August and sipt, but the order was reversed from this year in 2008, the democrats went first. Democrats held their big nominating convention for barack obama and joe biden in denver. You might remember it culminated with that big speech in that huge arena in denver where barack obama spoke on than set with the big theatrical columns. It was very dramatic. The republicans that year in 2008, they made a Bold Decision that they would take advantage of the fact that the democrats were going first and they would take advantage of the fact that the conventions were so late that year. So the momentum coming out of the conventions was going to be really important for the general election. Because of those two factors they decided to do something very bold. They decided in 2008 that one day after the Democratic Convention was over, the very next day, john mccain would name his Vice President ial running mate. They didnt name the person who was going to run with mccain till after the democrats had their convention. Its kinds of a genius move. It meant the biggesting move who john mccain was going to pick as his running mate was this is distracting parlor game that everybody was nattering about all through the Democratic Convention when they should have been talking about barack obama and joe biden. It also met when john mccain made his announcement, it by necessity would completely take over the political news cycle so it would squash all of the democrats momentum from their convention. The day after that convention was over, it was over. It turned the whole narrative of the race on its head. In that tiny little window between the Democratic Convention and the Republican Conventioning in 08, the John Mccain Campaign basically just decided that they were going to defibrillate the election that year. And boom, they did. One day after the denver of convention was over in fair born, ohio, john mccain basically yelled clear and then shocked everybody by picking sarah palin as his Vice President ial running mate. The American Peoples initial reaction was im sorry, who now . Gallup released this polling data the day after sarah palin was announce. Look at the headline palin unknown to most americans. But she quickly became very, very very famous. And she initially became very popular. She gave that roll licking well received speech at the Republican Convention, that was the lipstick on a pig speech. Remember . She was in huge demand at Republican Campaign events. She was all over magazine covers at the time. There was this huge clamor and tons of interest in her. Everything was going great and then she started doing interviews. Do you agree with the bush doctrine . In what respect, charlie . The bush what do you temperature it to be . His world view . No, the bush doctrine enunciated in september, 2002, before the iraq war. That was governor palins first interview as a Vice President ial candidate. Didnt go well. She would do okay when she was interviewed in friendly territory like right wing talk radio or the Fox News Channel but knit they let her out of that bubble, it went badly. I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for their to stay informed and to understand ive read most of them again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media. Like what ones specifically im curious. All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years. Can you name a few. I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news. Alaska isnt a foreign country. The sarah palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the Mccain Campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 president ial race and the initial launch was very successful. She didnt withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning. And in the end, between that Republican Convention speech that was so successful and ultimately election day, the overall trajectory of her impact on the Mccain Campaign was downtown ward. By october 30th, by just a couple of days before the election, whatever help she might have been early on had had very clearly evaporated. She had become a hindrance not a help. A New York Times cbs poll found 59 of the country didnt think sarah palin was prepare for the job that john mccain had picked her for. That number was going up and up and up the longer the campaign went on. Nearly a third of voters polled say the Vice President ial selection would be a major factor influencing their votes and those voters broadly favor senator barack obama. A couple of days later, senator barack obama and joe biden went on to win that president ial election and they won by a lot. But then in the political life of governor palin, thereafter, things just continued to go weirdly. Within a matter of months that have election, governor palin had decided to inexplicably and without warning quit her job as governor of alaska. She was still in the middle of her first term as governor but she quit because she said she had other political desires that she could not quite explain but insisted those other political things she wanted to do insisted she would have to leave her job as governor. She got news jobs on the fox channel and various reality shows. Eventually she starred what was basically an internet channel called sarah palin tv. Sarah palin channel. Thats over now too, i think. Although how would we know . In 2011, she briefly flirted with running for president herself. You might remember at one point in the summer of 2011, her exploration of a possible sarah palin president ial run produced a palin family bus tour. Remember that . In which she and an entourage of relatives and assistants, staffers set off across the country. They said they just wanted to be tourists and sight see memorably in new york city, the sarah palin is maybe running for president bus tour also involved governor palin eating pizza in midtown manhattan with donald trump and his wife where donald trump famously ate pizza with a knife and fork. Ultimately though, governor palin decided she would not run for president in 2012. Although again, her quitting announcement, her announcement why she was not going to run for president like the time she quit running for governor, it was a little hard to understand. Just in terms of her choice of language and how she was trying to explain herself, it was just hard to get. You know, there was that is sense through my own personal internal deliberations in makinging this circumstance i would go back and forth about whether now is the time and if i say no to the opportunity thats in front of me via running for office now will politically speaking will i die, will i be ineffective. But no, after making the decision today and making the announcement, i know beyond a shadow of a doubt after great confirmation today too, gretta, personally speaking. I dont know. I mean, i can tell because of the questions that gretta asked her that night because of what it said in terms of the words at the bottom of the screen. I could tell them what was going on there was she was announcing she was not running for president in 2012 but listening to her it was very hard to get. That tends to be a theme with governor palin. But she has not had a job in politics since she quit assic ans governor in 2009. She is mostly a conservative media celebrity now. Not a picturely prolific one though. The only major appearance she has made in the last six months was at that the washington d. C. Rally against the iran deal last september where the crowd seemed very happy she was there. It seemed almost news worthy she had flown all way from alaska to washington to be there. But again, once she started talking, it was hard to follow exactly what she meant. Remember, the enemy comes to kill still and destroy. But now theyre going to inspect themselves . Oh, what could go wrong with that . Yeah, dont call us. Well call you, they say. And thats really good