Personally, McLame was SUCH a disappointment after the Bore-Kemp ticket that I would have gone third party but for Palin’s presence on the McLame ticket.
I wrote in Palin for President. Didn’t vote for McCain for anything.
I voted for McCain because the other option was 0bama, and I suspect that was the case for the great majority who voted for him. Palin had zero impact in that regard; however, Palin’s presence did provide about the only spark of ideological enthusiasm I felt for the ticket, even though I think she has her own problems in a national contest. I was more or less voting for a bullet to America’s guts rather than the head shot we ended up with, just like this last election. McCain’s probably going to go full lefty in this last at bat because he knows his time is up and his influence is on the wane. His only shot at relevance is throwing a wrench into the works whenever possible. Anything as long as the 0bamamedia will pat him on the head and say nice things about him.