No he won’t. He would not admit he made such a mistake in choosing her in the first place - he is implacable, stubborn and ego first, not country. She is becoming more of a liability as time goes on - definitely not an asset.

My husband just commented that he hopes Sarah Palin does not confused this week’s Debate with a Rebate!

Jack,does a chicken have lips?

How willing is McCain to say “I made a mistake”?

I doubt he will, but he should. If McCain replaced Palin with Bloomberg, the 5 weeks would be very interesting.

I surely hope that he doesn’t ask her to step down. She’s the best thing to happen to Barack Obama’s campaign. She’s turned out to be a female George Bush. She cannot speak in coherent sentences without a teleprompter.

Rove selected Palin to stir-up the right wing, which it has. She also was selected because, when(if) something happens to McCain, she is the only person who can make his life’s work (George Bush) look good.

McCain is controlled as he was in 2000…Palin stays.

Probably so that he doesn’t have to make up another excuse to bail on the debates.

I sure hope not, Palin is the gift that keeps on giving!!! She’s a trainwreck waiting to happen. Grab your popcorn, it’s going to be a wild ride to Nov 4.

I would hope that John McCain does not ask Sarah Palin to step down. It is clear now, which ever decision he makes will ultimately be a loss. If he asks her to step down, it is clear his judgment is not sound. If he does not ask her it proves that his gamble went bust.

If he has half a brain he will - but I think we know how much brain he has, based on the fact he chose her in the first place.

YES! Is Betty Boop available?

She can’t form a sentence, handle the press and everyday her poll numbers drop. Clearly she was a terrible choice, but no - John McCain knows that if he asks her to step aside the jig will be up and then, even the die-hard evangelical Republicans will have to admit that his campaign was a disaster.

Marianne
West Palm Beach, Florida

Toronto

No, I don’t think he is capable of admitting he made a mistake.

Jack. McCain won’t ask Palin to step down. Because if he does he’ll look like a fool.

Jack, I’m not psychic, but if John has any sense at all, he will ask her to leave. She was a very poor choice that blew up in his face. It turns out that Americans do actually want someone in office who knows what he/she is doing. Amazing isn’t it? I guess they are sick and tired of the idiot tyrant in power right now. Please, please give us someone who makes sense when he/she speaks. Thanks.

Probably not, but he should if he really puts country first.

Not at this point… He has defended her inability to discuss anything with any knowledge. In fact, he still blames the media. McCain thought Palin would attract all the Hillary supporters. McCain forgot one thing… Hillary supporters are intelligent! His decision to put Palin on the ticket was an insult to the intelligence of most women.

Jack
i doubt it. McCain is vocanic and impulsive but he is also plain ol’ mule stubborn. Not the most felicitous combination of traits in a leader. Any move, overt or covert, to oust Pain would be admission of a mistake. And as we both know Jack, officers never make mistakes. That’s reserved to enlisted men.
Pablo in Arlington Texas

he can’t . he won’t show people that he made a mistake in the first place. still cant believe there’s americans out there that would actually vote for mcain/palin.boggles the mind

The republicans will probably do anything they can to get Palin out of the Biden debate. Possibly crash an ariplane into a tall building in Alaska, or blow up the pipeline, or ,God forbid, kill one of her family members so she has to return to Alaska immediately.

No. He’s too stubborn and he still thinks everyone loves her. Besides, it won’t really matter if he asks her to step down or not. John McCain is going to lose this election with or without her, it is time he starts to face the music. Mark this week and the debate between Palin and Biden as the low point since that awkward green screen speech way back when Obama won the dem nod.

I really appreciate Cafferty’s honest, forthrightness and justifiable outrage at Sarah Palin, her non-responses to the Couric interview questions and her unquestionable ignorance. Truly, this is a pathetic but reliable commentary on John McCain’s ability to make decisions that will affect the country and even the world! Pathetic! I would fail my community college students for a quiz/exam response like Sarah Palin’s.

Two weeks ago the rumor was that Obama would trade Biden for Hillary (when the far better solution would be to trade Obama for Hillary). Now it’s Palin for someone else. The truth is, candidates can’t be traded after the conventions and everyone knows it.

So far as I am concerned, both tickets are very badly drawn, with liabilities on both sides. Neither Palin nor Obama are remotely qualified, and were this not a year in which the economy is tanking and the term of the worst president ever is ending, voters would not take either one seriously. I am just worried about the US going from the worst president ever, to the SECOND worst!

If she steps aside, we will not be told that she was asked to do so. We will hear that she has done so “to spend more time with her family.” Isn’t that the standard comment we get in such situations?

I doubt it. She will have to make a blunder so huge and so undeniable –even to McSame – that even he sees the liability. But he needs a pit bull with lipstick. It’s his only chance.

Yes, Palin will remove herself.

