Proof the John McCain is Senile
If Mitt Romney is looking for some sage advice from a man who’s been through the trials and tribulations of a bruising presidential election, he might want to find someone other than John McCain to give it to him. McCain actually thinks that Romney should repeat his mistake and put Sarah Palin on the ticket.
McCain also tells “CBS This Morning” there’s a strong field of Republicans who could be the vice presidential candidate.
When asked to suggest some names Wednesday, the Arizona Republican said, “I think it should be Sarah Palin.” But when pressed to elaborate, he said “I think we have some very qualified candidates,” citing Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Govs. Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.
Steve Schmidt and Nicole Wallace just fell out of their chairs.
StevoR:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Whoah! Talk about not learning from your mistakes!
Odd too – I thought McCain ended up hating her after all that happened with his 2008 campgain and its aftermath, no?
sc_314f771040c95b262912df2bec80b9ed:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Haha, I’d like to think McCain is just trolling Romney here.
matty1:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:44 pm
Maybe he’s a sadistic s.o.b who means “If I had to put up with Palin so should you”.
RW Ahrens:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:47 pm
…and in the meantime, every truly viable politician for candidate for VP with Romney are no longer taking calls and are hiding in their bathrooms under mattresses!
They are all waiting for 2016 and a true possibility of running with a chance at winning.
holytape:
April 6th, 2012 at 12:54 pm
That’s not McCain being senile; that’s McCain giving the Republican Party a big, “Fuck you.”
Raging Bee:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
So…McSame admits there’s plenty of “qualified” candidates (by PoG standards anyway), but Mutt Romney should still pick the least qualified person, who did the least actual honest work of the entire lot. Is that really senility — or Stockholm syndrome?
One of the most disgraceful aspects of today’s Republican Party is that so few of their leading figures even tried to stand up for themselves when they all got passed over and eclipsed by an uneducable idiot who didn’t have even one-tenth of the intelligence, experience, toughness or track-record they had. What’s the point of doing all those years of work and coalition-building, if all you get is ignored the minute some brash little idiot barges into the game? If I were (just one example here) Mike Huckabee, I’d have been FURIOUS at Palin for stealing both the political limelight and the evangelical-leadership limelight. These people have the spine of a jellyfish and the attention-span of a tweener on a sugar high.
(Remember Evangelical Outpost, the blog that Ed praised for condemning torture? They strongly endorsed Huckabee in 2008, for the obvious reason…until Sarah Palin showed up, at which time they dropped Huckabee and supported Palin. When I asked why, they said it was because a) Huckabee betrayed the cause by supporting some kind of public health-insurance plan, and b) they valued Palin’s “game-changing” act over Huckabee’s solid performance as a governor and minister.)
jamessweet:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:01 pm
That was my first thought too.
MikeMa:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:04 pm
I’m with Holytape. McCain suggesting another round with Palin is just a big fuck you not just to the GOP but to the electorate.
Also, aren’t Jundal and Rubio ineligible by birth? Someone contact Orly and start that ball rolling RIGHT NOW!
Mr Ed:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:06 pm
I’m very liberal and so is my whole family but if Romney picks Sarah I know we will all vote for him. In fact I know so many people who like her I could see him carrying several true blue New England states.
This is my story and I’m sticking with it.
jerthebarbarian:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:10 pm
Yeah, that’s not senility that’s hysterical. I’d like to see the tape because it’s either a flat out joke at Sarah Palin’s expense (and by extension at John McCain’s expense) or it’s a troll.
Unless by senility you mean “McCain doesn’t know when it’s appropriate to tell a joke, and what jokes are funny in which situations”. He’s apparently always been like that, so the word you’re looking for isn’t “senility” but possibly something more like “douchebaggery”.
Alverant:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:11 pm
I saw this on RawStory or Alternet and someone thought McCain was joking or that he was “forced” to take her as VP.
I hope he is either joking or engaging in some petty revenge against the GOP.
Trebuchet:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Jindal (not Jundal) and Rubio were born in Baton Rouge and Miami, respectively, to immigrant parents. They’re as American as Barack Obama. I can see Taitz having some heartburn over Jindal, however, since he was raised as a Hindu.
StevoR:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
@ ^ Trebuchet : What they’re both Kenyan born Muslims!
(Joking.)
mcmillan:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:30 pm
The story I first heard about this from did say he started laughing when he said this, so the interpretation that it was supposed to be a joke seems right.
Raging Bee:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:47 pm
mcmillan: that story does put a different light on all this. McCain does seem to be admitting that there’s a top tier with a “wealth of talent,” and that Palin is not really in it; without explicitly bashing Palin.
d cwilson:
April 6th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
The folks at World Nut Daily have already declared Rubio inelligible because he was born before his parents became citizens, so at least they’re consistent in their misinterpretation of the Constitution.
noastronomer:
April 6th, 2012 at 3:13 pm
I’m with everyone else who thinks that McCain is less than serious with this suggestion.
axilet:
April 6th, 2012 at 3:26 pm
AHAHAHAHAHA
It’s fitting, though, isn’t it – for another clown to join the circus that the Republican presidential campaign has become.
eric:
April 6th, 2012 at 3:43 pm
Palin is NOT a circus clown. She’s more like the vandal who pulls the fire alarm – she causes everyone to suddenly exit the circus, whether they wanted to or not.
abb3w:
April 6th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Having seen the video, I’m pretty sure from McCain’s grin he was joking. Mind you, I’m not sure who he intended the joke to be on; Romney, Palin, the GOP crazy wing, the GOP establishment, the guys he then suggested as possible Veeps….
Ichthyic:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:01 pm
McCain actually thinks that Romney should repeat his mistake and put Sarah Palin on the ticket.
what makes you think he made a mistake?
Recall what McCain kept saying about the dangers to the GoP if they keep coddling the right wing extremists during the 2000 primaries?
why on earth would someone that attacked the GoP for mollycoddling the nutters, turn around and SELECT one of them for his running mate, unless he had a very specific point to make.
No, he’s not senile. He’s making the same exact point he did in 2000, and 2008.
The only problem is that it’s too late. His message could have had impact in 2000 for those that would listen.
Most chose not too.
Marcus Ranum:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
Palin is NOT a circus clown. She’s more like the vandal who pulls the fire alarm
John Cleese described her as “a talking parrot” – given that that came from the man who wrote the dead parrot skit, I don’t think it’s possible to top it. (He also said that Michael is no longer the silliest Palin on earth)
Michael Heath:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
He didn’t just grin, he laughed. It was a joke, at Ms. Palin’s expense. Which makes me think even less of Sen. McCain.
imthegenieicandoanything:
April 6th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
The titles of your posts have become oddly flat – or are you into serial deadpanning now?
McCain is now as shitty a person as any in the current perfection of shittiness that pretends to be the “Republican” Party. I expect nothing from him but variations of “get off my lawn!!!!”
THIS title might as well have been:
PROOF THAT BEARS SHIT IN WOODS
Ichthyic:
April 6th, 2012 at 8:39 pm
It was a joke, at Ms. Palin’s expense. Which makes me think even less of Sen. McCain.
which one do you think less of then?
McCain or Palin?
which one do you laugh at?
dan4:
April 6th, 2012 at 9:49 pm
“Proof the John McCain is Senile”
I’m not sure which is sillier: Mr. Brayton’s inability to even entertain the possibility that McCain was being tongue-in-check with his comment about Palin here, or his aversion to taking five seconds to proofreading the titles of his posts.