Posted on 05/05/2018 6:26:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. John McCain
(R-Ariz.) said he regrets choosing former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) to be his running mate during the 2008 presidential campaign.
The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin’s performance, said in his upcoming book “The Restless Wave” that he wishes he had instead selected former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.)
His advisers reportedly had warned against choosing Lieberman, who was once a Democrat, stating that Lieberman’s support of abortion rights could divide Republicans.
“It was sound advice that I could reason for myself,” he writes. “But my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had.”
In a new HBO documentary, McCain goes on to say that not choosing Lieberman was “another mistake" that he made in his political career.
Lieberman told The Times that he didn’t know McCain felt that way.
“It touched me greatly,” he said of the film.
The Times reported that Lieberman recently visited McCain, 81, at his ranch in Arizona where the senator is recovering from his brain cancer treatment and surgery for an infection.
Recently released excerpts from McCain’s upcoming memoir indicate that he doesn’t know how much time he has left to live while battling the glioblastoma he was diagnosed with last year.
Although the memoir isn’t entirely political, McCain still takes swings at Trump.
McCain writes that the president seems to care more about “the appearance of toughness” than American values, chiding Trump's coziness with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in particular.
“The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and other Appreciations.” will be released May 22.
He’ll probably make a deathbed confession that he wishes he could have told everyone that he really identifies as a Demonrat!
Yeah.
McLame & Sore Loserman would have been the perfect ticket.
If there ever was a rigged presidential election, I’m sure 2008 was probably it.
I was for McCain in 2008 only because 0 was his opponent. Back then I think some of us characterized it as an election from hell. 2012 was the same but I could no longer support Romney. At the time I thought Romney was worse than McCain but I think McCain is now overtaking Romney in that regard. Palin out of loyalty (obviously misplaced as we now see) helped and endorse McCain in his senate reelection and this is how he repays that. Enough. We know how he feels about the President and we know that he said he can speak freely now since he won’t be facing political consequences of another reelection campaign. He reveals what we always suspected about him.
Who can say for sure? He might have gained some Independents and lost some of the base for no real difference in the outcome.
It looks like McCain wants to go to his grave with no associates or friends backs left unstabbed.
There is something fundamenally wrong wit John McCain
I am pretty sure that there will be a (military?) funeral procession to McCain’s burial site.
FReepers should be standing by to line the route and give a ‘thumbs-down’ salute as his carcass passes.
Look on the bright side. We’re going to have a virtual Free Republic block party on-line the day that SOB stops wasting good oxygen.
Not even a little bit interested. John McCain and his story bore me.
The only good thing Obama ever did was defeating McCain. Thank God he never became president of the USA.
FReepers should be standing by to line the route and give a ‘thumbs-down’ salute as his carcass passes.
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Better idea. Let’s give him a water cannon salute ... with slightly used and yellow water.
I don’t see how a McCain/Loserman dream ticket could have defeated Obama/Biden.
However, in 2008, an Obama/McCain team would have easily defeated Romney/Huckabee.
I voted for the girl.
She was worth about 12 million votes for McCain.
He shows now what we have known all along—he has always been a traitor to America.
Lehman filed for bankruptcy.
My recollection: McCain was generating no enthusiasm among conservatives and was cruising to a sure loss. When he announced that Gov. Palin would be his running mate, that changed the game entirely. Enthusiasm was way up and he even took the lead in the polls. Then came the MSM assassination of Gov. Palin and McCain suspending his campaign to support the Bush stimulus - and it all went poof.
Turns out we were likely better off with a lazy muslim commie homo golf addict in the WH than we would have been with McCain - at least we knew Obola was the enemy.
My theory is that McCain was planning to throw the race to Obola anyway to assure that his name would be part of “history”. The Palin surge threw him into a panic and he had to do something stupid to kill the momentum. I never saw anyone so relieved when he lost.
Visit his grave and share a beer with him.
It was the media and democrats that led to the nomination of McLame.
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They certainly helped but it was the Bush League Republicans that made sure that McCain won the nomination.
The most important thing was not winning, but preventing US from electing a President who would enforce the laws and borders.
To and for whom is this idiotic book being written— and for what— a samurai like haiku in prose, not even written by him?
What he has been, since at least the Keating Five, and possibly before.... is a Manchurian Democrat. Born to lose, under instruction. A Beltway creature.
Well Juan, seems like you have had a history of making regretful decisions and not learning from what you think were prior mistakes. If true it is a damn good thing you were never elected President, you managed to do plenty damage to the Republican Party, the Country, and your own reputation as a Senator. As far as your regret of selecting Gov. Palin as your running mate I too have regrets. The damage to her reputation for having accepted your offer of VP running mate will continue to haunt her, even after your much anticipated passing. Remember to say hello to Stalin, Hitler, and Teddy Kennedy when you get to your new home. Word of caution, you may not want too stab the devil in the back like you practiced on everyone who made the mistake of trusting you in this life, I don’t think there is an CNN or MSNBC to make excuses for you in Hell like there is in D.C., the eartly hell.
After the election, I saw a few McCain/Palin bumper stickers
with the McCain name crossed out.
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