Opinion: Sarah Palin says she and John McCain are practically strangers
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John McCain and his new running mate, Sarah Palin, are spending some quality time together today. After this morning’s rally in Dayton, Ohio, they boarded McCain’s bus for the six-hour ride to Pittsburgh.
That’s a good thing. Because McCain and Palin are practically strangers.
At least that’s what she told a reporter two weeks ago. In an interview with the Washington, D.C., newspaper Roll Call, Palin said she had met McCain only once or twice.
She said she was introduced to McCain at the 2006 Republican Governors Assn. meeting.
The pair met again this week, according to McCain campaign spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker. In a news release, Hazelbaker said Palin arrived with an aide in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Wednesday evening to meet with McCain advisors Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter.
On Thursday morning, Palin met with Cindy McCain and John McCain at their home in Sedona, Ariz. That, according to Hazelbaker, is where McCain made his big revelation: ‘At approximately 11:00 a.m. Thursday August 28, 2008, John McCain formally invited Governor Sarah Palin to join the Republican ticket as the vice presidential nominee on the deck of the McCain family home.’
For more Palin-related news, check out Michael Finnegan’s assessment of what a McCain-Palin ticket might mean in November.
-- Kate Linthicum