Video: Did McCain really snub Palin on Leno?
posted at 7:15 pm on April 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
That’s the word from CNN, pegging off of a post at TeamSarah. I don’t buy it. Viewed in isolation, it does look like he’s aware that he didn’t mention her and is winking at that fact. The problem is, you shouldn’t view it in isolation. From Meet the Press, March 30:
MR. GREGORY: In terms of future leaders of the Republican Party, would you like to see Sarah Palin become president?
SEN. McCAIN: I’d like to see her compete. I think we’ve got some very good candidates: Jon Huntsman and–the problem when I run down these names, I always leave, leave out a, a name–Bobby Jindal, Tim Pawlenty. There’s, there’s so many. There’s a lot of good, fresh talent out there.
MR. GREGORY: But would you support Palin?
SEN. McCAIN: Oh, I’d have to see who the candidates are and, and what the situation is at the time. But have no doubt of my respect, admiration and love for Sarah and her family.
He’s always taken that very politic “love and admire” line on Palin publicly. Why would he now drop it and deliberately insult her when he was praising her just two weeks ago? I’m thinking that when he tells Leno he’s left out somebody’s name, he means that he assumes he has because he’s always forgetting someone when he runs down this laundry list. This time it was Palin; on MTP, it was Romney. No deliberate snub, just an old man being absent-minded and joking about his absent-mindedness.
Or, maybe U.S. News and Tommy Christopher are right and the GOP establishment is turning on Palin to torpedo her chances in 2012. You make the call!
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Thanks, Wall.
yogi41 on April 14, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Sorry, Skanklet, but Dr. Seuss books don’t count.
If you’re going to claim to be intelligent, please give us a shred of evidence. Otherwise STFU.
UltimateBob on April 14, 2009 at 10:08 PM
And way, way, waywayway more mature, we can tell.
UltimateBob on April 14, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Allah– re:
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Manifestly, for the aging McCain to have forgotten to mention the name of any up-and-coming Governor OTHER THAN THE ONE HE PICKED AS HIS RUNNING MATE could rationally be attributed to mental error/oversight. But to pose the question of whether his omission of Palin’s name might have been an oversight rather than deliberate would take us outside the boundaries of common sense.
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it’s just another example of how McCain loves to try to ingratiate himself to the media by poking his finger into the eye of whomever the media most despises and/or least respects. It’s called pandering. Don’t forget, in the 2000 primary, McCain was among the loudest in pandering to the class-warfare mentality on the issues of tax cuts “for the rich.”
Jim Wrenn on April 14, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Thank you.
But the question is, will AP?
We shall see.
cs89 on April 14, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Thinner and taller…are you in the WNBA?
ddrintn on April 14, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Way to set the bar low — set your sights higher!
benny shakar on April 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM
No, judging by her posts here and in other stories, I’d say she’s in the third grade.
Seriously, check out her comments under the story about the Obamas’ new dog. They are the intellectual equivalent of “Nyeah nyeah na nyeah nyeah.”
UltimateBob on April 14, 2009 at 10:34 PM
As another poster wrote to Skanklet earlier, I’d like to see your lame Arab ass go up to Alaska and try to run the stae for a couple of days. You’d wet your panties in fear if you saw what it takes.
Although you’ve clearly convinced yourself of the contrary, Palin is very intelligent. Try getting your news from sources besides SNL or the Daily Show, bunny Shakkkkkkarrrrrr.
UltimateBob on April 14, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Of course McCain did this on purpose.
athensboy on April 14, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Yeah, but that describes most of the lefty posts here. ;)
We should all be as brilliant as Mr Profit and Earnings Ration, that’s for sure.
ddrintn on April 14, 2009 at 10:47 PM
*Ratio, need to get that one correct. And didn’t he say something the other day about the rise of privacy on the high seas or something? Nice idol ya got there, benny. One really high bar.
ddrintn on April 14, 2009 at 10:49 PM
John McCain is correctly saying he looks to GOP governors for future leadership and lists a number of them. For reasons reflected in Allahpundit’s post, I don’t think it was intentional on John McCain’s part that he forgot Palin with Leno and Romney with Gregory; and if that is Allahpundit’s conclusion as well, then I agree. John McCain’s affirmative statements about Palin are appropriately supportive.
It is unfortunate and unfair that Rush has chosen to use McCain as the personification of the RINO Rush feels the need to slay. This year, McCain has acted completely faithful to his historic fiscal conservatism, steadfastly opposing Obama’s bailout and budget bills while quietly advising Gates, resulting in Administration actions in Iraq and Afghanistan so far that are supportive of our continuing mission. No one knows foreign policy, military matters and national security as well as McCain. With North Korea kicking out international inspectors, Iran racing to have the bomb and continuing to fund and support Hezbollah and Hamas in their radical Islamic attacks on Israel, Russia acting aggressively toward Georgia and the Ukraine and pirates on the warpath, we have foreign policy disasters waiting to happen. Why constantly attack the one of GOP’s most experienced and knowledgeable foreign policy and military guy? Why not spend one’s time attacking the Obama Adminsitration more? There is plenty to go after.
Phil Byler on April 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM
How does one email Allah or Ed?
CCRWM on April 14, 2009 at 11:37 PM
I will always be grateful to McCain for introducing us to Sarah Palin but he’s done so much anti conservative stuff (will we ever recover from McCain Feingold) that though I don’t hate him I don’t ever want to have to vote for him again and it doesn’t look like I will have to. He emailed my husband and me, asked us to sign a petition and we did but we’ve thrown our support behind Palin. Palin who I find myself praying for everyday because her enemies attack daily.