This is a lose-lose situation for mcCain. It appears that his first major decision as a potential president was a mistake. Rather than focusing on Palin, we should be focusing on McCain and his decision making abilities(although that is much less entertaining). How can he be trusted to make good decisions once elected? At least nominating Palin has been good for the comedy industry. It’s good to know that somebody has work.

No he wont. This is one grave he dug that he can’t climb out of.

No. That would mean he is actually in touch with reality and thinks Palin’s 15 minutes of fame are forever. Keeping her is a spiteful disrespect for Americans.

No. McCain is for the average American and her knowledge of the economy and foreign affairs are average. But I hope to wake up soon to find out that that McCain made an April fools’ joke in August.

Sarah Palin came out swinging at the Republican Convention, but subsequnt interviews have shown her to be nothing but an empty pant-suit. McCain should cut his losses and select a qualified legitimate running-mate before it’s too late.

Brad from Plainfield, CT

If she were asked to step aside it’s doubtful John McCain could look her in the eye.

No, because he’s never wrong.

I don’t think he will because up this point in the election it would be hard to find a new running mate and gain the momentum he would need from a new candidate. I hope for the sake of our country that he does, but his lack of judgment on so many views proves to me that he is incapable of running the most important office in the country. I want someone smarter than me to be president and by him choosing Palin has proven to me that this isn’t the case. Wake up America, we need someone that can fix Iraq and our economy, not someone that doesn’t know how many houses they own. If your most important management skills consist of getting your kids to school and hockey practice on time, that doesn’t mean you know how to get our guys back from Iraq on time. Don’t vote for a part this election, vote for the future our country.

Patrick Crawford
Aloha, OR

McCain, will not ask Sarah Palin to step down. This would only embarass her more then he already has. It would also demonstrate to the world his uncanny inability to make the right decision at the right time. He was just showing his lack of understanding the importance of the position of vice president. or else there were no generals available at the time for him to select.

No, she should be on the ticket to remind Americans how dumb they are. They elected a C student president and are willing to elect a D student president with an F student VP.
This tells the world something, Americans are dumb!!!!!!!!!

Jack: McCain might ask her to step down; she has good personal reasons (her children and her pregnant daughter); she should step down because she has no clue when it comes to foreign policy and domestic policy; the interview with Katie Couric was painful. Even conservatives commentators are raising the flag.

Is this going to be the October surprise? More McCain’s games, just do anything to get the attention from the real issues that we are facing. His campaign is full of crooks and liers.

No, I think that will make McCain’s spectacularly bad judgement appear even worse. He’s stuck with her. And heaven help us, if he wins, so are we.

I think that the RNC, under the guise of having Palin going to “debate camp” at one of McCain’s “rustic” homes, has actually arranged for her to go deer hunting with Dick Cheney. It’s either that, or Cheney is going to dress up like Palin for the debate and try to pull off the most amazing magic trick since stealing the election from Al Gore.

No. If he does, it will show his poor judgement in picking Palin as his VP, unless he will have another Hail Mary moment and it will be another distraction stunt to gain leverage at the polls.

Knat without wings!

McCain is too stubborn to do something like this. He strikes me as the type that believes, no matter how stupid, one must “stay the course”, even if it means dead bodies in the wake.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota
http://online-business-woman.com/

Sure he will throw her under the bus. He will wait until she makes a fool of herself against Joe Biden on Thursday and then announce that she has decided to step down and then will replace her with Rudy Gulliani, who frankly scares me more than Mayor Palin.

Jack,

No. He will not ask her to step down because McCain, like Bush, doesn’t believe in admitting or taking responsibility for mistakes. His decisions are final and beyond reproach by anyone, the CONSEQUENCES don’t matter one bit to him.

Everybody at some time has a dog day afternoon; Leave this question for after the debate!

McCain cannot ask Palin to step down or another Eagleton debacle could ensue. Most everyone remembers the McGovern candidate for vice president who was asked to step down due to the findings of Eagleton’s history of mental problems coming forth. McGovern was never able to dig his way out of that fiasco!

I don’t think so. McCain can’t take the chance of angering the conservative, religious base who love Palin. However, if Palin does not “shine” in the debate, she herself may leave citing “family issues”. This will endear her to the conservative base, and get McCain out of a really, really bad position of having put an inept person on his ticket.

Are you serious about Sarah? Is she really gonna debate this week? In that case John McCain will be busy retracting further Sarah’s foolish words.
This will be another shameful moment for Sarah.

Right-and I bet he does it on the David Letterman show.

Jack,
I hope McCain doesn’t ask Palin to step down, because she is the anchor around his neck that will drag him down.
Carl

He’s a maverick and a gambler, so it’s just possible. But McCain is smart enough to make it look like it was somebody else’s idea. He’d plead for her to stay, but in the end, praise her for taking one for the team. At least we’d all be spared another painful Palin interview.

