Sarah Palin erases McCain -- from her hat

Fresh from her triumphant "Going Rogue" book tour, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took her family on a vacation to Hawaii, to beat the immense presidential entourage due there next week. There, the ever-vigilant paparazzi snapped a photo of Arizona Sen. John McCain's onetime running mate.

She was wearing a black "McCain for President" visor -- with the letters blocked out.

On her T-shirt was an even clearer message. The front said, "If you don't love America..." And the back said, "Then why don't you get the hell out."

In a phone call to Politico, Palin insisted that she was just trying to “be incognito,” to go unrecognized and shield her children and First Dude Todd from photographers in hot pursuit.

“I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way," she said. "I adore John McCain, support him 100% and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago. So much for trying to be incognito." 

-- Johanna Neuman

Photo credit: Fame Pictures

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Comments

[Eddie]

Doesn't she have any hats that aren't campaign schwag?

I picture her with a whole room of her house filled with box after box of visors and t-shirts with "McCain-Palin" on them, scared to donate them to the Salvation Army for fear of the streets being flooded with tens of thousands of homeless people with her name emblazoned across their chests and foreheads. And God forbid that any of them ask for "change", right?

Instead, she sleeps in the t-shirts, washes the car with them, uses them as dishtowels... and it seems a shame to buy a visor when there are 30,000 of them in the spare bedroom that a couple strips of electrical tape will make 'good as new'.

[GEAH]

Eddie spends lots of time concocting fantasies about Gov. Palin.