Sarah Palin is running for vice-president, meaning she could possibly be president, and few in the country know much about her. But the men in the McCain campaign aren’t letting Palin give any interviews.

“Why would we want to throw Sarah Palin into a cycle of piranhas called the news media that have nothing better to ask questions about than her personal life and her children?” [McCain campaign manager Rick] Davis said. “So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment.”

If the McCain campaign had a kitchen, they’d put Palin in it and shut the door.

And another thought: You can not promote your v-p candidate as a “hockey mom” and in the next breath say that her personal life is irrelevant.