McCain: Palin to be `force' in Republican Party
Posted on 08/02/2009 6:56:43 AM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. John McCain says he sees Sarah Palin continuing to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party.
McCain says he respects the decision that his 2008 vice presidential running mate made to resign as Alaska governor. The Arizona senator says people make decisions based on what's best for them and for their families.
And he says he thinks Palin "clearly" made the best decision. McCain says he thinks she will continue to be "a force" within the GOP.
Palin intends to write a book and try to build a right-of-center coalition. Her long-term political plans are unclear—and there's speculation about a possible a 2012 presidential bid.
McCain spoke in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."
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McCain has come to the sudden realization that he needs her to come and save his sorry a$$ in Arizona next year.
Well *that* was a bold, brave, and risky statement to make, Mr Johnny (Folds like a suit from a can) McCain..../s
Boy is this old jerk desperate to get reelected. He just threw the last six months of undermining her under the bus. The more I hear from him the more I am convinced he was part of the Obama Campaign all along.
McCain is back with his old friends at CNN shooting his mouth off again.
Someone, anyone tell McCain that his wad is shot. He’s yesterday’s newspaper. Bird cage liner material.
Seriously, McCain can’t win for nothing here at FR.
Ummm... just like he came to her aid. He is one sorry individual.
Not doubting you but we'll know for sure if the McCain daughter begins talking Palin up.
Now, exactly who is John McCain?
A correct statement from mccain and five dollars will get you a cup of coffee at StarFu*ks U
You can bet this comment was made after checking his polling numbers, and focus group meetings.
McCain must be desperate. What, is Chris Simcox gaining on him?
Is there anyone challenging him in primary?
John sees the train about to leave without him! I would have been more impressed if he had come aboard earlier!
True. A lot of us feel burned after campaigning for him while he treated us like Moe treated Curly.
DING DING DING!!!!
Wish everyone would get off the McCain slamwagon. There was no way in H... Obama wouldn’t steal the last election (remember ACORN?) I’m not a huge fan of McCain, but he’s a real American.
I see the Palin resignation as showing the socialists and statists have perfected a strategy for destroying good people who try to set government back in its proper bounds.
As the tagline says, I’m a simpleton. Please give the evidence that McCain “threw Palin under the bus”. Start with a single sentence. If that doesn’t do the job then put in a few more. I don’t want your opinion but rather the evidence.
Where was McCain when his campaign people were kicking the S&^T out of Palin after the election? A day late and a dollar short, John.
I do not understand the McCain derangement syndrome. We have marxists ruining the country and yet people doing nothing about it but whining.
(1) More of the "base" trust Sarah than they do any other nationally-known politician.
(2) When Sarah endorses a candidate, that will carry a lot of weight with the base.
(3) The "base" is where the activists, campaign volunteers, donors, and passion come from, that are required for any successful campaign.
Sarah does not need to run for office to transform the party. All she has to do is, at primary time, point out who is worth supporting, and (more importantly) who is NOT.
Because he's a career politician, continues to be a turncoat, in his mid-70s, who need to fricking STEP-DOWN. He is too old and he continues to help Obama pass his Marxist agenda. Hence, the "derangement syndrome."
We have marxists ruining the country and yet people doing nothing about it but whining.
We have Republicans who continue to help the Marxists pass their agenda like McCain. That's just as bad as the actual Marxists themselves.
Simple sentences, OK. McCain’s surrogates have repeatedly attacked Sarah Palin since the day her popularity out shined his own. Until his most recent statement, that “Palin will be a force in the Republican Party” he has done nothing to support her. Even when the attack sources were identified as being from his campaign he did not defend his once running mate. It is those surrogates and his “friends in the press” whom he appears to have thrown under the bus in order to make him more palatable to Arizona voters. I probably could have bumperstickered it for you, “Too little sorry, too late, too much little man”.
And I see her resignation as a very good strategy. It shuts up the leftwing moonbats, and allows her to pursue higher goals without the moonbats filing conflict of interest charges against her every time she does something outside of the office of Governor.
She is now in a position where she can sue them, because she is no longer a public servant, just a private citizen entitled to her privacy and the right to sue those who try assault her character.
Seriously, McCain can’t win for nothing here at FR.
Gee, wonder why?
1. Immigration bill fiasco
2. RINO
3. Did nothing after the campaign to fight off the snipes on Sarah
4. Took the conservative base for GRANTED
Yeah, we folks at FR have long memories
Well said.
Imagine he posed for pictures with the other team's players while refusing to pose for pictures with members of his own team. Imagine he insulted his team mates for saying bad things about the other team. Imagine his daughter was running all over the place saying that your team was a bunch of jerks and that she had a crush on the opposing team's starting quarterback.
Imagine that at a pep rally, the quarterback made a statement that the other team was a pretty good bunch of guys and that them winning the Super Bowl wouldn't be a bad thing. Imagine that in the fourth quarter, he pulled himself out of the game for several of the most critical plays because he had other things to attend to.
Imagine if the KC Chiefs quarterback was a Chargers fan. That's how I see McCain.
Now, Juan, when will YOU resign...or at LEAST join the right party.
Yeah. Right. You bet. Let’s work with Zero to get that health care bill passed. Maybe we can get them to make a few changes around the edges.
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He’s probably struggling in the polls in Arizona and he needs Sarah to campaign for him. Otherwise he would never defend her now, he never defended her, throughout the whole election when the media, the Dems, and the Republican establishment were all smearing her he said NOTHING. After the election when his cronies which include Nicole Wallace and Steve Schmidt say she cost him the election(I Frankly believe that McCain cost Sarah the election) where is McCain, saying what great advisers he had. I heard during the campaign Cindy McCain called Sarah and her family “hicks” his own daughter doesn’t even like her. Sorry Mac, too little too late. He just wants Sarah to campaign for him
Well, being as the Chiefs are so bad (only 2 wins better than the winless Lions), if I were their QB, I might be a Chargers fan too.
Given that McCain picked Palin, and Palin ever since then has demonstrated enormous potential as an inspirational leader, where’s the basis for cutting her down now. There’s a good chance that the current crop of cutter-downers will be eating their words as time goes on. McCain’s surrogates aren’t McCain. Those surrogates might have a lot of bad thoughts about McCain too. McCain’s best strategy for now is to say little about Palin and focus on America’s difficult issues.
You perhaps aren’t understanding my posts. Sarah Palin is the only sane, emerging leader in the entire conservative movement. I have said nothing to cut her down I have alluded to the fact that, through surrogates, McCain tried to hurt her to enhance his standing with the left. On the other hand, McCain and his henchmen have been an albatross for her since she entered National Politics. She was and is a shinning star that turned loose would have delivered the dissolutioned voters and a McCain Victory in 2008. McCain is a tool who should have retired years ago.
Unfortunately, the seduction of John McCain by the press continues. In reality, this guy has to standing at all to speak for the Republican Party. He squandered his last hope to take its rein when he went along with the crowd in voting for TARP last summer.
They consider him John McCain, the maverick. I know him as John McCain the Easy.
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