Friday, September 5, 2008

Palin to be put in hibernation chamber until VP debate

Back to Alaska
Howard Fineman reported tonight (and I heard something similar) that Sarah Palin will, after a brief stretch on the trail, head back to Anchorage and away from the national media.

"They're basically taking Palin back to Alaska," said Fineman, citing a senior McCain campaign official.
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The campaign will "also use the plane time and time on the ground to begin the education of Sarah Palin," Fineman said. "They want to take that pause to train."
Here's a hint McCain campaign, if you have to send your candidate off to a remote area so she can learn about issues not related to mooseburgers or abusing her power, so that she doesn't go bug eyed when Jim Lehrer asks her about Iran, then she probably wasn't ready to be the VP nominee. Though I guess you can try and hide her away from any media that would ask unscripted questions until November. That might work. Probably would have been better to actually pick a candidate that would have been even remedially ready to handle the likes of Mary Hart or Pat O'Brien let alone Tom Brokaw.

Or not. At least it fired up the base and got you your coveted media coverage. The fitness for the position stuff is overrated anyway. Maybe you can use the Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey method. Use a time machine, shaped like a phonebooth or not, to take her off for months and months of extensive foreign policy and guitar training, returning her to the exact second she left with all that accumulated training and knowledge. Whether or not she then rocks out to "God Made Rock N Roll" with the Grim Reaper and robots is up to you. Just a suggestion.

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