Not really. She’s always been fairly incoherent and unable to respond to basic questions or form complete sentences when left to her own devices. McCain’s campaign desperately tried to give her written points that she should not stray from, and she did much better when she was on script, but otherwise, this is a…

She used to be more “managed”. She had coaches, did the same stump speeches over and over, had consultants, the works. That takes a ton of the edge off of her.

What Margiebonz said. Also, back when she was a big shot she had a huge team of handlers that probably prepped her for hours for something like this. Nowadays, she’s most likely just wingin’ it and this is her in her natural state.