I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt. For all anyone knows, McCain might be seriously ill and just asking for one last hurrah before checking out (with a cool state funeral). Or maybe not, but if he keels over in six months at least I won’t have to eat any words! And Gov. Palin will have repaid him for bringing her to national prominence. She can throw in some pious elegy and we’ll all start graciously forgetting everything except his military service.
McCain is trying to keep his seat warm until his daughter is old enough to run for it. As for his military service, it is little known that McCain lost five aircraft he was piloting and was known as America’s first “reverse ace.”