Tucker Eskew, the South Carolina GOP strategist, who John McCain once said had "a special place in hell" for his role in the 2000 race-baiting smear that had McCain fathering an illegitimate black child and eventually lost him the party's nomination to George W. Bush, has been hired by the Arizona senator's campaign to coach Republican VP hopeful Gov. Sarah Palin.
Now, that's some major desperation. And with it, the last shred of respect I had for John McCain has just gone down the crapper.