Who knows what erratic move McCain will make? Seriously I doubt that he will ask her to step aside this late in the campaign. That would be admitting he made very poor judgement in the first place. McCain would never admit to that.

From Prospect Bay Nova Scotia:
If he asked her to resign it would merely prove poor original judgement in choosing her and what is left of his campaign would totally implode.
I can’t wait to see Thursday night’s debate. I think the “Pitbull” will finish up as “Dogmeat”!

He will probably just ask her to “suspend her campaign”… LOL

I don’t think so…

She’s as qualified as Obama… yet he’s running for POTUS not VP
She’s honest which people like… doesn’t seem like old politics
She is a staunch conservative… which the base likes

The truth is this election should have been a runnaway win for the democrats… but again the pick a far left candidate… so it’s going to be close…

If Obama had picked Hillary it would be over already… but we shall see

I think it will ultimately be decided on how well the Vice Presidential debate goes for Palin on Thursday. If she does well or average I don’t see why he would drop her at this point. But if she turns it into a disaster for the McCain campaign, I would expect her to leave the ticket Friday morning. But I hope she does stay on no matter what, that way she can help the Obama win the White House with all the things she has said in the interviews thus far.

I just heard a rumor here in New York that McCain has asked Tina Fey to replace Palin.

He can’t, Jack.
Ask her to step down, and he made a bad decision in the first place.
Keep her around, and her mega-gaffes will drag him down.
And it makes me oh-so-happy.

Jack
Definitely yes. In fact, they can do the whole country a great service and both step down for the betterment of man and lady kind.

Great question Jack! I think the deciding factor will be the debate on thursday night. If does as bad as I expect her to, she could be gone in an Alaskan minute!

If Sarah Palin does step aside John McCain will never take ownership of asking her to step aside which would make his judgement look impaired. Nor will he again be able to use his slogan “country first” and self last.

No. If he does, it will show his poor judgement in picking Palin as his VP, unless he will have another Hail Mary moment and it will be another distraction stunt to gain leverage at the polls. He is a stubborn old soldier who is not willing to swallow his pride and accept his mistake in choosing Palin.

He does not have the gumption to do that.

The more Palin talks, the more we see that it may not be sexism but common sense that is the issue.

Putting party affiliation aside…

Can we now admit the obvious. Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president.

Jack,

No, but that depends on what time of day it is. After his nap he may change his mind.

McCain is too loyal they’ll go down in the ship together.

Why would he do that? She is the smartest of the two and where McCain cant remember today what he said yesterday she can even though most isnt true.

No, that would be admitting a mistake, and everyone knows that Real Leaders don’t admit mistakes. That said, it wouldn’t look much better if she excused herself. It’s much easier to get the turtle up on the post than it is to get it down.

To put it simply Jack, No , He cant. There is no emergency large enough left to distract the american people. Hurricain season seems to be winding down, wall street and washington found out last week what a lot of the working folks already have known for months, the economy has tanked. Although i did hear rumblings of Iran last week!

In his heart McCain knows that the selection of Palin was a terrible mistake and lack of good judgement; but because he is a stubborn old man he will not do the right thing which is to send Palin back to Alaska. The nation will be much better off with her keeping an eye on Putin from the comfort of her front porch.

Kevin
Austell, GA

i hope not. she’s a sure win for obama/biden.

McCain will not ask Palin to step down. He’s Bush III and will never admit he made a mistake!

I don’t believe Mccain would ask Sarah Palin to step aside. That would in some way show weakness. He would have to let on she was solely picked for political reasons; and his administration did not really pick her because she was the best person for the job.

I believe John McCain should ask Sarah Palin to step down, but I highly doubt he will because of his pride. After her interview last week I was surprised by her lack of knowledge on very basic issues, and that she even defended the statement that she has foreign policy experience because she lives next to Russia. As a canadian I have always had the greatest respect for American politics, but now whenever I turn on the news it seems like I’m watching a soap opera featuring McCain and Palin!

Are you kidding me - McCain cannot admit any errors of any kind. He is so head strong he scares me and the picking of Palin in the first place is an insult to women - many of whom are qualified to do the VP job and have worked getting qualified for years. Their hopes were dashed by an unqualified, token of a woman who is suppost to charm the American people into voting for McCain - an insult to all intelligent american women.

An over 60 white female who isn’t buying.

Common sense is the issue.

Putting party affiliation aside…

Can we now admit the obvious. Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president.

No, John McCain won’t, ask her to step down, because he feels that her stepping down would ruin his chances of becoming President and that is what’s most important to him right now. (personal ambition first country after).

You’ve got to be kidding Jack. She’s fresh and not of Washington. She may not be as experienced as Biden but I bet she knows who was President in 1929 and that people listened to their radios and not TV.
We’re tired of the good ole boys like Dodd and Franks. It’s time for new blood.

