The man who will be glued to Sarah Palin as she runs for vice president is the same one who helped end John McCain’s 2000 run for the White House. Eskew was running George W. Bush’s press operation in South Carolina that year when McCain’s candidacy was derailed in the state’s Republican primary. Eskew, who worked in the White House communications shop until 2005, is a veteran of GOP campaigns back to 1988.
