John McCain picks Alaska Governer Sarah Palin as VP.

[Professor S]

More on your point, Bond, its very easy for someone who is completely outside of the conversation to make a statement against a war that their opinion has no bearing on, and of its details he had no knowledge of. Its like me saying "I'm completely against grilled cheese sandwiches" when I've seen pictures of bread and only heard about cheese in conversation.

There was no poltical gain he could make by giving a favorable response considering his constituency at the time, and nothing for him to lose by being against the iraq war because his opinion at the time was LITERALLY irrelevant and heard only on a large scale in hindsight.