When I read Sarah Palin’s Facebook post yesterday, I knew the uproar it would create here and having read the entire thread, I wasn’t disappointed.
However, I have a different take. It’s called not burning your bridges.
Suppose Palin intends to run for president. How does unnecessarily preempting McCain’s support help her campaign? If any bridge is to be burned, let McCain do it. He will be the one who comes off as small, considering Palin’s generosity towards him.
On the other hand, Palin already has the support of the tea party movement. Having McCain give her any kind of support can only help with the less supportive factions of the Republican party. At any rate, whatever happens, it won’t be Palin that started the fire that burned that bridge. IMO, she is putting McCain into the box of her choosing.
How about just saying nothing? She didn’t have to comment.
The one issue I had with Palin had always been McCain but I still supported her and hoped she had learned something. Guess not.She was always my #1 pick for prez. I may just bump her down to #2 and Cruz up a notch.
There is even loyalty among thieves. I do not understand loyalty no matter what foul deeds one may commit. There is a point when your friend does something inexcusable and you don’t follow them off the cliff. I can understand her having respect for his military service but to give the guy a free pass just because he choose you for VP? ReallY?
I have a different take. I have postulated that Sarah may be indebted to McCain on some personal level we know nothing about, maybe he has been an assist to her privately, like with the IRS investigating her father, something like that.
Otherwise, the bridge burning may be starting among her own followers, depressing any gains she might hope to enjoy from whatever future endorsement she could hope for from McCain. He already declined to endorse her once, back when she was making noise about a run but didn’t.
What bridges would she have burned by keeping her yap shut? Her rush to his defense was completely unnecessary and put her on the wrong side of the fence as far as I'm concerned. I dropped her from consideration for any office when she stabbed conservatives in the back by endorsing him for the Senate in 2010. This just reinforces my decision.
What bridges would she have burned by keeping her yap shut? Her rush to his defense was completely unnecessary and put her on the wrong side of the fence as far as I'm concerned. I dropped her from consideration for any office when she stabbed conservatives in the back by endorsing him for the Senate in 2010. This just reinforces my decision.
Precisely. She has conservatives eating out of her hand. To win the moderates, she needs McCain's endorsement or at least his non-endorsement of her opponents.
You don't have to pander to slime to not burn bridges. I mean just look at this:
I consider Senator John McCain an American hero and a friend. He fights to remind our President that the federal government's first priority must be strong defense of our homeland, and, like Congressman Johnson, he fights against big-spending colleagues who don't prioritize for our military's needs. Upon the Senator's shoulders he's carried part of our message of opposition to today's "fundamental transformation" of America directly to the problem: President Obama and Harry Reid's far left agenda.Right.