Sarah Palin has to continue her support for McCain until the Arizona election runs its course. She can not withdraw her support for McCain, especially after McCain’s effective performance during the healthcare summit today. Can you imagine Sarah Palin pulling her support now. The spin would be that Sarah is less conservative than McCain.
People who hated Sarah prior to the endorsement still hate her, people who liked her still like her. This entire McCain Palin controversy has been trumped up in order to undermine Palin’s support and it has little effect on her true supporters. Sarah’s supporters examine her entire record and also consider situational context. I am not going to be turned against Palin over a circumstance, which I entirely understand.
“Can you imagine Sarah Palin pulling her support now. The spin would be that Sarah is less conservative than McCain.”
she should the second mccain tries to call for something stupid again.
The point is, she will at minimum go on record as having held her nose and boosted McCain through whatever crazy ideas he may have between now and November (such as unneeded, Big-brother style, European-style regulations on food supplements). All that will come under the aura of the label “statesman” that she is using, even though “snakesman” may be more like it.
If she does not run for office but chooses to boost another candidate for President, this hangs a question mark over the wisdom of her endorsement. If she runs for office, one wonders what circumstances would move her to euphemize past a smelly situation once in office.
I’m not agreeing with the people who say that Mitt’s any better. She may prove to be “least worst” of all viable candidates for all we know, and may be worth holding our nose and voting for.