Sarah Palin broke her silence Thursday and said Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., never told her directly that he regrets picking her as his running mate as the 2008 Republican presidential nominee.
However, the former Alaska governor said every time she hears about the reports of his bitterness towards her, it’s “like a perpetual gut-punch.”
“It’s not a real fun thing that part of my job is the requirement – is having to read the news every day,” Palin said in an interview with Daily Mail.
Instead, Palin insisted it is the people around McCain who have changed his mind about her.
“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,” she added. “I don’t know unless I heard it from Sen. McCain myself.”
McCain, 81, is recovering from treatment for his brain cancer and has been sharing snippets from his forthcoming memoir, “The Restless Wave,” including an adage about how he regrets picking Palin as his running mate in 2008.
“I don’t know all the details of his condition right now. It happens to me also where people speak for me and a bell is rung, and you can’t un-ring the bell,” Palin quipped.
But she’s not going to let it get to her, whether it’s true or not.
“In spite of everything that has erupted in these past days with his spokesperson – or perhaps he himself – saying that he regrets that they chose me to run on their ticket,’ she said, ‘despite all that, he has been my friend,” Palin said.
