What can Palin do for McCain that she hasn't already done?
FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee John McCain (R-AZ) concedes victory on November 4, 2008 with vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin by his side. (PHOTO CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES)
FROM CNN's Jack Cafferty:
It's gotta be a sign of pure desperation.
The Fox News commentator and soon-to-be Alaska tour guide, Sarah Palin, is reuniting with Senator John McCain in Arizona.
Why?
History might suggest that John McCain had a pretty good chance at becoming the next President of the United States. Then he heard about the mayor of Wasilla, was smitten, suffered a lapse of judgment and asked Caribou Barbie if she'd like to be the vice president.
She jumped at the chance, and that was the beginning of the end of McCain's chances.
Palin did a couple of interviews on the CBS evening news with Katie Couric, and Obama was in.
But apparently McCain has some reason to worry about his re-election chances.
He's being challenged in the primary and with the general disdain for all of the members of Congress, it's not inconceivable he could get knocked off.
But if you're in danger of drowning, why would you ask someone to throw you an anchor?
Sarah Palin, in addition to being virtually without qualification to hold elected office, is also one of the reasons for the deep divisions in the country. She inflamed the conservative base of the Republican party with irresponsible comments about things like government death panels.
She's a lightening rod for criticism and controversy. Who needs this?
Here’s my question to you: What can Sarah Palin do for John McCain that she hasn't already done?
Interested to know which ones made it on air?
Vanna in California writes:
I just find this unbelievable. Actually it would be funny if his job wasn't so important. He has truly lost his mind or what was left of it. Is he really this desperate? Just makes me that much happier that he never made it to the White House.
Tim in Toledo writes:
McCain is obviously a slow learner. She will give him exactly what she gave him during the presidential election – an increased chance at defeat. Maybe that's what he wants.
AJ writes:
Palin wasn't the beginning of the end of McCain's chances. She was the only reason McCain ever came close. The beginning of the end of McCain's chances was McCain.
Bruce in Bend, Oregon writes:
Give the old chameleon the coup de grace? She's one toxic specimen.
Raffi in Montreal writes:
Ask not what Sarah Palin can do for John McCain, ask what John McCain is suffering from.
Ada writes:
She can help him lose. McCain needs to stay home, it seems that he has a learning disability. This woman brought him down before and he's calling on her once again? Something is wrong with this man! Sarah is only out for herself, she even abandoned the Alaskan people before her term was over- it's all about the money.
Tom in Ohio writes:
Put a Democrat in his seat. (She's got experience in this area).
Mike writes:
I qualify this step as an assisted suicide!
Sandy writes:
Sorry CNN, but I had to turn you off when you covered the Palin speech. She makes my ears bleed and causes melting of the brain. Poor McCain. I used to have so much respect for him. Palin will cause him more harm than good.
@jackcafferty on Twitter
you have got to be kiddin!!!!
Sarah Palin can convert John McCain to becoming today Republican Wright Wing Extremist. There is no room for moderation there.
Lexington, MA
Get him booted out of politics entirely. He passed his prime long ago. Time to retire John!
She is awful. Why does she take her young children along on the trail with her?
More damage than help just as in the Presidentila election.
good luck Senator
He would do better by going on dancing with the stars.
No idea. You would think that even the staunchest Republican would avoid her like the plague. Guess it has something to do with intellect then. Huh. Go figure.
It was a great rally, Sarah Palin is magnificent! She will make a great President. McCain didn't ruin his chances at all by picking Sarah as VP, it was Bush. People wanted change.... unfortunately they picked the wrong kind.
Well, Jack, let's just say John McCain is a short memory. He was a maverick who could be trusted, honored even, and then he got scared and showed just how shaky his judgment could be when he okay-ed Palin for V.P. He seemed to get his senses back after the election and sort of apologized for choosing Palin, and now that he's in a tough election a year or so later, his age and his judgment are catching up with him again - he's either forgotten what a lightweight Palin is, or the maverick in him is just rolling the dice - snake eyes.
What can she offer him? Retirement!
Reid vote wrong,Palin coming from the underworld(or tea party)what coming next, Lady Gaga for republican party.Please people refresh the scene.The politic arena look more everiday than the shows of wrestling WWE TNA impact.Invited someone of them to the politc maybe at leased we have some fun.
O Glez.
New Jersey
I think ice burg Sarah Palin is Titanic John Mc Cain's doom.
New Orleans, LA
She can help ensure that he loses re-election.
Sarah Palin is a Rock Star. John McCain could use a Rock Star boost. You state that she is "virtually without qualification to hold elected office". Then what do you think of a guy whose main experience was a "Community Organizer". Start ther when you talk about lack of qualifications.
Apparantly McCain hasn't heard the adage, "Once bitten twice shy."
It is time for McCain to retire. He is a loose cannon. His selection of Ms. Palin as a running mate was ridiculous and certainly helped President Obama get elected. Having her stump for him will pull him down.
Dear Jack, Queen Sarah can do nothing for McCain. I believe she is the main reason he lost. Sure, the 'Base' loves her, but to Independants and Moderates she is plutonium. All I can say is that Hayworth is giving McCain a run for his money.
Maybe the soon-to-be Alaska tour guide is offering him the job of vice- tour guide, director of all things rogue....
New York, NY
From Anchorage, AK
I couldn't agree more with what is said here. McCain is again making a major mistake bringing in the Death Panal Diva. He must truely be hard up.
We Alaskans are abundantly happy to be rid of "Bimbo Barbie". She is an embarrassment to women everywhere, citizens of this state, and people over the world. She lacks intellect, good judgement, class, tact, and finesse.
I guess John McCain is really hoping to get the nut-job vote back from his Abramoff-linked opponent. What does Arizona see in these people?
He still has aspirations to run for president again and he is trying to stifle that impulse with dose a of "old Sarah".
Palin may have hurt McCain's chance of becoming president but I think this time she will help him get votes from the narrow-minded wrong wingnuts, which might just be enough for him to stay in office.
This air head brings nothing to the party!!! However, she is the darling of the tea bag wackos, and he needs their vote. Just grin and bear it John!!!
Apparently, McCain still doesn't realize the Bering Strait Bimbo reminds us of his lack of intelligence and poor judgement. We Arizonans need to retire this old fool before his does further damage to the state and nation. Flagstaff, Arizona
She's a lightening rod for criticism and controversy. Who needs this?
make that "lightning" rod.......
As for McCain and Palin, there's less to these two than meets the eye.
ohh boi!!! Sara Palin should become a verb. There is nothing she or anyone else can do for John McCain. He’s once again in desperate mode, destined to lose another election
Pure bunk, disrespect, utter nonsense from this loser Cafferty. "Without qualification to hold an elected office?" I guess a Councilmember, Mayor, Oil & Gas Commision Regulator for Alaska, Govenor of the State of Alaska doesn't mean or count for anything does it? Well Cafferty, add up your total viewership and see how it ranks with the Cartoon Network. We ALL know that CNN/HLN/MSNBC combined has less viewers than the Cartoon Network. Keep up your insults and see how fewer and fewer viewers will take you seriously. John McCain was his own worst enemy during the 2008 election. The majority of conservatives sat out the election because of him; and it was ONLY because of her that many of them came back and voted. McCain needed her at his campaign rallies to bring in the crowds. She is loved by millions, not the thousands of trolls that watch your garbage. You and the rest of the insignificant media are irrelevant.
