Sarah Barracuda or Sarah Wallflower?

Where is Sarah?

I like Sarah Palin — she’s folksy, warm, and confident — and I think she represents the ultra-conservative constituency of her party, pretty well.

I think.

I don’t really know of course, because McCain has informed us that he will not “allow” Palin to answer any questions from the press, “until they agree to treat her with respect and deference.”

Seems our “Sarah Barracuda” from the convention, the one willing to lob derisive and disrespectful insults at Obama with perfect timing and poise, has suddenly become our little “Sarah Sensitive.” I suppose McCain is right though, because as we know, once elected, no one ever says anything disrespectful to the vice president, right? Just ask Vice President Dick Cheney.

But that is the point, isn’t it? Keep her picture in the news, but not her opinions, until after the election, when she can say absolutely anything, and we will have nothing to say at all.

I say the press should boycott McCain and Palin’s speeches and staged “photo ops” until Palin, our little wallflower, is willing to step out into the Big World with the rest of the grownups, and the candidates.

Terri Holland

Salt Lake City, Utah