Posted on 01/08/2010 2:07:44 PM PST by Bob J
...Palin endorses John McCain?
Top ten...
1) She's just "playing the game". Standing on principle and voting the RINO's out is fine as long as it doesn't interfere with Sarah becoming prez.
2) If Sarah says supporting RINO's is okay, that's good enough for me. The Messiah is infallible and what do I know?.
3) She's not being inconsistent, she's making a tactical retreat, but hey that's politics.
4) A smart move by the smartest woman in the world.
5) She didn't want to but the dims threatened to file an ethics complaint if she didn't.
6) She's not quiting, she's reloading.
7) What endorsement? That wasn't an endorsement she was repaying a political favor. Everyone does it.
8) That was part of her master plan to make dims and the MSM fear her even more...if that's even possible.
9) C'mon, McCain wasn't THAT bad...
10) Who cares? Look at those LEGS!
If the shoe fits...
Why do you keep pinging Jim to your posts?
Bob j is a big boy and knows what he is doing.
All that aside, I’m not quite sure why people are getting all tizzied out about a 2012 potential candidate, in 2010.
Too early to know WHO the R candidate is going to be.
“A lot hinges on whether JD Hayworth does in fact challenge.”
Are you familiar with JD’s support of Indian Tribes and how much money he took from them?
Just popped onto your profile page to see where you’re coming from, and I see it’s pretty hard-core libertarian. I can say with pretty good certainty that Sarah Palin, coming from the libertarian-leaning state of Alaska and having taken the positions she has, is the most libertarian-leaning candidate with a legitimate chance at the WH in the foreseeable future.
No, he really doesn't, and this has been an ongoing discussion. Bob is out of line, and has been told to cool it.
You are a sexist dinosaur, aren’t you!
And you look like a tattle tale by pinging Jim ........or you are prodding Jim to cut the BobJ rope....
his threads are no more annoying than the other half dozen or so pointless vanities that are posted every day.
Conservatives were too late to coalesce in ‘08 and got a RINO and a loss out of it. Far better that the party base is unified and energized not only in time to do it right in ‘12, but also in time to help slow the damage in ‘10.
Palin is the brightest star we’ve got since Ronnie, and recognizing that can only help a party that is otherwise lost at sea on the watch of Captain Steele.
Ummm, they don’t say King Bush, Clinton or Obama. And they didn’t say Queen Thatcher either.
Well there ya go, you answered my question.
This is a good question. Can you tell me exactly how I've been “out of line”?
Secondly, what does “cool it” mean? Does that mean I'm supposed to shut up? Go with the group think? Don't rock the boat?
My guess you have a lot to learn about BEING A FREEPER. True FReepersWe don't shut up or go with the flow just because it conflicts with the herd.
This website needs people like me if for no other reason than I, on this occasion, act as counter balance to the tribal instinct that may lead us all off the cliff.
That you don't understand that shows me you are more concerned with group dynamics than making the correct choice.
I haven’t heard Palin discuss whether or not she has an Originalist view of the Constitution like I do (if some folks call that “libertarian”, then so be it).
Sure, she sounds good on a few issues, & I think she’s a patriot...but what would she do about advocating the elimination of federal dept’s & buraucracies that voilate the Constitution?
How seriously would she enforce the 10th Amendment?
Would she support having a non-interventionist foreign policy that the Founding Fathers believed in, or would she continue to use our military to fight wars all over the globe rather than defending America first?
Etc., etc., etc.........
Thank you :-)
You say McCain showed his confidence in choosing Sarah by asking her to run has his VP, I say he chose Sarah because he knew that without someone young, charismatic and with impeccable Conservative credentials on the ticket he had virtually no chance at all.
He most empathetically did not choose her because he agreed with her political views.
In my opinion, the way Sarah was treated by McCain’s campaign staff, and by extension McCain himself, relieves her of any obligation to support his reelection.
If I were advising Sarah I would not tell her not to endorse anyone in the Arizona Senate campaign until after the nomination process is complete, and if McCain gets it again as is likely, to be a polite but not enthusiastic supporter. That much I am willing to extend in the name of party unity, but no more.
Personally, I would prefer McLame retire and grow roses or something.
I hold that she’s, again, the best you’re possibly gonna get on all those issues—except the one on non-interventionism. I’m not so sure I can say whether she’d be strong on that from what I’ve heard.
Seems like you’d then be a capital ‘L’ Libertarian—and perhaps a Paulista as well?
“Most of us will probably the same thing kind of thing that we said to President Bush — when he did something bone-headed, like supporting amnesty, or Harriet Miers, etc.:”
That’s my concern Ron, the Palin worship is so thick here anything she says or does will be given the stamp of approval by her blind worshippers and all dissenting opinion will be crushed.
As long as Palin is viewed as a messiah we will not be able to keep her in check as we did with Bush on Shamnesty and Meyers.
That’s bad.
Care to tell us, or are you ashamed of something?
I used to be a card-carrying, capital “L” libertarian in the 1990’s. It was through then that I began to learn about the Original Intent of the Constitution & that our rights come from God, not the government. They caused me to become interested in the words of the Founding Fathers, & after reading George Washington’s Farewell Address, I left the LP due to his criticism of what he called “the Spirit of Party”....& I have been a non-party independent ever since. I will always be grateful to my Libertarian friends for teaching me about the wisdom of the Founders, Thomas Jefferson, in particular!
McCain has to survive the primary first....
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