John McCain was viciously smeared during his 2000 campaign. His daughter, Bridget, was inexcusably targeted. His wife, Cindy, so distraught by the vileness directed at her family, turned to painkillers to cope. Her parents intervened and got her help. But now John McCain has hired the very man who was paid to do this to his family, a Washington operative who worked for the Bush campaign, Tucker Eskew, to "help prepare" Sarah Palin as his running mate. Read about the hire here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/...
Is this the decision of a candidate for reform? Is this the decision of a strong father and husband, a man of honor? Should Sarah Palin, a mother of five and a professed candidate for reform, accept the political help of someone paid and rewarded for the dirty Washington tricks that demoralized a child and a family for the sake of winning a campaign? The Republican Party can't be the party of family values if they condone, reward, and encourage this kind of political corruption by giving people like that jobs in their campaign.
McCain and Palin can't hold Washington accountable if they can't hold themselves accountable for how they get to Washington.
This decision needs to get very public; it strikes at the heart of the hypocrisy of abusing American voter's hopes of really cleaning house in Washington.