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John McCain on the Tonight Show | 04/14/2009 9:40 am

Palin Fans Blast McCain For 'Tonight Show' Snub (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
The Daily Beast

John McCain will no doubt be receiving angry letters from fans of Sarah Palin, for the Senator appeared on the "Tonight Show" and, when asked to name five of the nation’s best governors, McCain failed to name Palin, who happens to be the governor of Alaska and Mr. McCain’s former vice-presidential running mate.

In fact, there’s already some vitriol being thrown in Mr. McCain’s direction.

One man wrote at the Team Sarah blog,

McCain, who screwed up his campaign by not voting against the bailout, can’t mention Sarah’s name on Leno? It hurts the party and it makes him look bad by dissing her a third time. Maybe it’s a good thing he didn’t become president. His mushiness and fence sitting was quite disconcerting. He cost us the election.

McCain’s no spring chicken, of course, and readily anticipated backlash, telling "Tonight Show" host Leno, "I’ve left out somebody’s name and I’m going to hear about it." The Senator came under fire last month when he refused to say whether or not he would back Palin in the 2012 presidential election.

In addition to his Palin "diss," Senator McCain also insisted he wants President Obama. Watch this video, via the Daily Beast: 

 

 

Read more about: Jay Leno, John McCain, Media, News, Politics, Sarah Palin, Video

53 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

Rudi G.

Editors:

 Senator McCain also insisted he wants President Obama. 

By Rudi G. on 04/14/2009 9:49 am
Rachel F
Ugh, I’ll bet both the First Lady and Mrs. McCain would have something to say about that. Not to mention the president. ;)
By Rachel F on 04/14/2009 10:01 am
DeBúrca obj
I thought all the far-Right were boycotting Leno. 
By DeBúrca obj on 04/14/2009 9:50 am
Lady Gator
Naw — that would be Letterman!
By Lady Gator on 04/14/2009 1:38 pm
DeBúrca obj
Wow, McCain wants "the President to succeed"?! How ‘un-patriotic’ of him, I’ll bet he’s ripped apart on FOX for that statement as well.
By DeBúrca obj on 04/14/2009 9:52 am
Lady Gator
Deburca — Since you don’t have  cable - run next door and watch your neighbor’s TV — you’ll find that it has never been mentioned on Fox.  And, they had their chance — he appeared on Fox a few days ago! 
By Lady Gator on 04/14/2009 1:42 pm
caj p
John McCain is not going to mention Sarah Palin because he knows in his heart of hearts that she was not Presidential material then and she is isn’t now.  He used her to help his campaign and it did with the base and that was all, but it was never going to go any further than that as it was proven at the end of the day.  Sarah must realize by now that she was just a ploy to further McCains Presidential run and nothing more, but that’s what happens when you are power hungry as Sarah was and still is you get sometimes get burnt!!
By caj p on 04/14/2009 9:57 am
starry Nite

The old maverick might be making a come back.  I hope some one can rescue the Republican party .  The party has gone nuts.

What will Rush think about this ? 

By starry Nite on 04/14/2009 9:58 am
DeBúrca obj
I don’t think McCain deserves to make a come back. His lack of support of Palin just validates what most of us felt during the campaign, he was willing to risk the well-being of this country by putting a person in the VP spot for political pandering alone. Between THAT and the Rovian smear campaign he ran he squandered any previous respect he may have had before the 2008 Presidential election.
By DeBúrca obj on 04/14/2009 10:12 am
Lady Gator
starry —It will never be John McCain to the rescue!  That boat sailed!
By Lady Gator on 04/14/2009 1:44 pm
Rudi G.

At least McCain is telling the truth again for a change. But there is a very serious outrage here. Just six months ago, McCain announced to the world that there was no one in the country better than Sarah Palin to be second in line to him — a president who would have been in his seventies and who had been diagnosed recently with multiple incidents of life-threatening illnesses.

Now, he does not even consider her to be one the best governors in the country.

The scuttlebutt at the time that Palin was chosen for the GOP VP spot was that McCain wanted Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge for the job, but that she was forced on him by the clique of Karl Rove’s associates whom he’d chosen to run his campaign. 

Every new development in this ongoing saga seems to indicate that this was true. If so — if he was railroaded into chosing a second in command that he knew to be unfit to have her finger on the nuclear trigger or anything else, that’s a failure of leadership. If it’s true, then he had no business running for president, much less serving in that office.

By Rudi G. on 04/14/2009 9:59 am
f p
Rudi, she’s in hot water in AK right now for skipping out on the end of its legislative session and the pols up in AK aren’t too happy with her. In fact Impeach Palin signs are beginning to show up there. Maybe this is McCain’s way of distancing himself politically.  
By f p on 04/14/2009 10:06 am
caj p
Now there’s a novel idea to Impeach Palin…isn’t that what some folks want to do to Obama?   I think her halo is beginning to shows signs of wear and tear!!
By caj p on 04/14/2009 10:12 am
f p
Halo?  lolololol  Too funny Caj :-)
By f p on 04/14/2009 10:21 am
Mel Berg
yes f p, the Alaskans must be getting tired of her b s. They need to have an appointment made in the state senate (replacement for dem that resigned to work in Obama admistration) and so far the list the democrats submited are not even considered by the Gov. Her first pick was Grussendorf, who wasn’t even a democrat until days before she picked him. The second pick the Gov made, again not picking from the list the dems. gave her was at least a dem. but he wasn’t active in the party and lacked experience. Soooo they are waiting for her to hopefully make a pick off their list, don’t know when she will do that. They are also in a battle over her AG pick. There is a good article on Huffington today about him.
By Mel Berg on 04/14/2009 11:47 am
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