From Bill Kristol's NYT column today about the Obama-Wright association:

To tell you the truth, Bill, I don't know why that association isn't discussed more, because those were appalling things that that pastor had said about our great country, and to have sat in the pews for 20 years and listened to that -- with, I don't know, a sense of condoning it, I guess, because he didn't get up and leave -- to me, that does say something about character. But, you know, I guess that would be a John McCain call on whether he wants to bring that up.

Gotta love that last part. So was Palin speaking off the cuff -- to someone with some of the most prized real estate in all of journalism; or hinting at the attack to come?