McCain understudy Sarah Palin is now the star

[Kadie]

McCain understudy Sarah Palin is now the star
By Dan Balz
Saturday, March 27, 2010; 12:19 PM

John McCain and Sarah Palin were back together again Friday. His presidential campaign was floundering when he first reached out to her. Now, facing a challenge from within his party as he seeks reelection to the Senate, McCain has turned to her again to help bail him out. But what a difference.

Their national campaign together ended badly for both, topped by a flurry of leaks dumping on the former Alaska governor and, since then, nasty accusations between the senator's camp and hers over the conduct of it. Whatever happens now, the reappearance of McCain and Palin on the same stage illustrates how much things have changed since 2008.

For starters, the understudy is now the star. A majority of Americans may think Palin is not qualified to be president, but the GOP faithful love her, as does cable television. Cable news was fixed on Palin as she delivered her introduction of McCain at a rally in Tucson on Friday afternoon. Minutes after McCain took the microphone, they cut away from the rally for other news.

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Which is why McCain needs Palin's blessing. Seventy-one percent of conservative Republicans and 60 percent of Americans who have a positive impression of the tea party movement view her favorably, according to a newly released Washington Post poll. That is in sharp contrast to Palin's image nationally. Just 37 percent of Americans view her favorably, compared with 55 percent who view her unfavorably -- 41 percent strongly.

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What kind of Republican Party will emerge from the midterm elections? A party built entirely on protest and opposition or a party with a positive vision and a program for governing? The more conservative the party has become, the more this tension has confounded Republican elected officials in Washington.

For much of his career in Washington, McCain sought to build bridges between the parties. Now, in Obama's Washington, he has joined those in his party at the barricades, not only out of genuine opposition to many of Obama's initiatives but also with an obvious instinct for survival. Whether that will be enough to allow him to return to Washington isn't known.

In his race against Hayworth, he has turned to Palin to build a bridge for him within his party. It is a measure of what has happened -- to McCain and his party -- that just two years after he was the GOP nominee for president, he now needs Palin more than ever to vouch for him.

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[msongs]

1. T&A has always been popular in America - the dumb blonde too nt

[janedum]

2. McCain is Pathetic. Couldn't win Presidency without Palin; Can't win Arizona without Palin. SICK!

[Kadie]

5. I wonder how McCain really feels about having her around.

Yesterday she mentioned the tea party at his campaign rally, I wonder what he thought about that? I have a feeling he may feels he has really boxed himself into a corner.

:shrug:

[theoldman]

3. For the umpteenth time.

No one ever went broke betting on the ignorance of the American voter.

[saracat]

11. +100000

[AlinPA]

4. The Palin "campaign" (I believe it is a campaign for President) reminds me

of the novel "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis. A simple minded folksy man writes a book full of trite statements, and runs for President beating out FDR. Quotes from his book are plain-spoken and anti-intellectual and he appeals to the uneducated, gullible electorate, then is elected and turns America away from Democracy to a totalitarian-fascist country.

[spanone]

7. Chauncey Gardiner in 'being there'

[Catshrink]

8. She would be a Chauncey Gardiner if she could keep her mouth shut.

But fortunately that isn't going to happen. I say fortunately because maybe the more people hear her the more they'll realize there's nothing there. I wanted to say unfortunately because I'm so tired of hearing that Wasilla whine. I bow to the greater good: hearing her and hoping the vapidity will be "heard."

[spanone]

6. the media just, aw shucks, just loves that girl...they just really, you know, love her to death.

[tigereye]

9. so tedious, so thoughtless, so banal is she

why won't she just go away? :banghead:

[gulliver]

10. Republicans are a party of ideas. Palin gives Repubican men ideas.

McCain probably gives some of them ideas too, in fairness.

[JBoy]

12. McCain is Bosley.

[Rage Inc.]

13. Kinda like Darth Vader!

Dick Cheney in a skirt!

Wait...OMG THAT'S LIZ CHENEY!

[bridgit]

14. Oh I understand how people can thing like that but I disagree...

Two days in now, or is it three but that's the point cause Palin is not building a mystery - she's cobbling an idiot blur of meaningless thoughts & words that are already wearing very thin indeed: the same ole shake n'bake cute-sie/folks-ie no hope'y no change'y *I really should have been an Amway diamond I'd be making the big bucks now* thing over & mother fucking over & over again she's been stale for months now still selling her product to a still brain dead army of white zombie bigots

You know, the founders thought that by possessing inalienable rights & freedoms such as Freedom & Liberty of speech of thought...that they would simply arrive at the foregone conclusions such as are: citizenship, stewardship and more perfect unions not Palin...

She sees the world as a "gee willikers gosh darn diddley" patent leather dominatrix with a mouth full of policies she cares too little for to understand much past her hyperventilated relationship with her target, teleprompted audience - and for me it is way too stale & routine watching her trying to dance on that dime

Palin has always been a detriment to McCain, and McCain looks like an old fool for begging her to come hold his hand