Video: McCain declines to endorse Palin for 2012
posted at 1:59 pm on December 14, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Think how easy it would have been to throw her a bone without committing to anything, e.g., “It’s too early to be making endorsements when we don’t know who’s running or what the issues will be, but naturally she’s my preference going into it.” It would have made for an awkward soundbite three years from now if he ended up endorsing someone else, but endorsing someone else will be sufficiently awkward on its own terms that that soundbite would hardly make it worse.
Consider this another brick in the reconstruction of his centrist brand. (More on that in the next post.) Exit question: What exactly does he mean when he answers Steph’s point about endorsing her for VP just six weeks ago by saying, “Well sure, but now we’re in a whole election cycle”? What’s changed in six weeks, besides her usefulness to him? Click the image to watch.
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This is just crazy asking about 2012. Obama hasn’t even been in sworn in, yet. Can’t we at least until the 2010 is over, before reading tea leaves about the 2012 election?
thuja on December 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM
Cindy to John “…Yankee bean,yankee bean,I like my yankee bean…”
Firebird on December 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Yeah this is way too early but isn’t it just like this scumbag to not even be grateful that his VP made him even viable. McLame you are a worm. I hope you rot in hell for what you have done to this country by giving us Hussein Obama.
Ceroth on December 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM
Well this is obviously just part of the liberal elite media’s conspiracy to keep the REAL AMERICAN, SARAH MOTHEREFFING PALIN, from becoming our country’s next great dear leader.
ernesto on December 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM
his corpse may still be warm, but he should have thrown her that bone. good God man.
kelley in virginia on December 14, 2008 at 2:06 PM
Yeah, a break would be nice.
OTOH, is Obama a Lame Duck even before being sworn in?
eforhan on December 14, 2008 at 2:07 PM
Geez, he really is a worm.
We must remember what happened to us when we chose the lesser of two evils. I actually supported him, went to rallies, donated, made phone calls. Now I just feel dirty.
JustTruth101 on December 14, 2008 at 2:07 PM
McCain…. liberal.
ALLAH IMAGE NO CLICKY
Kini on December 14, 2008 at 2:08 PM
OT.
I’m looking for this twit JENNIFER LOVEN’s email .
So I can directly send my disgust to her.
Anyone know it ? ? ?
JENNIFER LOVEN, AP White House Correspondent.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081214/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush
Texyank on December 14, 2008 at 2:08 PM
I don’t think very many seriously call it a “conspiracy”. It’s more like idiotic groupthink.
Anyway, pffffft. A McCain endorsement means absolutely nothing. I’d prefer not to be endorsed by him.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:09 PM
There are any number of things he could have said but let’s not give Georgie as pass on even asking the stupid question. After all his leader hasn’t even been installed yet.
Cindy Munford on December 14, 2008 at 2:10 PM
This will work in Sarah’s favor
wytammic on December 14, 2008 at 2:11 PM
it’s only warm because conservatives enjoy peeing on it. :D
lorien1973 on December 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM
My first thought – F-you John McCain
My second thought – maybe he is trying to help since an endorsement by him just may be the kiss of death for SP.
I try to do the glass half full kind of thing when I can.
HawaiiLwyr on December 14, 2008 at 2:12 PM
What’s the matter? Not full enough on Hope n Change?
Kini on December 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM
Yeah, I can’t view the video. The image isn’t hyperlinked.
iamse7en on December 14, 2008 at 2:13 PM
John McCain, you dishonor yourself. Would it kill you to show a little loyalty to the one woman who gave you the only lead in the polls you ever had?
It wasn’t bad enough you threw conservatives under the bus on the bailout. It wasn’t bad enough that you failed to defend Sarah Palin after you own staffers trashed her.
You went back to the “old John McCain” all right- the liberal Democrat-loving Republican-bashing RINO you used to be before the presidential campaign. You’ve done more for this country than many of us could ever dream, but know this: Of those 60 million votes you got, I doubt that there would be even half that number if you hadn’t picked Sarah Palin. I feel sorry for you, sir, but trashing the Republican Party won’t make this country better.
KingGold on December 14, 2008 at 2:14 PM
I live here in AZ, McCain won’t even win reelection,
it will be JD Hayworth.
Firebird on December 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM
day by day, I’m gradually developing a case of Voter’s Remorse
Red State State of Mind on December 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM
McCain still harbors this strange delusion that we were voting for him.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM
“we must punnish and purge any palin-hater who refuses to recognize st. palin’s birthright to the 2012 nomination today, before the current president elect is even sworn in.”
