So, this person will be ready to assume the presidency?

McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, has said that the campaign won't make Sarah Palin available for news interviews until the time is right and the reporters are well-behaved.

From Fox News:
Palin to Do First Television Interview on ABC - America’s Election HQ: "So until at which point in time we feel like the news media is going to treat her with some level of respect and deference, I think it would be foolhardy to put her out into that kind of environment."

It's up to Governor Palin to be ready, not the media. What's going to happen if she needs to have a summit meeting with Vladimir Putin or Hugo Chaves or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or Angela Merkel? She's not going to meet with them until they promise to play nicely?