McCain needs Palin to endorse his membership into the new social sub-current that includes the tea party activists and many other frustrated conservatives. It seems that starting with the presidential campaign McCain has been angling for "street cred" among the more conservative of the party. His history as a compromising moderate has become unfashionable and he may think that Palin holds the key to being reinvented as a new Republican hero. My opinion is that the fervor will be short-lived with the more intellectual and strategically minded Republicans gaining more standing over time. I really miss the old John McCain who seemed to stand for common sense first and political maneuvering second. There was a time when he spoke with a passion and intensity similar to president Obama. I think McCain is a good example of what the Washington environment can do to an exceptional man and an example of why there should be mandatory term limits for senators.
Jack, I feel sorry for John McCain, from war hero to making a deal with the devil to try to stay in power. Isn't it bad enough that John brought Sarah into the light now she is helping him to fade into the darkness. Good Luck John McCain but I wish you would leave with your dignity in tact.
John lost his balance long back and being a stubborn old guy and being a member of GOP, refuses to acknowledge his mistake. To prove his point he will stick to his gun and be defeated once more. Having adopted an approach of "NO" for anything that president proposes, it is no surprise that he fades in to oblivion soon.
Feel sorry for the guy though!
What can she do for him? Hopefully make him a loser a November.
She can't do much now, because simple math multiplication rule. John is already multiplied by zero because of Palin.
Shekhar
It is very sad to watch a distinguished and accomplished man call upon a non-thinking, non-responsible and non-coherent quitter for help.
How very very sad.
Jack,
The folks who love Sarah Palin are the very ones that are about to put the screws to John McCain. She'll probably go into Arizona, make a few outrageous, over-the-top comments and McCain will be home free. Sarah knows just what to say to get them fired up. It's about form over substance. It's an amazing think to watch. It's also frightening.
She could help him find a nice retirement home in Alaska, perhaps with a view of Russia......
She can be his scapegoat for losing this election.
Oh wait....she's already done that for him.
Nevermind....
I'm surprised that she is doing anything for someone else since she's proven to be an "It's only and all about me" person.
McCain is a desperate , demented 74- year-old who does not know how to exit the stage gracefully. Now he has to be humiliated and dragged off the stage, drooling...
He has become a problem for the country, not just Arizona.
She can do the same thing now that she did as his VP running mate....GIVE the election to his opponent! JD Hayworth is a shoo in:)
John McCain needs the far right to vote for him and Palin is their idol. When really she quit being a governor to sell out. Now she is getting rich off all the teabagers and the far right conservatives. I don't think she really can do anything for McCain but its another way for her to sell more books and be in the news.
Nothing, dig him deeper in the ground like she did for Presidental elections.
mccain had better not run again, we need a fresh face in for the repubs. but sara palin and joe the plumber need to do nothing but thank mccain for the publicity and "celebrity status" that they now have, without him, they would be a nobody. but come on mccain, its time to hang it up buddy.
She probably wants to return the favor. I am sure that she pushed herself into helping him. Since she is now on TV I am sure that he did not need her to tell people that she wanted to help but he turned his back on her and started revealing what actually happened when she was running with him for VP. Mr. McCain does not need bad publicity at this point in his illustrious career.
That question is about as loaded as Dick Cheney's hunting rifle. What can Sarah Palin do for John McCain in the coming election? I just can't wait to find out. Because if John isn't reelected with Sarah's assistance, what hope would she have "if" she decides to run for office again? And would John then be willing to return the favor? Either way, it promises to be entertaining.
Hopefully, she can guarantee me that he will never step foot in a political office again. When you are the leader on Capital Hill of "cry baby cry" and "no, no, no," you should be were you belong. In your crib with your bib and bottle.
How can a politician go........McCain you're making a big mistake..Who pushed you to do it..too bad.
Maybe she can show him where Russia is
Sarah Palin is a very polarizing person who can guarantee John McCain's defeat. People will come out to vote against him just because of her.
She can convince rightwing, fanatical nut-jobs that he is conservative enough for them to vote for. He's proving that he learned nothing from the presidential election by trying the same idiotic strategy again.
By the way, it's lightning rod.
Wallingford, CT
What hasn't she done yet? Completely removed McCain from public service. This will be her next achievement.
Greg
New York
Sarah Palin what can I say. Loser,quiter and not always truthfull. Good luck John
Sarah Palin can take McCain completely out of politics, that's what she can dp! Yes, tons of people will come out to see her folksy style, but those people in the crowd applauding her are not bright. Just like Palin.
They are extremists, they are violent, and they do not make up (thank goodness) a true majority of Americans or Arizonans. Therefore, McCain is over. People connect him to Palin, and that is a bad thing.
Maybe it's good for drawing a crowd, but not for actually turning out intelligent, thoughtful, voters.
McCain is getting long in the tooth, anyway. We are so lucky that he didn't get elected. Seeing Palin with him again will remind people what a bullet we've dodged.
The only thing she can do for McCain is ensure that he neither gets through the Republican primary nor gets reelected to the Senate.
Why is he running? He is old enough to retire, and any monkey can follow the party line. He said he could lead the country when he was running for president, but now far-right people like James DeMint have been leading the party and leading John McCain.
McCain is desperate and would be happy to get some of Palin's followers votes.
She can and will do what she did for him in the Presidental Elections, she not only showed how illiterate she was but it also showed how stupid and desperate McCain was by choosing Palin......he failed to check out how many Brain Cells Palin had.......she not only is a lighting rod for the Republican Party she is no better than Osama Bin Laden......putting the Cross Hairs on the names of the Democrats that voted for Health Care and telling them to Reload is inexcuseable and should be made to take that off her Web page......if we the average American had done that the FBI would be all over us.......She is using a subliminal message here and the only message I wish the American people and media would send her is to shut up and go back to Alaska and cook her Moose
Not a darn thing! Why would anyone care about anything she might think or say? It seems ludicrous she still has any kind of voice in any political or social dialogue.
what she did for him in the primary
I favor the President,of the U.S. I hope that Mc Cain losses the election. He is a whinner after he lost the last election.
I had tremendous respect for the "Maverick" John McCain. He once had the ability and courage to stand up to the extremists on both sides of isle. Independents like myself always found him to be a voice of reason in the mess that is Washington. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end. Senator McCain in your attempt to move farther to the right to gain re-election just be careful of what you wish for. They just might not like as much as we did!
Jack,
The folks who love Sarah Palin are the very ones that are about to put the screws to John McCain. She'll probably go into Arizona, make a few outrageous, over-the-top comments and McCain will be home free. Sarah knows just what to say to get them fired up. It's about form over substance. It's an amazing thing to watch. It's also frightening.