- Palin Deification Syndrome sufferer
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:15 PM
Go back to Sedona and stare at oak creek McCain and play with your little fishing pole. After 2010, The only job you will have is cleaning out your bedpan in your room. See ya.
texaninfidel on December 14, 2008 at 2:16 PM
I watched Romney on MTP today and just kept thinking… he would have made a great President…
McCain disgusts me in many ways but I will never forget what he did to Romney during the campaign. He wanted to be the Republican candidate but NEVER wanted to be President. Go figure.
katy on December 14, 2008 at 2:16 PM
You just like giving us catnip like this, and then sitting back to watch what happens don’t you AP?
I’m still waiting on Tapper’s Barracuda to show up. She’s been pretty gracious so far, maybe she’s just waiting for the right moment to throw Mac under the bus. His staffers (and he has come awfully close in my book) seem to have already found the right moment to throw her under. Why is that we always eat our own?
meltenn on December 14, 2008 at 2:17 PM
This Web page has her email address. Don’t write anything mean though.
terryannonline on December 14, 2008 at 2:17 PM
It’s worse than that. I feel dirty
katy on December 14, 2008 at 2:17 PM
We’re not really as airheaded as the Obama worshipers. We adhere more to, you know, principle (something Obama supporters understandably fail to recognize).
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:17 PM
Hey Johnny Mac…Cross the aisle and drop dead.
ronsfi on December 14, 2008 at 2:17 PM
You’re nitpicking AP, jesus, Palin could run by the time McCain is his mother’s age and still be younger than he is now…
ninjapirate on December 14, 2008 at 2:18 PM
I voted for him because I had no other viable choice. However I don’t think he has to worry about who he would be endorsing in three years. By then someone is going to be spoon feeding him and changing his diaper every couple of hours.
JonRoss on December 14, 2008 at 2:18 PM
They said you was high class, but that was just a lie.
They said you was high class, but that was just a lie.
John, you ain’t never caught a rabbit, and you ain’t no friend of mine.
Spirit of 1776 on December 14, 2008 at 2:19 PM
nope.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:20 PM
I expect Palin to remain gracious, and never openly criticize McCain. I think that’s a part of who she is, which is one of many reasons why I love Sarah….
Red State State of Mind on December 14, 2008 at 2:20 PM
John McCain has such a vehement dislike for conservative ideology and such vehement love of himself that automatically gives Gov. Palin two strikes against her.
Speakup on December 14, 2008 at 2:21 PM
View the video here: http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2008/12/mccain-on-possi.html
iamse7en on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
I do as well. Should have given that sentence a /sarc tag.
meltenn on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
my business partner and I sent McCain $500 in September…I commented to him last week that I can’t believe we wasted money on that bum…he said we didn’t send it to him, we sent it to Sarah…so true.
If he has a conservative challenge for the Senate seat, I will support the conservative.
He talks honor and loyalty, but when it comes to Palin, walks dishonor and backstabbing.
joepub on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
It’s not surprising, but it’s still disgusting.
He could have shown some loyalty and grace toward Sarah Palin, who was consistently loyal to him and has still not done any backbiting.
I don’t think she will. She may later state public policy disagreements with him, but it doesn’t seem to be her MO to take revenge or cast blame. She’s a responsible leader and I think she knows that the buck stops at her desk.
INC on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
It’s stupid to endorse one person or another for 2012 when 2009 hasn’t even happened yet. Palin can still step on her own (metaphorical) dork. And then, who looks like a jerk for investing in her?
I’m with Thuja on this one.
Sekhmet on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
so, there really was no problem with obama’s experience then? since a half-a-term governor from a sparsely-populated state is the only reason any of you voted for the ticket?
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:22 PM
I was writing my comment while you posted yours! I agree!
INC on December 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM
Allah, can you fix the video? It ain’t happenin’.
katy on December 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM
It’s sad when the Clintons show more respect.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM
I recall the suggestion that honorable treatment of Sarah Palin could be considered a litmus test for true conservatives. I recall it with fondness, and look forward to its adoption, and the departure from the party of those, like McCain, who fail it utterly.
McCain, quit reaching across the aisle and just go over there and sit in Obama’s vacant seat, you ungrateful jerk.
drunyan8315 on December 14, 2008 at 2:23 PM
from the same interview
he’s still a moron, still thinks the senate doing somethign is the best thing. even if its wrong, as long as there’s a “consensus”.
chasdal on December 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM
Thanks Terry, No I’ll not say anything mean. Just my opinion of her Bush hating, Omama loving slant to every story she’s
written. fabricated .Texyank on December 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM
RINO!!@!@!!
LIEBERUUHHHLL!!!!!\
SIEZE HIM!!!
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:24 PM
The dumb old lying bastard’s corpse is too warm, in my book..
