He's backed himself into a box. If she drops out at this point, what does it show to his judgment? The only way she can drop now would be if an "emergency" came up, maybe a "personal emergency" or "family emergency" or such. Then, she'll have to "suspend" her campaign. Not good however you slice it.

I have one word: affair. McCain is a known cheater. And think about it, he dropped his wife for a younger, attractive heiress. Look at Cindy McCain, she's the stereotypical conservative, wealthy housewife with nothing better to do than do volunteer work and shop, shop, shop. You don't think McCain's sick of his wife and wants somebody younger? Come on!

Jay said:
"You don't think McCain's sick of his wife and wants somebody younger?"

You should be ashamed--what a shallow remark.

Who can believe anything McCain says these days?

He has become a proven liar and serial exaggerator - the truth simply doesn't penetrate his new lack of candor and dearth of anything honorable or true.

Worse than Bush.

McCane Palin association?
It was "love at first sight"

Whoa! Hold on there John! You're spinning so much I can't even focus on you!

"(McCain, according to the statement, was merely admiring her career from afar.)"

Is that anything like the way he appeared to be admiring her rear end when he introduced her as his running mate right before NaziCon?

These idiots need to let it go. Karl Rove was so certain that Obama was going to be bullied into selecting Hillary as his running mate, just to get Big Dog's blessing, that he narrowed Gramps' choices to this numbskull. Turdblossom justified this selection with the most shallow of qualifying standards: Palin is phyically cuter than Hillary, even if her IQ is the single-digit inverse of Hillary's shoe size. You would think that once Obama tapped Joe Biden, Turdblossom would have begged for that mulligan before his idiocy became so obvious. Team Dumb and Dumber had seven 24-hour days between the moment Obama tapped Biden and Gramps' announcing his selection of the Alaskan Airhead, to select a real GOP VEEP running mate who met his reactionary base's demand for someone both ultra jesusy and codger-friendly. But, no---! Gramps let Turdblossom Rove talk him into belieiving that BlunderWoman could drop a net on the votes from the disgruntled PUMAs squawking for a woman at the executive level of government, and all those criminally lascivious, politically indiffernt middle-aged coots who will be voting with their johnsons for a woman who doesn't cause them that very painful recession six inches below their belts experienced at the mere mention of Hillary's name. This constituency was now squarely in Gramps' column for the win in November, per Turdblossom! Such satanic political chicanery only gives us more ample justification for extraordinarily rendering the Turdblossom.

Now that every time this wolf cub murderess opens her mouth with no brain present to engage, consequently sinking Team Dumb and Dumbers' poll numbers like an anvil dropped through thin air, Gramps has resorted to lying, cheating, the most xenophobic case of race baiting, and, when all else fails, incoherent babbling to end his political career. With any luck, the very next declaration that he's suspending his campaign will nail his political coffin shut for good, saving America from the potential of four more years of mindless idiocracy.

The word is not "exaggerate"; the word is "lie".

Did I hear that Dick Cheney has invited Sarah Palin to go hunting with him? Or is this just another Republican rumor?

It is when reading articles like this one that I sorely miss the late Tim Russert. In true Russert style, that little "exaggeration" would not have been missed. I can almost hear him say "Senator, let me read to you what your campaign wrote about your three meetings with Governor Sarah Palin" after he read the statement he would have taken his glasses off, sat back in his chair to watch McCain twist himself into all sorts of knots. Lord! I miss that man. Senator McCain would have given that scary squinty-eyed, constipated smile and simply spun like an out of control top. I would have donated my salary to have Russert interview Governor Palin. As I always say, death is a !@#$

Relying on Sarah Palin for foreign policy advice is like asking Jack Daniels for advice about your liver failure.

For those of you that don't know the real McCain:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/make_believe_maverick_the_real_john_mccain?commentPage=1#rate

Like dude! Only
Rolling Stone is gonna have the real scoop on the old guy adn the hot Veep. It's tubular. Please don't tell me this is the intellect to which this site has sunken?

