McCain didn’t make a serious run for POTUS.
John McCain regrets picking conservative firebrand Sarah Palin as his running mate in the 2008 presidential election over Democrat-turned-independent Joe Lieberman, the Republican senator writes in his forthcoming memoir.
McCain recalls in “The Restless Wave” that his advisers told him picking Lieberman would hurt his chances of being elected to the White House because he supported abortion rights and was close with Democrats.
“It was sound advice that I could reason for myself,” he writes, according to the New York Times. “But my gut told me to ignore it and I wish I had.”