Sometimes I really hate it when I’m right. Particularly when it only takes a few hours to pan out. Earlier, I wrote the following:
Sarah Palin will eventually show up for such questioning, but she’s going to look much more tired and haggard. It won’t be from the rigors of the campaign trail, though. Word will leak out from the McCain campaign that Palin is spending 14 hour sessions with a series of wonks drilling her on matters around the globe like a high school student cramming the week before the S.A.T exams.
Somehow I expected this to take a week or two. Apparently I forgot how fast the political world moves these days, particularly as we get closer and closer to the debates and the elections. The Politico latched on to some of the Cone of Silence plans, and they include these:
Sarah Palin will, after a brief stretch on the trail, head back to Anchorage and away from the national media.
“They’re basically taking Palin back to Alaska,” said Fineman, citing a senior McCain campaign official.
She also seems unlikely to do many major media interviews between now and then, and the campaign seems to feel no urgency about putting her on the Sunday shows.
The campaign will “also use the plane time and time on the ground to begin the education of Sarah Palin,” Fineman said. “They want to take that pause to train.”
Don’t you just hate it when you’re right?
There are some, such as Big Tent Democrat, who feel that the media should simply ignore her entirely and see if the lack of exposure smokes the ticket out of their Northern hideout to speak to the press. I don’t happen to agree, but you can be the judge yourself.