What can she do for anyone aside from changing diapers? And McCain's old, but I don't think he needs that from her yet.
Sadly this is proof that wealthy politicians have no idea when they are being shown the door out. Power and money will make them say and do anything to stay in the club, even change parties. Do you suppose after all those years John McCain really disliked and disrespected Teddy Kennedy? How does McCain look himself in the mirror after all the things he has said and done to portray Kennedy and his legacy of health reform as evil.The higher up the politician gets the less soul they usually have.
What can Palin do, she can round up some wingnuts because she is sincere, uneducated but she believes her stuff. Palin can try and bring her fans to him and drive off every moderate or independent who ever voted for McCain. He gets what he deserves.
You make it sound as though McCain would have won the presidency if he had not picked Palin to be his running mate. You seem to forget that his selection of Palin was a desperation move resulting from his deteriorating national poll numbers. It only made the situation worse. This time it is again a sign of desperation, but perhaps it will prove more successful in a senatorial race in a conservative state.
Desperate people do desperate things.
I think Sarah Palin is going to make matters worse than better for John McCain. It looks like the same desperate act he pulled when running for President and this will only make people go with someone else. People are tired of these long-term senators who have been in office since who knows when. It's a new time and a new generation who wants to see new faces with new ideas.
Sarah has already done all she can do John McCain, which was mostly to destroy any credibility he may have had. I liked John McCain before she came along, then I realized the man is not all there. John needs to run away from this woman and retire while he still have some respect. Oh ya, and thanks very much John for bringing this woman into the limelight. Pease tell us how to make her go away since you are the one who made her.
She can stir more people into a frenzy over the health reform. Perhaps she can entice someone to take their guns to the streets and perhaps shoot some of the people that voted for the bill, then maybe she can take down some of us who voted for Obama. I would like to find out why if ,she is so conservative , she is trying to make all this money. Surely she is not greedy like all of her friends at fox.
Nothing, she's done enough damage already!!!!
John McCain doesn't need Sarah Palin right now. What he needs is his mother to give him a good spanking for acting like a child when promising no further cooperation for the rest of the year. Arizona elected the man to be a Senator, not a spoiled brat! Grow up, John!
Talk about a death nail in the coffin – she can make him go away – retire for good.
She can only continue to make McCain look like doddery bumbling old fool. It was pitiful to watch him with his senile smile standing behind the ranting Palin today. McCain should do what McArthur said good soldiers do,quietly fade away.
Jack I don't know what Palin can do for Mc Cain besides hurt him , but I do know he looked like a pathetic , embarrassed old man standing next to her , with a very put on smile. .Like he didn't want to be there.
I had to turn CNN off Jack , I could not take her or him anymore.
It's over for Mc Cain .
John
Asheboro, N.C.
She can help him in his bid to run for Alaska Governor, after he loses his U.S. Senate seat.
Caribou Barbie.......That's the best description I've heard of her yet.
What can Sarah Palin do for McCain by her support?
Ensure that that clown doesn't get relected again.
This country is tired of Washington theatrics. And guess what? We're all voting again!
Larry
Cincinnati, OH
I'm sorry,,but Gee, I'm very dissapointed oof McCain.
Palin will help further McCain's inevitable decline as a politician. He seems half-crazy now, and her race-baiting, ignorant, child-like, small, simplistic view of America, combined with his angry, unstable, creepy old guy persona will ensure his future irrelevance.
It's simple. McCain is being accused of not being Republican enough, and Sarah Palin is one of the Republicans' most beloved. By stumping for McCain (again), she can try to convince the base that he's just as conservative as she is. Of course, if that doesn't work, then I suppose the only thing left for Sarah Palin to do for John McCain is make him a bowl of her famous moose chili. It might not get him what he wants, but he just might have to learn to take what he can get.
North Beach, MD
What can she do? She can go back to Alaska with the Former First Dude and be a good mother to her children, including the special needs child who needs a mother, not a traveling huckster-for-hire!
Gosh darn it, I have to assume that McCain needs to appeal to the extremist Republican base and needs Palin to show that he's one of them.
Hate to see the "Maverick" in such a desparate move. I truly believe that McCain is a decent man, but the low point has been watching him move to the far right during the recent Healthcare reform debate. Was hoping that he would stand up to the party instead of just being a Republican lemming.
Why would any of us care anymore. These two people are no longer relevant to our society.
This dead-beat Mother that should be home taking care of her special needs baby could ensure McCain never gets re-elected for anything. He is certainly proving he didn't learn anything from the experience. Palin's desperate, narcissistic need to stay in the spotlight at all costs is going to cost him big-time and probably put the final nail in his career coffin.
Provide him with an even better 'stimulus package' than the one they passed already!
Because he's being out-lunaticked on the far right, Jack. He no longer has the support of GOP moderates (if any remain), so he has to keep the crazies in the primary. Chris, Shelby, NC
Hopefully, same as what she did as a VP candidate.
It's a little mutual back scratching. She can give him a little cred that he lacks with the tea party cabal and the far right and he can neutralize some of the negative impressions being tossed around by his former campaign.
For future reference, she will be able to assert that the head guy thought she had substance because he asked her to help him on two separate occasions....and my money is on McCain making a statement discounting the negative remarks about her made by his campaign.
She will get him an audience. I watched him stammering and stumbling thru a speech to-day and it was sad to watch. If Sarah Palin had not been there, it would not have made the news. Now he is trying to become a Tea Party'er. I am certain his Senate campaign is similar to his Presidential run, half empty and tired..She will bring her crowd, but I'm not sure it will bring any votes....
Having lost him the office he desired, she can now lose him the one he currently has.
I am sure McCain will lost his election that to be done! How dumb is McCain let Palin came to him?! He is done.
She can re-energize the tarantula-wrangling far right types to get back to the polls to cast their vote against the Obama administration and democratic-majority congress (oh, and raise a few more dollars for him). But, that's about it.
She can ensure he loses his seat. She can put the final stamp on it. Since Sarah Palin came into the limelight, she has divided this country. Such a shame!! This move shows that John McCain is very desperate indeed!!!!
Sarah Palin is a carnival curiosity and can still draw a crowd to a political rally. John McCain has lost whatever charm he may have had.
McCain is being challenged from the right, and that far right, Palin is a life-saver rather than an anchor...
she can throw him a life raft. She is the outdoorsy type
Jack: The question is: How much can John McCain afford? Every breath she takes costs $100K.
Boston, MA
Jack, yes, history will record McCain as the one who picked a ditz to be only a old man’s heartbeat away from writing the nuclear launch codes on the palms of her hands, but one more chance to see Palin, with her wacky Vaudeville illogical logic and antics, together again with McCain will be like seeing George Burns and Gracie Allen back together again running on the “Surprise Party” ticket. Say goodnight Sarah!
