The last time we had a candidate for national office who avoided the press and spoke only in .....

[Stinky The Clown]

.... very controlled environments, and then only with heavily scripted remarks, and only in front of jingoistically stupid slogan backdrops ......... we got George Bush.

What are Sarah Palin or her handlers afraid of?

[Kadie]

1. They are afraid of losing.

That is why they are hiding her from the press.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. She is like a sockpuppet. Empty inside except for the hand up her ass feeding her lines.

[hootinholler]

15. Sock puppet? Don't you believe it.

She and Todd have an agenda. I'm sure that all of Joel's army will be voting their way.

-Hoot

[checks-n-balances]

16. Yeah, in other words, She's "an empty skirt" n/t

[panader0]

3. Was it Warren Harding who never left home and campaigned from his porch?

But he spoke to the press every afternoon.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

13. I think it was McKinley

but I'm not absolutely sure. It was a late 19th Century Republican of the Gilded Age for sure.

[babydollhead]

4. her handlers are the same handlers

as prior puppet,*.

[opihimoimoi]

5. Bullies Worst Fear...of being Outted as such...BULLIES....Truth is often used

Sarah is showing signs of FEAR .........of the TRUTH

And of Exposure of being barely qualified.....not really ready for Prime Time

They figure to cover it up with Slogans and BS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY

Over population is a world wide prob....we should be working on zero growth....not expanding growth....

[pansypoo53219]

8. trying to retain her

mommy, small town mask. she ain't just folks.

[opihimoimoi]

11. She is a BULLY....read Tim Field

http://groups.msn.com/NARCISSISTICPERSONALITYDISORDER/thebully.msnw

it tells of the narcisistic disorder

[jimshoes]

6. Everything

They've calculated themselves into a fucking corner and they're fucked.

[Uncle Joe]

7. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Husb2Sparkly.

[treestar]

9. Seems unwise of them

If she seems stand-offish, how are people supposed to want to have a beer with her?

:sarcasm:

[nichomachus]

10. Truth be told

Bush didn't do that the first time out. He was pretty available to the media, if I remember. In fact, he made some pretty big gaffes, which the media papered over, and which led to his muzzling once in office. The second time around, he was sequestered a lot and spoke only in controlled circumstances -- but not the first.

It is u heard of for a newly-hatched political figure to avoid the spotlight. I was a journalist for my whole career and I never knew a politician, at least one who wasn't an incumbent, who wouldn't crawl over his/her grandmother's still-warm body to get in front of a camera or a microphone.

[spanone]

12. they are tutoring her night & day.....day & night

[ColbertWatcher]

14. Sociopaths don't need to answer to the little people.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3939460&mesg_id=3939460