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John McCain: Sarah Palin Was 'Better Candidate' For VP Than Mitt Romney

John McCain: Sarah Palin Was 'Better Candidate' For VP Than Mitt Romney (UPDATE)


Well i guess that means Palin is not on the VP list. Can't have someone more qualified than you be your number 2. This is just embarassing for romney. If palin is a better candidate than romney, then he is finished.


Mitt Romney is a good candidate.....if you are looking for someone who as governor of Massachusetts raised taxes, signed anti-gun legislation, and created RomneyCare.
 
Now all of a sudden McCain's selection is credible?
 
John McCain: Sarah Palin Was 'Better Candidate' For VP Than Mitt Romney (UPDATE)


Well i guess that means Palin is not on the VP list. Can't have someone more qualified than you be your number 2. This is just embarassing for romney. If palin is a better candidate than romney, then he is finished.

I think he's speaking more of the thought process at the time, not in retrospect which is why he lists Tim Pawlenty and mentions "the other ten people"

Oh, come on, because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate," he said of why he chose her over Romney. "Why did we not take [then-Minnesota Gov. Tim] Pawlenty? Why did we not take any of the other 10 other people? Why didn't I? Because we had a better candidate, the same way with all the others. ... Come on, why? That's a stupid question."

In other words he's not speaking in the now and saying Palin is a better candidate than Romney, Pawlenty, and the other guys right now. In fact later in the article he has a response to your very opinion

McCain clarified his comments later on Tuesday, telling reporters his earlier statement that Palin was the better candidate was in no way intended as a criticism of Romney.

"It wasn't a matter of who had better or worse qualities. It was who we felt would help the campaign the most -- not that anyone who was under consideration didn't have outstanding qualities," McCain told reporters on Capitol Hill. "There were numerous people that we were considering. And [you've] taken an answer to a question as to why I selected her and not Romney and twisted it around, of course, to some interpretation which is obviously not the case."

"It's really getting a little disgraceful -- twisting someone's words -- when clearly I said and meant that she was the best fit for our campaign," he continued. "[It] had nothing to do with the qualities of Mitt Romney or any of the other people we were considering."

You're twisting his words from what he meant, basically by just reading the rest of the article and not the headline its clear to see that OP.
 
No but him passing up romney for palin says a lot about how qualified romney is.

Because why, exactly?? If McCain showed poor judgment in selecting Palin (which was the common opinion at the time), then his not picking Romney is more a reflection of McCain, and not Romney.
 
I think he's speaking more of the thought process at the time, not in retrospect which is why he lists Tim Pawlenty and mentions "the other ten people"



In other words he's not speaking in the now and saying Palin is a better candidate than Romney, Pawlenty, and the other guys right now. In fact later in the article he has a response to your very opinion



You're twisting his words from what he meant, basically by just reading the rest of the article and not the headline its clear to see that OP.


Im not twisting his words. That was what he was said. He thought he was defending romney when he said it but it ended up being a criticism.

"Oh, come on, because we thought that Sarah Palin was the better candidate,"
 
He is right, for the McCain camp Palin was a better choice. The base wasn't really in love with McCain and Romney would not have changed that. Palin, on the other hand, did change that and energized the base.
 
Mitt Romney is a good candidate.....if you are looking for someone who as governor of Massachusetts raised taxes, signed anti-gun legislation, and created RomneyCare.


There's no such thing as anti-gun legislation. That's just retard speak for pragmatic gun safety regs.
 
I don't want Romney to win, but he is far better than Palin. The fact that McCain even picked Palin shows what his judgment is worth nowadays.
 
No but him passing up romney for palin says a lot about how qualified romney is.

Actually it doesn't if McCain wanted someone he thought could bring in the the extreme side of the party. Remember that McCain was seen as a moderate, a Governor from a liberal state who's even drier than McCain brought him nothing he didn't already have. Sometimes qualification is not the only criteria. And I have a feeling McCain doesn't like Romney personally, which also doesn't speak to qualification.
 
He is right, for the McCain camp Palin was a better choice. The base wasn't really in love with McCain and Romney would not have changed that. Palin, on the other hand, did change that and energized the base.

There ya go BINGO...he chose Palin for her conservativeness and her femaleness...it was a calculated move to enamor a couple of voter bases.
Having said that Romney would have hurt him more than helped him...McCain needed either a strong conservative or a female to energize his base.
Sarah Palin was just too "GREEN" to be thrown in the national spotlight and quite frankly she wasnt ready and stumbled because of it...and the relentless non stop viciousness of the press was unprecedented.....
 
There ya go BINGO...he chose Palin for her conservativeness and her femaleness...it was a calculated move to enamor a couple of voter bases.
Having said that Romney would have hurt him more than helped him...McCain needed either a strong conservative or a female to energize his base.
Sarah Palin was just too "GREEN" to be thrown in the national spotlight and quite frankly she wasnt ready and stumbled because of it...and the relentless non stop viciousness of the press was unprecedented.....
...viciousness of the left press, you meant to say, and the right press is worse when it comes to the President now. If the "viciousness" was expressed in asking what she was reading recently, omg, protect the poor thing.

