I knew in 2008 that I certainly didn’t deserve McCain (like I didn’t deserve some of my whippins as a youth).
But I supported him enthusiastically because I expected him not to make it through his term, and we’d have Sarah Palin as our “Commander-in-Chief” A’la Geena Davis in the TV series, that ran about that time, by the same title
because I expected him not to make it through his term,
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Obviously overly optimistic.