“[Sarah Palin is] going to learn national security at the foot of the master for the next four years, and most doctors think that he’ll be around at least that long,” said Charlie Black, one of Mr. McCain’s top advisers, making light of concerns about Mr. McCain’s health, which Mr. McCain’s doctors reported as excellent in May.”
(from this NYT article)
1. Charlie Black admits Palin has no national security experience.
2. Charlie Black invites voters to think about McCain’s age
3. Charlie Black invites people to remember that “the master’ has been increasingly confused on national security issues (Sunni vs Shia? Czechoslovakia? Georgian crisis first serious post-cold war crisis?) and is at risk for passing on bad data
4. Charlie Black admits Palin not Ready On day One.
So even the McCain campaign’s lobbyists can’t quite spin this one?
Really — I think that a campaign management shakeup is more likely to happen than Palin actually withdrawing.