McCain's gift that keeps on giving

'Aides to her running mate, Senator John McCain, told her it was not customary for the No. 2 to speak, she said. “But, you know, I thought, even if it was unprecedented, so what, you know?” Ms. Palin told Mr. Lauer. “Geez, let’s do something a little bit out of the box there.”'

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/us/politics/12watch.html