Move over Katie Couric

Somewhere on the campaign trail, while preparing for an important debate on Thursday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hashed out some answers to some tough questions from the media — again. But this time the GOP vice presidential candidate wasn’t answering questions posed by Charlie Gibson,  Katie Couric or Sean Hannity. She did it for Kari Sleight, Greg Johnson and the reporters and readers of this newspaper.

Granted it had to be done via e-mail, a less-than-preferred method for most journalists, but the fact is Governor Palin took the time to respond to a newspaper with a circulation of less than 6,000.

It’s the first local interview Palin has granted the Frontiersman since being named to the Republican presidential ticket, despite reports Frontiersman reporter Michael Rovito was in Philadelphia recently questioning the governor.

Now, just for the record, that’s not the same Michael Rovito who asked Palin the question on Pakistan that ended up putting her in a position of responding perhaps contrary to the No. 1 man on the GOP ticket. That is, unless our Mike Rovito donned a Temple U T-shirt and hopped a plane to Philadelphia Saturday when we weren’t looking. Since Saturday was a deadline day, and our Michael was at his desk, we rather think there’s more than one in the world — although if you read the blogs (likely written by those who haven’t traveled from Alaska to the East Coast), you’d think there wasn’t.

Proving once again in this Palin media frenzy there’s no predicting what will happen next.

We are proud that Palin hasn’t forgotten her hometown newspaper as she tries to deal the multi-ring media circus.

We’ve asked Palin questions we thought you’d ask her if you had a chance — from how she’s holding up under the pressure to how she’s functioning as governor from thousands of miles away.

Look for our “exclusive” question-and-answer with Palin in this issue.