With his campaign apparently dead in the water, McCain reached out all right – to the right-wing fundamentalists in his own party. Governor Sarah Palin strode onto the national stage, rhetorical guns blazing.
后来发生的事情我们都知道了。随着他的竞选显然陷入泥潭，麦凯恩极力接触本党内的右翼原教旨主义者。莎拉·佩林州长便大步跨上全国性的政治舞台，并大放令人眩目的华丽词藻。