because obama is standing by with his mighty phone and his mighty pen in case they stretch the truth a little. And they start dropping bombs. No, only in an orwellian obama world full of sprinkley fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as hes peeking through a pretty bench kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for america or israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You dont reward terrorism. You kill it it is sometimes hard to know what sarah palin means. Just on a day to day basis. Sometimes it is hard to follow what she is talking about. But it is also hard to know what she means in republican politics anymore. And that is newly relevant because today she is backing in be to republican president ial politics in a big way with a big high profile endorsement decision. That is, i think, probably going to cause a lot of upset in one particular part of the republican establishment. And its not about sarah palins popularity with the conservative base. Its not about how much pull shes got with her, i dont know, facebook followers or wherever people follow her now. It is about something personal. And specific. Because when the John Mccain Campaign in 2008 decided to elevate sarah palin from total obscurity to make her his Vice President ial running mate, they knew they were making a big strategic gamble. They knew they were taking a big risk and it turned out in the end to be a bad choice. It hurt john mccains chances. Who knows if john mccain could have won that president ial campaign in any circumstances when george w. Bush the outgoing republican president had a 22 approval rating, right . But picking sarah palin we now know did not help. It hurt his chances in the end. And john mccain has there ever been asked about that bad decision he made concerning sarah palin. Hes been asked about it over and over and over and over again. And john mccain from the very beginning has been United Nations flinchingly loyal toler. He has never thrown her under the bus. He has never conceded it was a bad decision to pick her. He has never ever said a bad word against her. I have the greatest appreciation for governor palin and her family. Theres great joe to know them. She invigorated our campaign. I have Great Respect and admiration for her and her family. That was your choice, youre proud of it. Im very proud. Think she could be president one day . Sure, sure. After john mccain and sarah palin lost that election in 2008, a friendly interviewers confrontationals interviewers everybody interviewing john mccain would basically ask him about that decision more or less trying to goad him into saying that yeah, sarah palin that choice was a bad mistake. He would never a it. Even later in 2009, when governor palin inexplicably quit as governor can of alaska, nobody understood her explanation for why she was doing it, he still would not criticize her. I respect sarah palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party. And i have to respect the decision she made. Even after she quit in the middle of her first term as alaska governor. That was john mccain refusing to criticize her for that. In 2010, are he had her to come to arizona to campaign for him in his Senate Reelection bid that year. By 2012 when the Republican Party was once again confronting this choice of who their nominee in 2012, mitt romney would pick as his running mate, at that point when he was considering who he would with, a lot of people talked about once again how terrible john mccains choice had been. How deb stating it had been for his campaign. What a terrible choice she was. Even then, he refused to criticize her. He never would. Senator mccain, i want you to hear a sound bite from one of the sunday shows. Dick cheney talks about your selection of Vice President candidate governor palin. Listen. I like governor palin. Ive met her. I know her. Shes an aattractive candidate but based on her background, she only was governor for what, two years, i dont think she passed that test. Being ready . Being ready to take over. I think that was a mistake. Do you agree, disagree . Well, im always glad to get comments four years later. Look, i respect the Vice President. But the fact is that im proud of sarah palin. Im proud of the job she did. Im proud of the job she continues to do. I love sarah. I think she is still the best decision that i have ever made. The best decision i have ever made. That actually that last comment from the radio show was john mccain on the day of the New Hampshire primary in 2012. He has steadfastly stood had i her and refused to ever criticize her, to ever admit there was anything wrong about her choice. He has been capital l loyal to her in such an unwavering way. Even has his entire party has turned against this is decision that he made for obvious reasons, he has been unflinchingly loyal to her. Today as a thank you for that in response to everything john mccain has done for her and the way he today by her for all of these years, today in thanks, sarah palin issued her endorsement for the 2016 president ial race. She endorsed this guy. I inspired her for president. I raised a Million Dollars for him. He lost. He let us down. But he lost. So i never liked him as much after that because i dont like losers but frank, let me get to it. He hit me hes not a war hero. Five and a half. Because he was captured. I like people that werent captured, okay . Hes not a war hero. John mccains running mate from 2008 today endorsed donald trump. What does this do to the race . What does this do to the Republican Party. Reporter weve actually got somebody on deck next who may know better than anybody what impact this is actually going to have. Stay with us. Thats next. Ugh heartburn no one burns on my watch try alkaseltzer heartburn reliefchews. They work fast and dont taste chalky. Mmm. 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We still have a lot of political news to get to tonight including a live oneonone interview with Bernie Sanders. Estates hill ahead. But the political world came to a halt tonight with some very sad news out of iowa. We had heard earlier if the day this had been a serious car crash skrofling Campaign Workers for dr. Ben carson. Now the very sad news that a Ben Carson Campaign volunteer who was seriously injured in that crash earlier today has now died. There were four carson staffers and volunteers involved in this crash. Three of them were treat anderson released at a hospital after their van went off the road in icy conditions and was hit by another car. But one of those Campaign Staffers was taken to the nearest Trauma Center. The nearest Trauma Center was just over the iowa border at the university of nebraska in omaha. He was 25yearold Carson Campaign volunteer braden joplin. And again, we got word tonight that he has died because of his injuries in this crash. Very, very sad news, especially a 25yearold kid. Its a reminder for all of the roll licking pitch and catch and crazy competition and crazy personals of the president ial campaign, its real human beings who are involved. Its very sad news. The Carson Campaign suspended work today when they heard about the accident. Dr. Carson says he plans to meet with braden joplins family once he arrives in omaha later this evening. Before we got news that mr. Zrop joplin passed away, the carsons Campaign Plan had been to suspend their Campaign Today and tomorrow but restart on thursday. Now that the circumstances have changed and olympian joplin has died, we dont know if thats still the plan that the Carson Campaign been basically unsuspend the day after tomorrow. Again very sad news tonight for the Ben Carson Campaign and for everybody involved in politics. More ahead with robert costa and the live interview with Bernie Sanders coming up later this hour. Please stay with us. 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