The Palin interview: Conservative reaction

The fun of not having a TV is that I sometimes see the reviews of an interview before I see the interview itself. Tonight's Sarah Palin interview on ABC is one example; I still haven't seen it, though I hope to before bed.

It's apparent already she wasn't so hot -- the good folks at National Review's The Corner are panning her performance. But they don't want it to actually count. Here's Kathryn Jean Lopez:

I also wonder why there's so much riding and attention on one interview

That's Palin's fault -- and the fault of the McCain campaign. Tomorrow is two weeks since her nomination was announced; today is her first encounter with the press since then. If she was doing what McCain once did -- talk to the press unceasingly, until there's nothing to talk about anymore -- nobody would be paying quite so much attention to this one interview. She raised the stakes with her decisions.

Later, Lopez again:

One certainly does not get the "ready on Day One" sense about her from that interview. But if my surveys over the last half hour or any indication, no one who is optimistic about Palin are changing their minds about her based on this.

That's the problem, isn't it? Palin is apparently unprepared for office even by the standards of National Review's most uncritical cheerleader. But that's no reason to actually oppose her election. Ladies and gentlemen: Your modern GOP.

With that, I eagerly await viewing the actual interview.