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Well, bunny, since you want to presume to analyze my thoughts on this issue further, let’s look at the original stories to see how McCain’s staff and Governor Palin interacted:

First, I'd like to say that I think Sarah Palin is a bright person, is very capable, and that she can and should do well. She seems to have an innate understanding of what conservatism means, which is vitally important.

I think McCain asked her to run for his own reasons, used her, and never had her best interests at heart. I believe he continues to not have her best interests at heart.

That said, she needs more experience, and should not have run with McCain, as many of the links you posted seem to show. She was in a position of having to rely on people who didn't have her best interests at heart, and wasn't able to do much about it. But that was what happened when she decided to run with McCain who had already run a lousy, lackluster campaign. What part of anything that happened next surprised anyone?

I think she made a serious mistake in accepting his request to run, because she was clearly not ready.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/Story?id=6196407&page=1

This is about how McCain's campaign treated Palin badly and ratted her out to the press, written two days after the election. If this is true (and it almost certainly is, given McCain's insane campaign), just reinforces the idea that she should not have listened to the McCain camp from the get go if she couldn't get along with them, and should have built her own campaign staff. She didn't, though, and would come to regret it.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13355.html

This is about how McCain's staff "augmented" Palin's own staff. I'm not sure what this is supposed to show, but what it tells me is that she did what McCain's people told her to, to her own detriment. While that may be the nice thing to have done, "nice" doesn't equate "presidential".

http://pundits.thehill.com/2008/11/06/the-trashing-of-sarah-palin-by-mccain-staff/

Written 2 days after the election, another story about how McCain's people trashed her. This can be looked at several different ways: she was too nice to them, in the face of their treachery; she was unable to control them; she didn't engender loyalty in them. None of those translate into appearing presidential.

http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/palin_mccain_culvahouse/2009/04/17/204370.html

Written in April of 2009, about how Palin had been a "high risk" running mate. I don't see how this could possibly help her, so maybe you could explain it? It does say that she disclosed her daughter's pregnancy prior to the pick, but again, that is what is supposed to happen, nothing noteworthy.

http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2008/10/26/palin-pushes-mccain-staff-aside-as-blame-game-begins/

Written 9 days before the election, it says that Palin had finally started pulling away from McCain.

The article also mentions the Katie Couric interviews. That would be the same Katie Couric interviews where Palin said she did support McCain's pro-cap & trade position (^), but couldn't name a single Supreme Court decision she disagreed with (^), or list a newspaper she reads by name. (^)

I'm sure she can name Supreme Court cases and magazines, but she she doesn't speak extemporaneously very well at all. It's a skill, it can be learned, and she needs to practice.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4926283.ece

An article about how Palin was campaigning more aggressively than McCain was, and how there was division about how aggressively they thought campaigning should be. Dated 10/12/08. Interesting, especially these paragraphs:

Despite the attacks, Obama, 47, increased his average poll lead last week to eight points over McCain. The assaults on his character have enabled him to criticise McCain for “stoking anger and division” when the economy is collapsing.

Her aggressive stance may not have worked, according to the article you cite.

However, Palin is no longer helping to attract women and independent voters to the Republican ticket. A poll for Fox News last week showed that while 47% of voters regard the Alaska governor favourably, 42% now have an unfavourable opinion of her.

Is that good news, in your opinion? The stepped up attacks hurt the McCain campaign, and women's opinion of her went down.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html

Another story from October of last year, about the McCain staff savaging her, and her going off on her own. Not being able to control staffers isn't indicative of strong leadership.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/26/McCain-Palin-camps-spar-over-prayer-story/UPI-69951238117864/

Another story about how Palin couldn't control staffers from the McCain campaign, and resorted to complaining publicly to the media about those people and how they wouldn't pray with her?

Again: is this supposed to make voters feel that this is an executive who can handle things? She can't control a bunch of campaign workers, complains about them in public, but she can run the United States government?

Was there some other message here that I missed?

Governor Palin needs to retreat, do her job, and make Alaska a better place to live. Her supporters need to understand that she has made some mistakes, admit them, and try not to make her into a saint or discourage others from criticize here. In doing so, they excuse behavior that they shouldn't, and turn away potential supporters.

BTW, I’m a “he” from southwestern Virginia.

Apologies for not being sure about it before. I have relatives near Gate City.

Nice to meet you.