So... Palin.

[froborr]

UPDATE (via mullenkamp): According to ABC,
Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."
Deference? DEFERENCE? Who the hell

Comments

[anonymous]

At the risk of preempting putting this on my own blog, this is an instructive read: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/09/05/palin_bush/index.html

McCain/Palin 2008, "The Mummy and the Evangelical June Cleaver"

-CHRIS

[anonymous]

Palin was (is) also an aspiring book banner, too:

http://occident.blogspot.com/2008/09/palin-as-mayor-asked-about-banning.html

-CHRIS

[froborr]

Yeah, there was apparently a big battle in the town. The Head Librarian opposed her book-banning attempt, so Palin tried to fire her, and only backed down when about a hundred townsfolk rallied to back her (that's a big deal in a town 5,000 people).

That's the other thing to remember: Palin has gone from mayor of a town of 5,000 people to governor of a state of less than 700,000 people, with a brief stint as state oil commissioner in between (she quit). The mayor of Columbus, Ohio governs more people than the governor of Alaska.

And her experience is critical, because McCain is the oldest major-party Presidential candidate in history. There's a pretty solid chance that, if McCain-Palin is elected, Palin will be President by the end of his turn.