It’s convuluted, all right—because you are desperately trying to rationalize your support and infatuation for a tarnished conservative, who has entangled herself with a socialist who belongs in the Dem Party. McCain is a Republican however so this is all the worse, he not only enables the enemy, but he drags her down too. What does she stand for? Can she speak out clearly against amnesty and cite the numbers of illegals here and what they are doing to our country, what will happen if allowed to go on? When she does remark about drilling for oil here at home (ANWR), it has a hollow ring since her man has sided with GW theory and voted against it, supports Cap & Tax.
She may be tarnished but it’s very brief and wipes away with her ongoing record of conservatism.
She might have stumbled, but only because while running under constant fire, she dodged an even larger pothole—the one where she potentially didn’t uphold her promise to McCain and would have been tarnished even worse.