McCain on Possible Palin Bid: ‘My Corpse is Still Warm!’

This proves McCain’s true feelings surrounding Gov. Palin and her selection, not by himself, but by his supposedly “savvy” aides.
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Before Palin a few people showed up at the McCain meetings ; with Palin thousands and thousands of people showed up.
And many , many of them voted on Palin and not McCain.
Palin worked very hard for McCain , took the heat for the mistakes the RNC made (among other things ,clothes),got a terrible media bashing and after the election was attacked by “anonymous” sources out of the McCain camp; and McCain was silent.
The courage she displayed against all the hate and ridicule was admirable.
No, my respect goes to Gov.Palin.
Character matters ,and Palin has it.

For Sarah Palin this all was a learning process.
Bad preparation about foreign affairs (or no preparation at all) and a bad team to work with.
She came possible to soon on the national stage, but she showed persistence ,sincerity, character and authenticity.
I hope she seeks to learn about foreign affairs and national issues if she plans to run for executive office in the future. I hope she does well.

I am ashamed- not of Obama, not of McCain or Palin- but of my fellow countrymen. How full of hate you have all become that anyone with an opposing view is characterized as a clown. The truth is that nearly all of you don’t know your head from your _____. The country needs all of us to pull together to find the greatness that we once were. Stop beating up on the politicians and reading more into their statements than what is there. McCain said that Obama should come forward sooner rather than later as to what he knew about Chicago politics…Obama will. That wasn’t an attack by McCain it was sound advice given without malice. McCain said that his corpse was still warm in response to supporting Sara Palin for President…the man has feelings and is still contemplating his loss…give him that proudly. This country will fail if we continue to attack each other with spite, hatred, jealousy, and condemnation.

McCain and Palin’s attempts to undermine president-elect Obama’s fine character backfired. Palin is a thinly disguised religious zelot and nut. She needs to pose for a men’s magazine where she can be appreciated for what she has to offer. She looks good on the outside, but she doesn’t have what it takes in her head.

BEFORE Palin, John McCain had my vote. But when he announced her as running mate I did a 180!

I look forward to Governor Palin running for president in 2012. Of all of the candidates out there she is the only one who has what it takes to truly change Washington. She takes a terrible beating from the liberals in the press and also from many in the Republican party heirachy; both want to continue business as usual and see her as a threat to the established order of dysfunction. Ron Paul has similar reformist credentials but he simply lacks the charisma to break through the barrier presented by a liberal press.

She used and abused McCain to put herself in the national spotlight. I don’t want that Bimbo using and abusing my country. Stay in the frozen tundra town where you belong, mommy.

We knew more about Sarah Palin in two weeks , then about Obama in two years.
The media drove about 400 reporters to Alaska to find something about Sarah Palin ,with which they could attack her.
But the found nothing ,so they resort to lies , gossip and anonymous sources.
And so there was a constant daily negative coverage of Sarah Palin.(analysis showed this: PEW)
And that took its effect in the mind of some people.
It is amazing how much the spin of the left wing American media did a number on Sarah Palin.

The delusional sheep that are still willing to follow a bumbling idiot (palin) off a glacier.
McCain might have been President elect had he chosen someone with a brain…ie. Pawlenty, or one of the thousands of intelligent Republican woman instead of the airhead. He didn’t, so he isn’t.

Honestly, it is a stupid question ask. Nobody should be thinking about 2012, we have to solve the problems that face us now. Why do journalist with big egos ask these irrelevant “gotcha” type questions? We don’t even know who is running in 2012, and at this point we shouldn’t care. Now is the time for the parties to work together where they can to solve our 2008 problems.
From a McCain supporter, that wishes Obama well. We’ll pick up this conversation in 2012.

Those Palin supporters were not going to vote for Obama and they were not going to stay at home and watch Obama get elected. It was useless for McCain to pick Palin. He should had picked someone to draw moderates and independants. Those are the ones that tipped the scale for Obama. The Palin nuts hate Obama and would not vote for him

McCain is basically admitting that she was used as a gimmick to get McCain elected.
Seems we did indeed dodge a bullet.

