McCain on Palin “best decision I’ve ever made.”
So, with a couple year’s worth of perspective, and with the cold, hard realization that there may never have been a candidate so frighteningly unprepared, and so woefully inadequate to hold the position of Vice President of the United States, how does John McCain feel? How does he feel about having chosen an un-vetted running mate, who hadn’t even fully submitted the necessary basic documentation, to be a heartbeat away from the presidency?
Speaking to Sean Hannity this evening in New Hampshire, John McCain said that naming Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 was “still the best decision I’ve ever made.”
This, of course, begs the question, “What’s the worst decision he’s ever made?”
Saying what he just told Hannity?
That man has definitely gone ’round the bend and over the edge. What a nitnort..and his running mate, also, too.
Everyone sing along: I’m going off the rails on the crazy train….
Snicker…
His worst decision ever made was attempting to make a run for POTUS.
He picked the Worst Govenor Ever to revive his flat-lined campaign. He knew and knows now that it didn’t require someone with brain. He knows his republican peers.
Kinda funny.
Well, it was definitely the best thing McCain ever did for the Democratic Party!
Thanks, John!
John McCain, secret democrat. Hee hee.
I’m speechless.
Me too. I can’t believe that he would admit that at this point.
Me, neither. Not too many people want to admit senility has set in.
Ditto.
dear John…..your train has left the station without you.
I’ll assume that he either didn’t really WANT to be POTUS and was glad she helped torpedo his campaign OR he realizes that Obama is a much better President than he would ever have been and is grateful that the best man won.
Or he’s just nuts.
All the above!!!!!!!!!
Didn’t he make a “slip” when he went to New H. to endorse Rommney?
I would have to see a clip ,but either it was a joke—-or thought he was being funny.
but I heard him say—Obama–rather than Rommney.
Here’s the clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiNnLjXLJq0
McCain endorsing Obama is funny, but what’s really hilarious is that it takes several beats before the TeaPublicans flanking him jump in to correct him – that is, they weren’t listening.
That;s the problem—–they don’t Listen!!!!! To anything that is.
What is being said—-they dont comprehend—–cutting off their nose in spite of their face.
He just admitted as much when he endorsed Obama in N.H.
he sure did! i nearly fell off the bed. i was hysterical.
I am putting support wires to help hold my head on my shoulders…I’ve dun shook it so much it dun about plumb come off!!!
After TRYING To listen to the things spewing from the men running currently for the job JM so wanted, but SP even more so, I can’t believe all the manure can come from such few sources!
To think we have almost 10 months more of this!!!!
Here’s a man at the end of his career who blew the biggest chance of his life and is sadly unable or unwilling to publicly admit that he made a mistake. In his circles, admitting that you’re not perfect or that you ever made a mistake would be seen as a weakness. Integrity, personal responsibility, leadership? Ale those qualities of a good President? John McCain – not so much.
Maybe the inability to admit mistakes is what he has in common with Palin.
Maybe he can’t admit his mistake because he doesn’t believe his career is nearly at its end.
I think he will have to retire, and be reflective, for several years before he can entertain the notion that he really, really blew it. Not that I ever would have voted for him (“maverick” is NOT a nickname that inspires confidence, amongst other things about him), but choosing Palin nailed it once she came out onto the national stage and started speaking…
His pick of Palin was the last straw for me. She cost him dearly.
OT, but some news about a couple of Alaskan villages
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0110/Alaska-s-tale-of-two-cities-one-desperate-for-fuel-another-for-big-shovels
This really belongs on the open thread, but I’m posting the NH primary results, from the LA Times:
Romney
91,460 votes
✔ 39.3% 7
Paul
53,210 votes
22.9% 3
Huntsman
39,172 votes
16.9% 2
Gingrich
21,869 votes
9.4% 0
Santorum
21,670 votes
9.3% 0
Perry
1,622 votes
0.7% 0
Other
3,453 votes
1.5%0
I think it’s time for Gov. Goodhair to go home. He’s costing the state of Texas boatloads of money (not that he cares).
I think that “fondly remembering things that did not occur” is the third sign of senility. The second is “mistaking a screeching church lady for your nurse”. (“Bring that AED over here! Stat!”). The first is “pretending you’re still scary”.
CLEAR!!
But I am still scary. I am. Certainly I am. Where did that nurse go?
I’m sorry, honey. That wasn’t the nurse. That was the dog licking your face.