TexasJew on December 14, 2008 at 2:25 PM
it’s not even worth mocking the anti-intellectuaism of “real” conservatives any more. they are a charicature of themselves.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:27 PM
Slow news day + likelihood this thread will get totally troll-infested = 500 comments.
I’ll probably have better luck with this prediction than with my football picks.
fiatboomer on December 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM
As a Seinfeld aficionado, this made me laugh out loud. Funny stuff!
CP on December 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM
But a lot of us know how to spell “caricature”. Go figure.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:30 PM
What a jerk. How’d he get to be the nominee anyway?
His corpse is gonna reach room temp real quick at this rate
Iblis on December 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM
I threw my shoe at McCain
Kini on December 14, 2008 at 2:32 PM
They’re already here. Note eh.
INC on December 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM
and a lot more of us know how to spell “intellectualism”
chasdal on December 14, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Quote of the day nomination. Absolutely brilliant.
LastRick on December 14, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By the way, eh, a bigger problem is the leftward-leaning who rely on the DNC and the media to supply their “intellect”. It turns out they’re kinda stunted, ya know?
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:34 PM
I was not being sarcastic. I mean what I said. Palin has class.
Like a coach who won’t call out his players in a news conference….
What is that saying about Character being revealed by tough times?
Red State State of Mind on December 14, 2008 at 2:35 PM
And you would know how? All you do is criticize and you are not a logical person, so it is safe to say that you are not a conservative. You are a thread enhancer.
Cindy Munford on December 14, 2008 at 2:35 PM
I’m back to disliking him even more than during the shamnesty push.
abinitioadinfinitum on December 14, 2008 at 2:37 PM
hmm. explain.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:38 PM
I wasn’t referring to your comment, I meant that my original comment that Palin might turn on him was meant to be sarcastic. We’re in agreement here.
meltenn on December 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM
Um…it wasn’t McCain who gave us Obama. It was non-stop Bush slandering by NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, LA Times, Dallas Morning News, Miami Herald, etc… for the past 8 years. The brainwashing of anti-Bushism and more recent brainwashing of Obama-ism is what led to Obama getting elected.
jediwebdude on December 14, 2008 at 2:39 PM
so, there’s nothing to critisize, then. got it.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM
you guys need to re-think the reason sarah isnt taking shots at mccain is just due to being gracious and classy.
i guarantee you if or when it becomes necessary to pull back the curtain and show it was mccain and mccain alone who caused the loss she will do just that. she is not timid in that sense. i think if she runs in 2012 we’ll hear a lot more of her side of the story as to what went on behind the scenes in 2008. to do so now the media would spin her as being bitter and hateful.
chasdal on December 14, 2008 at 2:40 PM
See what I mean?
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Oh no. She didn’t get the coveted John “Titanic” McCain endorsement. Whatever shall she do.
Lehosh on December 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM
EXACTLY!!!!
katy on December 14, 2008 at 2:41 PM
“McCain first”
joey24007 on December 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM
Why the hell would anyone endorse anyone right now? And even if they were going to endorse someone, why the hell would they endorse Palin? The only way I want to see Palin run is if Obama does a stellar job, so we can throw a lamb to the slaughter, get her over and done with, and run a qualified conservative in 2016.
muyoso on December 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM
check out this website for starters. obama’s supporters dont even know what his position is on key issues, but they know sarah palin bought some clothes after getting the vp nod.
chasdal on December 14, 2008 at 2:42 PM
DouchebagsenatorfromArizonasayswhat?
Kensington on December 14, 2008 at 2:43 PM
those are great answers guys.
let’s try another. i’ll quiote the challenge i wrote above, since nobody responded to it.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 2:45 PM
I don’t put a lot of faith in the “experience” argument anyway, but Palin still has more experience than Obama.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 2:47 PM
If “eh” voted Obama, I call projection.
Count to 10 on December 14, 2008 at 2:48 PM
I hope every person that commented today on John McLame
call his office and tells him just exactly how warm his corpse is.
It looked barely warm on the campaign trail. The poor guy who stood
up at a rally and begged McLame to fight. Pathetic……….McLame
said be nice, O is a nice guy etc. etc. Outrage………
Please, Arizona, kick this jerk to the curb in 2010
nondhimmie on December 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Wouldn’t it be awesome if Palin campaigned for his opponent?!
And she has only ever had the kindest things to say about him. He is such a piece of you-know-what. I’m just stunned. I have no respect left for this man.
ramrocks on December 14, 2008 at 2:49 PM
Don’t forget this gem.
a capella on December 14, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Wow, you know McCain was a loser for us when you see the Huffpo’s happy that the REAL John McCain is back. Good riddance.
ctmom on December 14, 2008 at 2:52 PM
All I can say to McShame is, “Hit the road, dirtbag.”
