This Week: McCain Refuses To Endorse Palin in 2012
Because what the country can't get enough of is more coverage of Sarah Palin (/snark), George Stephanopoulos asks the question burning brightly in the hearts... minds... crotches of the country... Washington... the punditocracy: Will John McCain endorse former running mate Sarah Palin for the 2012 election?
The answer? Nope.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You said, after the election, that Governor Palin has a bright future in your party. Does that mean that, if she does chooses to run for president, she can count on your support?
MCCAIN: Oh, no. Listen, I have the greatest appreciation for Governor Palin and her family, and it was a great joy to know them. [..]But I can't say something like that.
Ouch. Kind of hard to deny all the rumors of rancor between the two when you get put in that spot (take that, Bill Kristol), but McCain's choice of phrasing to chide Stephanopoulos on this line of questioning was more than a little unfortunate, especially considering how his age and health made Sarah Palin's position that much more critical:
MCCAIN: ... my corpse is still warm, you know?
If McCain is still alive in four years, he will be even creepier than he is now.
crotches is right!
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
...had the question been asked if he would still be hitting on Palin in 4 years, the answer would have been 'yes'.
AP (Video) Sarah Palin's Home Church Torched
As you sow so shall you reap - Galatians VI
Democracy is too important to be entrusted to politicians.
Rise Up!
Protest!
the fuck she is by 2012.
me-oww!
With her uniquely assigned number on her non designer orange suit. Sorry Neiman Marcus.
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
They'll never forget. Nor the turkeys. Wolves. Hamsters too, I imagine. One day the tables will be turned...
Now that its clear McCain will never be president, will he be hopping back on the Straight Talk Express? we shall see...
Barack said the wheels on that bus fell off a long time ago. LOL
He was for Palin before he was against her.
As much as I would love to have Sarah Palin to kick around some more I think her 15 minutes is up. Even if she were to make it out of the Republican primary in 2012 which could happen since the GOP bar for competence, intelligence and integrity is so low, she would lose in a landslide in the generals.
Not only did his little publicity stunt of naming Sarah Palin VP, backfire, Sarah Palin actually gained more popularity in one month than he did in the previous 18 months.
In addition, she turned his Straight Talk Express into a Incoherent, Idiotic Gibberish Wide Load with its blinkers on. Not that he wasn't equally at fault for picking the bimbo in the first place, but he can't be anything other than bitter about the situation.
Not that his current rancor towards her will matter in four years. Assuming he lives that long, if she does do something stupid (better question: how can she prevent herself), like trying to run for POTUS, McCain will inevitably play the political game and give his support to the bimbo like a good little right-wing tool.
At first I was impressed with Senator McCain's response - witty, yet a non-answer. But then it hit me.... This is the person he told us would be the 2nd best pick in the land (at least GOP-land) for leading the US. Now, he says "wellllll, maybe we should wait to answer that".
Such a disappointment he's become. Willing to throw the US under the bus to get elected.
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"Such a disappointment he's become. Willing to throw the US under the bus to get elected."
No surprise there. He's a Republican. That's what they do all the while professing to love God and country.
Now McCain knows Sarah's going to be kicked out as Govenor because he stepped in to stop the investigation. All the voters who thought these two were friends now see it was a total lie. McCain was using Sarah for the female votes and most likely would have had her removed if he won. Lieberman was always in the wings to take the second spot. John was most likely going to use the Troopergate scandal to kick her out. He knew she was going down he just wanted to use her before she fell out. Now Sarah had her own plans as she would have used the 25th Amendment to push John out of office. Uncle Ted knew he had a place at the table if his student Sarah got in office. If Uncle Ted lost the Senate seat with his appeal overturned he could have a high Cabinet job or even be Sarah's VP. Sarah and John's plan fail and even Joe the Plummer was kicked to the curb. Now poor Joe is pan handleing and Sarah is left to beg for her job. Notice we're close to the end of December and Bristol hasn't had her second child yet. If Bristol's child is born in January you do the math as Trig was born in April. Pictures of Sarah speaking and leaving the plan show she was no more pregnant then George W. Bush.
"Does that mean that, if she does chooses to run for president, she can count on your support?"
Chooses to run for president.
Sarah Palin.President.
I can't take much more of this.
"To me, truth is not some vague, foggy notion. Truth is real. And,
at the same time, unreal. Fiction and fact and everything in between,
plus some things I can't remember, all rolled into one big "thing."
This is truth, to me. "
-Jack Handy
Miss Kitty is right. McCain didn't want to be Prez, and chose Sarah Palin as his sacrifice/excuse. It worked. The media and corporate butt lickers were all for Obama anyway. I'm sure he saw the writing on the wall. Perhaps even the GOP saw the writing on the wall as well.
I agree with miss_kitty too. The Palinator was also used to bait wingnuts along so the GOP might use them later. McCain knew that he couldn't handle being POTUS with all the problems we have right now.
