McCain says Palin didn't hurt presidential bid

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081112/ap_on_el_ge/mccain_leno ^

[teg_76]

LOS ANGELES – John McCain said Tuesday that Sarah Palin did not damage his presidential bid, and he dismissed as typical campaign sniping anonymous criticism aimed at her following their crushing defeat. "I'm so proud of her and I'm very grateful she agreed to run with me. She inspired people, she still does," McCain told Jay Leno during an "Tonight Show" interview taped for broadcast Tuesday night. "I couldn't be happier with Sarah Palin." Asked by Leno about griping about Palin from unidentified McCain operatives in the days following the election, the Arizona senator said, "These things happen in campaigns.

[potlatch]

[He waited a few days. So what?]

McCain’s been around the Washington crowd for ‘lo these many years’. He is used to criticism and most of our criticism here has been “about him not speaking” up about things. He followed through...

I’m sure losing hit him hard, for the second time. He should have put a stop to the gossip when it began.

[CaribouCrossing]

Glad to hear he finally stepped up to the mike. Took ya long enough, Senator, but better late than never.

[devolve]

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No Republican candidate for President can win in 2012 unless he backs the 72% of Americans who are against amnesty and illegal aliens and the McCain-Bush “Comprehensive Immigration Suicide” plans

McCain was never a conservative

McCFR
McAmnesty
McGlobal Warming
McNo ANWAR

Pence was wobbly on that immigration

Another ethnic in 2012 against hussein the creepy would never float

Get some brains cooking out there FReepers

[potlatch]

[McCain was never a conservative]

No, he was the lesser of two evils. Sarah on the ticket gave him what he got.

Yesterday as I read the newspaper I saw all the businesses that are about to lay off more people. Starbucks business is down 75% according to an article. Many tech stores are shutting down and Dell is going to lay off more people.

I also read an article about some Texas early schooling for 3 and 4 year olds. Said it was costing a fortune and accomplishing nothing. Obama wants schooling for all at that age. Just a baby sitting service and a way to indoctrinate them earlier.

[Family Guy]

McCain says Palin didn't hurt presidential bid

McCain also says that cutting taxes doesn't hurt the economy.

[devolve]

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Starbucks was/is lousy coffee at premium prices

hussein the creepy has little HOPE for CHANGE with his big spender / big taxes agenda

Luxury tech items will do badly

Those spending $1000-$2000 on PCs for internet access might try the $200 MSN-TV that will hook up to broadband and use a huge HDTV as a monitor if they desire

hussein the uh creepy will never get to force Chicago public schools on America

The oceans will still rise and fall and the sun will do whatever it pleases and Red China will still buy big Buicks

GM is at only $3 a share - whatever anyone thinks it will survive and shares will go up

[potlatch]

[will never get to force Chicago public schools on America]

I hope not. This is something that worried me. The program in Texas that did this said it cost 11 million a year, in comparison to Head Start that cost many millions less. Why do we need all these different programs anyway?

I don’t believe in bailing everybody out. They lived high on the hog many years, let them work their way out like we would have to do.

[Fichori]

ABOUT TIME!

[Kickass Conservative]

Who is this McCain fellow again?

[Redbob]

"John McCain said Tuesday that Sarah Palin did not damage his presidential bid..."

THIS is the Mother of All Understatements!

I nominate THIS for "Understatement of the Election Season, Professional Prevaricator Class"

[Redbob]

"These things happen in campaigns."

Especially when you staff your campaign with pissants...

[exit82]

And watch Lieberman suck up to his Dem fairweather friends by staying with the Dems.They screwed him once, and he had to run as an Indie to win. And he still went back to them.

And he’ll do it again.

I got this guy’s number in Sept. 1998 with his famous two-sided speech about Clinton’s lawbreaking re: suborning Lewinski/Tripp.

[Redbob]

" it wasn't for Sarah, the spread between himself and Hussein would have been much, much wider."

Yeah, without Miz Sarah, they'd a had to use logarithms to keep the reports on the same page!
LOL!

[ncalburt]

Aren't you tired of being played by the Obama media and Fox jack asses like Carl. Carl is the jerk and liar that peddled the Bush DUI story four days before the 2000 election !
Carl story is word for word the crap peddled by this huckster . This same guy has scammed the Media before !

[Tammy8]

Carl Cameron is indeed a jerk and needs to go down the road. I personally think someone should dig up dirt on him- what goes around comes around.

I think there is a good possibility the hoaxster is Cameron’s source- but it hasn’t been proven that I know of. Was the hoax posted before or after Cameron came out with the story? Can anyone tell? If it can be proven that Cameron’s source was a poser- then that would be a big black mark on Cameron and might help send him down the road. I have no idea how to pursue such a thing but I hope someone is chasing that down.

My issue with McCain is seperate from this- no matter where the trash came from that was thrown at Palin, I do not like the way McCain responded. I don’t think he intended to respond at all until he was flooded with complaints about his lack of response. He needed to respond strongly in the beginning to defend Palin and if his staff is innocent he needed to stand up for them too.

IMO one of the biggest problems the Republicans have is they seem unwilling to stand up to the media and the dims when things like this happen. If no one stands up to them then much of what is said sticks- whether it is B.S. or not.

[Deek1969]

This man comes out to condemn every add that attacks Obama within minutes. He then takes a week to defend Sarah. Shame on you McCain. The Conservatives will be better off in ‘12, without you in the Whitehouse!

[ncalburt]

NOw old Carl is saying he might have been wrong.
Fox fired in two days a person that smeared Obama but Carl can keep his gig ?