Palin watch
Don't expect Republican nominee for vice president Sarah Palin to meet the press anytime soon, if ever. She's the only candidate not scheduled for one of the Sunday morning talk shows tomorrow, and no interviews with major national media are in the cards anytime soon. Can the Rove-McCain team pull it off? Can they keep her from saying anything unscripted and embarrassing until the election is over? I'm not even sure she's going to debate Joe Biden. The GOP may brazenly refuse, or set unacceptable conditions for her participation. She'll be portrayed as a chicken, a lightweight, or worse, but that may be better for McCain than for her to go on national television and announce that it's God's will that McCain wins, or say anything about abortion.
And on the "qualified?" front comes word that Palin attended five colleges in six years before limping across the finish line with a journalism degree (see Joe Namath, Alabama) from the University of Idaho. Not that she apparently ever worked at the campus newspaper or TV station. But let's be real: anyone who's been to college knows 5+6 doesn't add up to "serious student." You can be sure the party girl stories are coming.
If any of you think the press is being mean, or partisan, or whatever in digging up dirt on Palin, let me give you two words: George Bush. The press, or enough of the press, didn't do its job in 2000 when Bush was pretending to be a moderate in his campaign against Al Gore. They aren't about to get fooled again, especially when Palin stands a better than even chance of succeeding to the presidency, not getting elected to it. If the press does its job, no one who casts a vote for Palin as vice president in November will be able to claim they didn't know who she really was.