John McCain was my friend. I will remember the good times. My family and I send prayers for Cindy and the McCain family.— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) August 26, 2018
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People: John McCain's 2008 Running Mate Sarah Palin Is Not Invited to His Funeral: 'It's Sad'
President Donald Trump and former John McCain presidential running mate Sarah Palin are not invited to memorial services for the iconic Arizona senator, multiple sources tell PEOPLE.
“Two names you won’t see on the guest list: Trump and Palin,” says a Capitol Hill source with knowledge of funeral plans for McCain, who died of brain cancer Saturday at age 81.
“Invitations were not extended” to the two political figures, confirms Carla Eudy, a fundraiser who has worked with and been friends with the McCain family for decades.
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WNU Editor: Over the years I have never read or heard anything negative from former Governor Sarah Palin on Senator McCain. Never. It is unfortunate that the McCain family have made this decision.
The reason why McCain's family doesn't want Sarah around is because she went rogue when she was his running mate and they (still) blame her for causing McCain to lose because of all her crazy and incompetent comments at that time. And of course subsequently her short stardom during which she threw McCain and his values under the bus and causing the rise of the tea party that ultimately led to Trump.
ReplyDeleteSo yeah, there's history, but in the end it was McCain's mistake to choose her. She was just who she is. ..An uneducated politician who abandoned her Post. Understandably the McCain family doesn't want her near and give her any platform again.
McCain's political career should have ended in 2000 when he lost the GOP primary to GWB. But it didn't. McCain went on to be the designated loser in the 2008 race and he was more than happy to take the dive. Ran a campaign just like he ran his political life - with an unwavering self-serving morality.
ReplyDeleteStubborn and sanctimonious - ran a rigidly "respectful" campaign. Allowed himself and his running mate to be dragged through the mud with ZERO pushback.
Afterwords he was remarkably unaffected by the decisive loss. Happily continuing his 36 year tenure in DC.
To suggest that Sarah Palin caused the defeat of McCain v Obama is idiotic and petty. Palin appealed to the very demos that Trump reached in 2016. It was McCain that screwed the pooch. Sort of a 1996 Bob Dole redux.
BTW, the Tea Party and Donald Trump are GOOD things, not myopic, navel-gazing food.
The spiteful exclusion of Sarah Palin from the funeral reflects poorly on the the McCain family.
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I remember the 2008 election very well. Her selection by McCain was the best decision that he made in that election. She energized that campaign, and the idea that she went rogue is completely wrong. She was held back after McCain made the decision to not campaign because of the financial crisis, and that, coupled with a lot of other mistakes that Sen. McCain and his aides did, cost them the election.
ReplyDeleteRussInSoCal. Your analysis is spot on.
Sorry but you're both delusional
DeleteSarah Palin - in her own words on why she's qualified and what foreign politics experience she has: "I can see Russia from my window"
Sarah had a number of embarrassements that gave international understanding to the term "gotcha moment"
To suggest she not completely was bat crazy is misleading. On top, she was and still is very uneducated and unfit for office.
On top she quit her position before her term was over.
McCain's mistake was to go for someone young&dynamic because he was looking comparatively old and had health issues for the longest time. But I rather have a McCain than a "I abandon my post whenever I feel like it and don't know sh*t and am proud of it"Palin
The "I can see russia" comment has been debunked and its now treated as fake news, the news outlet that wrote it has since corrected it. Whos uneducated now, huh?
DeleteI actually saw the original interview when it was aired. And yes I confused it with the funnier SNL version which stuck in my memory -I admit that - but in the real interview she was asked what Russia foreign experience she has and she said that she can see Russia from Alaska. Checked age verified via Snopes. You got it half right and it was good to check my memory, but if you watch the interview -either the snippet on snopes or the full one on YouTube you can see the entire interview was quite terrible and she back then knew she was criticised for not having any foreign policy or politics experience whatsoever and was expected to address this question with a bit more depth. That's why SNL -rightfully so imo-made this funny,memorable quote without distorting the truth. .her continued blunders.. look I get it, SNL can be extreme sometimes but this was really quite accurate
DeleteI doubt Mccain could have realistically won the 2008 campaign.With a highly unpopular president Bush II plus the financial crisis breaking out he was facing an uphill battle to say the least.That he managed to get that far is quite a feat but he was never going to beat the good guy image that Obama had plus the relative youth of Obama as compared to Mccain.
ReplyDeleteAnd that tide was amplified by the selection of Alaska governor Palin as nominee for vice-president. She told the Republican convention: “I love those hockey moms. You know, they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick.” Her gaffes were quaint by Trumpian standards, but she had little grasp of policy, accused Obama of “palling around with terrorists” and paved the way for a grievance-fuelled, celebrity-driven politics, later appearing in a reality TV show and as a pundit on Fox News.
ReplyDeleteMcCain came to realise that it was a terrible mistake. In the HBO documentary, filmed as he was dying from brain cancer at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona, he made a last confession. He said he regretted not choosing then senator Joe Lieberman, a Democrat turned independent, as his running mate. “I should have said: ‘Look, Joe Lieberman is my best friend, we should take him.’ But I was persuaded by my political advisers it would be harmful, and that was another mistake that I made.”
Counterpoint: She's a bleating nitwit. As such she has great appeal to the rubes.
ReplyDeleteand,anon, those Know Littles continue to babble without her.
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