Quick! Hide Sarah Palin!

[ProSense]

STILL NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME.... At first blush, the notion that the McCain campaign would go to extraordinary lengths just to draw attention away from Sarah Palin's interview with Katic Couric sounds pretty farfetched. But actually watching the five-and-a-half minute clip from CBS, it's actually fairly reasonable to think campaign aides saw the interview, panicked, and thought, "We need to do something drastic."

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Quick! Hide Sarah Palin!

Sarah Palin has been described as a quick study. But she has been surrounded by briefers for nearly three weeks, and she's still completely unable to string together an intelligent thought on the mortgage crisis. Would a moratorium on foreclosures keep people in their homes, or would it make banks even less likely to make mortgage loans, while driving them closer to insolvency? Is this sort of heavy-handed government interference in the market a desperate measure called for by desperate times, or is it more like Robert Mugabe's efforts to stop inflation by banning price increases? (I probably shouldn't wonder whether Sarah Palin knows who Mugabe is...) It would be nice if the running mate of one of the oldest candidates for President ever had some ideas about these issues. Since she's been prepping constantly, it's pretty alarming that she doesn't.

I served with quick studies. I knew quick studies. Quick studies were a friend of mine. Sarah Palin: you're no quick study.

Thanks in part to Palin, McCain now much worse among white women

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Will she show up for the debate?

I'm guessing not.

[ProSense]

2. That will be something.

McCain, with his 26 years experience, is afraid to debate Obama. Phalin is learning from the master of incoherence.

[torbird]

3. This is like Year Zero for the GOP

Everything they've stolen/claimed for the last 40 years? Gone. Toast. Lost in the fire.

I have never been as pleased in my life as I am today.