Sarah Palin: McCain's Regrets About Her Are A "Perpetual Gut-Punch," he preferred Lieberman

[Miles Archer]

Sarah Palin Says McCain’s Regrets About Her Are A ‘Perpetual Gut-Punch’
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) reportedly wishes he’d chosen Joe Lieberman as his 2008 running mate.



https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sarah-palin-john-mccain-regrets_us_5af56b23e4b00d7e4c1998d2

Palin, in an interview with The Daily Mail published Thursday, said McCain has never expressed any misgivings to her. The ailing senator reportedly makes the admission in his upcoming book and in an HBO documentary, The New York Times reported.

“That’s not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he’s apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign –- some who now staff MSNBC, the newsroom there, which tells you a lot,” Palin said. She attributed McCain’s statements to his ghostwriters.

“It happens to me also where people speak for me and a bell is rung, and you can’t un-ring the bell,” she said. “I don’t know unless I heard it from Sen. McCain myself.” She added that hearing the claim feels “like a perpetual gut-punch.”

McCain reportedly writes in his book that he planned to choose Joe Lieberman, then an independent senator from Connecticut, as his running mate, but advisers counseled him against it because of Lieberman’s past as a Democrat.

[Orsino]

1. Still spouting word salad. n/t

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. I am reminded of the gotcha question......

What newspapers and magazines do you read that helps you in forming your political opinions?

As if Sarah Palin even knows how to read? She sure as hell cannot speak proper English.

[spanone]

3. palin is a perpetual gut-punch to America

[thucythucy]

4. Beat me to it. nt.

[Mister Ed]

5. Palin's a perpetual gut-punch to McCain.

That mindless, self-serving grifter torpedoed McClain's long-cherished presidential ambitions. She surely must be one of the enduring regrets of his life.

[rustydog]

6. A tree stump would have been a better running mate

[question everything]

7. From the campaign point of view (Steve Schmidt's) it made sense

She was a governor, to add executive experience (more or less) to McCain. And she ran attacking the oil interests in Alaska.

We, Democrats, just rejected our opportunity to appoint a woman presidential candidate so it was kinda sticking it to us.

I remember hearing Palin's acceptance speech - after the announcement was made. I was driving and appreciated her paying homage to Hillary.

In hindsight, I think that her style of attack was a precursor to the style of Trump. Rural people loved it with Palin and loved it with Trump.

[GusBob]

8. Perpetual is an apt word I guess

But I think she meant to sat virtual

Hard to tell with this dim bulb