Between the shoes thrown at GW and McCain throwing Palin under the bus, it has been an entertaining day.
Give this man a few years, and he might turn out to be an elder statesman.
McLier is saying that his campaign was all lies,and now that it's over you didn't believe any of that crap did you??????
Palinopsia (Greek: palin for "again" and opsia for "seeing") is a visual disturbance that causes images to persist to some extent even after their corresponding stimulus has left.
Now that McCain isn't pandering to the extreme right I don't find him quite so disgusting. You guys should lighten up and cut the old guy some slack. Thank God he lost and at least he's being honest about Palin now. I heard him say some good things about Obama and Hillary on Letterman recently, too. We really do all need to try to work together now.
No doubt the kooks on the extremes won't be able/willing to do it.
this is why mccain lost the election - he's too congenial and too independent. had he run as a conservative, he would have won.
sarah palin is reagan reborn and she's going to come back swinging and hit you libs right between the eyes.
she is a great governor and will be our nominee - whether it's in 2012 or 2016. her time will come..
america will enjoy eight years of OUR iron lady...
Heed Whitney Houston's words-- CRACK IS WHACK! Now put down that crackpipe and try not to make the holiday season tense for your family.
had he run as a conservative, he would have won.
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no, he ran as a right-wing extremist, pandering to extremists like yourself. problem is, people are wise to the fact that your POV is toxic to this country. And you lost.
if she is your nominee, well, I hope so. You'll lose like you did this year. :)
The man actually says funny things. If his wit and humor had been even a little bit more displayed, the election might have been different. Too late now! Snort! Guffaw!
Is it just me or was he a little quick to answer?!?
And if he doesn't appear to trust her in that position what makes him think we would?
Can you imagine what it would be like if Palin were President??!!
What are your thoughts?
..he's just doing what he's always done >> whatever's in the best interest of John S. McCain. He'll lie, change positions, reach across the aisle, anything so he can keep his job, his trophy wife and his position in life.
The Repugs only let him run as their candidate in 2008 because they knew they were going to lose anyway - why waste a "good - viable" candidate (as if any Repug is good)? And, they saddled him wirh Miss Sarah because they wanted to scam the evagelical nutcases, and because they knew they weren't going to win anyway. As for Miss Sarah, stick a fork in her - she's done.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Denial of endorsement has nothing to do with any rift between McCain and Palin. No politician is likely to endorse one candidate four years in advance - can you find any examples of such a thing? Stephanopoulos should know this and he was out of line in even asking the question.
Skepto is right. It makes no sense to ask this question at this point. If the question had been "If Palin gets the nomination, would you support her?" that would be one thing, but the question was "If she runs...." This really says more about George and the media than it does about McCain.
then that you are not a fan?
So you think he was dispensible really, valid point.
He doesn't seem too strong an opposition does he.
So Amitola, do you think Palin would have a hope in the slightest of becoming president as Palin2012 seems to believe??
Nice use of the "strike" function.
I laughed so hard I got a woody.
Oh no, I can't say something like that he says!
Man, that's rich!
HERE'S WHY MCCAIN HASN'T ENDORSED PALIN!
oh, that is just hilarious.
To all the people who are so excited about the greatness of our Governor, you obviously live somewhere else. She may still turn out to be a decent governor, but to consider her the "Lady" that is going to lead the country in the future is exaggerating her abilities. Nothing she has started her has yet to come to fruition. We are still waiting to see if she's good at this job, let alone running the whole country. We have a big budget shortfall, and for the first time in any elected office she will have to work with a truly limited budget. And there are some problems surfacing with the company that she agreed to pay $500 million dollars of state money to help them get the job done. In the meantime, a couple of the oil companies are working on their own project, spending millions of dollars of their own money to do the same thing. Seems they don't have a lot of confidence in the governor's choice.
I am from elsewhere, Im writing from England, but we can even see over here that she is completely in over her head! It's no wonder companies that you refer to are funding themselves, McCain is obviously not willing to show substantial belief towards her getting a higher position, so it follows that companies would rather use their own money than allow her input!!
Well of course MacCain will endorse Sarah if she stands for President. He will be trying to get the VP job. He's not stupid. He knows she's a winner. But don't be surprised if he runs again. His fall back position is to be chosen VP to who-ever beats him. And that will be Palin!
I hope she does run. But she has a legal problem pending in Alaska, doesn't she? No biggie, all the better.
Nuthin would be finer, than to see that old vaginer in the election.
Palin was a last ditch effort to garner the female vote.
That's all that was. Nothing more. It failed.
Do you know why?
Because she just plain old doesn't have the brains to be a mayor. Let alone anything more.
So, please, get her to run. We want you to select her.
Please,please,please,please,please,please,please...............
What is your conceptual, continuity?
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