Nothing, Sarah Palin was a flash in the pan for the Republican party. After Joe the Plumber and the lipstick on a pig shenanagans died off, all that was left was to bash the President for reading off a teleprompter, which she had me sold on... until I found out that she prefers reading off her hand. She is a joke!
nothing we can figure out this country dont want senile old men as senators or congressnen propped up with a stick only to vote for special interests,kickbacks and bribes its time for him to move to his local nursing home. grand jtn co.
jack,
It is pretty clear, $arah is a phony $arah is a fake $arah is the evil spawn Of John McCain's Mistake
As the darling of the ultra-right, she can draw some support away from McCain's ultra-right primary challenger. That is actually a smart move by McCain in the current political climate.
She can make John look more intelligent.
Dear Jack,
I suppose she could do still more damage. John McCain, as you note suffered a serious lapse of judgement. Seems it is a recurrent problem with him. He did have a serious chance. He once had standards and a vision that was interesting. He no longer does. He whines and stomps his feet and threatens no cooperation for the rest of the year. Why should he not go with Sarah? The two of them are on a route marked with inflammatory speeches and rhetoric of the worst standard!
Mary Koral
Sarah can make John appear less crazy.
Wait, perhaps it's the other way around, John can make Sarah appear less crazy.
To tell you the truth I don't know what either can do for the other.
Sarah has proven over and over again that she is completely devoid of any knowledge on any subject. She is simply boring and appeals frankly to her own level which is pretty low. She can only sink McCain.Associate with her at your own political and intelectual risk.
Chicago,ILL
She can make him some TEA....
How about a hug and a kiss of political death?
Further expose his lack of judgement and principled decision making.
Gee, Cafferty, it's not like you add any irresponsible comments ("Caribou Barbie") - that's really not her name, you know. Gov Palin really is an intelligent and very well liked woman. And, excuse me, but the comment about "government death panels"? Well, the book has not been closed on that yet, has it?
If he is drowning, she'll seal the deal
Not get him re-elected back to the Senate.
Having her endorsement is a double edged sword. She will rile up the extreme right base of the conservative party but alienate the centrist independent voters. I doubt he will lose the senatorial race.
I've never understood McCain's attraction to Palin but I'm starting to think it may be hormonal. I watched his face during her inane speech and he didn't seem to realize how ridiculous she sounded. I think it's possible that she could send him off to enjoy his retirement...
McCain is ready to retire but too much a fighter to admit it, he knows he loses again with her in his corner win-win for all
help him lose the election. 🙂
This is very strange. Sarah Palin absolutely destroyed McCains chances to win that election and now he wants her on the same stage as him again?
The Republican party continues to amaze me.
Should could start with saying she's very sorry she torpedoed his campaign.
Nuthin but good if you can't stand the rightwing psychos
Ease him into forced retirement.
Jose M. Garcia
Miami, Florida
She can charge $10,000 per pic with John Mc Cain and gin up her reality TV viewers.
McCain lost the election because the economy tanked. Sarah Palin helped to reinvigorate the Republican ticket as evidencided by the jump in polls after the convention. To dismiss her value to any republican campaign would be bowing to the Dems and media's distorted view of the current state of politics and the distorted view of what the majority now hold to be important.
Like her or not, Sarahs personality balances Senator McCains.
I am an Alaskan who has never voted for a Palin ticket, but her small government / fiscal conservative message resonates with both parties. She should keep it short and sweet and stick to the basics while stumping for McCain and show that she can be a team player.
It's pretty simple what she can do. She carries huge appeal with tea partiers and any other movement conservatives – people McCain will need if he is to fend off his challenger in the Republican primary.
He has really lost his mind this time – she can't do anything for him – dream on Sen. McCain. You will be retiring in 2010!
I don't think she can do much other than pitch for him. If she strays from the "vote for McCain" pamphlet, McCain is at risk for more needless controversy.
His choice of Sarah utterly destroyed his slim chance of being President. Maybe, he was lucky with that choice. 🙂 But, now he appears to be pandering to the extreme right wing of his party and he will lose moderate Republicans and independent voters. He still doesn't get it! In the words of John Boehner, No, what he said was just too tasteless!
Riverton, WY
He's being attacked for not being conservative enough. Most of us thought McCain 3.0 was too conservative, but OK. So now he's turned to the Tea Party's spokesmodel to shore up his conservative bona fides. It's a bad idea. McCain campaigned in part on experience but doesn't seem to be able to point to that now. And nobody wants to hear his bi-partisan story so...hail Mary time. The sad part is that McCain 2.0 was a great guy and excellent public servant. Too bad the deranged Tea Party types are driving him to this desperate extreme. It's going to be a sad punctuation to a good career.
Easy – get him thrown out of the senate in the next election. Why not complete the destruction of the mans political career?
California
She can help get him kicked out of office! Maybe she'll let him know how much more money he'll make by sucking up even more to the conservatives, and etting his own show by being nothing more than a blowhole. Way to go Sarah.... but oh how I wish you'd just go away.
Cost McCain his senate seat to finally send the 'old man' to retire once more .
She's gonna help in getting him replaced. Good riddance to bad rubbish! Shane tempe, AZ
Supply a giant Alaskan bear hug...of political death. Dallas TX
After watching Ms. Pallin with her folksy, off-the-cuff, delivery where she praised the Tea Party to the cheers of a thin-sounding "crowd", I'd say that there's very little she can do for McCain except further embarrass him. McCain was, at one time, a Republican I respected (I am firmly Democratic/Progressive); no longer, and she is the biggest reason why. By having Palin campaign for him, it confirms that McCain has succumbed to the Tea Party and its irrational rant against anything and anyone different from its narrow ideology.
Decatur, GA
Official Answer: Nothing.
What can she do for him?
Send him into a peaceful golden retirement which he so richly deserves..
Putting aside my political leanings, Sen. McCain has had a fine and distinguished career albeit with some failings as of late (but who of us shall cast the first stone.) For a politician in this present day reality (money, money, money!), he has been unusually decent, respectful and reasonable. Not to mention that he goes out as a brave patriot and good father (raised his daughter to be a thinker and independent.)
John in Sherman Oaks, CA
She could provide McCain with balance. They are equal . They are the same. They are both so out of touch with Americans. Out of touch with what is right and wrong. They both aspire to stardom but lack the real qualities of leadership. She may have been fine for Alaska and he for Vietnam, but neither for the lower 49th.
Hi Jack...
I agree with you, I don't think Sarah can help or hurt McCain any more than she all ready has. But her helping McCain proves that she is going to stay loyal to the people that have, or (Will) help her as she climbs the political ladder. And In politics back scratching is very important, if Sarah ignored McCain in his obvious hour of need, it would have been political suicide.
She could go on television and say: "I'm really sorry everyone, John sat me down and explained it all to me very clearly using small words so that I didn't miss anything, and I have agreed to shut up... for him." I think that would win him some points. If not in his district then certainly nationally.
Sarah Palin is a joke just like the tea baggers; A bunch of lunatic fringe secessionists.
