Yesterday, we found out Sarah Palin has a gay friend, but she doesn't consider the woman her "gay" friend, just her best friend she has to keep brushing off advances from. It was during that interview, with American Hero Katie Couric, that Palin declared her stance on being gay: It's a choice — Palin, apparently, chose to be straight and just marry a gay-y — but, insists the VP hopeful, she doesn't judge.

It's these type of back-and-forths that show Charlie Gibson's ABC interview really had only one shining element — quizzing Palin on the Bush Doctrine — while Couric is delivering an endless stream of useable soundbites. (Too bad, then, that ratings are up only 10 percent, but awareness is up 5 million percent thanks to SNL.)

Couric, however, might have just gotten lucky:

Palin has been saying some pretty dumb shit recently. She made a not-so-candid comment about Joe Biden being old and a dusty Senate veteran, when that also describes her running mate. She made Palin acknowledge she cannot name a single magazine or newspaper she supposedly reads. She had Palin fess up to her "personal feelings" about social issues, like the morning after pill, even in the case of rape or incest — and that she hasn't "spoken with anyone who disagrees with my position on that." Because that is experience.

Thursday is going to be a field day.