Last updated on September 26th, 2018 at 02:29 pm
For a moment there, it looked like Sarah Palin had managed to do better than President Trump in the face of Senator John McCain‘s death. She did, after all, call him an American hero in an exclusive interview with The Daily Mail TV.
“I’ll remember the good times that’s for darn sure. He will be remembered as an American hero but he was surrounded by disloyal people who didn’t serve him well,” McCain’s former running mate told the Daily Mail.
“If it was just John McCain and me, or just our families together it was awesome. Those were the good times,” Palin continued, somehow making McCain’s death about her bitterness over the 2008 election that, by some accounts she lost for McCain.
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Palin continued to criticize McCain, saying he had been in the DC bubble for too long. “They certainly weren’t serving the country well with what they were trying to do,” she said of the people surrounding McCain whom she was ostensibly criticizing.
“I believe he was told things about what America really wanted or really needed because he’s been in that DC bubble for so many years.”
“I don’t think inherently he necessarily was really connected, so he did rely on people telling him – in polls – telling him and… he went from there.”
“I think that’s unfortunate because he had some strange people around him and… disloyal people, and you know, I don’t say that as like hate speech or griping about it, it’s just a fact they were just some not nice people.”
If the man who made your political career just died, it might be best to leave any comment that requires a mention of hate speech at home. Just a thought.
This is only slightly better than Trump, who didn’t even direct the press secretary to issue a formal White House statement, but rather had her direct reporters to his tweet on McCain.
But Sarah Palin is the one who paved the way for Donald Trump. She of the Blood Libel infamy is on familiar terms with self-pity and self-absorption. So it’s natural that she tried to use McCain’s death to air her grievances about the 2008 campaign, lob some bombs at McCain’s “people” and claim he was in a bubble in DC, even though he was a war hero and she is not.
Not convinced? When asked what she saw as McCain’s political legacy, she said he would be remembered for his military service, but then added that people around him “still try to undermine us.”
Oh, okay.
For good measure, in case you didn’t know that this was supposed to be about John McCain, Palin and her husband brought up the mention that McCain regretted picking her, as referenced in his book. You know, to set the record straight… about Palin.
“Well, with that headline though that he evidently regretted picking me, well my thought was, ‘well he’s never said that to me,'” the former Republican Governor said.
Well, okay. But he did write it in a book.
I didn’t agree with Senator John McCain on much, but I never doubted his patriotism and he did demonstrate a backbone that is sorely missing in many of his Republican colleagues.
His death is not a time for Ms Palin to air grievances about her lost political future, which by the way is her own fault, not the people around McCain.
Birther is as birther does.
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