McCain is like the Steve Martin version of the Pink Panther’s good-cop-bad-cop routine. McCain should be honored as a war veteran and deserves thanks for elevating Palin’s influence by picking her for his VP, but beyond that he rarely is much help to conservatism.
I don't know. If Palin had not been picked, she probably would have served a couple of terms as governor of Alaska, or maybe have run against Murkowski and won a Senate seat.
Who knows? Maybe McCain picked her as a sneaky, backhanded way to get her out of Alaska Republican politics so it could slime its way back to the Murkowski GOP-e pig trough.