Well there’s another McCain talking point out the window, about how speeches do not a president make. I guess now they do.

And, if reading speeches off a teleprompter were the only requirement for being commander in chief of the US armed forces, then yes Sarah Palin reading a series of speeches written for her would be enough. But it’s not enough, and it suggests that McCain thinks Palin is an idiot who can’t even answer a simple question from the media, or the American public (or worse, she she’s so tainted by scandal, they refuse to put her out there at all). It’s downright disturbing how the McCain campaign is handling Palin and her growing list of scandals/controversies. They seem to be hoping that they can trick the American people into liking her, without giving them any real substance. Possibly because she has no real substance. Then again, they’re refusing to put John McCain out there for any questions either. Kind of makes you wonder if he’s still healthy enough to be commander in chief, or if the campaign is hiding something about John McCain’s health and that’s why they won’t let him do any more press conferences (remember, McCain is 72 years old and has had at least 4 bouts of cancer).

Jake Carney of TIME gets into this more in depth: