Sarah's way

Sarah Palin gives a free-wheeling interview to the Wall Street Journal, while being photgraphed for her new t.v. show on the Sportsman channel entitled Amazing America. She says she enjoys "finding underdogs who have a servant's heart and have the ability and they have the willingness to serve America for the right reasons." Her new show

features human-interest tales about outdoor adventures, ranging from a blacksmith championship to a car race among pastors. "But the show isn't political at all; it is about hardworking, patriotic, everyday American life that needs to be highlighted. We need more family-oriented, positive, uplifting shows to watch, and this is going to be one of them."

She posts daily on her Facebook and Twitter accounts

(often in all-caps) about foreign and domestic policy. Much of Ms. Palin's campaigning has been on social media. She likes putting her views online, she says, because she thinks that she can get her message out more directly. "I'm not a big fan of the conventional—[what] I call 'lamestream'—media because they too often filter my message," she says. "I get to go right to the people and the millions of followers I have on my Facebook, and I get to talk to them and interact with them."

Ms. Palin doesn't hesitate to criticize members of her own political party. Earlier that week, she had called Rep. Paul Ryan's budget proposal a "joke." She wrote on her Facebook page, "It STILL is not proposing reining in wasteful government overspending TODAY." Today, she says, "We should make government as irrelevant in our lives as possible."

Ms. Palin also resents government surveillance, as she makes clear in referring to Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked documents about the agency's collection of data, including the phone call records of millions of Americans. "Snowden isn't the problem!" she says. "The American government spying on its own people is the problem!" She finishes her thought by saying, "The smaller the government, the bigger the people, and this show talks about big, bold, beautiful America."

One area where Ms. Palin doesn't want to reduce government spending is the military. She says that with a strengthened military, she would have handled Russia's annexation of Crimea differently from how President Obama did. "I'd put the fear of God in our enemies!" she almost shouts. "Like Ronald Reagan did! I wouldn't be cutting the military. You strengthen the military!"

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