Bad choices Quote by Rachel Maddow

The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain…

— Rachel Maddow

Palin was a political Hail Mary, a long bomb in the closing minutes of a game that John McCain and Co. were certain to…

— Dee Dee Myers

The [Sarah ]Palin endorsement as sort of vouching for Donald Trump is all about. She is the sort of tribune of not conservatism as…

— Chris Hayes

The Republican establishment's 2008 embrace of Palin set an irresponsibly low bar. Coincidence or not, a batch of nonsense-spewing, hard-right candidates quickly followed, often…

— William M. Daley

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

— Edgar Bronfman, Sr

“I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors [...] I…

— Noam Chomsky

As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news for the…

— Jeff Greenfield

Sarah Palin is backing in be to Republican presidential politics in a big way with a big high profile endorsement decision.That is, I think,…

— Rachel Maddow

Donald Trump said it was his idea for [Sarah] Palin to bring up her son at the rally.

— Chris Hayes

What John McCain didn`t realize was that Sarah Palin was his demographic. He thought he was appealing to younger women, and in fact, Sarah…

— Howard Dean

The first thing I learned is that campaigns are about money. I had this romantic idea that campaigns were about law and debates and…

— Michael Seibel

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

— Michele Bachmann