Governor Palin will address the Republican National Convention in St. Paul this evening, and the media thinks she has clouds swirling around her head.

She will give her address in prime time, at 10:30 p.m. EDT.

“She will speak as a governor, a former mayor and someone with both hands on the steering wheel of America’s energy economy,” said Tucker Eskew, a senior McCain adviser. “She will detail her record of shaking up the status quo in Alaska and standing up to entrenched interests to put the government back on the side of the people.” …

The campaign also lashed out at the media and called for an end to questions about Palin’s background and her family. Senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt decried what he called a “faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee” for vice president.

“This nonsense is over,” Schmidt declared in a written statement.

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“Of course it’s going to be high stakes,” [Rudy] Giuliani said in an interview Wednesday with “Good Morning America” on ABC. “The media is ready to pounce on any mistake. … She looks to me like she’s got tremendous confidence, got tremendous ability as a speaker.”

Oh, and btw, the Alaska Independence Party now says that Elizabeth Bumiller, Jake Tapper, and their ilk played along with their lie when they ran with the story that Governor Palin had been a member of their party despite her denials.