I wonder why no one ever asks McShame what he thinks of the idiot messiah having made such a total mockery of his insanely unconstitutional McCain-Feingold POS legislation? But, it wouldn’t matter. I’m sure Juan is proud that the Precedent-Elect chose his legislation to treat like toilet paper in full view of the public.
McShame and the idiot messiah – peas in a pod … a really disgusting, fetid, nauseating pod.
progressoverpeace on December 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM
McCain still has to figure out what party he will be running for
joey24007 on December 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM
A totally amateurish observation, IMHO.
CK MacLeod on December 14, 2008 at 2:56 PM
Good for Sen. McCain. Hopefully, this is the beginning of an effort to redeem himself for selecting this vacuous phony from
Alaska as his running mate.
dakine on December 14, 2008 at 3:00 PM
It shouldn’t make any difference who George named as the nominee, Sen. McCain should say he would endorse them. As usual he has let the MSM define him and if he doesn’t stop his career will be over.
Cindy Munford on December 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM
I want my vote back.
Seems so far The One’s doin’ a better job at instituting a McCain Presidency than McCain probably wudda.
Johnnie, give the ‘Cuda a break, fer cryin’ out loud.
It wasn’t her fault ya got yer ass handed to ya on Election night, ya know…
Bruno Strozek on December 14, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Ummmmmmmm…………….. thanks for all your hard work AP, but no thanks. I don’t want to hear the MSM machine spin a RINO and start selecting the candidate for the Republican party again.
Seven Percent Solution on December 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM
His career of “crossing the aisle” is all good
joey24007 on December 14, 2008 at 3:03 PM
mccain supporters weren’t obama supporters.
there’s about a dozen stupid things packed into the post i was interrogating. for one, it isn’t “liberal-leaning” to question palin’s suitability. you see, palin’s realationship to conservatism is actually not similar to christ’s relationship to christianity. so, to question palin’s suitability does not equal liberalism.
i asked ddrintn to explain their stupid assertion and got a stupid non-response.
my guess is that the “idea” behind their post…
…is that anything which sounds too smart is some kind of poisonous witchcraft from the evil entity omnipresent over the lands between one small town and the next. “real” conservatives need litmus tests because thinking about things is scary. it’s almost as if they agree with liberals that just the act of thinking leads one away from conservative conclusions.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Palin has plenty more experience than O. Research the job decription of a governor and you’ll get a better picture of the vast amount of experience one needs to lead in this way. You can’t vote present as a Gov. It’s also the WAY in which she came to be in office. She worked hard for it. Took her family out in the streets when no one knew who she was and campaigned door to door and in street corners and hocky games and got her name out there. It wasn’t who she knew or because she used her gender to do the work for her as I believe O used his race in ways to get ahead. She started from nothing. Unlike O she didn’t have her University education paid for by saudi businessmen. And most important she lives and breathes values that many hard working, taxpaying, liberty loving people carry. She speaks in reality and practical terms people understand and not in ethereal platitudes.
katy on December 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM
So Palin is stupid AND a phony. I would think that someone as stupid as Stupid Sarah wouldn’t have the brains to be phony. It’s that Bush Paradox again. The left is so paradoxical, ain’t it?
Funny how that “stupid phony” brings out the moonbats.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Thinking IS scary, isn’t it? I mean it’s so much easier to go with the herd groupthink and say Palin is stupid, or corrupt, or whatever bad bad bad thing your gurus can think of.
The act of thinking is what leads me away from relying on Big Brother to solve my problems.
ddrintn on December 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM
katy, let’s be honest. You somehow relate to Palin because you think she’s like you and understands your problems. Truth is, she’s an idiot. There are a number of impressive, smart and highly competent conservatives on the horizon. Jindal and Pawlenty come to mind. Not is Palin illiterate regarding just about every major issue facing this country, she’s not even intellectually curious about those issues.
dakine on December 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM
What a warm, pleasant thought on a cold, blistery day in Dec.
oldernslower on December 14, 2008 at 3:08 PM
i didn’t, but “real” conservatives have simplified the playing field by collapsing all non-”real” strains of conservative disposition into the “liberal” category anyway, so you don’t have to wory about it. go back to sleep. dream about tancredo and ted haggard burning rinos at the take and subsequently leading the gop to win 110% of the vote in 2012 under st. palin.
eh on December 14, 2008 at 3:09 PM
John, just keep in mind. A lot of voters, like myself, for Palin rather than McCain.
Your pretty darn lucky you got the votes you got.
BowHuntingTexas on December 14, 2008 at 3:10 PM
dd, you don’t get out much if you think a stupid person can’t be a phony. Describes most of the salesmen I’ve ever met.
dakine on December 14, 2008 at 3:10 PM
And you know this how?
darwin on December 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM
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