McCain Snubbed Palin On Campaign Bus

GQ:

Almost from the very beginning, the Palin pick created tension. ...

I'm sympathetic to Eskew and Wallace, and not just because they're decent people. They've held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me--namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: "Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing." It's a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus. I was told that Palin chafed at being defined by her discomfiting performances in the Couric, Charlie Gibson, and Sean Hannity interviews. She wanted to get back out there and do more. Well, if you're Eskew and Wallace, what do you say to that? Your responsibility isn't the care and feeding of Sarah Palin's ego; it's the furtherance of John McCain's quest for the presidency.

On the other hand, it had to be hard for Sarah Palin--who has achieved all she's achieved with a highly personal touch--to take all this ridicule under an enforced gag order. ... I've heard from one well-placed source that McCain has snubbed her on one long bus ride aboard the Straight Talk Express, to the embarrassment of those sitting nearby.

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Comments

[RRuin]

McCain signed on the dotted line making his deal with the right wing devil. But it's not like he was some good man twisted by ambition. This is, in my opinion, who McCain has always been. He's a shape shifter taking on and jettisoning a different persona every time he wants something.
To get the nomination he felt he had to be Right Wing Guy so that's what he did. To capture the right wing zealots of his party he chose Sarah Palin and I'm thrilled he did.
If he had been a real maverick, had true independence he would have taken Lieberman or Ridge, but lucky for those of us who think McCain is one sandwich short of the full picnic, he chose the worst possible running mate. He embraced Palin in the hopes he could woo Hilary Clinton voters and make the zealots love him.
He deserves a huge crushing loss. Palin deserves a one way ticket back to face impeachment in Alaska.

Obama/Biden 08

[marm]

McCain picked her. He ought to have to make nice to her 24/7!!

[Smirk]

"I'm sympathetic to Eskew and Wallace, and not just because they're decent people. "

Given that Eskew played a key role in the push polls in South Carolina during the 2000 primaries, I find it difficult to believe he's a "decent person" or that McCain is a man of character. What sort of father hires the man who lied about his child and used her for race baiting?