Palin: McCain’s presidential campaign had ‘shackles on me’

CNN's John King and the Inside Politics panel weigh in on Sarah Palin's attempt at a political comeback in the Alaska House race. #CNN #News

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  1. Can she be more obvious? All of a sudden she’s voicing her support and admiration for Trump to revive her political career. Gift the grifter

    1. Yeah, but he’s hanging around like a bad cold and bringing more like him into the party.
      It’s still bad and will get a lot worse before it gets better…

    2. @Drew Combs true but trump will never step foot in the WH again. The best thing we can do is get out and vote BLUE!

  2. And she STILL can’t name any newspapers or magazines she’s read that shaped her worldview.
    Gotcha!!! 🤣😅

    1. She is extremely busy watching Putin watching her house especially now more than ever. Where is the time to read ?

  3. Shackles? Her brain-dead remarks tanked McCain’s Presidential aspirations, imagine how much damage she would have done if she wasn’t shackled?

    1. @Desi Dog ahead of her time because it’s way worse now. She was a trendsetter. And yes, if that was her on shackles I don’t want to imagine her without.

  4. How is a way to measure Alaska citizens education system.
    Hold my beer: “Let’s see if Palin can run for Govt again”!
    Alaska please don’t pull a shock and awe Palin is crazy

  5. My favourite Palin quote was “I’m not a quitter” uttered when she quit as Alaska’s governor before the end of her term of office.

    1. During her resignation speech in fairbanks I took a photo of a raft on the chena river with a life size cutout poster of her and a banner that read “biggest quitter.” Still have it.

    2. @Einherjar -That was when she decided to “Pardon the Thanksgiving Turkey”, which was not something that State Governors had done before. That was really weird especially considering, as you said, there was a guy standing behind her taking the heads off live turkeys.

    3. I love watching her barely speak. It starts with a single topic, then she connects air conditioning to dustpans, followed by hey, our troop, healthcare mom and pops, hey, smaller government, first responders, we need. A Maverick, and a shooten and tooten, oh and top down, god bless America.

  6. Shackled? Stopped her making a bigger fool of herself than she did. What is it with some American politicians? They are hardly the cream of the crop.

  7. So many Americans have to work so hard to build up their resumes, and go through many stages of intensive interviews to land the jobs they wanted. Yet so many of these high level jobs, offices in the government are occupied by so many people who are completely unqualified. People who have no idea what they are doing and who they are representing. As an American, I feel sad for my own country. I can only hope for the best and hope that those few who actually qualified to hold these high level of offices can get the supports they need to make a difference for our next generations.

  8. Oh boy, I remember those days, I was like “wow how low Republicans have fallen by thinking she’s fit for office, can they even get any lower?….Silly me

    1. Yeah….there was a moment where her and Michelle Bachman seemed extreme and then Trump said ‘ hold my beer’ she can come back now that a man set the pace for crazy😆

  9. I remember the look of utter shock and disbelief on McCain’s face the first time she spoke after the nominations were confirmed. It said, “WTF did the RNC just saddle me with?” Having her one heartbeat away from being POTUS frightened him as much as (or more than) it did me. I felt sorry for him.

    1. Do NOT feel sorry for McCain. He knew who and what she was, and he cd’ve nixed her but he did’t — he was cravenly seeking power, no matter the cost to the country. He gauged that she would help him, so he chose her. His assessment was wrong, and he not only lost (which he deserved to do), he unleashed something ***awful*** upon this country — a man who shd’ve known better.
      So no sympathy for him — zero honor or decency in his putting personal ambition above the good of the country.

    2. 🤣🤣revisionists history, mcaine handpicked Palin and that probably saved him from getting blow out by 400+ electoral votes

    3. The RNC did not saddle him with her. He picked her all on his own; barely gave his staff a chance to vet her before announcing HIS choice. That is why I called it the most consequential bad decision of this century.

  10. If she said McCain had shackles on her, that is the most disrespectful, hateful thing she could say about a dead man that can’t defend himself. WOW!

  11. Sarah spent the whole campaign telling us how much of a Maverick McCain was, now she says they shackled her and it’s a shame she wasn’t allowed to go rogue.

    🤣🤣😂😂😱😱😭😭

  12. I really thought at the time that Palin was the lowest the republicans would go. Lest we forget, when asked by Couric after being chosen as running mate to McCain, Palin said that she did not know what a VP does—A level of ignorance that normal people would have corrected before a national interview. This all seems very quaint now.

  13. It’s funny that Palin is badmouthing the McCain campaign when it put her on the map in the first place.

  14. As much as i respected John McCain for not just his service for our country in Vietnam and in Congress. But for him being a man who didn’t let his party define him but let his moral code decide what he did. As much as i respected him he made a huge mistake picking Palin as his running mate if he hadn’t we wouldn’t have had the rise of trump and the fanatics it all started with Palin.

    1. Well she is part of it but others played a part- Newt Gingrich etc etc. Should be a parlour game- listing those who got the world’s foremost democracy to this sad point in history.

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