McCain Jokes With Leno in First Appearance Since Loss
A week after their failed bid for the White House, Arizona Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continue to be the GOP’s odd couple.
Palin has been on an interview-a-day media whirlwind, calling her critics “jerks” and looking ahead to 2012.
In her bluntest language yet, Palin told Wolf Blitzer on CNN today that she might be a candidate for president in 2012.
“Not ruling that out,” Palin said.
She also made it clear she may be interested in becoming a senator from Alaska if Sen. Ted Stevens, recently convicted of corruption, is forced to quit.
“If something shifted dramatically and if it were, if it were acknowledged up there that I could be put to better use for my state in the U.S. Senate, I would certainly consider that,” she told CNN.
McCain, meanwhile, emerged on “The Tonight Show” Tuesday to poke fun at himself and say kind things about Palin and the man who beat him, President-elect Barack Obama.
Like any good veteran of the late-night shows — McCain has been on Jay Leno’s show 14 times — he relied on punch lines that have been honed with time.
“I’ve been sleeping like a baby,” McCain told Leno about the aftermath of his Election Day disappointment. “Sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours, wake up and cry.”
When asked about the scene when he drove away from his campaign for the last time, McCain said he went to buy a coffee. “But not the newspaper. I knew what that was going to say.”
source ABC news
