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Sarah Palin Reacts to John McCain's Regrets Over Picking Her as Running Mate: 'Perpetual Gut Punch'
People Politics ^ | 2 hours ago | Dave Quinn

Posted on 05/11/2018 7:53:43 AM PDT by ethom

John McCain may have admitted that he regrets picking Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 presidential election, but according to the former Alaska governor, “that’s not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years.”

The one-time Republican vice-presidential candidate told The Daily Mail on Thursday that she feels a “perpetual gut punch” every time she hears reports about McCain’s regrets and that having to read the news every day is “not a real fun thing.”

“I attribute a lot of what we’re hearing and reading regarding McCain’s statements to his ghostwriter or ghostwriters,” Palin said. “I don’t know unless I heard it from Sen. McCain myself.”

She added that McCain has “apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign,” adding that some of them “now staff MSNBC, the newsroom there, which tells you a lot.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama; US: Alaska; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: 2008; johnmccain; mccain; palin; sarahpalin; strawberries
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1 posted on 05/11/2018 7:53:43 AM PDT by ethom
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To: ethom

Sarah, consider the source and take it as a complement.


2 posted on 05/11/2018 7:54:36 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: ethom

At this point, I think most accept that Mccain is just a doddering old fool, and that before this stage he was just a deep state stooge ala GHWB..


3 posted on 05/11/2018 7:55:04 AM PDT by cardinal4 ("Sat stonefaced while the building burned..")
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To: ethom

I think we can all tell, now, that Nicholle Wallace is a miserable, awful human being whose entire job on that campaign was to sabotage Palin for her friends in the MSM.


4 posted on 05/11/2018 7:55:39 AM PDT by jyo19
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To: ethom

Palin’s probably had enough of politics which is thoroughly understandable in her case, but it is a shame she is not a member of Trump’s cabinet.


5 posted on 05/11/2018 7:56:55 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: ethom

The ONLY reason I voted that year was for Palin.


6 posted on 05/11/2018 7:57:00 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: ethom

John McCain was still destined to lose had he picked George Washington as his running mate....


7 posted on 05/11/2018 7:59:49 AM PDT by apillar
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To: Mr. K

John McCain. Just die. Soon. Collaborator.


8 posted on 05/11/2018 8:00:04 AM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Mr. K

Ditto. She was a jolt of new energy the GOP needed.


9 posted on 05/11/2018 8:00:10 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: ethom

Nope, sorry Sarah, that’s the guy you signed up with, and many of us told you that at the time.


10 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:02 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: ethom

The ONLY reason I voted for McSh*tface instead of not voting at all was because of Sarah. She can give great speaches, McSh*tface has a hard time talking at all, since it taxes both cells of his puny brain standing up and talking at the same time.

We will not miss that Obamahole.


11 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:25 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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That’s okay Sarah, he knew all along you were far more qualified and competent than he was.


12 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:43 AM PDT by MissEdie (I am South Carolina Strong.)
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You and millions of others I’m sure, perhaps 10s of them.

Without her he would have gotten 25-30% of the vote > IMO. Instead the ticket got 45.7%. Amazing!

McCain was a douche bag and everyone knew it. He stated that nobody had anything to fear from a man who invited terrorists into the White House to consult with him, and appointed others to certain positions.

Yeah McCain, Sarah was the only redeeming aspect of that ticket. If you had won, she would have gotten the Lyndon Johnson treatment, ala John F. Kennedy too.


13 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:49 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: ethom
“I attribute a lot of what we’re hearing and reading regarding McCain’s statements to his ghostwriter or ghostwriters,” Palin said.

While I love Sarah Palin, I guess I'd ask who hired these ghostwriters? Who authorized the final draft? Who authorized the leaks? Is McCain so out of it now, and back when the ghostwriters where hired and contracted with that he, McCain, had no idea what type of people he was dealing with?

As much as I admire Palin, I'm not convinced of her rationalization. I'd like it to be true, but the evidence suggests otherwise. All we know is that one day, in this life or the next, true justice will be done.

14 posted on 05/11/2018 8:01:54 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: ethom; JoSixChip; hillarynot; Jane Long; BlackFemaleArmyCaptain; Black Agnes; djstex; ...
I can't imagine how that must feel, I can see how it looks, but Palin has much more class than Song Bird will ever have, so we love ya, hold your head up high...
15 posted on 05/11/2018 8:03:01 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: ethom
I voted for her not McLaim. I will vote for her again after Trump.
16 posted on 05/11/2018 8:03:45 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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Sarah- As a life long Republican voter, I can assure you of this:

WE VOTED FOR YOU——NOT for McCain.

We supported YOU-—NOT McCain.

Your book tells it all. You were treated very poorly by McCain & his staff.

IF the staff did things without his permission or knowledge-—that tells us even more about ‘McCain” & how astute he really is and always has been.


17 posted on 05/11/2018 8:04:53 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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some of them “now staff MSNBC, the newsroom there, which tells you a lot.”

Yup. Tells us a lot about who mcstain really is.

18 posted on 05/11/2018 8:05:19 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: ethom

She almost upset the plan for the Kenyanesian Usurpation.


19 posted on 05/11/2018 8:05:38 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: ethom

Has John McCain been seen in public recently? Where do these statements come from? Who exactly is speaking on his behalf?

This reminds me a bit, of the final years of George Steinbrenner as Yankees owner. The team issued statements which supposedly came from Steinbrenner, but he was rarely seen in public in those final years. He personally did not make those statements attributed to him. We learned this after the fact.

I think the same could be happening with all these statements released on behalf of McCain recently. Nobody has seen him; nobody knows if he’s really authorizing these statements, and he clearly is not personally speaking to the media.


20 posted on 05/11/2018 8:07:28 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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