FWIW, Sarah is stuck between a rock and a hard place with McCain. She really does owe him for choosing her as his veep candidate and giving her that unique opportunity to present herself to the nation, even if his handlers abused her and even if he screwed up the campaign royally.
It forced her to work with an aisle-crossing maverick, a good friend of Teddy Kennedy, but he had already been nominated as the POTUS candidate. When she joined the team, it certainly improved the balance as far as a Veep possibly can.
She simply cannot say that she now repudiates McCain. But what she did, basically, was to appear in his support when he asked her to for a couple of days, and that was it. The rest of it is the malign press and her enemies trying to make something of this issue.
McCain is a loser who should be thrown out. But I think most conservatives can figure that out for themselves. Sarah’s influence should not be decisive in this case, since I hope most voters with any brains can figure all this out for themselves.
Wrong. She is still doing radio ads for him. McCain is still ahead in the polls - if Sarah is as effective of a "Kingmaker" as everyone says she is - then she HAS to be having an effect on people's support of McCain, and NOT Hayworth. Her support boosts candidates.
The whole "she owes him" argument is so sick. Does an abused wife "owe" her husband for anything? She joined the McCain ticket to help save this country from the likes of Obama. Anyone would do the same if called upon.
She's an independent agent now - free to endorse whom she chooses. She has paid her dues to McCain by campaigning with all of her guts during the campaign. The campaign is OVER now & it's time for her to be her own person. She has chosen McCain - it is what it is.
PLEASE - don't make her sound like some Charlie's Angel that owes everything to the man that "introduced" her to us. We would have heard of her anyway, in her own time. To be a great president - she's going to have to stand up to people - and that includes John McCain.