The RedState Sarah Palin Interview

Our friend and former colleague Erick Erickson interviewed former Governor Sarah Palin Tuesday afternoon. Because Erick didn't receive his copy of Going Rogue until 10:00 a.m. and had some other pressing duties on his plate, he only had time for a quick scan of the book.

In our opinion, it worked out really well, because Erick mostly asked the 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate questions that were submitted by RS readers, making the RedState interview stand apart from most of the others. Here are a couple of excerpts:

I did not want to sound like Katie Couric and ask what she’s read, but I broached the subject and she went right into mentioning Thomas Sowell and Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. She said she has read some of the foundational stuff, but she sees no need to focus on the old writings. She likes “the modern stuff too.” Her preference is policy and application, focusing on writers who are not just following up on foundational conservative ideas, but applying those ideas too.

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She said China is a rising super power and we should treat it as such, but recognize there is an unbalanced trade situation right now complicated by our reliance on foreign energy sources at a time China has a voracious appetite for more and more energy of its own. “We should be selling energy to China,” Gov. Palin said.

Read Erick's full recap of his interview with Sarah Palin at RedState.com.

- JP