Unfortunately, in the bizarro world that is the 'Red State Republican Primary,' Sarah Palin's endorsement carries weight – much like William Shattner's endorsement carries weight with the throngs of 'Trekkies' out there. John McCain's seat will be won or lost by how well he appeals to the conservative base, a base he has run away from most of his career but to whom he now finds himself utterly beholden. And so Sarah's seal of approval will make or break him in a state like Arizona. God help us.
Keep her mouth shut!
Reggie
Dolton IL,
I listened to her speech in which she often characterized McCain as "the maverick". Now, if I were Hayworth, who is challenging McCain for the Republican nomination, I would say the following in my stump speeches:
Voters, Senator McCain challenged Barack Obama for the presidency styling himself as "the maverick" and Americans overwhelming rejected that notion. Why on earth does the Senator believe it will work this time.
In asking Palin to endorse him, McCain continues to demonstrate a serious lack of judgement.
He can use her as his excuse for losing his seat in the Senate. She likes bridges to know where.
It's seems obvious to me: she can help McCain appeal to all the crazies who are thinking about voting for J.D. Hayworth. Hopefully that won't work, and Hayworth will win the primary and go on to lose in the general.
Well, Jack given that CNN just played an entire campaign rally for a US senate seat, I guess you answered your own question. My question is, "Why don't you guys get back to covering NEWS?"
Jack,
Well, since she brought McCain attention in 2008, I guess he figured she could do it again. It looks like Mccain got what he wanted. Attention.
McCain knows his days are numbered and would like to once again make a scape-Carribou out of Sarah Palin.
But Jack, you know they don't go in for the "hopey changey thing." Why would he do something different?
Or maybe it's Alzheimers...
Brook
Oakland CA
What can she do? Completely and utterly destroy his career in politics, like she has done for herself.
He can become her sidekick as they fly around Alaska with their TV cameras talking about the wonderful wildlife as they shoot it to death.
Sarah Palin will speak anywhere, anytime, if it means publicity and money.
John McCain is as desperate today as he was when he picked her as his running mate for vice-president.
If people of character and intelligence see this, he will not be in congress much longer.
Once she opens her mouth in Arizona he will be convinced once and for all what a mistake she was for him and the Republican Party. More than any she will be responsible for the coming split in the GOP which can only hurt them in the long run.
She might be able to split the crazy vote.
Ed
Texas
Sarah Palin will radicalize John McCain into a more far right wing canidate. She holds a lot of political clout and has the ability to sway many honest, good people.
What can she do to him ? A lot .
She can wake up for him the "still available" Palin supporters.
She can also sway from him many important Mccain votes. So I think she can help him to loose more than gain .. Once again its an opportunity for defeat.
The use of Sarah Palin in any political way speaks to the lack of intelligence of those using or listening to her. If she were to give me directions on how to get to California from Alaska, I would do a 180 and go the opposite way. If she was giving a speech on how to get more than her due 15 minutes of fame, or beauty tips to women, then it would probably be worth listening to, you betcha!
Palin will help any remaining respect that voters have for him go right down the toilet. He should keep her far way from his campaign. She's a joke, a TV personality, not someone to be taken seriously. I wonder if she'll require a fee for appearing on his behalf.
From Bowie, Md. 20715
Ever since McCain has met Palin his judgement has gone out the window. I used to really respect him. But now I feel sorry for him.
I do hope he wins his primary over that right wing nut case but McCain needs to leave Palin behind she is bad news. She is like a bad luck charm. Her brand of politics is detrimental to McCain and this country.
Sarah Palin can give him a spot on her new reality show and more donations to his campaign since she is making millions now!
There is no limit to how much one can get messed up...she is capable of destroying him completely. Simply by choosing her, McCain created serious doubts in the minds of the people about his intelligence, if he keeps clinging to her, even god can't save him.
You would think that McCain would have learned his lesson the first time around. Palin is poison. If he thinks she's going to be helpful, he's more delusional than he was in 2008.
Orlando Florida
Sarah Palin can throw the final spade of earth on the grave of his career in politics.
she can help him like she did in2008. bad move
Republican Primary - Palin can bring some votes to McCain from extreme right of Party.
General Election – Palin wil, in the net, drive votes away from McCain.
Some people just can't shoot themselves in the foot enough. Shoot. Reload. Shoot again. The man must be a public service masochist; he's a glutton for political punishment. What can "Caribou Barbie" 🙂 do for him that she hasn't done already? She can cost him his seat in the senate for one. She can make him out to be a complete fool instead of just a regular fool when he picked her as a running mate the first time and then failed to learn from the school of hard knocks. Is there some form of dementia coursing through the republican party that makes them all want to commit political suicide as fast as they can like a herd of crack-addled lemmings? God, it's good to be a democrat.
McCain is using Palin to attract votes from the fringe far right. While many of these folks dismiss him for being "too moderate", they idolize Sarah Palin and hang on every false word that emanates from her mouth.
Cafferty, you old Progressive/Communist you. Sarah Palin is the only bright thing about John (RINO) McCains miserable campaign for president. She constantly out drew him at rallies and if she hadn't had to fight his staff as well as the Democrats/Communists, she might well have pulled his bid President out of the dung heap of history.
I would not vote for her for office though. She as aligned herself with McCain once again and with his "progressive/communist" views on many things. By association with McCain, she has ruined herself with the rest of us Conservatives.
There are other apples on the tree. The Governor of Louisiana for instance...
Sarah Palin can help John McCain win the nomination in Arizona by giving him a conservative makeover. Only she could say something like this: "I know some of you are thinkin' that John McCain is too moderate and rational, seems like a decent guy, but ya' know what? Once ya' get to know him like I have, you'll find out that when he even thinks about Obama and his socialist agenda he gets crazier than an outhouse rat, rantin' and foamin' at the mouth. Believe it or not, he is really one of us!"
Well Jack- she being the least educated vice president nominee in history definitely did her damage while she was in the lime light,specially after they basically told her to put a sock in it on the trail so she wouldn't get into those Katie Couric situations, but as we all know she didn't. Mccain needs all the help he can get but after seeing Palin's speech I think they should consider going back to the telepromter.
Seems McCain would have taken the lesson from the whipping he got in the general election from having Palin on the ticket.
Maybe he thinks she can identify with(or fool) the "Zonies".
Maybe she will do what needs to be done, Get McCain out of office, once and for all! I am tired of hearing the same same from him!
Retire from politics.
Mountain Home ID
Well, she could start a civil war with her hateful "them and us" rhetoric. She wasn't able to achieve that during the 2008 campaign, try as she did.
Palin is a big joke! She and McCain are against the average american. McCain has had many years in Congress, why hasn't he offered a health care plan? If McCain gets wins the election it won't be anything that Palin did for him. McCain has been in there too long and needs to go.
Doesn't the continuing John McCain/Sarah Palin saga remind you of that old Hollywood movie, "A Star is Born?" The question is when will McCain, a la James Mason, walk into the Pacific Ocean and sink beneath the waves.
