(Again, apologies if this has already been mentioned. I couldn't find it after a quick search.)
Where has Sarah Palin been for the last five days? We all know she hasn't been granting interviews - well except for a warm and fuzzy portrait of the Palins for People.
Turns out she has been preparing for the coming onslaught. Apparently being so close to Russia isn't enough, since the McCain campaign has assigned an entire team of staffers to prep her on foreign policy.
The interesting part is that they're a bunch of Bush staffers.
From Newsweek:
Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska governor
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Matt Scully, a former Bush White House speechwriter who helped draft some of the major foreign-policy addresses during the president’s first term, is working on Palin’s acceptance speech to the convention Wednesday night.
Mark Wallace, a former lawyer for the Bush 2000 campaign who served in a variety of administration jobs including chief counsel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and deputy ambassador to the United Nations, has been put in charge of "prep" for the debate against Biden.
Wallace’s wife, Nicolle Wallace, the former White House communications director, has taken over the same job for Palin.
Tucker Eskew, another senior Bush White House communications aide, is serving as senior counselor to Palin’s operation.
And just to top it off, Palin's chief domestic policy advisor will be Douglas Holtz-Eakin. Holtz-Eakin served as chief economist for Bush's Council of Economic Advisors.
Yep - what a breath of fresh air Sarah Palin would be in Washington!