I am sure Palin knows as much as she needs to know. The rest is learned. I am also sure she knows how to read people. Rolling Stone, Rock on!

Governor Paulin has got a really pretty tail, you've got to hand it to her. On the other-hand, this is yet another cynical attempt by the Republican campain people to tailor a Presidential candidate to a narrow block of American voter's, irregardless of their qualifications. {see George Bush, son of privledge, Air Force deserter, failed business-man, alchololic, Born-Again-Christian.} These people!

Oh, yeah, stick to the article. Always, always, always the article.

"Palin dropped to 68 percent...two others have higher."

Top three in the US and this article is shooting at this point? Biden, the man who admits he was not as good as pick as HC would have been, a man who asked another in a wheelchair to stand up and receive applause. Biden is a man that does not realize a big portion of this country runs on coal. Or, that in '29 Hoover went on television to explain the stock market crash?

Am I missing something?

[John McCain's hidden agenda& Gov. Palin and r-Senator's CORRUPTION] Why is the main media not talking about 1. Gov. Palin's husband Tood Palin that was registered in the Independent party in this decade (the parties goal is session, to separate Alaska from the U.S.A). 2. How she said Senator Clinton should stop whinning, 3. A person called Senator Clinton a bitch in Senator McCain town hall meeting and he just smiled with the crowd and didn't stop the slander.4. J.MaCain's secret policy is planing to reinstate the selective service(the Draft). Reference for this info comes from a town hall meeting 8/20/08 a lady said to McCain if you going to follow Osama Bin laiden to the gates of hell you will have to reinstate the Draft because our military is over stretch from redeployment. J.McCain said(and I quote) Miss I agree with you 100%. If that's true why isn't that part spelled out in his policy or is it a hidden agenda? Go back and see the video yourself and his website on his military plans to beef it up . 5.John McCain covered up in the investigation of the lobbist Jack Abramoff so that his buddies wouldn't go to jail and the links to the republican party there was 750,000 pages of emails ,letters,and documents but he only turning in 4800 pages.Google those 2 names and you will see.Their's a book coming out in Oct. 2008 to break it all down,name John McCain And The Cover Up . PLEASE STAY INFORMED

I wonder how the fundie repubs are reckoning with the fact that both McCain and Palin are ADULTERERS?

"Is John McCain exaggerating his past relationship with Sarah Palin?"

No... John McCain is lying...

DC, I'm glad to see someone is pursuing this line of inquiry. I've been wondering who it was at that governors' conference in Feb. that zeroed in on her potential to do another G. Bush snowjob on the social conservatives in 2008.

McCain and Palin have a unique ability to assimilate crucial information and interact with people by sight alone. "I can see Russia, therefore I have foreign policy experience,"says Palin. In the past McCain saw Palin around and on T.V., therefore he used to consult with Palin on many important issues.
Well, me, I can see the moon on a clear night when it is full, therefore I am equipped to work as a scientist for NASA!

Palin and McSenile are an embarrassment to the Political System. None of them have a platform to give the American people information on where they stand. Its all about "We will win in Iraq", " The surge is working", "We are Mavericks", " Al Kayder wants to kill us", "We will kill every beer that comes my office", "I am a hero so suck it up my friends", "We have more oil than anyone", "We will deregulate everything to benefit the free market" and we will lie and lie and lie about it until it sinks into your pea brain.

http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=3626&pst=861886
Get to know McCain, and all of his lies.. with links to videos.

Sarah Palin reminds me of a cat toy I got for my cats. At first it was shiny, new and coveted by each cat. Then it started to look a rough around its edges. Then it started to unravel. Then it just fell apart at the seams. And then the cats lost interest.

lucero1946,

It's all in the flavor of the Kool-Aid you choose to drink, strawberry red or sour blueberries.

Try some Independent Orange, it's enLIGHTening, as well at it clears the brain for rational, thought.