My Fair Vice President

New York Times Op-Ed maven, Maureen Dowd's article "My Fair Veep" states, I hope John McCain doesn’t throw his slippers at Sarah Palin’s head or get as acerbic as Henry Higgins did with Eliza Doolittle when she did not learn quickly enough. McCain’s Pygmalion has to be careful, because his Galatea might be armed with more than a sharp tongue.For the first time in American history, we have a “My Fair Lady” moment, as teams of experts bustle around the most famous woman in politics, intensely coaching her for her big moment at the ball....

Andrew Romano from Newsweek writes, "Thanks in part to Tina Fey--and, truth be told, Palin's own interviews with Katie Couric--many Americans now see her as a sort of political Eliza Doolittle: plucked from obscurity, pumped full of talking points and still not ready for the big time.

In short: all style, no substance. The fact that the cash-strapped McCain campaign decided (in the midst of a major economic crisis) to spend four times Joe the Plumber's annual income on one month of Palin's apparel--even though she can't name a single Supreme Court case she disagrees with--only serves to reinforce this "Image First" impression. "