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Senator John McCain, after suffering a long battle with a brain tumor, finally passed away on August 25, at the age of 81. The Senator was one of the more influential members of the Congress during my lifetime. For both better and worse, his opinion on the policy issues of the day have driven much of the debate in this country for over the last two decades.
So McCain was a bad judge of character and chose his running mate poorly? Good thing he lost that election, I suppose. Can’t even choose a running mate.
But that running mate was the only thing that saved his campaign, so he ruined his campaign by quitting it just weeks before the election. A pox on him. How many horrible decisions and character flaws must a man do for people to see that he has no redeeming value? Oh, except maybe he likes his dog, and his child, and his wife, so long as she isn’t mangled.
But it does undercut the moral high ground people supporting McCain had for not inviting Trump to the funeral, since that was based on Trump’s demonstrability tactless comments about McCain and his time as a POW.
People on the right pleaded with Palin to come out against McCain when he said or did something that angered the right side of the Republican Party in the years since 2008, and she never did. So based on that, it’s not so much whether you were tactless and insulting towards the Senator, it was simply if you held a political position within the Republican Party that was at odds with the Senator that determined whether or not you were welcomed at the funeral (and while the Palin ban might be more due to the family than to McCain himself, the optics still undercut their position when Palin isn’t even invited while Obama is one of the speakers).
@davesussman should also try to snag Todd Starnes, if he can. Starnes keeps an eye on things affecting religion, and he might have some insights on this big leftist push to neuter Christianity.
I disagree. Sarah Palin is what we would call “homespun class”. She gave McCain the much-needed lead for his limp, campaign pencil . . .
So Cindy didn’t even read his love letter to the nation? Guess I am not alone then.
By violating the spirit and intent of his last message(s) to the nation.
O.K. I’m not very up on all of this. I thought she took some shots at him related to the campaign. I know someone took shots at somebody.
I wonder who could have beaten Obama.
Nicole Wallace sucks, BTW.
I agree with that completely, except she wasn’t classless about McCain; she was classless after the election by resigning and going for the dough. But whether it was Cindy or himself (I feel sure he was a-okay with letting her take the expected criticism), McCain had already voiced publicly his regret for having had Palin as his running mate. There was no need to do that except he wanted to be remembered as not a whack-o Republican even though he totally went there by choosing her (and think he would have gone absolutely nowhere with (the venerable Joe) Lieberman as his VP pick: can anyone say Gore-Lieberman?)
Edited after posting.
Again, I don’t remember the details of this stuff as well as I should. I defer to others, but it’s an issue.
Hi, Rufus. Please see how I edited my original post, above, which was written before your earlier comment.
They were $500,000 in debt from legal bills. George Soros ran an operation against her. She beat 14 out of 15 charges or whatever you want to call it. There was a $7 million book offer. I have no problem with what they did.
I see I didn’t have to talk about this at all.
A bunch of big shots in the GOP were going to cover it for them when she got out of office or something. In my opinion you have to take the no risk option, but I’m not an expert on any of this stuff.
Not wanting to argue with you and Instugator, but what legal bills? George Soros helped broadcast the critical meme about Palin’s wardrobe purchases, but I don’t know about any legal actions taken against her before or during the election, which was in November, and she resigned the following June. I know several reportedly frivolous suits were filed against her once she was back in Juneau. She said one reason for resigning was because she didn’t want state business to suffer from the sideshow. I like Sarah Palin, and I think in recent weeks, when he knew he was dying, McCain publicly treated her like someone he could simply dismiss. And I’m happy for her to make money from the election. But resigning went against her rep for being a fierce mama bear for her state, especially since her own media sideshow soon followed.
Yeah, that never felt right. Something else was going on. Perhaps it was her son’s needs?
The frivolous ethics investigations in Alaska did two things to her and her family. They caused her to run up legal bills to defend against them (Alaska did not permit the use of state funds to defend the Governor against these complaints) as well as detract from the business of running the state.
So she resigned to earn the money to pay the legal bills and to free up the executive to run the state.
They had a $500,000 personal tab. It was after the election. That is my understanding.
Disagree. There was no way she could get back into politics after what McCain and the MSM did to her. As governor, she was under constant attack for misusing her office. I’m sure as the attacks got more personal on herself and her family, she decided the best revenge is to do what everyone does – write a book, make public appearances, stay involved in politics but not as a candidate, “going for the dough”.
No, Sarah was all class, McCain was all crass . . .
I’m not sure anyone could have . . .
Trump would have.
I disagree with that decision. Palin should have been invited.
If Obama could have run for a third term, yes.
It was my understanding that while she was governor, the State of Alaska picked up the court costs for anyone filing suit against her. And there were suits. Note that the link to the AP list of suits generates a 404 error, due no doubt to the high cost of bits. Of the 18 that had been filed at the time of the writing of that article, 15 had been resolved, and somehow if she had lost one of them, I’m sure we would have heard all about it.
People Magazine, that bastion of decency and journalistic integrity, was somehow made aware that not only was Sarah not invited, she was asked to stay away. They asked her for her response:
Thus doth class vanquish crass.
Alaska did not permit state funds to be used for defense of those allegations. The legal form of a heckler’s veto