According to Kristol - McCain is angry at the way the camp has handled her and has his two top campaign staffers with her getting her ready to go on the offensive against "Stand Up" Joe. Apparently he is furious that the former Bush aides that were supposed to be coaching her on foreign policy have instead transformed her from the attack dog she was when she was introduced into someone always in a "defensive crouch" ala the Bush White House looking for journalists out to trip her up.
If they can get her back on the attack she'll do fine. She's a good speaker (as you saw in the first week she was on the trail), the coaching has backfired and hurt her. Her job isn't to go out and outsmart Biden, it's to just do alright but attack Obama and get him distracted and responding to her instead of campaigning - the same thing that spiked McCain's poll numbers up when he first introduced her.
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