It would appear that John McCain's maverick choice of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate is about to unravel in his face. I've seen excerpts from her long awaited first interview with the press and it wasn't pretty. Some bloggers feared that ABC journalist, Charlie Gibson, would take it easy on her, but I don't think that was the case in the excerpts I saw.

One excerpt that I saw showed Charlie Gibson ask her about the Bush doctrine. Now I didn't know what the Bush doctrine was, but I'm not running for vice president. The questions went like this;

GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?

PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?

GIBSON: The Bush — well, what do you — what do you interpret it to be?

PALIN: His world view?

GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.

At this point I can only describe the look on her face as having that "deer in the headlights" look. She definately didn't know what the Bush doctrine was and instead of asking for more clarification tried to "wing it."

PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that’s the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.

GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?

PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend

Along with the rest of this interview, due out tomorrow, (Friday) her "troopergate" investigation is getting uglier and uglier. Should be interesting what tomorrow brings.