Just when you thought, "it can't get any worse..."

She's breathtakingly bad. No constraint should ever be placed on Israel, "because we cannot ever afford to send the message that we would allow a second Holocaust for one."

It's no wonder that panic has now been set off amongst the McCain camp and Republicans in general.

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin.

The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

I've wondered before why the McCain camp appear to have decided it's preferable to suffer the constant complaints from the press - that Palin is being kept from them - rather than take the risk of allowing her to speak without constraint.

I guess that's the question answered then.

But what's interesting is the incredulity that some of her responses are now getting from respected journalists like Jack Cafferty:



Cafferty can't even hide his anger at the dangerous choice which McCain has made, and made for narrow partisan reasons.

Tags: Palin, Couric, Israel, debate, US election 2008