Christopher Hitchens, writing in Slate,  argues that the GOP and the McCain campaign should have to pay a price for their decision to prevent the governor with the nice ta ta's from facing some tough questioning. Instead, they've got her in a bubble of adoring (and ignorant) fans, motorcades and softball interviews. All the while, she and her handlers are snarling at the press, at libruls in general, and the 70% of the nation who are un-American because they think she's a dangerous joke.

Why does the press continue to cover her? Why are they complicit in this partisan tactic? I realize it's a lot of fun to be abused at every rally, if not from the podium then from the said adoring fans.  And,  I realize she's a story, but that doesn't mean they have to completely roll over, does it?