Sarah Palin to spend one hour answering questions in front of journalists in Long Island today. Here comes more damage to her credibility!

From ABC News:

The Arizona shooting, President Obama's performance, a possible presidential run and other topics will be on the agenda Thursday when the former Republican vice presidential candidate appears at a luncheon of the Long Island Association, the region's largest business group.

Palin has agreed to answer questions posed by the president of the organization for about an hour with cameras rolling, LIA President Kevin Law said. "It will be interesting to see and hear what direction she thinks this country ought to be heading in," he said.

"Maybe this is the start of a presidential campaign," said Republican strategist Ed Rollins. "She has been beaten up by the media for doing nothing but her Tweets. This may be the first foray. Of course when you stand up in front of the cameras, you have to be on guard and make sure your answers are precise."

The Long Island Association has previously welcomed former presidents and other national leaders to speak at its meetings, but the meetings are usually closed to the media at the request of the speaker, Law said. Palin, however, who has been criticized for limiting access to her by the mainstream media, has agreed to allow cameras and reporters record the conversation.

This could very well signal the end, not the beginning, of Palin's 2012 campaign.

There is a reason that she has desperately avoided taking questions on camera that were not pre-screened beforehand, or coming from supportive questioners like Fox News, right wing radio hosts, or the Christian Broadcasting Network. She can't do it!

All it takes is for this guy to ask her some policy question about Egypt, or the economy, or which is her favorite Constitutional amendment for her to get that deer in the headlights look in her eye and to start sputtering like an antiquated outboard motor.  The woman simply does not know much of anything, and without serious prep time, or an earpiece she is dead in the water.

Unless of course this is all staged, and she DOES have access to the questions ahead of time, and somebody has written down the answers phonetically for her to read. (most likely in her favorite color of crayon.) However if that is the case we should be able to discern it by watching the video of the Q and A.

I still think this might be a very telling episode in the slow motion train wreck that is Snowdrift Snooki's political life.

Update: I tweaked the headline since it was a little misleading before.