Do you think McCain is regreting the day he even considered Sarah Palin for VP running mate? nt

[Sarah Ibarruri]

[Occam Bandage]

1. I think he never considered her. He wanted Lieberman and Lieberman only,

and I think he sharply regrets not taking the wheel and going with his gut.

[MadMaddie]

2. I think McCain regrets running for President! He will go down in history

as the candidate who ran the worst campaign in US history!

[opihimoimoi]

4. Ill advised, Ill prepared, and woefully under financed. It was a bad idea. Palin made it WORSE

:toast:

[jwirr]

5. Exactly, he is a fellow prisoner.

[Hansel]

3. Yes. But he can redeem his honor by throwing the election

to make sure she never makes it into the White House.

[Just-plain-Kathy]

6. McCain throwing the election would be great revenge.

...He could screw all the people who stole the election from him in 2000.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

10. I agree. :-) nt

[iceman66]

7. Wouldn't you be?

He's probably had a few choice words with whatever 'handler' told him to pick her!

[Bucky]

8. If he wanted Lieberman, he shoulda picked him. That's what a maverick would do.

The truth is, McCain is doing just about as well as any other Republican would do this year. They'd all bonk their heads up against the Wall of Obama. They'd all eat shit when Bush's mismanagement finally tanked the economy. They'd all end up playing the "friend of terrorists" false alarms and getting whammied for stirring up bigotry.

What's notable about McCain is that he's been so half-assed about the hate mongering. Probably only Mike Huckabee would do like McCain and try to tone it down. Romney would have reveled in the hate spewage. Fred Thompson or Rudy Giuliani would've egged them on. I think they all would have ended up with polling worse than McCain. He's not a great manager, but that's probably not affected the polls until the last week or so.

[PBS Poll-435]

9. I don't think that he remembers the day that he considered Sarah. nt

[tigereye]

11. she's like Pat Buchanan in a dress

:scared:


oh wait, that's Bay Buchanan :puke:

[qanda]

12. She was an awful choice

I hope he regrets it.

[TNMOM]

13. He doesn't regret. Instead, he gets ANGRY. I'm certain, he's already

abused the poor fellow (schmidt?) who came up with the idea.

My theory is that Palin travels with McCain BECAUSE Schmidt travels with McCain. Schmidt has to pick up all the pieces when Palin screws up. She was his idea, and therefore, she is his responsiblity. Ergo, Schmidt has to keep Palin on a short leash and "rehabilitate" her as best he can given the circumstances -- because McCain has ordered it. Unfortunately, Schmidt's efforts are not bearing fruit.
What I wouldn't give to have been a fly on the wall when McCain handed Schmidt his ASS for advocating Palin's candidacy.

[calmblueocean]

14. He'll regret it his whole life. He squandered his legacy. "Country First"? More like "Country Last".

And he knows it.

I don't think he realized just how vacant Palin was when he picked her. He'd had one good conversation with her, knew that she'd rev up the base, and that was that. He just trusted that she was like most governors, i.e. not a total moron. And found out too late how wrong he was.

Every time someone laughs at Tina Fey playing Palin on SNL? They're laughing at McCain, too. For someone so prideful, you know it hurts. He never wanted to go out like this. He's embarrassed himself, the Republican party, and the nation. He will have a humiliating defeat.

For the decade or so of life he's got left in him, he's going to be rueing the day he first heard the name Sarah Palin.