In Obama’s acceptance speech a couple weeks ago, he said it’s time for Republicans to own their failure. Obama didn’t know it at the time, but he was speaking of Palin. McCain owns that failure, and he won’t ask for a do-over. Will McCain drop Palin? He should, but he won’t. He’s stuck with her.

no, because it reflects too much on his poor judgement in selecting Palin, and the equally poor vetting process by the republican party for agreeing to his recommendation. You don’t get do-overs here. The republicans are making a mockery out of the democratic process, and they should be ashamed. There is a real world out there, that is waiting for the US to believe in what we preach, and to show dignity to this process that we have asked so many to put themselves in harms way to defend.

he definently should, as unlikely as it may be. having sarah palin as second in command as a heart beat away from the top seat scares me to death; especially after her infamous interview with katie couric.

if this doesn’t show you the bad character and desicion making a person can have, i’m not sure what would. instead of picking someone whom is qualified, he picked someone whom would attract votes.

Most likely he will NOT. McCain seems to be in a fog of his own making; he has been telling himself grandiose stories for years and has come to believe them. The reason she was initially chosen still stands; she will do and say as she is told……………..while smiling and looking as if this is a beauty pageant.

I don’t know where this question came from. All I have ever
seen is John McCain standing behind Palin, with this silly grin,
enjoying the largest crowds he has ever seen. He does not
seem concerned, even now, with American in crisis, that her
qualifications are minimal, to say the least. “Saturday Night Live”
has not gotten his attention, maybe the debates will. Whatever,
she is scary stuff!

Only if McCain can blame the “media” or the democrats for doing so. He would never accept responsibility for doing so, besides, his gift for diverting blame and “grandstanding” has served him well. Why stop now.

If he doesn’t, he is even more pathetic than she is, but that would mean he would have to have the humility to admit his choice was wrong. Think that’ll happen? I doubt it!

No his judgement is already flawed. It is too late.

He has flipped on so many things, there is no telling what this man might do.

Jack,

If McCain were to ask Palin to step aside, it would only further expose this man’s complete lack of judgement. Not to mention the fact that it would reaffirm the fact that her pick was purely political, made in the best interests of John McCain’s political aspirations, not the American people’s.

As a timid observer from the north, I can’t help but be terrified of what a McCain presidency - let alone a Palin presidency - could mean to your great country and the rest of the world.

Branden
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

A man can dream, Jack. A man can dream.

Jack,
Two weeks ago I would have praised the idea. However, after here Katie Couric interview I am HOPING that he will keep her on the ticket so that Barack Obama can win this Presidency!
Page in Boise, Idaho

If he doesn’t he surely will lose the election. However, I am an Obama supporter so to ensure my candidates’ win, i wouldn’t mind if he kept her on the ticket. Thursday could be real interesting. If her recent interviews are any indication, we should be in for some real comic relief in these economically stressful times. I don’t know who to give my sympathies to, McCain or Palin. Mcain for making a terrible misjudgment, or Palin for having been put in a position that makes her look dumb. New York

I sure hope not. The more she talks, the higher Obama goes up in the polls. Obama deserves it, don’t get me wrong. Its just that listening to her makes Obama’s straight talk all the more obvious!

To answer the blog question, I believe that McCain WILL ask Palin to step down.

The sooner he does, the sooner he will take care of his campaign’s blood clot that will eventually burst.

The media doesn’t have to look for any of Palin’s embarrassing, personal problems, she’s giving them enough to talk about, whenever she opens her mouth.

Im betting that this was his strategy all along. I believe that he choose her solely to gain Clintons followers. He had to have known what a disaster she would be (unless he is just going along with what others convince him to - sound familiar?)

My guess is that he will dump her close to the election and try to get some additional sympathy votes for all that he has been forced to go through.

Im terrified at the prospect that she could some day become president. Someone who believes that humans domesticated dinosaurs should never have the access to Nuclear Codes.

Hi Jack
I don’t think he will, he better do the Republican thing and “stay the course” on this one…his campaign is in enough trouble already, but anything can happen! Let’s see how bad she does in the debate…. But if he does dump her, it’ll probably sink the whole ship….it’s listing already!!

Jack are you kidding? The only reason she was picked was to get the social conservative (formerly the religous right) vote and without her then what, do you really think those conservatives would support McCain’s 1st choice Lieberman.

As much as this VP choice looks slapped together, it was a product of the RNC machine. She runs with a carefully scripted plan that has not yet covered all possibilities, but know that she won’t go away. She will be behind more closed doors now learning new and improved answers to reporters questions. Worse than the deer in the headlights is the deer on ice, legs sprawled out in all directions looking for help from anyone!

Not only should he ask her to resign he should also throw in the towel.With all the qualified members of the republicans party,how could they pick him. Is it because the current administration has messed up this country so bad that they hope the new administration will get the country back on keel.Then they can comeback in 8 years and mess it up again.

