[Darkwolf377]

And McCain still knows a whole bunch of people in NH, IA, SC, etc... He still has close contacts and networks. She probably doesnt want to do anything to needlessly antagonize them. McCain asked her to show up. It’s not like she parachuted in unannounced or rushed the stage Kanye West style. If she were to turn down his request that would pretty much be the end of any potential help down the road, not that that’s even guaranateed as it is.

Just look at what you're doing.

This is why I am so hesitant about Palin--not so much her as her followers.

You're supporting the "Boys' Club" crap that has brought us to where we are today--but it's OKAY if PALIN does it.

Bullsh*t.

[jeltz25]

Well, like I said, it was a one time deal. If she was out there every week for him or something that might be a bit much. But a one time thing I don’t really see as a big deal.

I don’t see this as just the usual boys club. I mean, Bennett from UT is part of the club and she’s not out for him. Shelby from AL. etc... Also, McCain isn’t just another boys club member to her. For better or worse he’s the reason she’s where she is today. The reason her family and children are set up for the next few hundred years. She’s always said she’s personally fond of him, and I suspect if you spend 2 months with someone running for President and crossing the country, and especially in a race where you’re ahead and on the way to winning only to see an economic catastrophe(you had nothing to do with) come out of nowhere and condemn you to defeat, you probably become pretty close. She was in the foxhole with him so to speak.

He put her in line to be the leader of the party and the most powerful person in the world, not to mention the most powerful woman in history likely. The most famous person in the world. All that and more. Most were suggesting he pick someone else. But he showed enough faith in her.

The least she can do is so some faith in him.

I think she’s shown based on her history and other actions that she’s not really interested in protecting the boys club. I’m not too worried about her becoming part of any club.

No one in politics at this level is 100% immune to the old boy network. It’s impossible. Everyone does it, especially to those who helped them on the way up. Remember W and Santorum supporting Arlen Specter in 2004? This is nowhere near that travesty.

I think if you put her and most of the others you hear bandied about and lined them up on a scale of most likely to continue the old ways to least likely, most likely to fall in with the DC/Beltway crowd to least likely to, she’d be much farther along the least likely to side than the others.