Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska who ran as vice president on John McCain’s ticket in 2008, spoke out on April 1 about not being invited to McCain’s funeral.
Palin, a supporter of President Donald Trump, said that not being invited to the funeral was a “gut punch.”
“They [the McCain family] didn’t have to embarrass me and others, it wasn’t just me it was other people from our campaign back in 2008… it’s kind of a gut punch,” she said during an appearance on “Good Morning Britain” from her home in Wasilla, according to the Daily Mail.
Palin described what happened as being “disinvited.”
‘I was surprised to be publicly disinvited…’
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, speaks for the first time about not being invited to John McCain’s funeral. pic.twitter.com/5VqD3zJ6SK
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) April 1, 2019
She was asked why she didn’t attend the funeral.
“I wasn’t invited. [I would have gone] because I am a respectful person … I was kind of surprised to be publicly disinvited to the funeral,” Palin responded.
McCain wrote in a book, “The Restless Wave,” published last year a few months before his death, that he regretted choosing Palin, wishing he had chosen then U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) as his running mate. McCain and Palin lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who was a U.S. senator for Delaware at the time.
Palin also spoke with “Good Morning Britain” about the backlash McCain received from some corners for choosing Palin as his running mate.
“It’s been bizarre. When I was tapped to run as the first woman VP candidate on the Republican ticket, I had nearly 90 percent approval rating as the governor of the largest state,” Palin said.
“It made sense to me and my supporters why John McCain did tap me. But, yeah, once getting out there on that national stage and realizing that there are so many snakes in politics, they are so many snakes in the Republican Party who were running the show and allowing me to get clobbered.”
“They were looking for someone to blame for their really crappy type of campaign that they ran. I was a scapegoat. That’s in the past though … sometimes you win, sometimes you learn and I certainly learned through that,” she added.
Palin said during the morning show appearance that Trump appears set for re-election in 2020.
“Consider what Trump has been able to accomplish, despite it being a three against one game going on here,” she said. “You have the Democrats, the media, which is complicit with the Democratic shenanigans and then you have obstructionists in his own party, and despite that the president has enough support of the people, the average forgotten man and woman of America. He has had, relatively speaking, a reasonably wonderful two years.”
Palin then attacked the slew of Democratic candidates, who have embraced far-left proposals such as “Medicare for All.”
“The Democratic candidates, they have really dug themselves in a hole collectively as a party. They are seen as wackos over here nowadays because they are supporting those issues that certainly do not connect with the average man and woman in America—they are radically anti-child. They are so pro-abortion. They are pro-illegal immigration, they are inviting and incentivizing illegal immigrants to come over here,” Palin said.
“The Democrats represent and support more taxation on the middle class, on the working class, very disconnected, the party as a whole, to the people who really care about this nation. We elected Trump and nobody on the other side, they don’t come close. No Democrat can hold a candle to what it is we the people are desiring.”
