McCain campaign aims to reign the senator in

Elisabeth Bumiller with The New York Times has an article out today where she discusses Sen. McCain's plans for his week "alone" on the campaign trail (Sen. Obama is on vacation in Hawaii). 

So why do we care? Well, Bumiller reports that:

Mr. McCain no longer spends hours in the back of his campaign bus in talkathons with national reporters, instead reserving the sessions for short bursts with the local news media...

Last week Mr. McCain had only one news conference, in Rogers, Ark., at a politically dead time, 5:30 p.m. on a Friday, that seemed designed to bury anything troublesome he might say. The idea is to keep the candidate on point and not expose him to situations like one that occurred last month in Ohio in which he was asked whether he thought it fair that some health insurance companies covered Viagra but not birth control. (Mr. McCain told reporters he would get back to them on that.)

Ahh yes. "The situation" that was covered extensively in both the blogosphere and mainstream media. "The situation" that still stumped McCain a couple weeks after the fact when he was asked for his opinion... AGAIN!

Yeah, I can see why the McCain campaign wouldn't want a "situation" like that to happen again... too bad pro-choice Americans are on the case, and will continue to expose McCain's anti-choice record.