Excellent analogy, faulty conclusion.
Freepers of a certain age do have a sort of familial feeling for this dynamic younger woman. This is like watching a very talented daughter, or younger sister, make a serious life mistake.
With one's own children and relatives, one doesn't often have a vote. With Sarah, we definitely do. McCain done her wrong. To re-identify herself with his failures and attitudes is simply a mistake.
Unless of course, she believes in the same things as McCain, including blanket amnesty for illegal aliens. In that case, we made a mistake.
None of them are honest and will admit that they support amnesty --- they cushion it as "pathway to citizenship," which Palin is on record as supporting.
None of them are even honest enough or smart enough to use the real numbers, instead using the tired old cliche of 10-12 million, that's been used for at least 8-9 years, no matter that one million have been breaking in each year since, many right in my own backyard.