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Palin keeps low profile, meets with Cindy McCain and Laura Bush

By Scott Shepard | Tuesday, September 2, 2008, 05:12 PM

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Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, John McCain’s choice for vice president, kept a low profile Tuesday as the Republican national committee tried to get back on track in the wake of Hurricane Gustav.

Although Republicans rushed to her defense following the news that her 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, Palin herself stayed out of the limelight on the second day of the convention, a time when vice presidential candidates typically make the rounds of key state delegations.

In fact, Palin cancelled a planned speech Tuesday afternoon to a Republican group of anti-abortion activists, an event that had attracted a lot of media attention.

The only official word of Palin’s activities Tuesday came late in the afternoon when the McCain campaign headquarters in Virginia sent out a press release saying the vice presidential candidate met privately with former first lady Laura Bush and McCain’s wife Cindy.

The press release did not provide any details of where or when the meeting took place and what happened during the meeting. But the press release included a photograph of the three women together, smiling.

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