Hmmm Palin/Thompson 2012 That’s a ticket I could believe in.
A beauty and the beast remake.
Palin/Thompson -
Now that’s TWO leaders not in name only! By standing up for what they believe in - conservative values - they led the pack!
the irony is that for all the talk they did about being a team of mavericks and all of that, from what I know of Palin, McCain seems like the last type of Republican she’d support.
She didn’t endorse him in the primaries, from what I’ve found never really said anything positive about him until well after he had secured the nomination, let alone for the time she was Governor before that.
Nor did he really say anything positive about her. It’s pretty obvious she was picked because they thought having a woman VP would be the only thing that could flip the race in such an overwhelmingly dem year and none of the other women were seen as being conservative enough to get the support of the party at large. I doubt anyone on the McCain staff had any clue of the impact she’d have.
But McCain was really the only one who could have possibly picked her because of his unquestionable natl security and foreign policy credentials and his beltway expreience. Romney or Huckabee never could have picked her because they would have needed a guy like Biden or Cheney to shore up their foreign policy and security credentials like Obama and Bush did.
Funny how things work out sometimes
I wonder if there’s any chance Fred would run again. And maybe put some more effort into it unlike his 2008 bid. Lol. Seriously though, I think people may want an old, “grandpa”-ish guy after the effeminate man-child that is Obama.