Jack,

He’d lose half the male vote he currently has with a move like that unless he can replace her with someone as easy on the eyes as she is.

On a more serious note, to replace her at this juncture would be to concede two points: that he did indeed make a rash and uninformed decision when he picked her and that he is desperate to slow his declining polls.

Both points would be far more damaging to McCain than anything Palin can say at the upcoming debate.

Amos from Rockford IL

Why Not?….Every decision he has made is so bizarre, I think the Republicans knew Bush screwed things up so bad no Republican could win and they asked McCain to step up and take one for the gipper by running an outrageous campaign which he is successfully doing and party fanatics are buying.

No, he is to stubborn…to admit that he has made a enormous mistake!

This was the first major decision he had to make as nominee for president, he can never make it seem like he was wrong, his campaign would be over. If anything should happen to him he is willing to leave the country in the hands of someone who has no idea what she is talking about on any subject of substance. John McCain is not putting country first, I laugh anytime I hear that.

I think she should step down for the mere fact the Republicans are over protecting her abilities. Let the American people decide if she is capable or not to be the next VP or even President. It is a bunch of males who want to be in charge and make her look like a joke.

McCain already told us he likes to gamble and he’s too stubborn to fold now and admit he made a huge mistake. It’s going to be an interesting countdown to the election.

Sarah Palin? Who is she? No seriously, I hope that McCain does “let her go”. I don’t really understand the purpose of her. No wait, I did see how well she could order a cheesesteak though, that was amazing. And she is good on the fly with answers to questions asked randomly from the public, oh wait no she’s not because McCain then came back and retracked her statement. Lord help us all if he were ever elected because Palin would be our Commander and Chief, oh no!! Just the thought of it scares me and makes me want to move to Europe.

Jack,

He can’t she’s the only cheerleader he has, Jonh McCain and the Republicans will never admit to such a blunder. Palin is a joke and so is the McCain campaign with a his stupid stunts that’s just as transparent as he is.

Todd James

Seattle

I hope not. She is a comedian’s dream, and things couldn’t possibly be any worse for her … or could it?
Let’s watch the third installment of Katie’s (Couric) interview with her to see!

It depends on whether she passes her test on Thursday. If she manages to memorize all the answers from her debate camp and doesn’t make a fool out of herself, I think she’ll stay. Otherwise, Grandpa John might end up grounding her. Of course, we will be told that she has decided to withdraw her name for personal reasons; perhaps to take care of her infant son.

Unless the debate is a total fiasco, she will continue as the VP candidate. The GOP wil continue to portray her as a victim of the liberal (godless) press. This still plays to the base she was brought in to appeal to.

He should ask her to step aside. Political stunts like this are embarassing. Americans are too intelligent to fall for this.

No, McCain won’t ask Palin to step down because like his predecessor, he would rather go down in flames and take the whole country with him, than to admit making a mistake. I’m sure they’ll have high tech ear feeds for Palin to help her answer the tough questions. It worked for Bush in 2004.

Mccain should have known what he was getting his self into… he will never admit he was wrong, just like he never admits he was wrong for going to Iraq. He is reckless, erratic, and his thinking is just plain rigid… I’m still waiting for Palin to address women issues like the gender gap.

He should but he won’t and she won’t step down voluntarily either. After watching the Katie Couric interview and the opening skit on SNL I couldn’t tell the different. Unfortunately McCain either hasn’t seen any of Palin’s interviews or doesn’t realize how bad they are.

We’ll knoiw the answer on Thursday night hopefully!

He won’t ask her to step down until seeing her performance in the debate Thursday night. In that regard I hope to shout someone checks her for a reciever earpiece prior to going on stage, especially if she’s wearing her hair in a “new” over the ears fashion.

No. If he did, he would have to admit he was wrong. On the other hand, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn she was resigning to “spend more time with her family.”

McCain has painted himself into a political corner here.

If he keeps Palin on as running mate, her vapid comments and failure to grasp, in any way, the complex and critical challenge our nation faces will surely convince even die-hard McCainiacs that the country cannot afford to put someone so “out of her league” in the co-pilot (and possibly pilot) seat of this great nation.

If he asks her to step down, it only demonstrates that she was chosen as a political ploy and that McCain has not (as he so often claims) put “Country First”.

Fortunately for Obama — he won’t. And for us as well — I, for one, am looking forward to more comments from her that earn puzzled looks. Was that Couric interview not classic? She is truly Bush-like in the IQ department.

McCain just uses “Slogan” Country First, and he will not ask Palin to step to down. Although, Palin is not ready to be VP by any standard, VP Dan Quayle Act 2.
Amy -Austin, TX

No. He has made so many stupid decisions with his campaign that he can’t take the chance of admitting that this was a stupid idea. What he is really showing us is that he does not mean country first.

