Palin may need full-time coach

Sarah Palin's handlers are apparently so proud of her performance against Joe Biden that they have decided she will be absent from Sunday talk shows and other interviews until after the election.

Do they want her to be remembered as a "winner" and desirous of leaving "well enough" alone. Or are they exhausted from the kind of endless coaching required for Palin's robotic performance in the vice presidential debate? Are they fearful of more disastrous encounters like the interviews with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric?

Her coaches should be put on retainer just in case she and John McCain are elected in November. Palin-minding will be a full-time job, and, what the heck, McCain could probably use some help, too.

Karen Wagner

Rolling Meadows