From TPM Reader BJ …

On the RNC website they have a clock that shows the time: “Since Joe Biden’s last gaffe”. Perhaps the Democrats should put up a clock of their own, the time: “Since Sarah Palin last took questions from the media”.

In all seriousness, I’m curious why the fact that the McCain campaign has been keeping Palin (the Vice Presidential nominee of their party) in virtual isolation isn’t a larger part of the media narrative? To my knowledge she has made only two public appearances since the announcement, giving the same speech twice. Her scheduled appearance today (a speech sponsored by a Pro-life group) at the RNC was cancelled.

With only sixty days until the election, isn’t it fair to ask the McCain campaign when Vice Presidential nominee of their party, and someone who’s views we know little about, is going to be allowed to take questions from the media? Or do they feel that the American public doesn’t deserve to know her views and that we should just vote for their ticket because they say she’s a good person?

David Kurtz reports from inside the Xcel Center. Sure are a lot of empty seats …

So if John McCain decides he needs to heave Sarah Palin overboard, just how would the mechanics work and how easy would it be? Josh Green talked to the experts and found out just how it would work.

Like I said earlier, I think the chances of this happening are remote. Because as bad as making a stupid veep pick is, admitting it would be far more damaging. And the evangelicals would probably desert him en masse. Still it’s fun to know how it would work.

From TPM Reader DS …

Why is everyone letting the McCain camp get away with saying Palin’s selection somehow breaks the “glass ceiling” as Kay Hutchison just did on MSNBC. There has already been a female nominee for VP. The Democrats broke that one nearly 25 years ago.

Putting the screaming headlines aside, Ed Kilgore explains why Sarah Palin’s ties to the Alaska Independence Party matter.

The founder of the Alaska Independence Party — which Sarah Palin has courted — professed his “hatred for the American government” and cursed our “damn flag.”

If he can’t stand up to Larry King, how can he stand up to … well, anybody?

After Campbell Brown’s interview with McCain’s spokesman Tucker Bounds last night, McCain is pulling out of an interview tonight with Larry King.

We’ll have more shortly.

Here’s the ‘offending’ interview in question …

Todd Palin, husband of Sarah, was a member of the secessionist Alaska Independence Party from 1995 through 2002. That’s the information we just got from the Alaska Division of elections.

Probably not coincidentally, 2002 was the first time Sarah Palin ran for statewide office in Alaska.