Sorry; it went right over my head. Couldn’t tell by the tone and inflection in your voice the first time around…

Sorry for the confusion.

“I’d rather lose an election than win a war.”- John McCain

There, I fixed it for you. I’m pretty sure that was what he really said.

Thanks, bronze. But that’s not exactly what I cited. Look again.

The title is written the way I meant it, too. Sorry if it made some confusion.

Rush Limbaugh inteviewed Sarah Palin Tuesday for about 10 minutes in the 1:30 half hour. On the media front, Limbaugh noted that unlike the media, “you are the one that is holding Barack Obama to account.”

Limbaugh added that both the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times both praised how Palin is “the most dynamic and forceful” speaker of all four candidates, but they claimed her forcefulness is “driving away moderates. This is an attempt by the media to make you stop being who you are. What it means is, they’re really worried about the effectiveness that you have.”

Palin replied: “Well, yeah, I guess that message is they do want me to sit down and shut up. But that’s not going to happen. I care too much about this great country.”

Palin also forcefully called on Obama to rein in ACORN and “the unconscionable situation that we’re facing right now with voter fraud.” She said of the media, “There’s too much ignorance, too much ignoring of his associations in the past.” Limbaugh said if it weren’t for the media, Obama “wouldn’t be at 30 percent in the polls.”

Palin aggressively went after Obama-Biden on taxes, suggesting there’s a choice between a ticket to “create jobs” with tax cuts and restraining government growth, or a ticket that would “kill jobs” with tax hikes. She pressed on Obama to declare at what point, the economy is too weak to withstand his tax hike plans.

She also said her ticket was pro-growth, pro-life and pro-winning the war with the strongest military in the world, “or we could go in the complete opposite direction.”

Rush asked if she was thinking about her political future after this race, and she said no, she’s completely focused on November 4.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/10/14/sarah-palin-tells-rush-limbaugh-sorry-msm-not-going-sit-down-shut

“I’d rather lose an election than win a war.”- John McCain

There, I fixed it for you. I’m pretty sure that was what he really said.

Got a source for that quote?

Remember, McCain once famously said “I would rather lose an election than lose a war”. Now, he’s gone the extra step of saying he would rather lose an election than WIN an election…
-Stephen Colbert

I think looking back through the fuzzy filter of history, it will be said McCain lost the election on the morning of September 15, with the unfortunately timed statement on the strength of the American economy just as the worst crisis in decades was starting.