Prepping Palin

How is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin preparing for the political speech of her career. Apparently, she's been holed up in a hotel room with John McCain's top advisers getting a crash course on the talking points according to this superb

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Most revealing is that the vice presidential speech had already been written but had to be tossed for being "very masculine."

As the Post reports:

Sitting around a dining room table, the McCain team has talked to her about Iraq, energy and the economy but has focused on what she should say in her speech, struggling almost as hard as she has to prepare for what will be, along with a debate in October, her main opportunity to shape the way she is viewed by voters. Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch."