actually the whole McCain Campaign did.. She was supposed to a pick that wouldn’t have affect on campaign to ensure Obama won.. She was so good 1st week to the point McCain went ahead and look like he may win.. Then stock market crashed and McCain made horrible decisions by calling a summit and suspending his campaign. they also hid Palin for weeks which allowed McCAIN campaign and media to do an all out assault on her. I personally think McCain was intentially tried to lose but Palin changed the dynamics of that race that they helped destroy her.
Exactly right.
McPain was never out to win, just lose gracefully.
Then you had Sarah come in and wanted to hit places like Michigan hard.
Well they shrugged that advice off and kept to the designated loser plan.
Fast forward eight years and where did Donald Trump campaign the hardest?
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida.
Sarah herself was in Michigan the last few days before the election.
He won all those states, not by much, but just enough.
Well hells bells, it's almost like if you actually try you just might get what you working to achieve.
What a concept.
IMO, McCain did not enter the race to win, he entered for his own ego and to raise some money. For him, it was the same old game of entitlement that has followed him through his life.
The McCain Team thought they were pretty good at the chess game of Identity Politics. Sarah Palin was put in place just in case the Dems nominated Hillary as Zer0’s running mate. The Dems outmaneuvered them with Biden. However, Sarah became even more popular because of her charismatic connection with the people.
When Sarah began to dominate the campaign, McCain’s ego became bruised. To keep him relevant, they isolated her. That did not work so well because it meant the Left’s attacks on her required no response. Any response would lift Sarah up in the public awareness. With Sarah in the background, with no support, the opposition used it to their advantage. Sarah became like an Albatross to hang around McCain’s neck.
These poor decisions illustrated the flawed McCain strategy in other areas; especially being unable to maneuver around the economic collapse after the Convention. That was because he was a flawed candidate and matched against Palin, it was more evident.
When he lost, he revealed how flawed a character he was. He blame shifted the loss on Sarah. That is something an ill-mannered character would do. His ego may have raised some money for himself, but for many Americans, he compromised his integrity and the specter of an Obama Regime to hang around his neck.