Sarah Palin: AWOL from Sunday circuit

[jefferson_dem]

Sarah Palin: AWOL from Sunday circuit
from The Swamp by Mark Silva

by Mark Silva

A couple of major political parties have just finished nominating their candidates for president and vice president. Pretty proud, they both are.

So everyone will show up at the Sunday morning news talk shows, right?

Wrong.

Where in the world is Sarah Palin?

As our colleague, Don Frederick, notes at Top of the Ticket, Palin is a no-show on the Sunday shows.

Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, will appear on ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos. Joe Biden, Obama's running mate, will appear on NBC's Meet the Press. John McCain, the Republican nominee for president - isn't it nice to be able to stop saying, presumptive? - will "Face the Nation'' on CBS.

There are a few cable networks out there with Sunday morning news shows. Funny they haven't booked Palin.

Maybe not so funny: McCain campaign manager Rick Davis has indicated that they aren't "in any hurry to slot Palin for a Sunday show appearance,'' Frederick notes, "and will do so only if he and other strategists determine it serves the ticket's purposes, not because some may view it as a required initiation for a major political player.''

Appearing on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Davis said, "I'd never commit to anything in the future. ... Our strategy is in our hands, not the media's. We're going to do what's in our best interests to try to win the election. If we think going on TV news shows are in our best interests, we'll do it. If we don't, we won't."

So, maybe putting Sarah Palin out there in public where she has to answer questions from a reporter, as opposed to running circles around a fast-reeling TelePrompTer, isn't in McCain's "best interests?''

Palin, conspicuous by her mere absence: This booking strategy may speak volumes about the McCain campaign's confidence in the governor from Alaska.

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2008/09/sarah_palin_awol_from_sunday_c.html

[saltpoint]

1. "She's entirely prepared to go toe-to-toe with Putin and al Qaeda, but

not against Bob Schieffer."

[Olney Blue]

2. She's taking an online class in government from University of Phoenix.

Not quite ready for prime time.

[madaboutharry]

3. This is the scoop:

Sarah Palin is a know nothing.

She may have been a big fish in the small pond called Alaska, but it ends there.

They know she will be revealed as a fool.

[RoccoR5955]

4. Caribou Barbie is in an undisclosed location with "Dead Eye" Dick Cheney...

...studying up on how to growl. Also, getting her cybernetic implants. She will need these, if Rove is going to communicate with her at the debate.

[sfwriter]

5. It is CHICKENSUIT time...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3935501&mesg_id=3935501

Shame McCain until she shows.

It is time for that time honored tradition of political shame. It is time to dust off the chicken suits.

It is becoming obvious that Sarah Palin will not be sitting down with the press anytime soon, and while we want Obama to stay on message and sock it to McCain on the economy, there is no reason that every McPalin campaign stop shouldn't get crashed by a feathered friend. Just imagine it, every small town paper covers the visit and then interviews the guy in the chicken suit. That footage rolls right after McCain in every Indiana and Ohio town paper. Florida bloggers start tracking the chicken as he moves around the state. Maybe he should travel from McCain office to McCain office handing out fact sheets. He could be the noble bird of truth.

If the cops arrest the chicken, better yet, he becomes a POW.

We could get an Eagle Suit and stage a changing of the guard at McCain headquarters. Think about it. You get the Eagle there. McCain's people embrace him as a symbol of America. McCain's people call the local press for a few snaps and then the chicken shows up to replace him with the press there.

If Palin is not crowing within the next two weeks, the gloves need to come off and the chicken suits need to come out.

[MsTryska]

6. great! i guess we'll just have to look forward to seeing her

at the debates!

[bobd0]

7. When someone applies for a job they go through an interview

The Republican Party wants the American people to hire Sarah Palin for the second highest office in the land without an interview. That's just ridiculous. Everyone interviews for a new job, and if you don't even bother to show up for the interview you obviously don't get the job.

If Palin refuses to even show up for the interview how can the American people hire her? And why do the Republicans insist she skips the interview? Palin refuses to show up for the interview because she can't survive the interview process. The Republican Party's only hope is to continue to keep her under wraps, continue to whine about every piece of information on Palin that becomes public, attack Obama, and attack the press because they know that if America ever got a good look at Sarah Palin the McCain campaign for the presidency would be over.

[adamuu]

10. not much we can do about it

America will either see it, or they won't.
:(

[rainbow4321]

15. KO needs to start doing a "x number of days with no Palin interviews"

Like he does with the "x number of days since Mission Accomplished" at the end of his program.

[rubberducky]

8. NOT ready for prime time.

It`s beginning to look like the pubbies are terrified of a "Macaca" moment.

[adamuu]

9. "We're going to do what's in our best interests to try to win the election."

are you listening, America?

[spanone]

14. pretty fucking arrogant, eh?

[adamuu]

16. sometimes i feel like i'm the only one who sees it. n/t

[rainbow4321]

11. Translation: She isn't going to be on the ticket in a few weeks so

why bother putting her out there to talk to anyone?

[AlinPA]

12. Fox "News" will have her on with Wallace and the morning show and

they can rave about her flag pin and ask her to tell how much she loves 'murica.

[spanone]

13. reading a teleprompter now qualifies you to be republican veep