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Two years ago, John McCain transformed Sarah Palin overnight from an obscure first-term Alaska governor into a national celebrity when he picked her as his vice presidential running mate.   Now Palin is repaying the favor, putting her prestige on the line in an effort to help the four-term Arizona senator overcome his toughest re-election challenge ever.   The two campaigned together Friday for the first time since they lost the presidential race in 2008.   At the first of two rallies this weekend, Palin pumped up Tea Partiers, invoking the cause of the first Tea Party in 1773.  ...

Joe the Plumber is set to crash John McCain's reunion with Sarah Palin. Samuel "Joe" Wurzelbacher, who recently said McCain "screwed my life up," is slated to appear along with J.D. Hayworth at an anti-tax rally in Phoenix on Friday. Meanwhile in Tucson, McCain will reunite at a rally with the former Alaska governor. Wurzelbacher has made it clear he has a bone to pick with the 2008 GOP presidential ticket. "McCain was trying to use me," he said in a radio interview last month. "I happened to be the face of middle Americans. It was a ploy."

Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)? Lately, however, McCain has outdone himself. He has introduced two bills in the US Senate that are about as Machiavellian as they could be. I am referring to S.3081, a bill...