Go back to sleep now and take a nice long nap and we’ll have some hot chocolate and Metamucil when you wake up again.
And no wandering around the yard wearing your shorts like a hat again…the neighbors are starting to complain.
Senility.
Makes you say things that don’t make sense.
I’ve always thought John McCain had gone round the twist and that just proves it. It was great for President Obama though, so maybe we should send him a thank you.
I think there is something in McCain’s personality that won’t let him admit that he made a mistake. I remember some of those times that he got so angry and just looked and sounded unhinged – usually over things that weren’t that big of a deal.
I agree. I think that he went around the bend quite a few years ago. He should never have run for the presidency in 2008. Just imagine the last couple of years if John McCain had been president and Sarah you-know-who had been vice-president! The Republicans have run incompetents since at least the year 2000. Look at what they did to the country and to the world between 2000 and 2008.
I don’t know why he can’t admit that he made a mistake. It seems to me that all these fools in the GOP put themselves and their egos far ahead of the good of their country. Patriots they are not.
Conqueror of Mesopotamia
McCain’s second-best decision was the Iraq invasion!
McCain has never admitted a mistake, not when he graduated at the near bottom of his Naval Academy class, not when he destroyed numerous jets, not about invading Iraq, not at any time during his public career.
Why change now?
did he offer a reason why?
I’d make a guess that in certain places, in certain circumstances, particularly a bit more private than national television, he might, MIGHT just come up with a slightly different statement. Just a guess.
Yes, I seem to remember an article in the Guardian back in 2008 where he likened Palin to a dog holding on to his trouser leg and he couldn’t shake her off. I don’t think that was meant to be repeated but I loved the analogy.
What a great image! Thanks, Irishgirl. I’d not heard about that. Sarah is so like an angry little terrier that just wants to tear into everything and not let go.
Bulldog! Remember what she called herself… Sorry, cute bulldogs…
More like a dog peeing on his shoe.
Even better. The stain and the stink will follow him until his very last day.
Well, dang, Johnnie Mac, that’s pathetic.
“…best decision I ever made.” That’s your legacy?
Can you imagine the history books and headstone?! Oy, vey.
No open thread yet, so I’m taking this opportunity to send some love to our mike in Iowa and his team. May your new pieces bring you more mobility and less pain, my brother. You’ll be charming the physical therapists in no time.
thatcrowwoman
I join you in that wish. The first few weeks are an adjustment, but physical therapy makes it flash by and the results are worth it. Blessings to you, Mike.
Yes, mike from iowa, I join the other mudpups in wishing you blessings for a successful surgery and the best possible outcome.
Me, too! Also. Go, Mike, go!
Mike, hope your new bits and pieces have a sense of humor. They are going to need it! Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
i can just imagine Mike charming his physical therapist also Crow. he is a lovely man and kind.
i will check in a little later. i got to go see my therapist in an hour so i better hurry.
therapy is not easy sometimes the exercises hurt but then she gives me soft tissue massage and puts pain *goop* on the hurtful bits and that’s nice.
as for McCain i say Pfffft. he is and has always been a jerk.
Me too, me too! Happy and Successful New Bits and Pieces Day, Mike!
With best wishes for a speedy recovery to Mike! It is just amazing what new joints do for an old body! And now that the media has fled Iowa for other parts of the country, you will have some peace and quiet time during which you can do all of those exercises the physical therapist will. It’s almost like being back in school – did you do your exercise homework yesterday? But it all helps the outcome.
John has to double down on his stupidity for choosing Snowdrift Snooky.
Meghan McCain has basically told us McCain knew Palin was a nightmare. But he
will NEVER be able to publicly admit he was about to put us all in the hands of
a mentally unstable woman. Thanks John! Your decision saved us all in the end.
It’s bad enough he’s not up for re-election this year, so we have to put up with him as senator for a while longer. This just proves he’s no longer capable of doing the job. If he runs again he’ll face stiff opposition from the R’s, especially if they lose the House and the White House this time. There’s a good Dem candidate running for Kyl’s seat (who is retiring – yay!), so a purplish tide may be starting.
There are stirrings of sanity down here in the desert, but John McCain isn’t a part of them. Worst. Choice. Ever.
Thankfully the rest of the country saw it as one of the worst mistakes McCain has done.
