{"id":360034,"date":"2018-05-07T00:30:59","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mccain-regrets-choosing-sarah-palin\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T00:30:59","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T23:30:59","slug":"presstv-mccain-regrets-choosing-sarah-palin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-mccain-regrets-choosing-sarah-palin\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-McCain regrets choosing Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>John McCain, the seasoned senator of Arizona, says he regrets choosing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate during the country\u2019s 2008 presidential race, and instead he should have chosen Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent politician.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New York Times<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/05\/05\/us\/politics\/john-mccain-arizona.html\"> reported<\/a> on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin\u2019s performance, said in his upcoming book, \u201cThe Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and other Appreciations,\u201d that although his advisers had warned him that picking a vice-presidential candidate who caucused with Democrats and supported abortion rights would divide Republicans and doom his chances, he should still have proceeded and chosen Lieberman as is his vice-presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt was sound advice that I could reason for myself,\u201d he writes. \u201cBut my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many in McCain\u2019s own party believe that, by selecting Sarah Palin as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/05\/06\/560863\/John-McCain-Lindsey-Graham-Sarah-Palin-HBO-Donald-Trump\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John McCain, the seasoned senator of Arizona, says he regrets choosing former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate during the country\u2019s 2008 presidential race, and instead he should have chosen Joe Lieberman, a Democrat-turned-independent politician. The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain, while still defending Palin\u2019s performance, said in his upcoming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-360034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}