John McCain On Screwing America

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The entire how-they-chose-Palin-to-be-VP matter says so much more about John McCain than it does about Palin.  From the Schmidt 60 Minutes interview we get…

“Roughly up to a week before the convention, we were still talking very seriously about Senator Lieberman. But once word leaked out that he was under serious consideration, the blowback was ferocious,” Schmidt remembered.

“Ferocious,” because many conservatives thought Lieberman was far too liberal. Schmidt says they feared the Republican National Convention might reject him.

McCain couldn’t risk that, so they needed a last-minute replacement.

And this from the book “Game Change”…

….McCain’s campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates.

“Rick Davis saw one interview she did with Charlie Rose where she was very much the Sarah Palin that people find appealing. She was lively, she was engaging, she popped off the screen. And he said, ‘Wow, she jumps out,’” Halperin said.

“McCain boxed himself in. He needed a game-changing pick for vice president. And that left them with a last minute pick of someone who was, to McCain, a virtual stranger, and was, to his senior staffers, an absolute stranger,” he added.

So the VP of the United States could have been a woman discovered on Google by a desperate campaign willing to do anything to win.  What does that say about the judgment and decision-making ability of a man who wanted to be president?  Not much.  I like this line from John Amato…

Why didn’t Davis just go to Hannidate or Match.com to find a running mate for McCain? I’m sure Laura Ingraham would have jumped at the chance too.

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