I’ve been a major supporter of hers here over the past year. I’d like her to dig down to more substantive policy answers in her media appearances and I wince when she puts her kids out on tabloid covers, because I’ve been majorly behind her as right in principle and good on the issues. I also see her as a better alternative than Romney, who I can’t believe could topple Obama and whom I don’t respect from my experience backing him in MA.
But this McCain stuff and now backing him on immigration two years after their campaign has me stepping back to look more closely at whether she talks the good rebel game to tea partiers and the base—but is really another McCain/Graham Republican underneath it all.
If you truly supported her once, then you’re fooling yourself with this immigration thing. She’s said nothing but what you agree with on immigration, it’s her support of McCain that has you rattled. Frankly, I’m not happy with it, but it’s not a deal breaker of any kind for me (I’m staunchly anti-illegal), and you shouldn’t let it be either.