Palin told DailyMail.com that she will 'choose to remember the good times with him' even though he appears to have turned on her.
UK Daily Mail "
Former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin says hearing that Sen. John McCain now regrets choosing her as his 2008 running mate is 'like a perpetual gut-punch' every time she hears about it.
And the latest verdict from the ailing 81-year-old Arizona Republican, she said, is perplexing because McCain has told her very different things over and over in person.
" 'That's not what Sen. McCain has told me all these years, as he's apologized to me repeatedly for the people who ran his campaign – some who now staff MSNBC, the newsroom there, which tells you a lot,' Palin said.
"Hearing the opposite on TV, she said, was unnerving.
" 'It's not a real fun thing that part of my job is the requirement – is having to read the news every day,' Palin lamented.
"The onetime Alaska governor spoke to DailyMail.com in Washington before headlining a fundraising event for a Trump-friendly political action committee.
"That's because the Obama years 'opened a lot of people's eyes to the trajectory of our country,' she said, hastening the Trump era into place.
"Palin took issue with the way President Trump has treated McCain, a war hero who was tortured for years in North Vietnam after his plane was shot down – and famously refused to accept an early release unless the men he commanded were allowed to come out of the infamous 'Hanoi Hilton' with him." . . .
Thomas Lifson commented:
Instead [of] reconciliation and forgiveness, Senator John McCain is choosing score-settling and cruelty as the theme for the final chapter of his life. And in so doing, he is inflicting emotional pain: