Palin: Hearing that McCain regrets picking me for VP is a 'perpetual gut-punch'

[RandySF]

Sarah Palin said Thursday that Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) admission that he regrets picking her as his running mate in his failed 2008 presidential bid is "like a perpetual gut-punch."

The former Republican vice presidential nominee said the senator's recent remarks were "not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he's apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign," she told the Daily Mail before speaking at a pro-Trump PAC fundraiser.

In his upcoming memoir, “The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and other Appreciations,” the 81-year-old senator laments not selecting former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) as his vice presidential candidate.
McCain still gives Palin high marks for her work on his campaign.

"I attribute a lot of what we're hearing and reading regarding McCain's statements to his ghostwriter or ghostwriters," Palin told the Daily Mail, saying she would have to hear from McCain herself.


http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/387190-palin-hearing-that-mccain-regrets-picking-me-for-vp-is-a-perpetual

[Cha]

1. Not too self-aware, eh

Palin?

I remember when she was on top of her scam-propaganda game at fauxsux and I couldn't wait until she was over.

Looks like that day has arrived.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Not To Worry Cha

When she went to Faux i thought "Wait 10 days, she'll quit." That's her MO.

[Solly Mack]

2. I think maybe I speak for a few people when I say we could have done without ever knowing

anything about you. If you had remained Alaska's problem instead of being foisted on the rest of us, the world would have been a lot better place. Just knowing you existed gave the world indigestion. You still do.

Branch, Twig, Track marks, and the rest of your mavericky named kids probably would have behaved exactly the same way in the spotlight or not, but the rest of us would have been spared knowing how close you came to having family rumbles at some D.C. pub.

McCain should regret you - and he should apologize to the rest of us for even entertaining the notion of you.

[BootinUp]

3. Cry me a river, you fraud.

[oasis]

4. Palin should have explained in her interview w/Katie Couric years ago,

that she doesn't read because of the possibility of a perpetual gut punches.

[Canoe52]

5. Well geez louise Sarah, you couldn't even hack it as a governor.

[Scarsdale]

11. She could not even make it

s governor, the council had signs and bumper stickers asking "Where's Sarah?" Even the barstool with her name on it at the local watering hole missed her scrawny arse.

[Raine]

6. Palin is probably one of the biggest reasons

that McCain lost but she's so delusional she thought they would've won if their roles had been reversed.

[PBass]

7. Yes, but she did go on to have a long and distinguished career in politics, after that. (sarcasm)

[emulatorloo]

29. Exact same thing I was thinking, lol.

[Mike Nelson]

8. Odd that...

...she did not figure this out by herself... I did, and I'm only an onlooker.

[Mc Mike]

9. Good. Er, I mean, so sorry to hear about your pain, Palin.

[misanthrope]

10. First of all, thank you John McCain for giving her a "perpetual gut punch"

That warms my evil little heart.

Secondly, I think Palin is absolutely lying when she said he has continually apologized to her for the people running his campaign. Her deflecting that onto his ghostwriters is classic Caribou Barbie.

Lastly, the final seven words of the second paragraph show exactly why he regrets picking her. I'm glad the reporter was cagey enough to include it and the irony and subtlety of it surely escape her.

You would have to Ray Charles not to see the direct lines of relationship and causality between her and the current POTUS.

[PaulX2]

12. I would rather hear fingernails on a chalkboard

Than her screechy voice. Just sayyin.

[ButSeeYa]

13. I wonder how Steve Schmidt feels...

He proposed Sarah Palin to McCain, if the movie, “Game Change,” is accurate.

[OnDoutside]

15. He said he hugely regrets and is embarrassed by it.

[ButSeeYa]

16. Thx OnDoutside

I’ve never had a chance to hear or read about Steve Schmidt addressing the Palin issue. Glad to know that he did.

[Denzil_DC]

18. Schmidt has made his views public a number of times:

Steve Schmidt’s brutally honest assessment of Sarah Palin - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/steve-schmidts-brutally-honest-assessment-of-sarah-palin/2011/03/04/gIQA9ewZ7R_blog.html

'Game Change': Steve Schmidt Endorses HBO's Film, Blasts Sarah Palin - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/game-change-steve-schmidt-sarah-palin-hbo-morning-joe-298509

And he's done so numerous times since. He's quite a never-Trumper nowadays.

[BlueStater]

14. No one fucking cares, you loathsome asshole.

You are contemptible. I blame you so much for why your party and its voters have lost their minds. You made this deranged, over-the-top behavior okay and normal.

[Soxfan58]

19. When he picked you

It was a gut punch for the rest of us.

[BannonsLiver]

30. Not me

I was never more sure Obama would win than I was the day they trotted that dingbat on stage.

[Maeve]

20. The day he chose you is the day Skinner posted "We just won the election"

And he was right!

[Snotcicles]

21. Sarah

"not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he's apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign,"

That is known as a White Lie.

[Orsino]

22. The Palin pick was a gut-punch to America.

It was a careless empowering of the airheaded Right, and a shortcut to the Trump presidency. All because tired old McCain couldn't generate telegenic excitement.

That Palin's allegedly providing "fresh ideas" was a lie is proven by how she was discarded, and by how she has failed to learn a goddamned thing since the day she demanded someone tell her what the VP's job is.

[Tanuki]

23. Sarah, if it's any consolation, just think of what a perpetual, self-inflicted

gut punch it must feel like for McCain every time he reflects on his foolish choice to put your unqualified ass on the ticket.
.

[SWBTATTReg]

24. I think everybody else too, has regrets over involvement w/ Palin in any manner ...

Even on a soccer field...

[IluvPitties]

25. You were the gut punch to America, Sarah.

Thanks to you, we got Trump.

[Zoonart]

26. F-right off, Sarah.

You monetized the SHIT out of that nomination. You set the stage for the Grifter In Chief in this WH so get permanently lost.

[hatrack]

27. "I feel like a refrigerator that's just been hit by a flying soup can!"

[muntrv]

28. Awww poor Sarah!