(It must gall the man to have this money-and-fame-mad woman he pulled from nowhere upstage him in the name of saving his campaign.)
Hope this spells defeat your old ass to out of touch to invite her you have to share the same feelings she has
McCain picked a right-wing dingbat over his own better judgment – putting his own interests ahead of the country's. And by doing so he gave voice to all the right-wingy ding-bats out there. Of course, the right-wingy ding-bats hate McCain – that's why he needed Palin in the first place. Now there's an actual right-wing dingbat running against him and he's trying to get them back to his side. Stupidest thing in the world. He'll get a 1/2 the ding-bat vote – 'cause they love Palin, and none of the non-ding-bat vote – 'cause they hate Palin.
It time the old man is put out to pasture and he can take this crazy women with him. He didn't need to have someone who couldn't finish her term support him. She is Bad to the bone.
McCain has accessorized his fall wardrobe with an Alaskan Birthbagger again? That's SO 2 years ago.
MJ Parlier
Chicago, IL
The poster girl for decency can serve as an instant reminder that there are still some people in politics who aren't 1960s radicals trying to crush our country from within. That type of image standing next to a war hero could work wonders among patriots.
My God, how low can you go...it's so sad watching someone who I respected so much only 2 years ago, a real hero and true conservative grow old, almost senile and clueless before my very eyes, if this is what it takes to stay in the Senate, he should just claim victory now and retire
What can sarah Palin do for john mc Cain that she has not already
Done
Answer is Bury him!!
She will insure that McCain's sanity remains questionable.
The same thing she did foe him before, NOTHING. McCain is a "Has Been".
Let's all wise up. Neither one of these two individuals care anything about the American people. It is all about them. Ms. Palin is now a celebrity. If she cared about people she would not have quit her job as govenor of Alaska. I think what happened in Alaska stayed in Alaska – their are probably many skeletons in the closet there regarding Ms. Pallin.
I can think of a couple of things, Jack. And I know that McCain is
thinking of at least one.
Joey.
She draws a crowd Jack! and now with her own TV show and her Foxnews exposure, McCain is seeing an opportunity to attrack some of the far right wingnut vote (which he didn't have in the past). If, as you say, it's a tight race, I'd say it's a good political move.
I know exactly what she can do for Mr. McCain now. She can help him into the tour business!
Finish him off, politically!
I guess today will be the first day that he can begin to plan his retirement .
Good by John !!
Sarah can use the same good luck that she brought to his Presidential campaign. McCain sold his soul to the far right and is an empty shell of the man he used to be. He used to be honorable, he now lies about everything he opposes. he used to be smart, he now sounds like Sarah Palin. He used to reach across the aisle, he now says no cooperation for the rest of the term. All Sarah Palin will do is reinforce his new image among those who already hold his soul, even though hard core conservatives are not convinced either.
I just became a US citizen in February 2010, I am an Independent, I live in Phoenix, I was planning to give my very first vote to McCain. Allowing Sarah Palin to campaign for him, makes me believe he is not worthy of my precious first vote.
I can only wonder how much the McCain campaign paid Palin for her appearance today. She doesn't appear to have any aspirations higher than fame and making a lot of money.
Sarah can do one last thing for John. She can write a some straight-talk on her hand saying, "Sorry John, it's all over".
The fact that he would ask her to help him get elected, once again tells you how out of touch he is with America. She was a joke running for vice President and it reflected badly on his judgment then, as it does now.
This is THE ultimate defitition of insanity, Jack. John McCain is doing
the exact dumb thing over again and expecting a different re-sult.
Yeah ! Heckle and Jeckle make a better team than them . Dumb and Dumber . I should be an age limit or a term limit , this is ridiculous.
She makes it crystal clear that he had poor judgement then and has poor judgement now. It also means he must be desperate again.
Palin can make him a Facebook friend with Joe the Plumber.
I doubt very much that you can say it on the air. Or even off the air.
She can make him sing a few octaves higher..she took everything else he had...she may as well have his jewels...
She can drive the final nail in his coffin. She drove all the other ones in during the campaign, why should he change carpenters now?
Sarah Palin is the darling of the Tea-baggers who are very influential in most Republican state primaries. By campaining for McKane, she may be able to influence some primary voters to disregard McKane's past liberal record on issues such as immigration , election reform and global warming.. And this could be crucial in a close election.
She can do nothing but hurt McCain again. She is unqualified for any position other then a person to sit in a tower and look out at Russia, oh no she can see them from her backyard.
"flatter his ego" is what she does for him.
She can get him an early retirement and get a moderately conservative Democrat elected in his place.
Jack,
I just don't get the logic in this. Doesn't John McCain know that it DIDN'T WORK THE FIRST TIME????!!!!
Troy
Illinois
Sarah's call to reload, showing gun-sights on a map may pass as metaphor but this gunslinging whore knows exactly what she's doing. Anyone foolish enough to fall for her charms (McCain) is a dangerous pawn of an evil and calculating mind.
Conservatives support Palin Jack. She's more than qualified to hold office and she can help McCain's reelection campaign.
Perhaps you should ask what Obama did for Martha Coakley..
She can again cause ultra liberal/progressive propagandists to have another ugly reflex reaction while pretending to be a news organization.
Jack – The best thing the Palin woman could do for McCain is to disappear and stay out of sight until November 2010 ha come and gone.
Right on Jack, she fuels the worst radicals in both parties and has NO place in American politics. Her help should put an end to John McCain's political career.
She can help NOT get him re-elected!!!!
She can give him an excuse for losing, just like in the Presidential election. Well played, Senator.
she has took him down once,he liked it so much he ask her to do it again, the difference in her now is she is more poplar and still dumb
uhmm... President of the tea party, I guess.
I think Sarah Palin should crawl back under the rock she crawled out of. I use to think a lot of McCain until he picked her. He lost a lot of votes when he picked her to run with. She is dangerous and has caused a lot of negative bickering in America. Her 15 minutes of fame are over I hope.
Having Palinstein helping McCain is only rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!
She will only sink any chance he has now... She is radioactive and toxic as I see her
I liked John McCain in the day and now I wish he would just fade away, just like old soldiers do.
maybe she can give him a pair of binoculars and he can become a Russia expert for when he visits her in Alaska during his retirement
Sarah Palin can offer John McCain a house with a view to Russia. But the house can not be too far from Canada, remember, they still need to feed off of Canada's Health Care system like Sarah Palin did in the past.
Considering the getup Palin is wearing today, it might be inappropriate to speculate about what she "might do for McCain."
Jack I'll tell you what she can do to help Mccain, she can help him fail in his bid for re-election. Palin is nothing more than a tv personality and most people know this.
What can Palin do for Mc Cain not a damm thing
What Sarah P. can do for John McCain is continue to help him destroy a Political Party that has done nothing for the American people who struggle everyday to make ends meet. Thank you Mrs. Palin for all that you have done for the Republican party. Keep up the Good work.
