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If she can't handle a press conference, how can you argue she's ready to be vice president? This fear-based, defensive, curl-up-inside-your-shell posture toward the press is killing the GOP. It's insane: Treat the press like the enemy and then complain about media bias. Oh, I wish Tony Snow were still alive to explain to these "senior campaign officials" why this approach doesn't work.

This pretty much describes the Bush approach towards the media during its entire second term, and communicating with the American public generally. How has this approach worked out for them?

The report seems plausible to me. When McCain first picked her, I watched dozens of YouTube clips of Sarah giving interviews to Alaskan and national media. She is very good at it. That woman can charm a cobra if you just give her a chance.

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The only problem is, we have seen what happens to her in interviews. The 'reporters' do all they can to twist and parse her words, asking every question in the unwinnable "Have you stopped beating your spouse, yes or no?" format.

If she's charming, she's a brainless beauty queen. If she's tough, she's a b!tch. The national media has an animosity toward her that the local Alaskan news likely did not.

That being said, Sarah is a survivor. I trust her instincts. Let her loose.