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Politico reports:
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace put Sen. John McCain in the hot seat Sunday, asking him whether he thought his former vice presidential running mate could win the presidential nomination and beat President Barack Obama.
“Of course she can. She can. Now, whether she will, whether she’ll even run or not, I don’t know,” the Arizona Republican said. “But you know a lot of things happen in campaigns Chris. I was written off a few times and we were able to come back so it’s going to be a roller coaster ride for all of them before we arrive at our nominee. But she certainly is a major factor and I believe she can be very competitive.”
Asked about Palin’s high unfavorables among independents, McCain responded that he’d never seen someone “as mercilessly attacked as Palin was.”
What else could he say? He says he was written off a few times during his campaign, but he came back. John, you didn’t win the election. You got the nomination, but, again, John, you didn’t win the election.
+1 Bubba
This really isn’t news. What was he supposed to say- that his pick for VP would get creamed in 2012?
I hope she gets the Republican nod…so does Obama…what more can I say?
Here in Texas, I can go vote in the Republican or Democratic primary. It would be fun to cast my vote for Palin. Hee hee
(I’m an independent who has been pushed away by the idiocy in the current incarnation of the Republican party. Shame on them for not trying in the least to try to woo me.)
“Asked about Palin’s high unfavorables among independents, McCain responded that he’d never seen someone “as mercilessly attacked as Palin was.””
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Attacked? McCain selects a person totally unfit for national office, and people are not supposed to notice or comment or ask questions?
You are so right, scoop. And how can she be ‘attacked’ when she hides out at Fox? The woman couldn’t handle the heat if she came out of the kitchen. The only female politician that was ‘mercilessly attacked’ and came up supreme was Hillary Clinton.
Sarah would be whining and gnashing her teeth, berating the ‘lamestream media’….
I really am disgusted at this man. I admired him for years in the early 2000′s, but he’s become a traitor to his country, putting party before all else. That he would openly support torturers after what he went through is just sickening, and shows that he has no principles whatsoever.
“Of course she can. She can. Now, whether she will or not, whether she’ll even run or not, I don’t know,” the Arizona Republican said on “Fox News Sunday.”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/29/mccain-palin-can-beat-obama/
Translation: Has the welcome mat just been rolled out by Fox? McCain what?
Of course she can will be her campaign motto. I can hear the chants now, “she can,
she can!!!” Why tempt fate? I am sure she is a nice lady but what he said. http://www.mediaite.com/tv/george-will-everyone-knows-sarah-palin-should-not-be-trusted-with-nuclear-weapons/
He must want to get a cushy retirement gig at FOX too.
John McCain. Still looney after all these years.
Anniem- John McCain knows how brutal it is to run for President. He is a very smart man. I might be wrong but I don’t see this as a glowing endorsement. ‘Pressure’ is probably a better word. I trust that the GOP will make sure that they have their candidate that can win. Different times.
McCain is not a very smart man. He is nothing but the son of an Admiral who was so bad at flying jets that he got shot down. He then made the most of it and has married well. Nothing more to see here folks, nothing more.
Watch and learn. He will be back!
“Never seen anyone as mercilessly attacked as Sarah Palin” Don’t you mean you have never seen anyone attack as mercilessly as Sarah Palin did to Barak Obama during and after your campaign?.
She is now a millionaire thanks to all those attacks. Silly man.
Well, McCain also thought that he could beat Obama, and he was wrong about that…
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe we’ll get lucky and put this to the test.
I don’t believe that it would be lucky for anyone if Palin got the nomination. First of all, depending on the mood of the American electorate, anything can happen. Palin in a position to walk into the WH is a nightmare that the world does not deserve. Second, she will further damage the dialogue in the country but dividing an already divided nation which could have more dire consequences than a single nut job ‘reloading’.
What Palin truly deserves is obscurity where she can not do any more damage to the country than she has already done.
First of all, depending on the mood of the American electorate, anything can happen.
