Republicans fearful over McCain's Sarah Palin gamble

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4662774.ece

One senior Republican, a former Bush Administration official, described himself to me this week as “personally disgusted” by the selection, one that betrayed a desire by Mr McCain for short-term political gain at the expense of the national interest - wholly counter to the senator’s message hitherto.

But the bigger worry among many Republicans here is not that Mrs Palin might win in November, and prove to be ill-equipped to lead the nation should she have to after next January, but that she might lose; that the cascading revelations about her will bring down the McCain campaign.