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Sarah may well have just thrown herself on a political grenade to save John McCain's seat, and the fallout for her probably isn't going to be pretty.

I must agree with you. I have written a few articles about my support for the barracuda from Alaska. It has been my opinion that Sarah is the saving grace the republican party could hang onto for coattails that would inevitably bring Obama and the democrats down completely in 2012.

Now I must retract my support, at least until I see what plays out. As for now however, I do agree with you. She is allowing her political career to be sabotaged over her feeling of duty and loyalty to McCain. He gave her exposure and she has taken off like a rocket, but her feeling of loyalty could very well prove to be the worse political move she could have made.

Among other blunders she seems to be making that have left me scratching my head over, she has also began to chum up with Romney. I am not a huge Romney fan.

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"She is allowing her political career to be sabotaged over her feeling of duty and loyalty to McCain. He gave her exposure and she has taken off like a rocket, but her feeling of loyalty could very well prove to be the worse political move she could have made. Among other blunders she seems to be making that have left me scratching my head over, she has also began to chum up with Romney. I am not a huge Romney fan."

Certainly "loyalty to McCain because he made her" is one possibility and the one most often used to describe her behavior.

But there is another possibility that has nothing to do with loyalty but rather that she is helping John McCain because he is the most powerful Republican in the Party. In other words she's kissing the GOP Don's ring in the hopes of future favors in return. This would explain a lot more of her behavior over the last few months-- donating to Graham and Hatch, supporting Steele, supporting McCain over Hayworth and cozying up to Mitt Romney -- than just "loyalty to McCain" would.

We all want to think of candidates as "belonging to us", but the fact is (especially on a national level) the candidates have to make their bones with the Party machine first, often doing all kinds of distasteful things that no one else wants to do. Only when they get to McCain's level do they get to do whatever they want. But until then, they follow orders, and Sarah following orders would mean that she is no exception.

I don't claim to have a crystal ball, but my guess is that the latter scenario is far more likely than the "it's just her loyalty to McCain because he made her" description.