I can see why she’s doing it. Moderate voters are allergic to Palin. McCain is a conservative who appeals to moderate voters. Hayworth is radioactive to a national audience. If McCain wins, he can help Palin with a presidential run. And if Palin’s endorsement defuses this primary challenge, McCain will owe Palin big-time. I see Palin running in 2012. She will need the endorsements of Republicans who appeal to moderates to win in the general. And if she gets the nomination, it’s a sure bet that she’ll choose someone with moderate appeal as her running mate. And that is going to spell disappointment to a lot of conservatives who have pinned their hopes on Palin as a no-compromises conservative.
“McCain is a conservative who appeals to moderate voters”
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If McCain wins, he can help Palin with a presidential run.That's something along the line of saying the fox can help the hen prepare dinner.
And if Palin’s endorsement defuses this primary challenge, McCain will owe Palin big-time.There are those who think he already does owe her bigtime, for the chicken-livered manner in which he handled his staffers' grotesque assaults upon her, a manner which in my opinion absolved her of any obligation she may have felt to endorse him. Politics may not be beanbag but there are things a gentleman does not do or sanction against even his most cringe-inducing opponent . . . never mind against an ally, or a running mate.
I say again: Palin should have kept quiet about the Arizona senate race entirely. Her silence would have been damning to McCain while doing nothing foul to Hayworth. And it would not have blocked her or her people from offering Hayworth back channel support if she saw fit to offer. That's done all the time in politics.