There’s nothing she can do for his Senate campaign that she didn’t do for his Presidential campaign except maybe do it all over again. After she finishes, he will have time to get an accurate count on the houses his wife owns.
Sarah Palin can help John McCain in his reelection contest. If he had not put a muzzle on her during the presidential contest he would now be our President. She is well qualified to hold public office.
Jack I was a resident of Az for 40 years. In that time I can't tell what he did for the state. Asking Palin for help is like using duct tape to save a sinking boat, it doesn't help. If this is the best Mccain can do he's in real trouble, the end is near for Big Bad John.
Jack,
You ask what Sarah Palin could do that she hasn't already done for McCain. She could hammer the final nail in his coffin.
Sarah Palin symbolises the dangerous ignorance that has come to characterise the right in American politics. That McCain still considers her an asset after her bungling in 2008 only validates the point i have made.
In my opinion, Palin did not single handedly lose the presidency for McCain. He was more than capable of that doing that himself, between those awful advertisements, his tempermental behavior, suspending his campaign to rescue the economy (which he obviously knew nothing about), out of touch and out of step with Americans of all ages and his irrational choice of a vice president (that was the cherry on top).
I believe in my heart that he would have made a terrible president, the stress alone may have proven too much for him and to think that he would choose a character like Sarah Palin as the person to step-in and run our country is downright irresponsible and frightening. This women was incapable of answering questions in an interviews and we were to believe that she was ready for prime time?
Sarah Palin's loyalty is too Sarah Palin, so what she is suppose to do for John McCain is truly baffling, I don't know she already hit him over the head, perhaps she is going to dig the hole.
Maybe McCain needs the connection to a reality show ... titled McCain's houses in Arizona.
I'll tell you what she can do for him, she can send him on a permanent AZ vacation and off into the sunset of retirement. McCain did this to himself, had he chose Pawlenty or even Lieberman, he still would have lost but that would have at least spared us all from ever even knowing "that one" from Alaska.
jack – Never herard you say anything so right on. I used to be a big McCain supporter. Now I see him with Palin and I wonder what I was thinking. I guess there's not much more she can do in the eyes of indepnedents like myself that she hasn't already done. She's already done it and he seems increasingly un-redeemable. I know he's a great American hero but that's about all I give him credit for nowadays...
The half governor, failed VP candidate and reality show "star" can remind Americans that McCain has the world's worse Judgment as evidenced by his selection of her and that he is desperate and/or senile.
She's gonna help him out... right OUT of office.
She can invite him over for tea this time.
She should just go away, she has done our country (including John McCain enough harm as it is.
Hi thereJack
Well I guess it's really true ,some people never learn.I'm still holding a grudge for him releasing her on us.Thanks John UGG!
Amento your comment .
Julia
PS Have a Great weekend!
Now if any of our congressmen are hurt by these tea-baggers, McCain will be irreparably tied to that despicable violence.
There sure is a lot of hate in this bog. But, when you begin a conversation with a hate filled fallacy you are sure to get similar responses.
Give him a guest spot on her new TV show... as a human leopard who can change his spots.
Jack,
You should not be asking questions that could lead to X rated answers.
My, my, my, you silly old man, you are so out of touch! If it hadn't been for Sarah Palin McCain would of received 1/3 of the votes he received!
Did you forget they were ahead at one time and the only reason they lost was because of the economy emergency? Get your facts right, Mr Cafferty you always seem to go against women!
As a long time Republican and supporter of McCain, until the rise of Obama,I feel sad to see the demise of a guy who used to believe that his viewpoint was more important than his re-election.Even if he wins AZ, he is just a shadow of his former willingness to stand "far from the madding crowd".Palin is just an empty symbol of his lost stature.Goodnight, sweet Prince...
Thats easy, She's a pro at "putting lipstick on a pig".
It's obvious that McCain has a hole in his head. At this point the only thing Palin can do for him is to plug the hole so that the little bit of sense he has left will stay up there!
If your 73 years old would you stand on stage with another
73 year old person? By the way where is Cindy?
Absolutely nothing Jack, they are both like rapid burning fireball, spewing hate doing nothing other than dividing the people of this great country leaving behind a bit poof of smoke to hide behind upon landing and no substance.
It appears Jack, that John McCain doesnot learn from his mistakes. That also tells me that maybe he should lose. However his apponent doesnot appear to be much better. Palin is a an idiot and most people can see that.
I don't think she's hurled him into the private sector yet, maybe then something will sink in. First time shame on you. Second time shame on me. Even Goober Pyle knew that.
Jack, I think you answered your own question in your commentary. 'Nuff said!
JH
Vancouver
Canada
NOTHING!!!!!!! Just more rehash of the same with "humor" on the pig!
Don't understand why he would want this crazy women to speak for him. She is still inciting violence and makes no apology.
How did you like the leather jacket she wore today Jack? Looks like a dressed up skin head to me.
OMG!!! You said it brother! Cafferty you are hit the nail on the head about Palin!
Well first of all she needs to stand to his left, so maybe she can hold up his little arm for him.
Jack I get paid a lot of money for comming up with good answers! I'll go clean out my desk....
I'm a Republican and I voted for McCain. I usually have alot to say, but this time you got me, Sir. No commento!
What canSarah Palin do for John McCain?
She might be a one woman "Death Panel" for his re -election bid!
Nothing – its all down hill including Palin. He can't take it that he lost the Presidential elections to Bush & OBama. Get over it and retire!
It's so simple Jack, given Palin's proclivity for stopping half way in her political endeavors, it means that she was only half finished with ruining him the last time!
She can cause him to lose ,which is her game plan.
Sarah Palin is a reminder that John McCain is NOT the maverick he might have once been. Now it is all about getting elected at all costs, including selling his soul. He will NEVER have my support again.
Hi Jack. As a person from ARIZONA I can say John will not get re-elected here. Palin will hurt his chances but there is more to it. We Arizonan's feel John has done very little if anything for our state over his entire career.
If this is the only way John McCain can smell Palin's perfume, Palin should tell him it's going to cost him a million bucks.
It appears McCain's senility is finally kicking in.
Mark fro Boston
We can only hope that she'll help him lose again.
She's confirming that what we hoped was temporary insanity is actually a permanent condition. Pretty girls often have that effect on old men.
Sarah
Denver, CO
She can't. Just a few months ago, Palin and McCain couldn't stop blaming each other for losing the Presidential race and now they're bosom (no pun intended) buddies? I don't think so. Palin's endorsement makes McCain look less than genuine. And as for her credibility- well, how to say it nicely- Sarah Palin is an idiot. She fills out the black leather jacket admirably, but John McCain would have been better served to have one of his fellow republican congressman introduce him. Heck, Nancy Pelosi would have made a more credible choice than Sara Palin!
I viewed Ms. Palin's address on the McCain campaign trail posted elsewhere on CNN with interest and bemusement as she chided the President on his personal style and methods.
Ms. Palin took 6 years and several institutions, as I recall, to finish her degree in communications which usually indicates that she was not able to graduate until she pulled her GPA up to a level that met the standards of the institution that she sought a degree from which is usually a 2.0; that or one that didn't have such a GPA requirement.