Alma
Newport News, VA

I doubt it. To do so would be to admit poor judgement in his origional decision making process. At this point in the campaign, calling his own decision making abilities into question would be conceding the election before the ballots were counted….

Asking Sarah to step down would be even dumber than having asked her to run. Still I don’t know,maybe if he finds a dancing bear as a replacement his supporters may be willing to say good bye to the pitbull.

Jack–
I don’t think that McCain is reflective or flexible or humble enough to admit that Palin’s 15 minutes of fame are long over, and from now until election day she is going to be a problem for everyone in the Republican Party.

Another thought–he may be waiting to see how she does in the debate this week. If she shows any improvement at all, she stays. If she does poorly, she just may need to go home and take care of her family and her state.

Troy, Ohio

I dont think he will but he should. This is a joke and I am scared that the American people could let this happen. I cant believe more people are not rising up. I am loosing faith in the judgement of the American public. I think 1/3 of high school seniors could have given better answers that her in that interview. Republicans need to swallow some pride and admit that this is a mistake for the good of the country.

I don’t think Mccain will ask her to step down; that would be an admission of poor judgement, but I do think she may be encouraged to step aside on her own due to ‘personal’ reasons. I think the republicans will wait to see the fall-out of the vp debate to tally her worth to their campaign.

Not yet. With McCain’s temper, I think it’s more likely that he will wait to slide in the polls further, than completely snap! My predicition: he’ll fire his campaign managers and replace Palin with Lieberman a few weeks before the election.

McCain giving up Palin is like asking him to give up a car or a house… No way.
Antonio,
Brenham, TX

It’s to late in the process to make such a significant change.
If he were to put our country first, he would make the change.

Depends on how badly she does in the debate. She’ll do better than most think because they’ll coach the hell out of her this week, but she’ll still do poorly. Even if they ask her to step aside, it won’t look that way to the public. It will be presented as her idea somehow. But I think people would see through that trick readily.

So I guess it’s possible, but I doubt it.

He is too stubborn like BUSH to ask Palin to leave the ticket. Besides he loves to gamble. It’s all he has left at this point and I think he really doesn’t care. I’m sure he will gamble more as the last few weeks go on since he will do anything to win. He makes me ill everytime he says “my friends” and whispers like we are in Kindergarten.

i don’t think so, because it’ll just make him look bad. It’ll just prove bad judgement, and thats something obama’s already pointing out -ex. his agreement to go into Iraq even though there were no weapons of mass destruction there, and that the perpetrators were in Afghanistan. I just think they will try and limit how many interviews Palin does up until the election. The debate on thrusday should be very entertaining.

Weehawken, nj

I’m not voting for McCain/Palin, but if they do manage to win, I’m terrified to think Mrs. Palin could possibly end up as commander and chief. If he really wants to put Country First he should drop Mrs. Palin like a hot potato today, for all our sake!

It doesn’t matter. He loses with her on the ticket, and he loses with her off.

Of course not, he’s already said that he makes decisions hastily, even though they may be the wrong ones. He’s also said that he’d rather live with the results that admit that he’s been wrong. Is that really the kind of leader that we want?

He should not be allowed to, especially after the debates. I’m sorry, but Presidents don’t get do-overs.

He’ll ask her to step down when pigs fly, Jack.

McCain is too vain and full of himself to admit making a mistake. Palin could back out but her career would take too big of a hit. At this point, they are stuck with each other for the forseeable future!

I’m not voting for McCain/Palin, but if they do manage to win, I’m terrified to think Mrs. Palin could possibly end up as commander and chief. If he really wants to put Country First he should drop Mrs. Palin like a hot potato today, for all our sake! Will he? No, it’s too late.

After all the drama we’ve seen from the McCain camp, I wouldn’t be surprised if he does ask her to step down and then blame the “liberal media” for it.

He should but he won’t because it will be the end for him. He has put himelf in between a rock and a hard place. Unless she is a complete disaster this week, she stays.

Again, people, this is not going to be a debate. Read your news - the format has been changed so that Palin can stick to her script. It will be question/answer with the moderator without the candidates actually debating each other. Very much like McCain managed to do on Friday - that was not a debate - it was the stump speech in a nicer suit.

No, he shouldn’t ask her to step down. He made his choice. Now, let him live with it!
Jacci
Wausau, Wisconsin

Palin is to McCain what Quale was to Bush, meaning that by no means intentional, she can be counted on to draw the focus from McCain’s mistakes. Besides, McCain won’t have Palin step down because he hasn’t yet seen Russia from her back yard.
Wilmington, DE

Jack I don`t think Senator McCain will ask Gov. Palin to step down,it will doom any chance of him becoming the President,and he is already falling the polls.

If McCain knows how to do something, its how to not quit. He is determined to go all the way with his decisions, just like he did with the Iraq war!

