You’re giving more credit to the McCain campaign staff than they deserve.
No I don’t. I happen to think that McCain didn’t foresee this media firestorm, unlike some of Duncan Hunter supporters who purposefully sought to INDUCE it as a strategy. Otherwise, why would he be so pissed about the media treatment of Palin? Then he sends her onto this interview and she can come back and say, “You call that balanced?” All the while he’s wondering to himself, “They’ve always treated me nice. I wonder why?” It’s because he was their kind of republican, a RINO. But this RINO chose an excellent VP candidate, one who is already delivering the ENTIRE election to him. So he has earned my vote.