I can understand CA and WA, I don't believe they have a chance. Are they too confident about OH? I have a feeling you think she's outta there...but from their site she's still on for FL next week.

Recovery from brain transplantation takes a few weeks.

I want links please. Don't leave me hanging.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=30444&tsp=1

Link for story on the California cancellations. Sounds like they were planning for something BIG out there!

I have always thought she would would self-dump--so many excuses. As another blogger said, then McWispy can say he "tried" but the liberals and press "wolves" just chased her to the ground and shot her down (sorry to remind you of that ad). Besides now that she is an instant brand she has a HUGE career ahead of her--the talk shows, the books, the speeches. Who needs real work and responsibilities.

Blowing off CA seems stupid. Yes she would spend time in a state where the "Palin-McCain" ticket (as she has called it) is a no hoper, but that's not the point. The point is money, and as the late Lt. Gov. of California, Jesse Unruh, once put it, "Money is the mother's milk of politics."

If she is coming off the ticket she needs to be off w/ a replacement before the end of next week in order for state ballots to be printed correctly..

I said weeks ago she was not going to make it..

I'm still wondering if she and her husband ever filed tax returns - He was a member of the Alaska Independence Party, right??? It's total conjecture, but has anyone seen her tax returns? She's not becoming a grandma until Christmas, so that event is not forthcoming. Didn't she just make a gaffe about Biden's age - Saying something like she was in second grade when he entered the Senate. mcsenile is certainly old enough to be at least her grandfather, so maybe he had one of his temper tantrums about that! Did she really finally graduate from U of Idaho or just join the alumni association so it looked like she graduated? How's she going to get the debate prep she so desperately will need if those fundraisers have been rescheduled for the first week of October - The VP debate is October 2 in St. Louis. All of this is just conjecture, but something's up! Maybe that's why she's taking the week off - so they give her some sort of "brain implant", something like that little transceiver device Bush was wearing in the 2004 debates, only less noticeable. See article from Salon:
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/10/13/transmitter/index.html
Maybe she should go through some sort of "airport security" like screening before the debate with Biden - just in case she's been wired.

Please leave Sarah alone. She'll be up all month studying.

We care because winning isn't only about defeating the opposition. It's also about helping the opposition self-destruct.

Why is Bill Clinton saying not to underestimate her? He seemed very enamored...

God, I used to admire that man so much.

Y'all are so funny. LOL

Iam confused about public financing:

This may sound ignorant, but I do not understand why Palin and McCain are raising money considering they travel as a dual on Cindy's private jet at a super-discounted rate and most of McCain's ads contain her name ...

I was under the impression that after the convention McCain would be given $85 million dollars in public funding. The terms of the agreement prohibit spending money from other sources including money -- if any -- left over from his primary campaign.

So he is limited to spending only the $85 million dollars period, right ?

Therefore the fund-raising events would be solely for Palin's campaign unless she is bound under the public finance laws, too?

Iam not sure how this works.

Would somebody please explain this to me.

Or some jamming device! That would make hilarious viewing!

When I saw this in the news I deduced that the polls look bad in key states and they were going to use her there. If the Calif. and Wash. events have been rescheduled, that or other immediate needs may be the case. Maybe someone should set up a pool on this. Choices:

1. She needs time to attend to legal matters around Troopergate.

2. They need her to punch up their support in battleground states.

3. Due to aggregate of flaws and faux pas or to impending bombshell (tax evasion?) they are going to dump her.

If they dump her they'd have to replace her with Romney, touting his supposed economic expertise and project him as the designated econ dude or another woman. It'd have to be a right wing woman, and if it were, that could give McCain another big bounce.

If he dumps her he conceeds the election.

The evangelicals and "values voters" will sit home in a snit.

More likely a combo of legal wrangles back home and, as several have observed, she being iced--to avoid any more unscripted moments.