I watched the campaigns with the greatest interest and tried to catch or read about everything that was said and done; this campaign was SO interesting on several fronts.
Regarding Sarah Palin: She showed herself to be a natural politician from the moment she walked on the stage. Those of you who call her an idiot, or a bimbo, or stupid, are wrong. She’s very obviously a sharp cookie or she’d have caved in quickly under the stress.
The problem is, during those weeks of campaigning I never saw any evidence at all that she was capable of handling the job of vice president.
Her lack of knowledge of the nuances of world politics is appalling. To talk of ‘briefing’ to ‘bring her up to speed’ on foreign policy is to ask for the moon. Foreign policy can’t be learned in a few evenings of quick lessons even by the most intelligent of students. . . . and so forth.
Her expertise is largely in confidence and fearlessness in public debate. Her ability to dodge direct questions and detour around absolute truths is breathtaking to see, as is her ability to cast venom regardless of facts.
Last, her obvious willingness, even passion, to bring religion into politics is downright frightening. Can’t y’all see what rigid religious beliefs are causing (and have ever caused) in the rest of the world?
So, I don’t know what John McCain really did see in her. He certainly didn’t make it clear, other than that she ‘energized’ the party. That’s not really worth a lot on the world stage.

Ashley, lets wait and see if we dodged a bullet or put ourselves in the path of a bazooka.

Connie in Florida. Please elaborate on how you think Sarah used and abused McCain, and those of you who think she is not qualified to be President. I guess you think Obama is qualified? It is very interesting to read that it is usually women that are the most critical of another woman. Before we are finished, we will have Chicago politics and more corruption in Washington than there is now. Sarah is fantastic.

Voted for McCain, but what in the world is he running for now. Can’t help but wonder if he was this wishy-washy while a POW, and if he always tried to be everybody’s best buddy. Maybe if he had come forward with some of the truth
(though ugly) about Obama, results would have been different. Stop trying to be Mr. Nice Guy – it’s not becoming. Honesty is more appealing.

I’m not going to comment on the Palin mistake, but thought I’d post another interesting tidbit regarding the McCain campaign. Here it is:
McCain campaign sells surplus Blackberries with ‘hundreds of emails,’ phone numbers still on them.»
[mccainbb.jpg The Washington Post reported this week that the McCain campaign is selling surplus office and computer equipment. Reporters from Fox’s Washington, DC affiliate went over to the “fire sale” and bought several Blackberries from the campaign. When the Fox employees turned the devices on, they found that Blackberries still “contained more than 50 phone numbers for people connected with the McCain-Palin campaign, as well as hundreds of emails.” Contacted by Fox News, one of the former Blackberry owners said, “They should have wiped that stuff out. … Given the way the campaign was run, this is not a surprise.”] On the one hand, I find it humorous that another failure regarding the McCain camp has taken place, while tragic on the other, noting that the Obama campaign donated all of their office and surplus to needy schools, and McCain sells his.

Sarah Palin worked hard to get John McCain elected. She attended four and five rallies and fund raisers a day for two months. She was constantly either in a bus or in a plane traveling. Most of the time she was in three or four states a day. She even put his election before her own family. This is the thanks that she gets! I’ve always respected John McCain. I voted for him and argued and campaigned for him on these blogs. However, if this is the kind of man he is I won’t vote for him again! I won’t vote for a man who turns on his friends and stabs them in the back!

McCain only picked Palin because of Obama not picking Clinton. As for some of you that think they did not find anything that Palin has done wrong, what about charging the state for trips that she took her girls on uninvited to the toon of over $30,000, what about the abuse of power to have the head of the State Police fired, yes she had the right to let him go, but they did find her guilty of abuse of power and also her so called husband. Palin has no chance in 2012, none at all. I was going to vote for McCain until he picked Palin, there were so many better qualified people that he could have picked. To ther person that said she has the highest security clearence because she is the head of the National Guard, all governors are the heads of their states National Guard, the only ones that have the highest security clearence are the President and Vice President and the people who work for them.

One reason McCain picked Sarah was that Sarah is a reformer who worked with the DEM in Alaska on several issue in a successful way.
But she was not ready for prime time, and the McCain team did a very bad job; they did not prepare her very well and made big mistakes ( not checking telephone call , the clothes things) and after the election some McCain staffers were trying to scapegoat Palin for their mistakes by means of nasty attacks.( behind Palin’s back)
Also they abused Palin’s sincerity and inexperience.
She put her entire political career on the line for him.
Palin also got a terrible media beating and bashing; the media were trying everything to damage her.
And this is the thanks she got.
In politics you have no friends: this is perhaps the most important lesson Palin learns of this election.

