Sarah Palin Banned From John McCain Memorial Ceremonies Over Family Feud

John McCain’s former VP pick Sarah Palin has been specifically uninvited to his funeral and other ceremonies — with The National ENQUIRER exposing secrets of the bitter political feud that’s carrying on beyond the grave! The beloved U.S. Senator from Arizona – who lost the 2008 presidential election to Barack Obama — wrote in his farewell memoir “The Restless Wave” that he’d been advised to skip over Sarah to choose former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, and then added: “I wish I had.” But sources revealed to The ENQUIRER that while McCain had his own regrets, there was open resentment towards Palin during the campaign from his wife Cindy!

Sarah Palin Banned From John McCain Memorial Ceremonies Over Family Feud

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Campaign insiders told The ENQUIRER that Cindy McCain had worked to undermine Sarah from the start — blasting the Alaska governor as a "hick" out to upstage her husband! "She's told friends she thinks Sarah is ruthless and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get ahead," one source said.

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During the Republican convention, said a source, First Lady Laura Bush immediately felt the chill when she met Cindy and Sarah for a private briefing. "Laura came away in despair," said a longtime Bush family friend. "Cindy's a social elitist, and wasn't taking anything from a onetime commercial fisherman who eats moose burgers."

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Sources also reported that Cindy quickly took advantage of an early disastrous interview that Sarah did with Katie Couric — inspiring her husband to blast his would-be VP. "John said she hadn't followed his adviser's preparations for the interview," said a Palin family pal, " and it left her eye shadow running down her cheeks!"

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And in her own interview with Couric, Cindy splintered the campaign by stressing that she and her husband's running mate "differ on many issues." That tension sapped the morale of McCain's inner circle, said a top source, who added: "If the McCains [had moved into] Pennsylvania Avenue, America [was] in for one hell of a cat fight!"

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For an added humiliation, Sarah went uninvited while her former VP opponent Joe Biden was asked to speak at the funeral. “Out of respect to Senator McCain and his family,” a Palin family source told NBC News, “we have nothing to add at this point. The Palin family will always cherish their friendship with the McCains and hold those memories dear.”

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Campaign insiders told The ENQUIRER that Cindy McCain had worked to undermine Sarah from the start — blasting the Alaska governor as a "hick" out to upstage her husband! "She's told friends she thinks Sarah is ruthless and will do anything, absolutely anything, to get ahead," one source said.

Photo credit: Getty Images

During the Republican convention, said a source, First Lady Laura Bush immediately felt the chill when she met Cindy and Sarah for a private briefing. "Laura came away in despair," said a longtime Bush family friend. "Cindy's a social elitist, and wasn't taking anything from a onetime commercial fisherman who eats moose burgers."

Photo credit: BACKGRID

Sources also reported that Cindy quickly took advantage of an early disastrous interview that Sarah did with Katie Couric — inspiring her husband to blast his would-be VP. "John said she hadn't followed his adviser's preparations for the interview," said a Palin family pal, " and it left her eye shadow running down her cheeks!"

Photo credit: Getty Images

And in her own interview with Couric, Cindy splintered the campaign by stressing that she and her husband's running mate "differ on many issues." That tension sapped the morale of McCain's inner circle, said a top source, who added: "If the McCains [had moved into] Pennsylvania Avenue, America [was] in for one hell of a cat fight!"

Photo credit: BACKGRID

For an added humiliation, Sarah went uninvited while her former VP opponent Joe Biden was asked to speak at the funeral. “Out of respect to Senator McCain and his family,” a Palin family source told NBC News, “we have nothing to add at this point. The Palin family will always cherish their friendship with the McCains and hold those memories dear.”

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