CCRWM on April 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM
Click on the “About” tab and mailing info is toward the bottom of the page.
ddrintn on April 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
McCain you sniveling snerve.
You are Irrelevant.
Kini on April 15, 2009 at 12:17 AM
Not snubbing her in the way it is being portrayed in this instance. Absolutely snubbing her every chance he gets by refusing to endorse her.
She was good enough to be his number one choice for V.P. for one/hopefully two terms and then president a couple of months ago. Now he cannot even give her a slight edge much less a full endorsement.
Doesn’t really hurt Sarah but it sure shows him for the schmuck that he is. I wish he would take his idiot daughter and quit mucking up the political system.
America1st on April 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM
I listen to Rush frequently, and I don’t hear this at all. He calls McCain out on his bad decisions (McCain-Feingold, amnesty, his courting of the MSM who eventually turned on him), and supported him on his sound opinions (foreign policy, federal spending freezes, eliminating earmark spending).
What I hear Rush doing is railing against Republicans who adopt liberal policies. He was no fan of Bush when he signed Medicare Part D into law, flirted with amnesty, or supported the initial bailouts. I don’t think he’s setting out to “slay” anyone, rather pointing out what’s been killing Republicans at the polls (namely trying to emulate Democrats in order to pander to more voters), and being critical on those points.
If you actually listen to Rush (most people who have a negative opinion frequently have only heard him in out-of-context sound bites), you’d know that he is a free-market conservative first, Republican second. As are most of the people who agree with him.
TheMightyMonarch on April 15, 2009 at 12:26 AM
ddrintn on April 14, 2009 at 11:48 PM
Thanks
CCRWM on April 15, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Considering the following, I’d have to agree with ya there:
1. The MSM threw their darling girl Hillary under the bus so they could get noticed by the good-looking yet vapid new kid at school (insert mental image of Chris Matthews writing “Mrs. Christopher Obama” in his notebook during Study Hall).
2. How the MSM simultaneously engaged in some of the most reprehensible character-assassination on Sarah Palin, using techniques reserved for only the sleaziest tabloids. God forbid you’re a good-looking, successful family woman who adopts conservative values.
TheMightyMonarch on April 15, 2009 at 12:36 AM
The Wall is like a Wise Prophet.
Lets hear from Sarah on Foreign Policy…
Palin on Foreign Policy (Video)
Poptech on April 15, 2009 at 12:40 AM
Poptech is like a deluded girlfriend who won’t admit her boyfriend is cheating on her.
Let’s hear the from guy who actually won the Vice Presidency on American History:
TheMightyMonarch on April 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM
Whoops, forgot to include the link. DUR!
Biden on the Great Depression
TheMightyMonarch on April 15, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Biden? LMAO! What kind of defense is that?
Poptech on April 15, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Glen Beck was the first to interview Sarah, long before a V.P. pick. McCain would have only had votes from his family if not for Palin. When the left acted like McCain was a threat that is when he got the primary node.
sweetcake on April 15, 2009 at 1:21 AM
I don’t know about Rush’s reasons (I like him, but don’t listen to his show, other than excerpts here and there) but McCain’s shamnesty is really what destroyed the GOP, politically. There were lots of other problems, but without the shamnesty, and the disgustingly underhanded and dirty ways they tried to sneak it past and force it past and tore into all of us in opposition to that truly treasonous concept, Congress and the White House would look very different, today.
Lots of people blame Bush for the great loss of GOP power, and he bears much of the responsibility, but McCain was the real killer of the GOP with his shamnesty.
progressoverpeace on April 15, 2009 at 1:25 AM
I tried to accomplish two things with my vote this past November: 1. Vote against Obama, and 2. Vote FOR Sarah Palin. Nowhere did John McCain ever come into the equation.
True story.
long_cat on April 15, 2009 at 2:23 AM
Who said I was defending anything? Just doing what you enjoy, taking sound bites of people, using them out of context, and making snap judgements based on them. It’s the favorite pastime of all intellectually stunted folks!
I have to admit it is rather fun, and it doesn’t hurt my brain as much as thinking.
TheMightyMonarch on April 15, 2009 at 2:25 AM
Allah -
Did Bernie Goldberg write “A Slobbering Love Affair” about the media treatment of Barack Obama or your fascination with Meghan McCain and her family?
I figure you’re probably more than a little “geeky” and haven’t had much experience with women, I’ll help you analyze the situation.
Positives:
- Cindy McCain is fairly cool and in pretty good shape for an older woman.
- Cindy is filthy rich
- Cindy owns a Bud distributorship – free beer for life
- You can help John McCain do important stuff like chasing kids off his lawn and figuring out how many residences Cindy owns
- You can help Meghan make important decisions (like what shade of blonde she will be next month) as she reshapes the GOP and the world
Negatives:
- You have to watch your back around John McCain. Oh, I forgot. You’re not a conservative, so this won’t be a problem
- It’s tough making love to a woman who views downing two gallons of Coldstone Ice Cream as part of foreplay
bw222 on April 15, 2009 at 8:07 AM
NO WAY! Major RINO. Typical McCain.
batter on April 15, 2009 at 9:31 AM
The Dems didn’t win, we lost by nominating another crummy candidate. Let’s get it right next time.
Hummer53 on April 15, 2009 at 9:57 AM
Tommy Christopher may be close to intellectually honest, but he’s still a liberal. He’ll always assume the best vis a vis the donks, and the worst about the Republicans.
gryphon202 on April 15, 2009 at 10:55 AM
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