It’s customary for a running mate to be on TV as part of the post-debate spin team, but unlike the ubiquitous Joe Biden, Sarah Palin was nowhere to be found. NBC and CNN invited Palin to appear, but she spurned them.
Which reminds me — in the debate last night Uncle Grumpy never addressed all the high drama he created last week about "will he or won’t he go to the ball" that started to sound like he’d read one too many Victorian novels. It looks more and more like Andrew Sullivan was right, it was McCain’s attempt to stall (and hopefully cancel) the Vice Presidential debates he knows his running mate is not up for.
If John McCain bowed out of last night’s debate as a matter of principle, it wasn’t one so deeply held that he thought it worth mentioning.
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Good Catch Jane,
I wonder if he realized that the stunt wasn’t going over well with the press or if he really couldn’t press the point since Obama showed up too.
This ought to be an interesting week, watching for the Palin withdrawal or if they will actually let her debate. My money is on throw her into the debate and hope she can confabulate enough with buzz words that people think she actually knows something.
Plus, I’ve seen her like before, she is so full of herself and convinced that she is smart that she is just chafing at the bit to get out there and show ‘em! Her main problem is that she doesn’t know enough to know she doesn’t know enough.