The McCain camp has a plan for Sarah Palin to win the debate on Thursday night and they're using the reception around her speech at the Republican convention as the playbook. With Palin, it's not about the substance of what she says, but rather, it's about the expectations running up to her performance. Before she spoke in August, the nation was scratching its head over what appeared to be the hastiess, political choice of a running mate that the country had ever seen. The week was filled with press-revelations from Palin's pregnant daugter to the troopergate case.
The consensus that McCain hadn't picked.

So the news today that the McCain campaign wants more of Palin's national television interviews to be released before the debate should not come as a surprise.