Given the information that has surfaced about Ms. Palin's qualifications in recent months from inside that very McCain/Palin team that she "so looked so forward to getting back together with", I find it a little 'much' that she feels that she feels compelled to use the platform she clearly did not earn nor understands how to use any better than someone who went to college "dumb and came out that way......"
She's got a nerve but then what Republican doesn't?
John, John surely you jest. Stay as far away as possible. This nut case is over the top and stirring up every right wing fanatic.
Ora in Mississippi, Sarah Palin can analiate his chances of ever being one of the Good Ole Boys ever again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Way to go Sarah!
I'm not sure what anyone can do for someone who tells the country he doesn't want to work anymore because he's having a snit fit over health care reform. Name a corporation that would hire someone who stated they had no intention of working. What exactly will he be running on?
Stubborn wilfullness??? I hope you don't mind if I just sit there and scowl for the next 3 years? Beats me what Palin will do for him. But then I've never understood what Palin would do for anyone.
Palin can help lower McCain into his grave and say "here lies a maverick that had no chance to win since I came on board." BTW she looked really great in that leather biker vest. I bet a few Hell's Angles would love having her riding on thier back seat!
With the platitudes we heard today, I guess Sarah Palin will bring upon McCain the ultimate humiliation and above all his retirement from the senate! Anyway, with his mumbling and confusion, he deserves to go back home and entertain his grand-children!
A very "lite dose" of euphoria!
some people never learn. why would anyone want to elect the guy. she lost it for him before. i hope she dose the same again.
Palin can name John McCain her vice president at the 2012 Reublican National Convention.
You're kidding, right? Haaaaa!
He and she could go down in flames. What would be better?
Sarah Palin will do what she always have done.....she will continue to show the world how dumb she is. She will continue to display her lack of professionalism & incompetence; she will offer John McCain a larger crowd of people who can't really be "listening" to what she is saying. I say this because if the people who are going to see her and find that what she has to say is relevant, what does that say about her audience????
Sarah Palin made money showing up for McCain. But that man has had his time in the senate and its time for new blood. He is out there right now cranking up hate for the health care bill and that reflects back on the President. If he keeps it up someone will get killed. If you feature him in his private run for office you should also feature the other candidate that is running. (Just to Be Fair).
Money should not be able to buy a seat to give McCain another chance to divide America.
kathy
She should quit if she wants McCain to win. Shes the kiss of death.
She can finish him off, not that he probably isn't already finished up!!!!
Sarah Palin has zero class, therefore, cannot help anyone win a respectable seat in the House or Senate.
Sarah, keep up the good work.
Win.
(That was an easy one, Jack.)
She can let him be her running mate when she runs for president?
Evidently Mccain not only have a bad judgment when it comes to running mates but if you get a taste of bad food, why sample it twice? One can only think that he expects to lose in November and he need her for another excuse. The proof is in the pudding. She will drag him down further like lead boots.
What we have here is a bogus hero who drop bombs on women and children and was caught. A man who dumped his first wife who waited for him to return only to have him leave her for a younger women with a ton of money. This old fool who did not know how the number of homes thathe own pick, Palin because she had only one thing to balance his ticket ,machismo.Only in America ,you got to love it.
Mr. Cafferty
I am a Canadian and in my circles I am considered a conservative. Sarah Palin's limited views on the world, outside the US and irresponsible campaign conduct just scares the hell out of me. Oh.... and if our socialst health care here in Canada is so evil, why did she or her parents use it?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemmed to repeat it!
George Santayana.
Remember those words, McCain!
He would have been smarter to have gotten a pretty Democrat than Mrs. Palin. He'd have gotten some of those disenchanted Republicans to return. Maybe.
Jack, Sarah Palin will give John McClain what he really needs. RETIREMENT!!!!
As a independent and as someone who considered voting for McCain before he brought that nut job Palin in on the ticket I agree completely that he should have a non-wackjob to help him in his campaign. I'd rather loose than associate myself with that high pitch fear mongering air head Sarah Palin.
She can endorse him wholeheartedly.
Call it revenge.
Jack,
Great question! Palin can not help a well respected man like John. If anything she will continue to tarnish this great elected leader. I am a Dem, but have great respect for John. In the past he could do no wrong. Always on the side of the people he now shows he is on the side of incompetance.
Sad day for the Rep. party the day John forgot who "He" was.
With any luck Palin will help McCain lose his Senate seat! And given her divisive nature this may not be such a remote possibility.
What Sarah Palin can do for McCain is hand his opponents the congessional seat on a platter, which they are in the process of doing. She can also get McCain some slippers and reading material because he is going to need it after his big loss in November. Sarah Palin is a jokey joke.
Well Jack, desperate people, commit desperate acts. McCain clearly is trying to hang on to a seat, that desperately needs new blood. The only problem I have with making that statement, is, JD Hayworth, IMO, is like bringing a vampire to a blood bank! That's one red-blooded bigot we can do without. I feel sorry for Arizonians, they deserve better than these two! As far as Ms. Palin goes, I think John will get a bump or two, but will it be enough to get him re-elected, time will tell. I guess if I were an Arizonian, I would try and determine the lesser of the two evils, and cast my vote accordingly. Good Luck, to my fellow Americans!
Sad to say it...but if our only choices are McCain and Hayworth in November, I'm hoping Palin does some good for McCain. He's the lesser of 2 evils. With Hayworth as the competition, I definitely don't think Palin's involvement can hurt McCain's chances. He may be completely out of touch with the people he supposedly represents, but Hayworth is a complete bigot and a crook and even more out of touch. One can only hope that an independent or moderate democrat jumps out of the woodwork and gives these two a run for their money.
Brian
Scottsdale, AZ
I feel you have failed to see the inteligance of a person you disagree with. To many people think the person on the other side of an issue is stupid but when you do that and you sir are guilty of it, you fail to see the extreem success of the other person. I disagree with the left but must acknowledge that they are not differences of intelligence but they are philosophical differences. Sarah Palin is one of the most successful woman in the world and far more successful than I am, How about you, can you match her success? Thanks Tom
Need you ask, If Sarah Palin is the best "Trump Card" that McCain could play, he should fold.
While Palin may appeal to a small number of fanatics; however, she will further the divide of the independent voters, or some of the Democrates that may have voted for McCain in the past.
Floyd W Masters, Salt Lake City, Utah
WOW! Isn't this just the height of irony Jack??!!? Palin & McCain back together again w/ Palin getting the top billing.......No I don't think she'll do anything for McCain, it shows how desperate he's becoming!! It makes him look worse than he already does. However, Sarah gets a black star for continuing to MILK the press for ANY chance to sell "The Palin Brand" to the public. She's a wily bitch isn't she?! I'll give her credit for knowing how to "work it" to the Nth degree!!! I'm sooooo embarrassed that we're being forced to call her an Alaskan...........
Kate Boehm
Cordova, AK