Who is the idiot who said Character matters? Obama + Ayers + Rezko + Wright + ACORN + Blagojevich + Broken campaign pledge after broken campaign pledge DOES NOT EQUAL CHARACTER.
SARAH PALIN WAS ALL THAT WAS RIGHT IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE, WHILE THE MEDIA AND OBAMA / SOETORO ARE THE CORRUPTED LYING CHEATING CRIMINALS!!!!

How can anyone mention “character” and Palin, Obama, McCain or any politician in the same sentence? C’mon, people, WAKE UP! No politician has the character of an alley cat. Palin was picked by McCain to pick up all the Hillary supporters and pander to the female vote. Unfortunately, his plan backfired because women are intelligent and could very easily see through that blatant attempt to pander. Men will never figure out women until men accept that women are humans too and not some kind of window dressing. As a man, I was apalled at McCain’s pick, not because it was a women because it was a completely ill prepared Vice Presidential candidate.

Well Said Matt, And I agree with you. It seems everyone os twisting his words and distorting once again what he said. –I am ashamed- not of Obama, not of McCain or Palin- but of my fellow countrymen. How full of hate you have all become that anyone with an opposing view is characterized as a clown. The truth is that nearly all of you don’t know your head from your _____. The country needs all of us to pull together to find the greatness that we once were. Stop beating up on the politicians and reading more into their statements than what is there. McCain said that Obama should come forward sooner rather than later as to what he knew about Chicago politics…Obama will. That wasn’t an attack by McCain it was sound advice given without malice. McCain said that his corpse was still warm in response to supporting Sara Palin for President…the man has feelings and is still contemplating his loss…give him that proudly. This country will fail if we continue to attack each other with spite, hatred, jealousy, and condemnation.
Posted by: Matt Wilson

So funny that many were “going to vote for McCain until he picked Palin” and the Left is STILL spending so much time and energy on someone who is supposedly just a “bimbo” “religious nut” “ignorant” or whatever the comedians want you to call her today! Even trying to burn down her home church! If unqualified Palin is the future of the Republican party you Lefty nuts should be happy! Or do you see a REAL threat? We already know you are full of crap so what is the truth?

THOUGH I DID VOTE FOR MC CAIN AND WAS NOT SATISFIED WITH HIS PERFORMANCE OR BACKBONE TO FIGHT OBAMA ON HIS SHADY PAST AND CHARACTER.(DURING HIS CAMPAIGN ALL HE COULD COMMENT ON WAS THAT SARAH ENERGIZED THE PARTY, WHAT A KICK TO THE REAR). THIS IS A STRONG, CONFIDENT, WELL-SPOKEN, AND POISED WOMAN WITH READINESS AND BALANCE.SARAH PUT HER POLITICAL CAREER ON THE LINE AND BROKE HER BACK FOR THIS MAN. I AM OUTRAGED WITH MC CAIN THAT HE HAS NO POSITIVE WORDS/SUPPORT FOR SARAH, WHAT DISGRACE AND HUMILIATION SHE MUST FEEL. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE ALL THE NEGATIVE PEOPLE AND THE MEDIA,(WHO HAD TO MAKE UP LIES CAUSE THEY FOUND NOTHING ON SARAH), TO WALK A DAY IN HER SHOE’S. THIS WOMAN IS COMMANDER IN CHEIF OF ALASKAS NATIONAL GUARD AND IS 1st IN OUR COUNTRY’S LINE OF DEFENSE AGAINST RUSSIA. SO IF SARAH IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT, OBAMA DEFINITELY IS NOT QUALIFIED!!!!
I HOPE THAT SARAH PALIN RUNS IN 2012!!!!

McCain does not support Palin because he knows that she’s an idiot…plain and simple. McCain’s age is not so much an issue as is his judgement. I would be surprised if he wins another senate term. McCain is a laughing stock and his dated and archaic party assisted in the demise of his career.

Unfortunate the media did a immense media bashing of Sarah Palin and created ,with the support of Tina Fey, a distorted image of Palin.
She got really never a fair change of the media; they were out to get her.
But she showed ,during the media bashing, persistence ,dignity and a incredibly energy.
Who knows what the future will bring for Sarah Palin.
I wish Sarah Palin and her family all the best.

