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Senator McCain looks back on the race
Senator John McCain announced that he would run for president in February 2007 on “The Late Show With David Letterman” on CBS. On Tuesday, in his first public appearance since he delivered his concession speech on Nov. 4, he provided a bookend to his campaign on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” on NBC.
He defended his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, who some of his own aides, speaking anonymously, have blamed for his defeat. “Did you expect mavericks to stay on message?” he asked, before saying he “couldn’t be happier with Sarah Palin” and identifying her as part of a group of young governors, including Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, who represent “the next generation of our party.”
From your lips to God’s ears, Senator.
Mr. McCain also recycled a joke he repeatedly used on the trail to describe his state of mind after his loss in the 2000 Republican presidential primaries.“I’ve been sleeping like a baby,” he said. “Sleep two hours, wake up and cry.”
Which I have to admit, I thought was a fresh, funny, self-deprecatory thing to say.
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Typical rethug: recycle all of the slogans that worked before.
whoa – glad I read the last line before I led with my
mouthfingers…WHat is a guy suppossed to do his speech writer is job hunting.
Dole was actually funny much of the time. McCain, not so much.
Well, at least he wasn’t saying, “It’s not our fault we lost the election”.
Senator McCain discovers recycling
that explains the ‘green around the gills’ look.
I could do without seeing any more of that creep. Scared me when I opened Huffpo.
My conservative friend believes that Palin was the best thing the Republics have done for years. He also believes that Obama already has plans for a US Gestapo. This is the damage that has been done by Limpy Limbaugh.
I thought Obama was the celebrity?
Politically McLame is sleeping ‘wit da fishes’.
I can’t find Johnny “Reb” funny at all. He sat there and spouted that his campaign was nothing more than heated. I think he owes the Secret Service an apology for making their job much more difficult trying to protect Obama after he and Sista Sarah revved up his lunatic fringe base. Taking a real good look at his lifelong behavior, one starts to realize that he really didn’t change after getting back from Vietnam. He was still a womanizer, still a rule breaker, still a bully……
It’s one thing when Rush says is. It’s completely different when a sitting US Representative says it. (see Broun, Paul (R-GA))
Big question. Why has the MSM for the last 2 months acted as if Palin was the first woman to be a VP candidate? Hello, didn’t the dems have a woman candidate for VP about oh say 20 years ago? So why on earth did everyone let both the repigs and the MSM get away with this big lie?????
Best Bob Dole quote (and yes, he could be very funny) — back in the early 1980s: