Sarah Palin broke her silence Thursday and said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., never told her directly that he regrets picking her as his running mate as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee. However, the former Alaska governor said every time she hears about the reports of his bitterness towards her, it's "like a perpetual gut-punch." "It's not a real fun thing that part of my job is the requirement – is having to read the news every day,"