Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous

[RedEarth]

Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous
By Greg Sargent - September 24, 2008, 1:51PM
The lengths the McCain campaign is going to in order to shield Sarah Palin from questioning are reaching truly comic dimensions.

Check out this nugget from the pool report, via Jonathan Martin, on John McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:

McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ("Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?") but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room.
Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say "No."


Palin can't even be allowed to answer a question as basic as this?

What's really sobering is that the McCain campaign continues to block Palin from answering questions even though it's now resulting in reams and reams of bad press for the McCain-Palin ticket. That suggests McCain advisers know that letting her answer even the most elementary questions in an uncontrolled environment is so dangerous that it's worth weathering the current media drubbing they're taking in order to prevent it from happening at all costs.

Has anyone pointed out that McCain has placed Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?


http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/letting_sarah_palin_answer_que.php

[Blue_In_AK]

1. McCain's chauvinistic ways towards Sarah

are really appalling. She's perfectly capable of answering questions and speaking for herself. She never had a problem here while governor. I don't know why she doesn't tell him to take a hike.

[Demit]

4. She's biding her time (remember the 'Palin-McCain administration' remark?) until she gets

top billing for real. Doesn't she have a history of supporting people who can be useful to her, and only turning on them later after she's wrung them dry? She'll smile and wrinkle her nose all they want...for now. Even if this ticket goes down in flames, she's gotten invaluable publicity for what she expects to be her rosy future.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Maybe, but only if people in Alaska

vote for her in future campaigns. Her political capital is fast shrinking here, all across the board.

[dchill]

2. I bet no one ever thought of this, but...

What if they actually get elected, and for some unforeseen reason, he dies? Wouldn't America be in serious trouble?

[Window]

5. Everyone I talk to has thought of that happening. That's truly frightening.

[damonm]

9. I HAVE thought of it, and...

part of me suspects John McCain's life won't be worth a plugged nickel if he's elected.

We've seen how far the Christian Right will go; who's to say they wouldn't assassinate McCain to get their (easily manipulated) girl into the White House?

Midnight thoughts, but scary...

[dchill]

12. Of course, we've ALL though of it.

I guess I needed some :sarcasm:

[madaboutharry]

3. Sarah Palin has a big ego and

has the type of personality which causes her to think she is smarter than
everyone else. I have to wonder if she is going to stray off the reservation
during the debates.

[monmouth]

6. Thing about poor Sarah is that she's dumber than a box of rocks,

but she doesn't know it. They really don't want the electorate to know her too well and make the opinions I've made. Repugs like "polished and refined" women. They look like, say, Diane Sawyer with the brains of Rachel Maddow, Bryn-Mawr types. Sarah unfortunately, is not the Bryn-Mawr type, she's the sow's ear, not the silk purse. However, since repugs have really no use for women in general anyway but have to use them now and then, Sarah is the perfect gimmick. Grateful for the attention, having a blast and getting away from that gawd-awful troopergate nonsense. Yup, that's their girl...

[Ichingcarpenter]

7. "Children should be seen and not heard"

Children should be seen and not heard.
originally applied specifically to young women

15th Century English Proverbs
Dates given are generally for the first written appearance of the form of the proverb in English; the proverb may have been in spoken use, in England or orther countries, much earlier and in some cases referred to as "an old saying" prior to that time.



http://www.famous-proverbs.com/15th_Century_Proverbs.htm

[Cha]

10. THis is just weird...

palin is a gimmick but I thought she could at least lie her way out of "what she thinks of the meetings"?

What wonder the Foreign dignitaries think of all this mcrigamarole?

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. They're following the old aphorism: Better to remain silent and ...

They're following the old aphorism: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.