Had he selected Lieberman, as he wanted, he might have received 60 Electoral votes instead of the just over 160 he got in 2008.
Making Mike Schmidt his campaign manager was the worst decision. Counting that campaign he crashed five times.
Palin was and still is McCains only saving grace
No name’s getting ISIS off the ground I think should be his greatest mistake, well the biggest one on his pile of mistakes.
So. Sick. Of. Hearing. McCain’s. Name.
They literally have no idea how real Americans in fly over country think.
The only reason that I voted for McCain was because Sarah was on the ticket.
Whaaatttt?? That was the one decision I ever liked that he made. She made him look like the ‘who-cares’ guy he truly was. Must have been ‘his turn.’
John McCain who helped Lois Lerner use the IRS to go after the Tea Party. Just another reason of many why I do not care for his politics. There are also the pictures of McCain with ISIS members.
Apart from the spark that Palin supplied, nobody *ever* voted for a president because of his VP pick. The assertion is stupid on its face. This media is so fake, it’s ridiculous.
I think while McCain was begging the NRA for their support, Sarah was shooting wolves from a helicopter. I’M WITH HER!
What we have here, is the left not letting a crisis (they could care less about) go to waste.
As well, they are truly using McCain’s death for propaganda purposes, and to score political points against conservative voters and the president they elected.
The same left piled on against McCain when he ran against Obama.
Only when McCain was visiting and doing diplomacy/bisiness with Hillary and AQI/ISIS terrorist, or working secret back door deals with the Russians, making a mockery of his voter constitiency, working as part of the fabricated dossier conspiracy (with money going from Clinton campaign to Russia), Slamming his own conservative running mate, protecting the global socialist agenda, impedimg the boarder wall he promised to get built, and creating anti-Trump theatre while betraying his voters with the ACA, could McCain receive accolades from the left he was actually a part of.
His true character was actually revealed when he betrayed a wife who loved him, gave him children, and sacrificed her life for him. She protected him, and was more physically and emotionally broken than he was. But he had to ditch her, and also hurt his children, so he could sleep around, and finally land a rich and politically connected model.
Combine this with the problems he had with MPs on occasion, a little incident with the Forestal, and an audio recorded signals catch from the CIA, where McCain was clearly being used for communist propaganda, and the left had a real peach...
And we are not even getting into “Keating Five”, blatantly anti-American campaign finance reform, or McCains efforts with Bob Dole, Trent Lott, and Mitch McConnel, to detail Newt Gingrich’s investigation into Chinagate.
No one cares about McCain. McCain is Al-Qaeda’s Bob Hope
Nicole Wallace works for MSNBC & Steve Schmidt is an MSNBC contributer.
So Katy Tur’s ideas really aren’t her own.
Typical slanted media coverage who can’t acknowledge the accomplishments of a conservative woman icon.
She is MAGA material for sure. I really wish Trump picks Sarah for VP in 2020 to show up the liberals establishment who jeered her last time. Or a cabinet posting where she can bring true Christian values to the white house.
And the liberal heads would explode from coast to coast as a bonus.
McStain would have had a Mondale-sized loss if it weren’t for Sarah Palin.
As many others have noted here, Sarah Palin was a strong motivating factor among a significant portion of eventual votes for the McCain ticket. I will give McCain one small recognition and that is his choice to be buried at the Naval Academy ensures his gravesite won’t be soaked in urine for the foreseeable future. I think that choice shows Maverick had a basic understanding of where he ranks for most. And, like Ahab, he gets the final stab at his opposition by denying them the pleasure of unzipping and letting it flow.
Horse****. Palin was the reason he did as well as he did.
Quoth McCain:
“I want to be president of the United States, and obviously I do not want Obama to be,” he said. “But I have to tell you, I have to tell you, he is a decent person, and a person that you do not have to be scared as President of the United States.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubSTY7pAh-c
He threw the election, IMHO.
The Left Wing Media, which Sarah Palin calls the Lame Stream Media, uses every opportunity to beat down Sarah Palin. They know that Sarah, who holds a degree in journalism, is a formidable threat to their corrupt counterfeit journalism. Sarah knows that their ideology is a danger to America and has made no bones about it. Her appeal to mainstream America, with her common sense thinking, cracks a huge hole in the hull of America’s sinking Titanic, the Lame Stream Media.
I have a similar sorrow that Sarah Palin has left the political landscape as much a others have for Senator John McCain.
Actually the other way around.....