Your lips to god’s ears

Middletown, CT

I don’t think Sarah will… you know, it’s all about leadership… she is a fantastic addition to the campaign…it’s all about jobs, really and the economy… I mean whom do you think is going to keep the Democrats in check when they run amok… really experienced and leadership, that’s who… so yes, of course she stays.

It’s hard to say what will happen between now and Thursday night.
I do not think he will ask because it will show he made a bad VP selection. He MAY encourage before Thursday or on Friday morning after the debate…Let just say the Friday Morning News will be “a buzz” with the oohs and ahhs”.

Ms White
Baltimore

John has got to play it out no matter what happens to Palin because he has made a mistake in picking her as VP he not smart enough to get away from it.

Why Jack? McCain is just as dumb as Palin. Nearther one of them has a clue. We the people are not going to put another Republican in office right behind the current retard.

No, I hope he keeps her, she is helping Obama. She is perfect!

liberals sure seem like they are hoping hard for this to happen. the media seem to be happy stoking the fires by making sure to report pallin’s every move and how democrats are making fun of it. palin is no hillary clinton and she luckily is not a joe biden. she connects with most regular americans and maybe that is not such a bad thing to have in a VP.

No he won’t. McCain will NOT do what is right for the country, he will do whatever he has to inorder to gain the far right vote (delivered by Palin). He desperately needs them to win. He is more interested in being president “at any cost” - not doing what is right. Do Americans really need this attitude in a potential president? Americans voted in GW Bush twice. He will leave office with the country in total shambles. What makes you think the same voters won’t vote in McCain/Palin? Palin’s female supporters naively think it’s great to “have a mom in office” just like them ( !?). But this “mom” does not possess the socio-political-economic understanding required for this job.

Clearwater, FL
No, he won’t because he is a true gambler that never cuts his losses and runs even if he loses his shirt and shoes.

Hi Jack:

I think it be wise for him to ask her to step down. She did horrible with her TV interviews. It shows just how inexperienced she is. If something happens to him, she becomes persident. It takes more than a pretty face to run the country.

Ron

A reunion tour of all four Beatles is more likely than the departure, voluntary or forced, of Sarah Palin from the McCain campaign.

Yes he should, or better still she should remove herself. She is not ready to play in the big league. I’m a soccer grandmom and lives in a county within Georgia that has a population larger than the entire state of Alaska. Don’t humiliate this lady any longer, it’s not fair to her, or the country.

Jack,
John McCain will definitely make up his mind to ask Sarah Palin to bow out of the election, ten minutes before he changes his mind back to having her run as his VP, ten minutes before he makes up his mind to ask Sarah Palin to bow out of the election, ten minutes before he ……………………….

Mike C.
Wethersfield, CT

This is not an ‘internship’ in which someone can decide to continue or bail out of. Palin has accepted a position, in which she, as well as the American people, know that she is not ready for. She should be dismissed; however, stereotypically speaking, a Republican, John McCain, wont admit to being ill at fault.

If lack of expertise and commitment of blunders, well, we shouldn’t have any Senators or Congressman ever allowed to run for President.

At least as a Governor–she can claim executive experience and command authority over the armed services in the state.

No, he is way to hard-headed to be moved….he should have given her a test before he picked her, maybe like, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? When she stumbled on the $100 question, he might have gotten a clue.

No he will not that will destroy him politically but i think picking her has already destroyed him one can see picking her for vp he has very bad judgement!

I knew the day he named her she would never serve as VP. He will ask Joe Lieberman on November 5 after Palin says “thanks, but no thanks” and cites family issues. She did this to get national exposure for the future. This explains why he would skip over Kay Bailey Hutchinson who would not sign onto yet another McCain stunt.

No Jack-

After the debate Thursday night, Sarah Palin herself will take the advice of Conservative Columnist Kathleen Party and tell the world that her family needs her.

Thelma/Prattville Alabama

I say keep Sarah Palin in the race! She has added so much laughter to my day. I would be really disappointed if McCain asked her to step down… who else could he get to provide that kind of comedy??? She had taken the country by storm as a contestant for The Last Comic Standing.

McCain don’t let her step down…. Don’t do this to us…. Remember… Country First.

Obama/Biden 08

Vote for CHANGE

Although he should, McCain will not ask Mrs. Palin to step down. Look at what happened to his audiences when Palin went back to Alaska a couple of weeks ago.

It is so obvious that Palin is out of her league on national issues.

Gosh I hope not Jack, because with Sarah Palin, John has a great chance of winning. I believe Obama is thinking of dumping Biden any chance he gets, to allow Hillary back. You remember Hillary don’t you Jack? What do you think?

Hey Jack, Ms Palin should go back to Alaska and look out her window. She can not keep up with the big guys.

He probably won’t, but if he wants to have a chance at winning this election, he needs to.

Jack, other countries are ‘praying’ that the people of the USA learned a lesson in 2004.