Shame on you John McCain. You used Sarah Palin and now you are turning your back on her. I was not going to even vote for you until you chose Sarah as a running mate. Go Sarah Palin 2012!!!

McCain once again shows he lost the election. Look, Palin is a moron who shouldn’t been picked in the first place. But McCain should have said to George that “Gov. Palin is immensely qualified and of course I would support her” and left it at that. After all, that is what he said during the campaign.

John McCain really turned out to be the lesser of two evils, and nothing more. Sarah Palin was by far the best candidate in the election, head and shoulders above obama/soetoro

McCain is an old eractic unstable moron who shouldn’t have run for the president in the first place. Picking Sarah Palin is a confirmation of McCain eractic and unstable nature. Please I pray and hope GOP nominate Sarah Palin in 2012, hahahah, democrats, you don’t have problem if that happen(GOP picking Palin in 2012).

Puh-lease let Palin run in 2012…I want this polarizing woman to run, so that the democrats and independents have another great run for congress and the presidency. I hope and pray she runs…God-willing.

Palin will have the country in her palm come 2012. Even with the cheating , corrupt media filleting her daily, while they methodically continue to wash Obama Soetoros dirty diaper, Palin rose, and continues to rise above it all.
Has Barack Barry Obama Soetoro EVER even won an election outright without cheating dirty politics?

The real fighter of the McCain/Palin ticket was Sarah Palin , not McCain.
She showed character , toughness and endurance
She draw the ticket , not McCain.

Palin did nothing but stir up the white racist base of the GOP. I am not saying all rep. are racist but I do think a large
percentage are. This is why the GOP are so popular in the South. As a conservative she really embarrassed me talking in codes
They is no way for her to win independants

I hope Palin does run in 2012! It will show that the Republicans have not learned anything and will insure another Democratic victory. Palin was her own worst enemy,her hyprocrisy and inablility to answer even the simplest questions “What papers and magazines do you read!?!?? Give me a break>I don’t want “joe six-pack” or “hockey mom ” as a symbol of our great nation. She supports abstinence only education despite the proof that it doesn’t work in her own household??? She has abused her positions as governor(she was not absolved of all charges)and is a religious zealot with ties to a movement that wants to secede from the union. She can’t put together a cohesive sentence and what ever happened to her medical records?? Sarah please run in 2012, it will insure another Obama landslide.

Tom you are seriously deranged. Bush a Democrat???? Why because Republicans are for “smaller” govt.? That is just a myth Republicans have always talked about smaller govt. when it comes to social programs and policies that help the working man while they spend like drunken sailors when it comes to enriching their cronies and the military industrial complex. On social policies they still are in the death grip of southern senators and congressmen who hate labor, and propose polices that would have us marching backward before the “civil rights” movement. Your party lost with the highest voter turnout in history that rejected “hate” fear and divisiveness. Your small fringe that supported Palin was not nearly enough. It was a clear rejection of Republicanism(hyprocrites)and Sarah Palin and that the truth!! So please run that narrow minded airhead again and you will have the same result! Geographics have changed as has the make-up of the electorate and appealing to most backward hate filled fearmongering segments of the population is not enough anymore. Please please run her again. Your party is controlled by the backward south once your pearl now the noose your partys’ deserving neck.

The media manufactured a gross distortion of Gov.Palin and her capabilities.
The fact that she can still hold her head up after the merciless media bashing she has taken is worthy of our respect.

To most people’s surprise, the voter turnout in the 2008 election was only a fraction higher than in 2004. That has been attributed to the fact that many Republicans stayed away from voting this year. I suspect for two reasons: lukewarm support for John McCain, and the gloomy forecast by the polls that showed Obama far ahead for weeks.

You also speculate about gloomy forcast as a reason but it seems the polls were deadly accurate!!!!

Many people think Sarah Palin is an idiot but I think she is much smarter than most people think. They only think she is an idiot because that’s the way the media and the late night comedians and Saturday Night Live made her out to be. The media went out to get her from the minute that John McCain announced her as his running mate. They did everything they could to bring her down and SNL made her look like an absolute fool and people believed it. Many people couldn’t tell the difference between the real Sarah Palin and the woman who portrayed her and made her look so stupid on SNL. They thought that there is no difference between the character on SNL and the real Sarah Palin. They also believed everything that the media and the late night comedians said about her. They didn’t bother to use their own reasoning and common sense. If the media and the stupid late night comedians said it, to a lot of people it was just automatically taken as the gospel truth. The bottom line is the media and the late night comedians and Saturday Night Live did a real hatchet job on Sarah Palin and people believed them. She was not given a fair chance from the very beginning and people still aren’t giving her a chance. I also think that John McCain is showing his true colors as the kind of man that he is. He is the kind of man who will be nice to your face and treat you nicely as long as he needs you and then he will just cast you aside and stab you in the back when he’s through with you. He doesn’t realize that if it weren’t for Sarah Palin he wouldn’t have received as many votes as he did!