If she wasn't ready for the "spotlight", then she was not even in the next galaxy when it came to handling the office of the Presidency should anything had happened to McCain.
 
Now all of a sudden McCain's selection is credible?

He's been credible a lot in the past. he just had to do too much **** when he ran alst time to get the nomination, and then lost his mind picking Palin. However, I REALLY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR 2000 VERSION.
 
He's been credible a lot in the past. he just had to do too much **** when he ran alst time to get the nomination, and then lost his mind picking Palin. However, I REALLY WOULD HAVE VOTED FOR 2000 VERSION.
It was a bit better than the 1987 version, but good old Rove sure did a number on version 2000.
 
There's not really a whole lot of difference, position-wise, between Romney and McCain. They would have made a good ticket, politically - provided, that is, they could be kept from tearing each other's heads off. Which would in no way be guaranteed: word is they absolutely hate each other.
 
...viciousness of the left press, you meant to say, and the right press is worse when it comes to the President now. If the "viciousness" was expressed in asking what she was reading recently, omg, protect the poor thing.

If she wasn't ready for the "spotlight", then she was not even in the next galaxy when it came to handling the office of the Presidency should anything had happened to McCain.


Wasnt my intention to debate any of that...I was responding to thread in general :)
 
There's no such thing as anti-gun legislation. That's just retard speak for pragmatic gun safety regs.

LOL more idiocy bubbling through that post. Everything harm one can do with a gun is illegal and felons etc are already banned from owning or even touching guns.
 
I don't like Romney or Obama, but I really wish the Romney haters could come up with something better than this.
 
Lets not forget that Obama believed that the single most qualified person to become president if he were to be incapacitated is JOE BIDEN

(a smart move cynically for Obama-it guarantees his safety).

I suspect whomever Romney picks will be far more qualified than either the inexperienced Palin and the terminally moronic Biden
 
I don't like Romney or Obama, but I really wish the Romney haters could come up with something better than this.

If they are this desperate in July, just wait for October.
 
If they are this desperate in July, just wait for October.

Both canidates are kinda killing me with the negativity. Maybe we can just have both canidates get on stage and have a "snaps" contest (bringing it back for all of you growing up in the late 80s).
 
John McCain: Sarah Palin Was 'Better Candidate' For VP Than Mitt Romney (UPDATE)


Well i guess that means Palin is not on the VP list. Can't have someone more qualified than you be your number 2. This is just embarassing for romney. If palin is a better candidate than romney, then he is finished.

Wait a second, in another thread you suggested you were "seroius" about Palin being a good pick for Romney and that without her (or two other people you named) he would definitely lose. That's strange.....

Now, in terms of the McCain campaign...soccerboy nailed it. Palin was the better candidate for VP than Romney. The questoin is "better", not "more qualified". McCain had an issue with the base, lagging behind in terms of motivation which hurt donations and grass roots efforts. This was especially highlighted with how popular Obama was. Additionally, he was suffering from "Old White Male" syndrome with the "historic" nature of his opponents campaign. Mitt Romney was not much more popular with the base than McCain, was another "Old White Male", wasn't much mor Charismatic than McCain, and brought very little to the ticket. Palin presented him with someone that could rally his base, encouraging more turnout, donations, and grass roots efforts. She also would've allowed him to return to his moderate message to try to win over Independents while she placate the base (A strategy his campaign failed massively at). She also presented a counter to the "historic" nature of Obama's election and to the typical Republican image that was being highlighted by the Democrats at that time.

Palin was the better choice of the two for VP on that particular ticket.
 
Wait a second, in another thread you suggested you were "seroius" about Palin being a good pick for Romney and that without her (or two other people you named) he would definitely lose. That's strange.....

Now, in terms of the McCain campaign...soccerboy nailed it. Palin was the better candidate for VP than Romney. The questoin is "better", not "more qualified". McCain had an issue with the base, lagging behind in terms of motivation which hurt donations and grass roots efforts. This was especially highlighted with how popular Obama was. Additionally, he was suffering from "Old White Male" syndrome with the "historic" nature of his opponents campaign. Mitt Romney was not much more popular with the base than McCain, was another "Old White Male", wasn't much mor Charismatic than McCain, and brought very little to the ticket. Palin presented him with someone that could rally his base, encouraging more turnout, donations, and grass roots efforts. She also would've allowed him to return to his moderate message to try to win over Independents while she placate the base (A strategy his campaign failed massively at). She also presented a counter to the "historic" nature of Obama's election and to the typical Republican image that was being highlighted by the Democrats at that time.

Palin was the better choice of the two for VP on that particular ticket.


I did think palin was a good pick but now im afraid she might be more qualified. You know like dukakis and bentson.
 
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