Sarah Palin: A Republican Puppet?

We've seen quite a bit of John McCain's VP pick, Sarah Palin, since he announced her to the world on the Friday before the Republican National Convention, but we haven't heard much from her, except what she's been reading off of teleprompters and note cards and that doesn't seem likely to change anytime soon.

According to ABC News, Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."

Now what exactly does that mean? Does that mean that Palin can continue her perfectly manicured cue card attacks without the worry of having to answer unscripted, hard hitting questions from the press like every other candidate? If that is true it doesn't seem quite fair.

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and even John McCain have been subject to attacks and public scrutiny since announcing their candidacies. They've given interviews to every major network and sat back as either their stock rose or fell based on those interviews, but now for the first time in history, well as long as I can remember, we have a Vice President candidate that won't do interviews and that won't answer unscripted questions?

It seems to me that Sarah Palin, the self proclaimed pit bull with lipstick, is no more than a pistol for the Republican Party. They take her out, aim, shoot of a few rounds, make a complete mess and then put her back in the holster. Yes that sounds like everything that the American people want in a Vice President.

Not only is the notion of a Vice President candidate not answering questions from the press absolutely ridiculous, but it also speaks volumes about the Republican campaign and Sarah Palin herself.

She has said over and over again, cue cards included, that she has plenty of political and executive experience having been on city council, having been a mayor and now having been the Governor of Alaska for a whole year and a half, but in light of all that experience she is still scared to field questions from the press?