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Neither did McCain escape the wrath of the signs in Nevada: one Tea Partyer hoisted the message "Reid-McCain: Two Sides of the Same Damn Coin. Vote Them Out." Another placard featured McCain's picture with the words "No More RINOs [Republicans in Name Only] - Retire McCain." Before Palin's arrival, activists in the crowd debated among themselves whether the former Alaska governor had fallen from grace by trying to save McCain, who is facing a spirited challenge in the state's August Republican primary from former Congressman and conservative talk-show host J.D. Hayworth. Although Hayworth doesn't have...
...fortunes of two 27-year veterans of Congress, who simultaneously entered the House in 1983 and the Senate in 1987 and who are now facing the toughest races of their careers. Palin spent Friday and Saturday morning in Tucson and Phoenix, Ariz., to help save the job of John McCain, the man who put her on the political and cultural map when he added her to the Republican ticket in 2008. On Saturday afternoon, she touched down in the outskirts of Searchlight, Nev., birthplace and residence of the Democrats' embattled Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, to keynote the Tea Party...
...since joining him on the ticket, Palin has shown nothing but goodwill and loyalty to McCain - and he to her. They are no longer the virtual strangers they were when he asked her to be his running mate, but they do not maintain frequent personal or professional contact. Nevertheless, they are forever bonded as political husband and wife, and with that bond comes a mutual affection and respect, which smooths over any inherent awkwardness. Palin gratefully credits McCain for her newfound fame, wealth and power; McCain is fascinated by Palin's ability to draw a crowd and create news...
...Friday event in Tucson presented a familiar and nostalgic tableau, including spouses Cindy McCain and Todd Palin. Thousands of people went to the Pima County Fairgrounds, most of them apparently there to see Palin rather than the actual candidate (even Cindy highlighted this fact in her brief remarks, to nervous laughter). Notably, all the cable-news networks (Fox included) cut away from live coverage once Palin had concluded her remarks and McCain began his, although McCain's team professed only delight with the turnout. And the Senator gamely continued his conversion from a career of compromise with Democrats...
Later, in Phoenix, Palin headlined a major fundraiser for McCain at the Biltmore Hotel, the venue where some McCain aides engaged in a climactic election-night clash with Palin over whether she would be allowed to deliver her own concession speech on the stage before McCain's. But most of the 2008 campaign advisers who viewed Palin as untrustworthy and erratic have left McCain's orbit, and his current aides were delighted to apply her star power to their troubled cause. With Palin in the state, they collected e-mail addresses for follow-up voter contact, raised some dough...