt more "at home" since this was a ticketed event.
FNC’S Jake Gibson reports:
GRAND RAPIDS, MI — McCain town hall style meetings are generally open to the public where anyone may wait in line on the day of the event and come in without an advanced invitation.
However, at tonight’s 3,500 person townhall in Grand Rapids, Michigan–the first time Palin is taking questions from the public– only ticketholders are allowed in.
The McCain campaign confirms that tonight’s event was advertised on the McCain/Palin Web site and local newspapers. People had to pick up their tickets at local GOP offices after RSVPing for the event.
The Kent County GOP headquarters gave out about two thousand tickets.
The rest came from GOP offices in Ottowa and Kalamazoo.
UPDATE–McCain campaign officials insist that none of the questions are being pre-screened.
Radio Iowa has a brief, but telling, report of what went down.
It appears that many of the "ticket-holding" audience members were only there to see Sarah:
I look up, about five minutes into McCain's address and see a steady stream of people walking out of the rally. They just came to see Palin apparently.
Also, check out this video clip from that same "townhall".
Did she just say 'Palin/McCain'?
Yeah, probably just a Freudian-slip, but it does echo the fact that the bulk of the conservative-Republicans that are so charged-up about the ticket now are more interested in the opening-act rather than the feature presentation.
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