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Palin: Hearing that McCain regrets picking me for VP is a 'perpetual gut-punch'
the Hill ^ | May 10, 2018 | Josh Delk

Posted on 05/10/2018 4:17:04 PM PDT by jazusamo

Sarah Palin said Thursday that Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) admission that he regrets picking her as his running mate in his failed 2008 presidential bid is "like a perpetual gut-punch."

The former Republican vice presidential nominee said the senator's recent remarks were "not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he's apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign," she told the Daily Mail before speaking at a pro-Trump PAC fundraiser.

In his upcoming memoir, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and other Appreciations,” the 81-year-old senator laments not selecting former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) as his vice presidential candidate.

McCain still gives Palin high marks for her work on his campaign.

"I attribute a lot of what we're hearing and reading regarding McCain's statements to his ghostwriter or ghostwriters," Palin told the Daily Mail, saying she would have to hear from McCain herself.

McCain is currently at home in Arizona where he is receiving treatment for brain cancer, but remains a strong voice in the GOP and the Senate where he often criticizes the Trump administration.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: americanqueen; mccain; palin; sarahpalin
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To: pinkandgreenmom

Add to THAT statement another:
YES, SARAH PALIN, the ONLY reason to vote GOPe that election. Never caring much for our Military “hero”, John alone wouldn’t have had this vote. It’ truly sad that we know this is not due to his brain cancer as he has been vindictive as hell during his final? years in congress. The man hated US - that we feel the same about him should come as no surprise.


161 posted on 05/10/2018 7:51:54 PM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Joe Bfstplk

True. I voted for her, not McCain. I saw her at a rally once and she made me a sandwich. It doesn’t get any better than that.


162 posted on 05/10/2018 8:05:20 PM PDT by taterjay
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To: pinkandgreenmom
Exactly.. (although this one was in 2012, I had made many for the previous election; specifically for Palin, and NOT for McPainStain.)


163 posted on 05/10/2018 8:17:06 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: taterjay

Haha, We seen Sarah at the Youngstown airport early fall and it was hot. Sarah was up first and after standing in the heat for 2 hours my wife was getting nauseous and faint. As I was leading her outside a obnoxious newscaster got in our way and ask if we didn’t like McCain? I just said “Lady, my wife is sick and if you don’t move she is going to throw up on your nice dress & shoes.” She quickly exited out path. I didn’t want to give her the satisfaction of stating I couldn’t stand Juan McCain.


164 posted on 05/10/2018 8:24:41 PM PDT by sleddogs
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To: COUNTrecount

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The basic stuff can stop brain cancer, like washing your mouth out with baking soda several times a day, and holding the solution in your mouth to raise your blood ph.

THC is also very effective on brain cancer.


165 posted on 05/10/2018 9:07:40 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Brilliant

That is the sign of malignant narcissism. No defeat could ever be their own fault so it must be somebody else’s. That explains the Democrats’ reaction so very well.


166 posted on 05/10/2018 9:10:10 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: editor-surveyor

What medical studies support this?
Thanks


167 posted on 05/10/2018 9:28:40 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: jazusamo

We love sarah and was the only reason we even voted for McInsane


168 posted on 05/10/2018 9:30:54 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: jazusamo

This is why i voted for Sarah. Class.


169 posted on 05/10/2018 9:32:09 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Tag, you're it.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; ...

McCain regrets not tearing the party apart by selecting liberal democrat Joe Lieberman. I think he was flat out told that the convention would reject that choice.


170 posted on 05/10/2018 10:21:43 PM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: jazusamo
It is easier for McCain to blame Palin than to accept responsibility for the failure of his idiotic campaign strategy.

Charting McCain's 'Suspended Campaign'

Thursday, Sept. 25

9:15 a.m. McCain appears at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Former President Clinton introduces McCain and praises him for bucking his party and spending a lot of time on global warming.


171 posted on 05/10/2018 10:55:32 PM PDT by greedo
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To: jazusamo

I will forever believe that Mrs Palin is the reason McCain got as many votes as he did.


172 posted on 05/11/2018 12:56:38 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Brilliant

Well he lost. So I guess he blames someone other than himself. Nothing new there.
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Self-accountability was not trained or bred into McCain. He has never accepted his role in being a traitor either.


173 posted on 05/11/2018 1:57:52 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: jazusamo

They put her on the ticket to get control of her


174 posted on 05/11/2018 3:59:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: jazusamo

Sarah Palin is the only reason I bothered to vote in that election. I wasn’t going to vote for Obama and I have extreme dislike for McCain. He is a douchebag.


175 posted on 05/11/2018 4:02:19 AM PDT by a real Sheila (Love my golden retrievers!)
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To: jazusamo

I hope Palin does not attend McCain’s funeral. He doesn’t deserve the respect.


176 posted on 05/11/2018 5:36:43 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker

I know for a fact that, a month or two before the 2008 Republican National Convention, all elected Delegates and Alternate Delegates were asked whether they would vote to approve McCain’s VP choice if such person was not pro-life. The responses that I saw ranged from “No” to “HELL NO!” to “I will support McCain’s choice, because I am certain that he never would choose someone who isn’t pro-life.” Had McCain tried to get the Convention to nominate Joe Lieberman, not only would the Convention refuse to nominate Lieberman, but, unless McCain quickly corrected course and replaced Lieberman with a pro-lifer, it could have spurred a rebellion even among delegates pledged to McCain and the Convention would look for a different presidential candidate to nominate.


177 posted on 05/11/2018 6:53:30 AM PDT by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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To: Windflier
Sarah, he's a dishonorable, treacherous, back-stabbing, disloyal piece of crap.

You should have scraped him off your shoe a long time ago.

Sarah was and is too good for McCain.

I see now that 2008 was a huge cynical play by the GOP.

That is why they got repaid with Donald Trump.

178 posted on 05/11/2018 6:58:10 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: MeganC
A ping with regards to our beloved Sarah being betrayed yet again by Senator Judas McCain (May he burn in Hell).

HUGS Sweetest Megan!

You and I are so much alike, Millennial Palinistas who were way ahead of the curve back in 2008.

179 posted on 05/11/2018 7:01:23 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: jazusamo; KC_Lion

Sarah is classy.

McCain? Not so much.


180 posted on 05/11/2018 7:28:26 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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