If you vote for McCain, this dog dies ...
No dogs were harmed in the making of this post
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.
Rush needs to start “Operation McChaos ..”
Oh boy...ok I must not know her enough then. I remember during the campaign that she did a lot for children in poor countries and stuff...never mind. She is not the focus of that conversation anyway.
lmao, that is hilarious.
you sick puppy /sarc
“If McCain had a sense of honor, he’d respectfully refuse her support in his primary bid. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening.”
Palin has a small but loyal base - and it could grow if she showed some independence, creativity and smarts. She chose to do good ole boy Rino P.C. back slapping thing and it is not going to serve her because the tea party is taking McCain out if (I hope JD gets in) a conservative runs against him. If it is not JD that challenges McTraitor hopefully, the Tea Party will run a third party candidate against the GOP like we did in NY.
It is surprising because Palin did show independence in supporting conservative candidates who were opposed by McCain and his hench men. Oh well.
Steve Schmidt is in this, too, then! The scumbag has an office in Sacramento now—public relations—& working for Romney!! The reason he pushed his book out there, but aside from him, it is pretty clear when you remember the Iowa primary of ‘08 and McCain’s sudden rise in the polls, infusions of $$$ and Mitt Romney dropping out—!! Sarah is just a pawn in their game.
And all this happened because we were all gaga over Sarah, the new Maggie Thatcher! Damn.
I guess I’m saying that we should support whoever is running against McCain if we’re all in agreement for the most part that McCain is bad.
Sometimes it seems that Palin is catching more guff for supporting McCain than McCain is catching for actually being McCain.
McCain seems like our least favorite RINO, we should make a point to take him out in the primaries, and not worry at all about the qualities of his opponent.
She needs to be told this as much as possible, NOW!
I don't have her site anymore. Anyone know how we can let her know how we feel?
I’m betting she knows. JD is in the race now!
“Frankly, we don’t need the trolls here. We do love Sarah for what she represents and she is far more intelligent that the jerk upthere - and probably than about everybody in the Congress right now and has more executive experience than anyone of them!!!
So GO AWAY - we have a serious problem to talk about here.”
I can see I touched a nerve here with you and the others that responded to my comment emotionally, just as I suspected would happen, rather than with a cool, unimpassioned and rational reaction. The hopefully small pool of Freepers that react as Dems do when an opposing viewpoint is expressed, by attacking personally rather than logically. Can’t help you there. Hoping the others who did not emotionally respond to what I said are considering my comment thoughtfully, rather than going into immediate attack mode. Some Freepers must be going over to DU to learn how to mimic their response techniques. Just sayin.....
Yes, I know about the MSM, but if it’s true she’s going to stump for McCain, she needs to stop now! She and Scott Brown both!
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