I have touched on this before.

No running mate should ever overshadow a Presidential candidate, yet Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin continues to be purposely going in her own independent direction, to the detriment of John McCain.

According to news sources, aides and advisors to McCain have been increasingly aggravated by Palin’s "loose cannon" tendencies.  Some in the McCain camp, they imply, believe that her personal aspirations are now being geared towards her own political future.  She has been giving unscheduled press conferences, publicly disagreeing with some McCain decisions and, some have disclosed, has refused to stay on point or take the advice of campaign insiders.

She seems to be more interested in making herself look like a "candidate of the common people" than in promoting the strengths and policies of the man to whom she is supposed to be playing second fiddle.

I actually feel sorry for John McCain, who, by now, must realize the fallacy of letting others talk him into selecting Sarah Palin as a running mate.  She has proven to be harmful, rather than helpful, to his ambitions to become the next leader of the United States of America.  We are talking of a person who doesn’t even know what the correct job description of a Vice-President is.

There is any number of highly capable Republican women politicians with long-established reputations, more experience and a greater knowledge of how to fulfill the role of a Vice-Presidential candidate who would have been far more beneficial to his campaign.

Sarah Palin has become a proverbial albatross around John McCain’s neck, which he must, grudgingly, remain with, until this Presidential race is played out to its finish.

A little bit of power can be very addictive and Palin seems to be steadily becoming a legend in her own mind.

The outcome of the election in the next few days will tell whether or not this may have cost John McCain the Presidency.

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