Speaking from NH – thankful that the primary is over and done with and they are moving on. The talk around here is that Romney’s victory is on thin ice because he has actually been campaigning here for 2-3 years, he owns a couple of houses here, spent mega time and money – he had to win by double digits but he was only won by 16 points over Ron Paul – not really much in the big picture. He got the Sununu political machine behind him and he still needed to invite Christie from NJ and Halley from NC or is it SC to add spice to his campaign. Gingrich started late in really questioning his “business” experience and you will definitely hear more of that in the next couple of primaries. Mittens was a corporate raider before they knew what to call his “business” and he took federal bailouts to save his company before that was such a no-no. Santorum and Perry were non starters because we are all just heathans up here and bible thumpers really didn’t make much impact, although they tried – but failed. Those two will certainly make more waves in the next couple of primaries. The biggest problem is that there is no viable alternatives to Mitt and the more he gets off his message and really questioned, not the softball stuff his been handling, the more he sounds like a squeeky toy. The repubs are really stuck – sucks to be them !
Whether it’s Mitt or someone else as the GPO nominee, I’ve got a bad feeling this election is going to be a whole lot nastier than 2008.
I agree. We thought Sarah was vicious, but I’ve been watching GOP guests last night on MSNBC, I was struck by their leering, scathing remarks. Romney himself set the tone and now it seems to be the official party line – nasty is as nasty does. There is so much bitterness, resentment and envy in them that it is going to burn the airways from this point out. I hope it burns itself out.
Sarah was vicious and she was supposedly being held back from some of her attacks by the McCain people. This time she’ll be feeding the lines to the Romney people. Perhaps in return for some position or title.
Republicans will never, ever, admit they are wrong!
Yup, even better than his decision to vote to deregulate the Savings and Loans industry. And the results were about the same both times.
If he means because she was a very large part of why they ultimately lost their bid to POTUS Obama, he couldn’t be more correct. Oh, the irony.
Since that’s the best decision he ever made, what does that mean about his decisions to divorce, marry Cindy, have children, run for Senate, join the Air Force, vote for deregulation, be bipartisan in many of his past efforts, oppose water boarding, . . .
You know, every time I hear something from McCain these days, I am even more grateful that the mean old foll is not our President.
I think in his gut he knows that SP would have hounded him to his death if his ticket would have won in 2008. I think that secretly he is GLAD he lost – his concession speech was the most relaxed and gracious moment in his whole campaign, while SP was tearing up she was so angry and disappointed.
And Sarah was really mad that they turned out the lights and she didn’t get a chance to say another word.
Just another thought—I don’t think Sarah and Cindy got along very well. There was a time when John and Cindy returned to their vehicle, and you could see there was a big “fight” going on.
Satan scoops out yet another spoonful of John McCain’s soul and spreads it on toasted bread.
Maybe he’s thinking (I know, begs the question) that if he praises her and his decision, one of his ‘other’ Rethuglican cronies now in the running will opt to choose HER yet again as a VP nominee…..as if once wasn’t enough….omg perish the thought!
I’ve not been able to find any source (video, audio, transcript, etc.) for the McCain-to-Hannity quote — while I’ve no doubt Johnny said it (because he is, afterall, a dottering old fool!) I was wondering about the context in which it was made. Did Hannity solicit it by asking a direct question of McCain about his decision to Palinize the ticket, or was it just something McCain offered (seemingly out of the blue) as a salve, possibly, to a very uneasy conscience? Does anyone know how the statement came about? beth.
What an odd thing to say, considering the many other decisions he has made over the course of his life, how could he say this was the ‘best’ decision?
Other decisions:
To join the military
To run for office
To marry his wife(ves)
To divorce one of them
To have children
To be a Republican
…and even from that few number, the best decision of his life was to choose Sarah Palin as a running mate??? say what?
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it!
let us nor forget his decision to be King Rat in the POW camp. he got to eat more food than the other prisoners and get better treatment. his fellow camp survivors told all about it. now. that must also be something on which he prides himself
shhh! Nobody is supposed to talk about that. If he were a Democrat it would have been smeared all across the media and he never would have been elected to any office. His political career would have ended before it began.
if I were McCain’s wife or child or grandchild I would feel pretty hurt by his best decision he’s ever made was picking the former half Gov. as V.P. for a failed presidential run.What hold does Palin have over McCain that he feels he has to kowtow to her now?Stupid, stupid remark.But not nearly as bad as when he recently introduced and endorsed Romney at a campaign rally as,” the next POTUS of the U.S. Barack Obama”. I was even embarrassed for McCain.Open floor fall through chute.