The prospect of a Pallin Presidency is horrifying.

No, he will not. He cannot. He can’t afford to look like an indecisive flip-flopper at this stage in the game. However, Governer Palin had better sound and look a lot more confident at the debate this week and her respones have got to be coherent….. Fellow Democrats…don’t count your chickens yet…..remember Dan Quayle? Anything is still possible, even if she totally screws up in the debate this week.

If Palin fails to show competance at the VP debate it will not matter, the election will be over. It is McCain’s judgment that is on the line so he better call in Palin’s Kenyan Witch hunting preacher for some serious praying.

It’s to late for that.

Jack
If he hasnt considered it already he certainly should, this is becoming a joke and McCain is having trouble enough keeping himself in the race without having a cementblock around his ankle. At this point Mitt Romney would be an excellent choice.

For everyones sake … dump Palin! I wouldn’t trust her to get a drinks order right.

How about Joe Biden, i notice they keep himaway from the press, ya don’t see him on Katie Couric or really anywhere for that fact? What is going to be said on Nov 5th when McCain is the new president, really what won’t all the Democrats wonder just where they went wrong and why.

Won’t happen. That would require McCain to actually admit that he made a rash, off-the-cuff decision, that was a mistake. In one regard, I wish she would step down, because it makes me cringe to think of her being that close to the presidency. On the other hand, she’s the best thing that has happened to Obama’s campaign this month. The record-setting donations to his campaign are not a coincidence.

McCain will not ask her to step down he does not think he makes any mistakes. In McCains words Jack he would say “My Friends You JUST Don’t Understand”.
Paul
Round Rock, Texas

He absolutely should - she is a joke. It is truly frightful to think of her being President if something would happen to McCain (and he is oh so young)!

John McCain is a stubborn old man. No way will he ever conceed that he made a mistake in his VP choice. He may have to admit it after the Vice Presidential debate. Joe Biden is going to eat her alive.

No he’s been stupid far longer than she has.

No, He will slog along with her because the Republicans know how to close rank even if its a bad decision, which I might add they knew was in the first place when she was announced. They hope the public, women in particular, will just overlook the fact that she is really a disaster.

Mr. McCain wont ask her to step down because then that would reflect that he has bad judgement and is indeed very erratic in his decision making. But dont be surprised if Sarah doenst suddenly have a family emergency that takes her away from the debate and then takes her off of the ticket…..you never know when alaska will need there beauty queen back to kill a moose or the fact that a mother should never miss there daughter’s wedding that will somehow be scheduled on Novemeber 4th….

Step down Sarah!! it is scary to watch your arrogant ignorance in action. You are just an uppity beauty queen trying to charm those women who would vote for you only by following the estrogen path.

Bravo Jack! Common sense and honesty are returning to CNN.”

Alicia Crespo. Providence, RI

John McCain won’t ask Palin to step out of the way because he’s a control freak in the Bush mold and thinks nothing he does is wrong. Doesn’t matter anyway….the geezer and the stewardess are already being written into obscurity.

Here is an idea…the United States could easily save $54 million dollars or more if we laid off the Congress and the Senate for a whole year.

Who knows what lurks in the mind of such a man? He has chosen a cheap political trick over a chance to really help his country. Whether she stays or goes, history will only remember the lunacy of the McCain/Palin ticket, and the lost opportunity to save a country from itself.

If he truly believes in his slogan “Country first”, then he will say good day to Sarah Palin. Although the Pallin pick is beginning to back fire on him, he will not back down for two reasons:
1. He only cares about fulfilling his dream as a president and has no single care about the chaos he will leave behind if Palin is to succeed him.
2. He thinks America has to pay him back for his services in the military.
This guy will do whatever it takes to grab the seat-even if he has to give Miss Palin a one year lecture before talking to the press.
But Americans are smart enough to know all these moves.

It would be in the best interest of Sarah Palin, her family, John McCain, the Republican party, our nation and the world for Gov. Palin to withdraw from the Republican ticket. However, I believe she is too arrogant to do it, and Sen. McCain’s fragile ego will not permit him to make the request. And…although her removal from the ticket would be a huge blow to the world of comedy…we really must, as concerned citizens, call for her to step down. It is the right thing for her to do.

I’m still waiting for pigs to fly.

No Jack!

This thing have gone to far to turn around now, it’s to late
McNonesense have dug a grave big and deep enough to bury himself and Mcpalin in the same hole.

Hubie–Barton Mississippi

since he did not succeed in getting that debate annuled, I guess he might have to ask her to step down or she can do that by herself…she might even find an excuse not to participate!

He can’t ask her to step down. That would be tantamount to admitting that the first truly presidential decision he ever made was an egregious error. Besides, with her as his VP, think of the extraordinary lengths any true patriot will go to ensure his safety. I like to believe I’d take a bullet for him myself…

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