Posted on 01/22/2010 11:17:29 AM PST by American Dream 246
The question isn’t why Sarah Palin is helping John McCain. The question is: What are you doing to stop him from cementing his Big Government Republican legacy?
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Pay attention: In the afterglow of the Massachusetts Miracle, there are flickers of peril for The Right. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but like Paul Revere’s midnight-message, consider this warning “a cry of defiance, and not of fear.” Conservatives have worked hard over the past year to rebuild after Big Government Republican John McCain’s defeat. But McCain isn’t going gently into that good night.
Red Flag Number One: A reader from Arizona informed me the day after the Bay State Bombshell that he had received a robo-call from Massachusetts GOP Sen.-elect Scott Brown. “He basically wanted me to vote for John McCain in November,” the reader said in his description of the automated campaign call supporting the four-term Sen. McCain’s re-election bid. “No wonder [Brown] said he hadn’t had any sleep…he was busy recording phone messages!”
Red Flag Number Two: Also in the wake of the Massachusetts special election, the nation’s most popular conservative political figure, Sarah Palin, announced she would be campaigning for her former running mate in Arizona in March. Palin told Facebook followers that she’s going to “ride the tide with commonsense candidates” and help “heroes and statesmen” like McCain. Facing mounting conservative opposition in his home state and polls showing him virtually tied with possible GOP challenger and former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, McCain welcomed the boost: “Sarah energized our nation and remains a leading voice in the Republican Party.”
Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, Sen. McCain is now clinging to its coattails to save his incumbent hide.
And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy.
In Florida, McCain’s Country First Political Action Committee is supporting the Senate bid of fellow illegal alien amnesty supporter and global warming alarmist, GOP Gov. Charlie Crist, whose crucial 2008 primary endorsement rescued McCain from disaster. Grass-roots conservatives support former GOP statehouse leader Marco Rubio – who is hitting Crist hard for lying to voters about his embrace of President Obama’s pork-laden, fraud-ridden stimulus package.
In Colorado, McCain and his meddlers infuriated the state party by anointing former lieutenant governor Jane Norton to challenge endangered Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet. She’s a milquetoast public official who has served on a lot of task forces and GOP clubs – and who happens to be the sister-in-law of big Beltway insider Charlie Black. An estimated 40 percent of her coffers are filled with out-of-state money (and much of that is flowing from the Beltway).
The mini-McCain of Colorado claims to oppose “special interests,” but has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from D.C. lobbyists at McCain’s behest – stifling the candidacy of strong conservative rivals led by grass-roots-supported Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck, an amnesty opponent whose aggressive illegal immigration prosecutions have earned him the rage of the far Left and big business Right. A recent Rasmussen poll showed Buck and another GOP candidate Tom Wiens beating Bennet – despite the huge cash and crony advantage of front-runner and blank-slate Jane.
In California, McCain’s PAC supports former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina – a celebrity name with deep pockets of her own, massive media exposure, and a checkered business record. Fiorina served as the economic adviser to McCain, who supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, the $25 billion auto bailout, a $300 billion mortgage bailout, and the first $85 billion AIG bailout. As GOP rival and grass-roots-supported Chuck DeVore’s camp notes, Fiorina has also vacillated publicly over the Obama stimulus. With taxpayer “friends” like this, who needs Democrats?
With all due respect to McCain’s past noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations.
He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America.
He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout.
He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots.
And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.
Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place.
The conservative base has no such obligations – and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late.
The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.
Hayworth JUST HAS TO RUN! We couldn’t enjoy 24 hrs of victory before all of this crap.
I’m saying if Hayworth DOESN’T run. I’m not saying to pick Simcox over Hayworth. I’m not saying to pick Simcox if a solid conservative does run. I’m saying if McCain and Simcox are the only 2 names on that ballot, what does FR do?
Yeah, well those of you that have a love affair with Sarah Palin going on had better take another look. I could never really understand the infatuation other than the more the Dems attacked her, the more the Pub base the more they rallied around her. Other than that, from what I’ve seen is that she has a charismatic personality and is a nice woman, but otherwise not particularly impressive as presidential material.
My distrust of where she stands on lots of issues, which I can’t figure out, is based on the fact that she was willing to partner up with John McCain for his presidential run in the first place. We all know what McCain’s policy stances are, and they are RINO to the max on all but a few issues. She was willing to back him and become his yes woman as VP should he have won. And we all know what those policy issues would have been, pro illegal immigration and amnesty, anti-waterboarding and/or “torture” of jihadists and their ilk, pro cap and trade, etc. etc. etc. And Sarah as VP would be parroting his policies.
Now that he has lost, she still has his back by campaigning for him. Her “loyalty” to him (even though all of his advisers during the campaign and until this very day have backstabbed her continually) supersedes what she should know is loyalty to the best policies for this country as a whole, not the individual (McCain) who opposes many of them.
I don’t trust her, I don’t trust those who claim they are mavericks, and like McCain, are more willing to attack their own Party than the opposition Party, as Sarah Palin is also wont to do. I hope somewhere along the line the Freepers on this website start to think about her with less emotional passion and more cool, logical thinking.
