McCain says he regrets choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate

The forthcoming final memoir from Senator John McCain, titled The Restless Wave, and a nearly two-hour-long HBO documentary on its way seem to be being used as an opportunity to settle some scores. Jonathan Martin of the New York Times has obtained copies of both books, and has spoken with the ailing senator at his ranch, where he seems to be spending his final days. This leaped out at me:

While he continues to defend Ms. Palin’s performance, Mr. McCain uses the documentary and the book to unburden himself about not selecting Mr. Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent, as his running mate.

He recalls that his advisers warned him that picking a vice-presidential candidate who caucused with Democrats and supported abortion rights would divide Republicans and doom his chances.
It is odd indeed to call it “sound advice” and to simultaneously wish he had disregarded it. Logically, this seems to mean that he wishes he had lost, while making a futile gesture towards bipartisanship, or maybe just avoiding contamination with the populism of Sarah Palin. It is an open secret that members of McCain’s campaign sought to sabotage Palin during the campaign, apparently preferring to lose rather than tolerate her views and her persona.

This odd, unsourced paragraph written by Martin offers a clue:

Yet many in Mr. McCain’s own party believe that, by selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008, he bears at least a small measure of blame for unleashing the forces of grievance politics and nativism within the Republican Party.

I strongly suspect that McCain himself expressed these views to Martin, but asked not to be quoted.

Despite her later lack of popularity, there were huge numbers of conservatives who only voted for McLame because of Palin. They were voting for the bottom of the ticket. McLame and Romney were absolute disasters, both designed to insure a Democrat won. This is the game played by the Uniparty. They take turns. That was the game until the Democrats smelled blood in the water with Obama’s Reign of Terror, capped by his ultimate evil, Obamacare. They knew Hilary could finish off the nation in 8 more years, so they decided not to give a Republican a turn. I guess the GOP-e agreed, looking at the 2016 field. It was rancid. I didn’t want anybody for president. It was only after Trump won the nomination that I began to hear how conservative he sounded and he won me over. During the primary, I was hoping they would all drop out and let someone worthwhile run.

We often get the worst people for candidates. Make that, we almost always get the worst people for candidates. Logical, since they are shoved down our throats by the GOP-e, or are unelectable, insuring a Rat wins during their turn.

I called McCain something in a last post about the creep not inviting the President to his upcoming funeral. I wasn’t kicked off the Free Republic board the last time for what I said about McCain, but I can’t risk saying it again without getting into trouble with the moderator. It is not good for me to risk providence twice — but my previous comment about McCain as regards to dis inviting the President from his upcoming funeral still holds.

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If you want to understand the lib/commie, foam-at-the-mouth hysteria against Sarah Palin, even though she posed no threat to them after the election, read David Kupelan’s “The Snapping of the American Mind” where Kupelan quotes “Robin of Berkeley.” IT is most interesting....

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