Governor Palin appears to be a common opportunist.  She siezes the moment regardless of previously proffered positions.  She made this abundantly plain with her response to, "The bridge to nowhere."  "You bet we'll take the money," she related.  Something about "infrastructure."  Okay, Governor, but that's a new twist.  It makes sense, it's just a new twist.  Same thing about the seals and crabs.  You blew this one.  You could've said such studies make sense given that these creatures, especially crab, have a major impact on the Alaskan economy and it's ecosystems.  But no, you had to take some "high road" position about "riders." It appeared to be a little defensive, and, well, why?  The game and fish people made a valid funding request, and you missed the chance to say so.  Oh, oops, I forgot.  You can't appear pro-environmentalist because that would sound like pro-EPA, and that speaks for the liberals, right?

     Governor Palin, you are an opportunist, and you have to tell your "handlers" to, "Let Sarah be Sarah!"  That's what your religious-right backers want, anyway, and you're in the box if you haven't figured that out yet.  Being in that box, and your awareness for that, must be the reason that you were all over the board during your ABC interviews.  Your natural political instincts were trying to present you as you are, someone capable of flipping a 180 smack dab in the middle of a conversation while leaving the listener baffled.  What's really disconcerting, though, is that your supporters, in the midst of their bafflement, fall back to their familiars, i.e., you're exceedingly different as candidates go, you're a pretty face and male voters are susceptible to that, and women with roughly no clue seem to see you as smart.

     A final comment:  My wife, Dr. Lynda, is not one of those women I just mentioned, and she’s really quite intelligent.  After your interviews, all she could say was, “What?”

     Ah heck, let Sarah be Sarah.