John McCain picked Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008 by literally saying, “Fuck it. Let’s do it.”
When Sen. John McCain was consulting his advisers on who he should pick as his running mate in the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, his wife, Cindy, counseled that to choose then-Gov. Sarah Palin would be “a gamble.” The former Arizona senator’s face lit up in response, and he mimed rolling a pair of dice, saying, “Fuck it. Let’s do it.” The conversation, held on the McCains’ Arizona ranch in August 2008, was described in a forthcoming book bypolitical reporter Jeremy M. Peters.
On Sunday, Axios reported it had confirmed the conversation with a top McCain source. In his book, Peters writes that longtime McCain aide Mark Salter warned the senator, “There’s worse things, John, than losing an election. You could lose your reputation.” After turning to campaign strategist Steve Schmidt, McCain then brought up the possibility of picking Palin to his wife.
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