Sen. McCain, you were not my firm choice for president, but I voted for you. Because, simply, I trusted and admired you, although I don’t agree with a number of your policies. I defended you for months among my liberal friends, staunchly because I believed you to be an honorable man.
Now, I am so saddened by your lack of loyalty and backbone and dismissive attitude to Gov. Sarah Palin. Had she not been on the ticket with you, your losing-but-respectable voter numbers would have rivaled the freefall embarrassment of Barry Goldwater’s bid for president. Because of her, your career was not flushed down the toilet. She gave you credibility, but now you’re throwing it away with both hands like a spoiled child at Christmas.
I’m so ashamed of you. You are NOT the maverick you once were. Looks like my liberal friends are having the last laugh at me and my previous loyalty to you.

When will John McCain realize that he cannot run as a Republican because he has not been a member of that political party in years. He is a traitor. He was nominated by crossover democrats who knew he could not run a serious campaign because he wanted popularity rather than winning. He, the gang of of 14 and all the maverick behavior was all to gain popularity among the bigwigs in D.C. He could not lick Palins bootsa in the Republican party

You can either answer an easy question or you can’t. No one tried to trip Palin up. Any bright high school grad could have easily been able to respond to the easy querries she was given. She tried to bluff her way through interviews when it was obvious she had no idea what she was talking about and was clearly over her head. She deserved no easier line of questioning than anyone else when a country needs the most qualified individual for a job.Being close to Russia makes her knowledgable in relations with them? Please. Americans better wise up and start respecting education and intelligence again or we are toast and this woman is a prime example of the incompetent hands that some are willing to leave thier country in.

rick: I agree with you!

McCain is on his pity pot because Palin upstaged him by being more popular. BOO HOO. She brought in way more votes than he could have gotten with Pawlenty et al. He owes her big time. She saved him the embarrassment of a huge blow out.
He’d have gotten half the votes that he got if he was without Palin. He owes her for sending her on the trail from the interview at his AZ home straight to the Ohio rallies without the proper clothes so the RNC had to purchase some without asking her. She was having her husband bring her another suit case of clothes..Now who pays for FraudO’s armani suits? Donors babysitting money…hahahahaha

John McCain is a total LOSER!! And…….an ungrateful SOB. Say what you will about Palin, she put it all on the line for John. For him to make these mealy-mouthed remarks about Sarah Palin shows his true colors…..he is a real smarmy snake that cares about nobody or nothing but John McCain. It is just disgusting. Please John…..go home…..go away… and leave us alone.

Badger reply; Badger your comment on december 15 had it all right.thanks buddy!! Mc cain needs to go home.just go!!

McCain was a viable candidate to be President and,perhaps,could have made the presidential race much closer if had picked a more intelligent vice presidential candidate other than Sarah.
She could not answer questions due to her lack of intelligence and was only “fluff” selected to obtain Hillary voters away from Obama. However, women were too smart for that tactic and many were “disgusted” with her “attack dog” philosophy towards Obama.
It’s wonderful that the American Public were not taken in by the Palin attacks and the “pitiful” Joe the Plumber method in trying to relate to the average American voter. Joe, himself, was a fraud as everyone found out with no Plumber’s license and no real job. His attack on Obama relative to his tax plan for those making above $ 250,000 was downright humorous given his financial status of less than $ 50,000, if even that amount.
McCain, along with Palin, had no economic plans they could offer and could only attack Obama’s plans and strategies since they had nothing of their own to offer.
Is it any wonder why the American public disregarded the attacks involving racism and supposed past associations to elect a man with vision and forethought to the highest office in the land.
Now, everyone needs to pull together and wish the new President success as we are all in the same boat in keeping our current jobs (lucky ones) and hoping for a resurgence in our retirement packages.
God Bless America