Sarah would have overshadowed him; they probably feared it then and they fear it now.
I wonder what this relationship would have been like if they had won?
Probably not unlike Kennedy and LBJ.
Truly, is anyone really surprised there’s hardball politics going on?
The WSJ has some nads publishing anything in defense of Palin. Fund is a major proponent of big government Republicanism. Just another backstabber who must be marginalized and forgotten.
Dick Cheney is the odd VP; a vp who actually had a job. John McCain would have returned to the old style of a silent VP with the exception that he would have gladly had Sarah Palin be the “first lady of special needs children.”
I wish they’d won, but losing is no better or worse for Sarah Palin. Her name has been made. Now she has to turn that into political capital. She can easily announce for the presidency in 2012. She has to win the process, but I don’t think there’s any problem getting her name under consideration.
I really think conservatives need 2 things:
1. A pro-religion conservative caucus within the republican party.
2. A better primary process that doesn’t permit a candidate to run away with the nomination early on. I’d get rid of the winner-take-all aspect of state primaries. I’d be in favor of candidates taking all on the basis of counties they’ve won.
..the same "staffers" will be sniffing around for work soon, it's good to politically assault the other side when you can find work for 4 years..."see see, I'm really a scumbag for you"
Palin was a huge asset to McCain. She made him look so much more appealing, and had they won she could have rallied public opinion to stand behind his initiatives. But I do suspect that McCain was (and would have been) jealous and would have tried to weaken her, put her on a shelf somewhere, and tried to govern all by himself.
McCain is right up there with Bob Dole as the worst Republican candidate ever.
Hey, McCain, you could barely get a thousand people to show up to see your sorry ass when Sarah was getting twenty thousand. You should kiss Sarah’s feet for bringing your sorry campaign up to a point where the loss, though huge, was not humiliating. You’re a tool and everybody knows it but you and your equally incompetent campaign staff.
Sorry Senator,
Too late. If your campaign had chosen to have a post-election Obama bash-fest, I am certain you would have jumped in with both feet in order to halt such action. It is shameful you can’t muster up the same amount of respect for your running mate as you could for bho.
You had me fooled.
John McCain did not deserve a wonderful running mate like Sarah Palin.
All that BS about Palin may NOT have been ‘leaked’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129588/posts
What disturbs me is not what McCain is going to say about Palin tonight on Leno, but just where in the world he’s been for a WEEK? I find this to be, a the very least, the character of a bitter old man just like McCain has always exhibited in the past.
John McCain had the worst campaign staff in the history of presidential campaigns.
The fact that they leaked negatives about Palin during the campaign is only one example of their self-serving ineptitude.
McVain owes the Republican Party an apology for even thinking of reunnig for president.
I think it’s fairly obvious that John McCain was in distress about Sarah Palin toward the end of the campaign. This was probably caused by negative assistants who had his ear backbiting against her.
The proof was in the final debate when he was asked directly about her credentials. He actually paused. Then he came out with a very, very weak “I’m so proud of her.”
His answer was a slap in her face. I knew it at the time. He could have boldly stepped forward with a long review of her executive experience and how it actually surpassed that of Barak Obama. He could have gone into her experience with needs children, her strong support of life, and her strong pro-family, conservative credentials.
But, he didn’t, and it was telling. It told me he’d had his head turned.
It also told me that he was very weak thinking on his feet, because if he intended to win, he would have said it whether he had had his head turned or not.
Get rid of all open primaries and have a national primary day the day (Tuesday) after Memorial Day. Those who want to vote in GOP primaries must be registered with a special photo ID from the RNC, and must have been a dues-paying member for the past year. Otherwise all this talk about rebuilding the party is just moot.
I don’t want to pile on here, but it sure does look like this was just one more smack-in-the-face John McCain gave to conservatives.
McCains campaign was dead in the water up until the moment he chose Sarah Palin. It is now clear by the aftermath evidence that McCain’s selection of Palin was in fact a hail mary pass. He was dead in the water. Palin instantly revived his campaign and yet McCain, in traditional style, resented what Palin stood for as a conservative, and thus we see the aftermath.
It also seems clear that John McCain is far more comfortable working with Democrats than he is with conservatives. McCain seems to have used conservatives and now he no longer has need for them.
Really, I would not at all be suprised to see the Democrats get McCain to introduce an amnesty bill so Democrats could have political cover to grab an instant electorate.
Send McCain a message; I did.
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.ContactForm
Wasn’t McCain supposed to be on Leno last night? If so did he defend Sarah Palin??