[wideminded]

I'd MUCH rather she spent the time catching up on things

Somebody on TV the other night was saying about Palin that it's much easier to study for a few years and catch up on things than to try to get a personality when you don't have one.

This is true, but IMHO Palin needs to stay out of the limelight to some extent while she catches up or she might use up her fifteen minutes with the general electorate.

[SmokingJoe]

“Somebody on TV the other night was saying about Palin that it's much easier to study for a few years and catch up on things “

You mean like Comrade Obama, who had spent just 153 days in the US Senate before runing for president did, right?
Exactly what did Obama know before he started running for president? Nothing!
This is a guy that was so clueless, he had to take an emergency trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Europe, just so he could appear to know anything at all about foreign policy, just a few months before the elections.
Gov Palin knows more about international relations(since she's had to deal with the Canadians), than Obama did when he started running to be president.

[Gondring]

This is true, but IMHO Palin needs to stay out of the limelight to some extent while she catches up or she might use up her fifteen minutes with the general electorate.

Exactly. And especially if she keeps building a caricature of herself just repeating "Energy Independence" when prices have dropped and the public's short attention span is elsewhere.