McCain would not have gotten the GOP nomination without the backing of the party elite. Period. They felt they needed to tack toward to the center from the beginning or they would not stand a chance in the general election. Palin was the acknowledgment that he had alienated too much of the party base (despite being, as you say, the most anti-abortion person in the Senate), especially among Evangelicals.
When Karl Rove goes on television and praises the hell out of Sarah Palin, when he had lambasted a Democratic candidate with a similar resume as being "too inexperienced," you know she and McCain have the backing of the party elite.
And for the record, I am a registered Independent, voted for Bush in 2000 and lambasted Kerry as a fool in 2004 (though I would vote for no one on account of coming home from Iraq to a different state than I left and not being registered in my new home--not that I would have voted for either one). In 2006 I voted for my state's Democratic Governor but our Republican Attorney General and Secretary of State.
Keep up with the ad hominem, though. It really casts you in a good light.
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When Karl Rove goes on television and praises the hell out of Sarah Palin, when he had lambasted a Democratic candidate with a similar resume as being "too inexperienced," you know she and McCain have the backing of the party elite.
And for the record, I am a registered Independent, voted for Bush in 2000 and lambasted Kerry as a fool in 2004 (though I would vote for no one on account of coming home from Iraq to a different state than I left and not being registered in my new home--not that I would have voted for either one). In 2006 I voted for my state's Democratic Governor but our Republican Attorney General and Secretary of State.
Keep up with the ad hominem, though. It really casts you in a good light.