And I don't blame her one bit. She said she's going to run an unprecedented campaign, and something like this falls right up her alley. No candidate, especially her, can give a 2 min soundbite answer among 8 other candidates that'll be twisted the next morning in 10-pt font on the NY Times.
Palin is going to talk directly to the voters. At the most, she will give live interviews with local TV news anchors, and she will create a state-of-the-art website and empower her supporters to double as reporters and live-blog every event she holds. She will completely disregard the Beltway and the lamestream media. It will truly be the first 21st-century political campaign.
I think that you’re right EEE. And plus, she knows that the RNC is out to destroy her, and any format or rules that it might impose on these things would bet to her disadvantage while benefiting Romney, Pawlenty, Daniels, Barbour etc. And she’s already got a network of 3 million die hard Facebook supporters, most of whom are going to work for her on the ground, and so she doesn’t need the RNC and its high-and-mighty donor list. Screw the RNC!