I think I can say with reasonable certainty that the one thing that is not going to happen is that Palin is going to be elected president. If she’s the Republican nominee it’s not inconceiveable she could fail to carry a single state. At best it’s Landon and McGovern redux. Which is why she’s not going to get the nomination but her presence in the race is desirable on several counts
1) It devalues the entire process and by association all the Republican candidates
2) It heightens focus on Republican extremism
3) It forces the plausible candidates into a bidding war to secure extremist votes
4) It will bring a lot of humor to the proceedings
Unfortunately it’s probably not going to happen, this is stunting to extract more bucks from the wallets of suckers.
What is Palin’s path to the Republican nomination?
I don’t see it pass through the debate halls because I don’t believe the rest of the candidates are going to roll over and play dead. One hour on such a stage – in fact any arena that is not fawning over her ‘leather looks’ – would lead to her undoing.
I don’t see it pass through the hard beaten path of a campaign trail of several tens of thousands of miles – it is too much sustained hard work.
She can’t lead a sheltered existence while fighting for the nomination.
The only possible (though highly improbable) path she has is if the Republican nominating process implodes after a few rounds of voting. I don’t see an impending implosion. Rather, the Republican party would coalesce around Romney or Pawlenty. Till that happens, she will ‘show some leg’, wink and generally pretend as long as she can.
She is a walking fundraiser for the Dems. I do imagine the Repubs will also do well. People donate every time Frum posts on Palin.
“… asking him whether he thought his former vice presidential running mate could win the presidential nomination and beat President Barack Obama.
“Of course she can. She can. …”
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Seriously what else was McCain going to say? If he had said “No, she can’t win” that would have been a public admission that his own choice of her as a running mate had been the gaff that it was. He would never admit that.
Watch Palin record the entire bus tour and then sell it as a movie. A sensible person loses all respect foo Senator McCain when he states she’s been mercilessly attacked by the media. On the contrary, Palin’s casual use of terms like ‘reload,’ ‘real Americans’ and ‘blood libel’ demonstrate a willingness to divide and escalate brewing passions just to stay in the news she allegedly despises. She has no intention of working for her party or her country – she’s a self-employed media-whore out for herself. The common denominator for everything Ms. Palin does is money.
Not really sure where Caribou Barbie is headed but I wish her the best………….
A Palin candidacy could be GOOD for the Republican Party, and so I disagree with the earlier posts. It would be a great opportunity for Mitt to openly confront the proto-fascists wackos in his own party. Their would be lots of rejoicing and great gobs of money for Mitt (or Pawlenty, or whichever candidate had the stones), especially from the moderates and the business community. It may be the only way to get the Independents on board.
What is it about the Republican party that attracts loonies? Some of the Republican candidates, Bachmann, Santorem, Palin, Newt, appear to be either unspeakably vain or the products of many generations of inbreeding. That they should entertain the notion, even momentarily, that anyone would vote for them in a general election should be (barring the discovery that the President really is a Moslem with three other wives sequestered and veiled in a Chicago suburb) sufficient cause to have them institutionalized.
As to the others, Pawlenty, DeMint, and Romney are are mediocre intellects at best. Romney is also a cyborg. Huntsman appears to be a rational man and I haven’t seen him foam at the mouth like Newt and some of the others. I haven’t seen enough of Christie to judge whether he’s really smart or just one of those people who practices sounding decisive. Bush? – too bad Jeb, a better Bush boy, more educated and informed (not that that’s saying much), and perhaps more thoughtful than his Mr. Macho Man brother, wasn’t the one who ran first. For one thing, he might have listened to his knowledgeable and experienced father and not dragged us into the middle of the interminable Middle-Eastern tribal feuds. However, that’s not to say that Jeb is all that superior a choice for the future. Somewhere in the Republican Party there must be one, maybe even two people who are first-rate achievers and have the qualifications be President of the United States.
The Obama’s likely already have a check made out to contribute to Palin’s fund if she does decided to run – but we know she won’t…
Enough of the American Palin syndrome. Has the American public gone completely stark-raving mad?
I hope not. However, given today’s GOP who can tell. If the GOP doesn’t begin to understand where average voters live (via politics) they’ll lose big in 2012…and given the GOP social legislation at both the state and federal level as well as their regressive, economically harming austerity legislative agenda in which they harm average families but protect multi-national companies, either the country will go down in coming years or the GOP will be thrown out as people come to realize how devastatingly harmful the GOP agenda is the republic.