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Two weeks later, Graham went back to McCain with a question. Was he in the race through South Carolina, no matter what? McCain guaranteed it. "Then sign me up," Graham said. "I may not win," McCain told him, "but I will never let you down."
Eighteen months later, Mutt and Jeff are like old pals on the trail. Some of the folks who mob them at rallies seem just as worked up about meeting Graham, who's been a local rock star since flogging the action-pants President during the House impeachment hearings. And if McCain can just break even in Graham's more conservative northwest part of South Carolina, he figures he'll take the state.
At a Seabrook Island rally on Thursday, a vet introduced McCain as a Naval Academy grad and war hero but handed the mike to Graham first. "I only made 800 on my SATs" and couldn't get into the academy, Graham said. "The bad news for you is I went to Congress. And it gets worse. I'm one of the smarter ones up there."
Get that snuff ready, George.