Posted on 05/06/2018 9:14:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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.
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Not for accepting, which thrust her on the national stage.
I'd bet that Palin regrets endorsing McCain against J.D. Hayworth in 2010, which she did out of loyalty to McCain.
It's too bad that McCain is too selfish and bitter to recognize this.
-PJ
“I wish I could kick this MF in the balls.”
Far too late on that strategy. You would be kicking at air....
George Soros had stolen them years before. Follow the money.
“I would bet Palin regrets accepting.”
I wonder if he will “disinvite her” to his funeral too. I’m betting she’s hoping he does.
We are sorry you ran for the President position. That job was completely way over your ability and/or pay grade.
‘He got a ton of votes he wouldnt have gotten except for her being on the ticket.’
still lost the always reliable red states of IN and NC; she didn’t have much impact at all...
He will be known as the only vote against Obamacare repeal.IMO
“McCain is moving into Hillary Clinton territory. Its somebody elses fault. Hes dangerously close to that.”
I’m still hoping for a two-fer. A McCain/Hillary bilateral death ticket! Just put their graves close enough together so we don’t have to “zip up” and move!
I would not say anything derogatory to man who is on his death bed other than I am very sorry I voted for him to president of the USA. He was a very poor candidate. That’s the kind of candidate we get we allow the establishment to choose candidates.
Treasonous to the end eh Juan?
But, by not inviting Trump to his funeral,
I am also sorry that he chose Sarah. I am sorry that she will be forever remembered as the VP candidate chosen by that loser John McCain. She deserves much better.
I believe that she had a real future in national politics but it was destroyed by the losing McCain campaign. I hope to your dying day that you are aware that the only reason that you received as many votes as you did was because of Governor Palin.
McCain you will rot in hell, Governor Palin will not.
Hey john, millions regret you were a presidential candidate, a democrat wolf in sheep’s clothing, a vindictive, obstructionist politician. The jigs up, john.
And we regret that we didn’t choose HER as the candidate!
LOL!
LOL. It was obvious by the next week. He hated her Conservatism and hated she was such a polished communicator and a powerful woman. He probably never vetted her. He had no clue he was getting a principled conservative instead of a GOP-e programmed robot.
McLame has been a severe embarrassment his entire career and has never been a friend to conservatives. Arizona must be more commie lib than not to give McLame lifetime tenure.
Deliciously ironic that “The Maverik” pulls Palin from conservative obscurity, ignites a here-to-fore unempowered force that leads to the Tea Party and the modern-day conservative movement. Now he gets to fade away, haunted by what he started. YES!! Well, bye Mav.
He was the only Republican I liked less than Mitt Romney.
After holding my nose in two successive elections, I was incensed by so many RINOs that pleaded with me to "hold my nose" for their candidate decided they were too good to hold their nose and vote for MY candidate.
Drain the swamp.
That is about the only thing he did right.
“McCain is the reason we suffered Bo for 8 yrs!”
No, sorry it was GWBoosh! And I don’t know if I hate myself worse for voting for him twice or for McCain! Just imagine if we had had Donald J. Trump following Slick Willie? Just think about where we would be today if Trump didn’t have to undo all the worthless $hit that the Boosh/Obola combo did in their combined sixteen years. Better still had Trump followed Reagan rather than that globalist POS GHWB! Thanks to the Booshes, we lost twenty years of progress in America, and if there had been no Slick Willie, there would have been no Hillary! Shame on you America for voting for all of them.
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