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Should Romney Pick Palin As Running Mate?

One could honestly wonder whose side Sen. John McCain is on this election. Yesterday, McCain gave Mitt Romney a bit of unsolicited (and unhinged) advice on how to beat Barack Obama: do what I did in 2008. McCain went on CBS This Morning and said that the best thing Romney could do it to pick Sarah Palin as a running mate. He appears to be making a joke but one wonders what is more interesting: the fact that McCain might suggest it or that his prior running mate is now an obvious joke as a disastrous choice for a candidate.

When asked to suggest some names on Wednesday, McCain initially offered only one: “I think it should be Sarah Palin.” he laughs at the thought of it.

Palin quit her job as governor of Alaska before completing her first term and started a reality show instead. She has made millions ridiculing “intellectuals” and wrapping herself in a proud cloak of ignorance on policy issues. As a result, she has become one of the most polarizing figures in American politics. Yet that is the person McCain wants Romney to pick to run in what would at best be a close election.

Despite widespread views that Palin cost McCain critical percentage points in the 2008 race, McCain long seemed to have embraced a clinical form of denial and refused to accept that he made a colossal mistake. Of course, it would immediately improve the employment numbers by guaranteeing work for Tina Fey.

For my part, I believe it is the most inspired suggestion since Christopher Walken insisted that what was missing from the Blue Oyster Cult’s “Don’t Fear The Reaper” was a cow bell.


Source: CBS

72 thoughts on “Should Romney Pick Palin As Running Mate?”

  3. Well mespo…. I’ve heard politics makes strange bedfellows….. I enjoy the pleasure of intelligent women….

    Jeff,

    JT did not make this a laughing matter…. The other side can laugh at this while your side get angry…. This can be understood…. It’s enough to laugh at yourself sometimes…. But when the other side does it….it’s not so funny…..

  4. McCain said it as a joke. I think the better joke is how JT is getting the progressives to fall all over themselves by making them think McCain was serious. Talk about gullible fools.

  6. I applaud Senator McCain. It is important for America the re-shaping of the GOP move forward at the best pace possible. The trouncing of a Romney-Palin ticket would further the split between the GOP of history, and the TEAgop’ers of today. One side has got to dump the other or changing American voter demographics will continue to reduce them to an extremist group clinging to only the most solid of red states. Then again, Johnny may have simply been pandering to the virulent TEAheads in AZ. Or both.

  9. Kind of reminds me of the old analogy of “hitting oneself on the head with a hammer to relieve a headache”.

  11. ROFLMAO…….As a Canadian it is heart-warming to watch the “conservative idea machine” in action. I don’t feel so bad when I watch the current travesties being committed against our so-called democracy up North.

  12. Dredd – well for one he hide out in France enjoying the wine, women & song while McCain was hanging by his broken arms in the Hanoi Hilton. For another Willard is good buddies with the GOP power structure than never really like McCain all that much & who foisted the Wassila grifter on him in ’08. And, maybe, part of it is Willard came from money while John had to marry for it.

  13. Lol I was thinking for sure he must have said that on the first of the month.
    Ferrel and Walken combine for hillarity, but if he really did pick her itll be the campaign thats the joke. Obviously losing women is a problem for Romney but Palin and Bachman won’t help him there. The GOP has to try a little harder with these gimmicks. Maybe do what they do best and induce the public into a state of fear to vote for them, tying the campaign in as the best defense against the threat of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHRm2DioMA

  15. now that’s going rogue.

    I was under the impression McCain was joking, apparently he was laughing when he said it at any rate

    “I think it should be Sarah Palin,” McCain replied, laughing.

  16. I find the pelvic thrusts of the cowbell-ringer in the video…very disturbing.

  17. Tina Fey and Christopher Walken.are correct and one consecutive “the” is enough. But I know typos are a fact of life, especially in a hastily written blog, and I am still an admirer.

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