Unconventional Wisdom: Rich Lowry on Palin

Conservative columnist Rich Lowry of The National Review sets the record straight after attempts by Charles Krauthammer and Michael Abramawitz of The Washington Post to spin Sarah Palin's whiff on the Bush Doctrine in her interview with Charles Gibson.

The foreign-policy session was a white-knuckle affair. She barely got through it and showed no knowledge more than an inch deep... The fact still remains that she very likely didn't know any of the possible definitions of the Bush doctrine. I can't imagine if Obama had picked Gov. Tim Kaine and he had had a similar moment, conservatives would have rushed to say that the Bush doctrine is just too amorphous and complicated for him to know anything about it. Palin seemed weak on economic and budgetary policy too, talking in the vaguest generalities.

--Ballard Burgher