Probably the most fun thing about American politics is that John McCain is stuck saying that Sarah Palin was the best, most qualified person in the country to be vice-president. He has no choice but to keep saying this whenever the subject comes up. Today, it meant that Sarah Palin was, and presumably still is, more qualified and better than Mitt Romney.
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I don’t know how the man fucking sleeps at night. He’s not a stupid man. His gut has to be wrenched into knots when he says shit like this.
He’s pretty old. Maybe he forgets things?
Nah, he’s always been like this.
I’d sleep like a baby if I got to kick Romney in the nuts like that on national television.
This campaign just gets funnier and funnier. From etch’a’sketch to Romney taking himself down last Friday to Sununu this morning and now MdLame. Who will they trot out next and what will be said?
per McCain, Blithering Idiot was more qualified FOR A LESSER POSITION.
lulz
Is it possible that the candidate’s sexual arousal outweighed his consideration of what was best for the country?
I’m shocked, shocked! It must be REALLY HARD to be a Republican.
People need to stop saying her name. If it gets said three times in a row, she springs back from the dead.
I agree with each of you; however, as a veteran I have not liked the man. plain and simple. his history is not good from annapolis to 1974 since the pows came home. he is a jerk
My father was a POW in WWII and after watching the PBS special on Viet Nam POWs years ago he said the same thing. McCain was not a POW other POWs could trust-before or after torture. As he followed McCain’s political life over the years, nothing changed that judgement.
He didn’t say she would make a better vice-president. He said she was the better candidate.
And he’s right. Sarah Palin is a much better candidate than Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is the guy who was distinctly worse at campaigning than John McCain. He is an absolutely terrible candidate, and if the Republican field this year had even been mediocre, he wouldn’t be the nominee.
Really??? She was only a good candidate as long as no one actually knew anything about her and until she actually had to elucidate a rational political worldview. Which, as I recall, was a very, very short period of time. Once the reality had to be weighed against the fantasy, she crumbled like a sand castle in the surf. At least Mitt has enough political history to cobble together some kind of argument, even if it is fraught with contradictions.
She was only a good candidate
I didn’t say she was a good candidate. I said she was better than Mitt. There is a whole lot of daylight between those two statements.
Even with her glaring weaknesses, she could give a speech, come up with a zinger, and work a rope line. Mitt Romney reads “End of Quote” out loud off the teleprompter.
I don’t know — Palin’s approval rating was something like 38% during the campaign. That’s a good candidate?
No, it’s not a good candidate, just one who’s better than Mitt.
Romney’s favorability rating is worse: https://twitter.com/rbreich/status/187739201209507840
In all fairness, some (misguided) folks actually were excited about her. No one seems to be excited about Mitt.
David Letterman referred to her as “one good lookin’ woman.” Don’t know what Letterman was smokin but I heard him say it.
If she wasn’t “good lookin'”, she wouldn’t have half of her popularity.
I find her politics and personality abhorrent, but she’s physically attractive.
Unlike assorted other surrogates, McCain isn’t using the opportunity to defend the Mittster as an audition for the VP slot.
I’m glad nobody asked John Kerry if John Edwards was a better candidate than Barack Obama. I know that he was as far as anybody in the Kerry campaign knew, but really that’s not much better than the McCain campaign’s excuse.
From TPM
I did not say what I said
John McCain sought to clarify his remarks on Tuesday that he picked Sarah Palin as his running mate over Mitt Romney because she was the “better candidate” and not due to Romney’s tax returns. A statement released by his Senate office reads:
“Some in the media have chosen to take my answer today, in response to the question of why I did not select Governor Romney as my vice presidential nominee, out of context. I selected Sarah Palin because she was the best fit for my campaign, and my decision had nothing to do with the bogus tax return attacks currently being waged by the Obama campaign. I have the highest respect for Governor Romney and his record of public service, and he will make an outstanding president.”
And John McCain is now and evermore an outstanding douchebag, sellout, quisling, pick your favorite term for his lack of fortitude, as they all fit pretty comfortably.
Senator Maverick-No-More.
I selected Sarah Palin because she was the best fit for my campaign
Let’s run that through the spokesbot-to-McCain translator:
Boop-bop-beep-bop-boop.
“I was getting my fucking ass kicked by a bunch of little pricks over how many houses I owned, and I’m going pick Mitt fucking Romney as my running mate? You must be out of your fucking mind. I decided to pick somebody who looked like she might have gotten a fucking blister from something other than a tennis racket once if her fucking life. You got a problem with that, you little shit?”
credit where credit is due
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/mccain-defends-honor-of-huma-abedin-in-senate