I am looking at other candidates to carry our banner in the next presidential election, as I can’t see Sarah Palin winning. Her negatives have been driven too high, not of her own doing, but nevertheless the end result is as it is, and her lack of ability to talk specifics over generalities on too many subjects is not a good sign as to her depth of knowledge on so many issues.
Hopefully, her being a Fox News contributor will help her to hone her skills on a variety of world topics and domestic issues. That will help I would surmise, In the back of my mind, I really don’t think she will run for President. Just a gut feeling. We shall see. Perhaps her being on Fox will have the same effect as Huckabee has had by being constantly in the public’s eye; however, how many of you are happy with that result, catapulting Huckabee into a major contender should he choose to run for President again. The law of unexpected consequences.
For too many, I believe Sarah Palin, not unlike when Obama ran and won, is a tabula rasa (a blank slate) upon which we the people fill it in with our political wishes and hopes. It didn’t work out real well with Obama, and I surely don’t want another mistake by hiring someone whom no one knows where he/she is really comiung from politically. I want someone I can trust to not be another John McCain.
“I’m saying if McCain and Simcox are the only 2 names on that ballot, what does FR do?”
I hear ya. I suppose we vote for the lesser of two evils, like the GOP manages to ALWAYS make us do! I’m not sure which is the lesser of those two.
I would like to see Russ Pearce get in the race. He just got a bill going in Az. to really go after the illegal immigration problem. Someone mentioned another, but can’t recall the name today.
Russell Pearce
State Representative Russell Pearce VISIT ME @ www.azleg.state.az.us ... I am a proponent of immigration enforcement and national leader on the immigration ...
www.mesa18.com/candidates/russell_pearce.htm
“Fred, according to some on FR, is now leading Palin on her path.”
“Fred Malek, a heavyweight Republican fundraiser and kingmaker, has singled out former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney as the GOP’s leading contender in the early stages of the 2012 Republican presidential derby.”
Umm, I don’t think he can support both Palin and Romney for the same race.
Palin supporters are going to have to trust Palin to make the right moves. If she makes alot of decisions you don’t agree with, then you can pick another candidate. I will if it comes to that.
I’m a Palin supporter that’s critiqued her on a few things in the past, but this isn’t one of them. I consider loyalty to be a key conservative trait.
What is more important to me is her learning the ropes in running a Presidential campaign...For instance, if she is going to endorse and campaign for RINO McCain then she better garner a payback endorsement from McCain that helps her with the moderates...if she doesn’t then she is being had tactically and that is a negative.
More important is her campaiging and financing conservative candidates, especially one’s in swing districts like Ohio, Indiana....and now Pa,NJ, NC etc.
I just got on twitter and put up a message for Sarah Palin to stop this support dead in its tracks, we’re trying to get rid of this socialist. I suggest everybody find a way to get a message to her, if she wants the bid, she better stay away from McCain!
And who are you to tell Sarah Palin, mayor, oil and gas regulator, governor, vice presidential candidate, best-selling author, Fox news analyst, what to do?
You do know she got so much done in Alaska by working with Democrats?
You do know more about her than what the MSM tried to paint her as, don’t you?
So, you’re saying that we conservatives are so weak and Hayworth is so weak that we and he can’t defeat this bum on our own.
I don’t need to leech off of Palin for everything. She has a totally legit reason to support McCain. I may disagree about that support, but to hold that against her is a rationalization to not support her.
If you feel that strongly, then just go with a real RINO in the race, since that is all I see out there for the moment.
Oh, people like to talk about lesser of 2 evils and whatnot.
People are talking about not supporting Palin because she does one or 2 things for McCain, but people aren’t going to do whatever is necessary to get rid of McCain?
How bad is McCain then, really? And if he’s not so bad, why beat up on Palin?
I mean, it seems that we’re getting
1) Oh, McCain is terrible, everyone who supports him is terrible.
and then, right after that
2) Oh, we can’t support his opponent, he’s not electable or some other flaw.
“campaigning for someone who is suddenly PRO gaymarriage”
RINO MCCain is not Pro gay marriage. His nitwit wife is and his clueless daughter is.
I gues he will be soon - since he changes his mind all the time depending of the wind...Mrs McCain is a fantastic lady...I am really not understanding this change of mind at all. His daughter is a spoiled bratt but his wife is a very respectable lady who di great things in her life , who also endorsed Ny23...WTFIGOH???
How is creepy Cindy McCain “fantastic”? She embezzled from her own charity. Became the mistress of a married man with a sick wife. Received special treatment for her drug problem. Met with radical Muslims. Now the duct tape over her mouth as she fights for gay marriage in a state where she does not live.
“I mean, it seems that we’re getting
1) Oh, McCain is terrible, everyone who supports him is terrible.
and then, right after that
2) Oh, we can’t support his opponent, he’s not electable or some other flaw.”
It’s called weeding them out....shall we just sit idly and let someone else pick these candidates and pull the lever simply because there is an R beside their name?
This is the time to cull the herd.
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