Posted on 01/23/2010 10:19:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
You wrote, “If she wanted to repay some perceived debt to McCain, all she had to do is stay out of the primary and then campaign for McCain in the general election”
If Sarah Palin was asked by McCain to campaign for him and she turned him down, the MSM and all libs would have a field day.....blasting both McCain and Sarah. They would love that.
When campaigning (hopefully limited) she can choose to only talk about his positions that she herself endorses, and leave out the horse crap things like, “hands across the aisle”, “amnesty”, “campaign finance reform”.
As I’ve pointed out before, posting pictures of Sarah doesn’t really make your case.
That’s sort of what got Obama elected - no one would listen past the “image” of what he really is.
Loyalty to a fault? It could be the difference between Hayworth representing AZ and 6 more years of throwing monkey wrenches into everything the conservatives try to accomplish in the foreseeable future.
Exactly that Gave the Rats the house in 06 and of course, the laughable Third party or symbolic vote waste IE: The Traitorous voting for the Kenyan by default! comes to mind here as well!
“Whether she uttered those claims because she’s ignorant or because she knows they’re false and decided to lie for McCain, only Palin knows. Regardless of the answer to that question, she’s not qualified for the Presidency, as she has proven with these statements and other utterances. She embarrasses herself everytime she speaks. Conservatives4palin.com editors claim that she is simply behaving like a loyal person. But one’s own country is supreme to any person and any requirement for loyal individuals. When the choice is “Either the country or the person you should loyally endorse”, a real hero, a real patriot, a real statesman/stateswoman chooses the country, not the person. Palin has endorsed a strident liberal who’s trying to enrich himself with taxpayers’ money.
I was a fan of Palin myself. But I’m now convinced that she’s not a conservative, nor is she a politician qualied for the Presidency of the United States. She’s simply just another RINO endorsing another RINO. No real conservative would ever endorse McCain for the Senate.”
I could have written this ;-)
A RINO is a "Republican" (in name only) and Palin appears to be acting just like the vast majority of elected Republicans, by virtue of her supporting the embedded incumbent.
So to say she IS a RINO, implies that she isn't really a Republican, except that she says she is (INO).
So, she actually IS a Republican. At least what constitutes a typical, inside-the-beltway Republican.
(did that make sense??)
“If she can support McCain and not know about the rotten ads McCain has been running against JD Hayworth for weeks, she’s dumb as a rock.”
Correct
RE :”When conservatives are supporting the RINO’s look out’
Don’t forget when the RINO gets nominated and we are told we must ote for the RINO or the country will be destroyed. Then they spend four or eight years making excusing or disowning RINOs actions. One defense of Bush was: “He told us he was for big government” so stop cpmplaining.
Yawn.
Palin 2012.
...Or complicit.
“if anything Mccain is now a conservative.”
There you go again!
Sniff......
It would be nice if we could have two sections of FR.
One for the earth scorching purist police. And another for the mentally stable.
At least Palin lasted well over a year. Brown was relegated to RINO status before casting a single vote.
Does the Supreme Court Tip their hand as to when a decision is to be announced?
Isn't it curious she says he asked her just days before this landmark ruling the guts McCain Feingold?
He must have known per the case that it didn't go well, and would not move in his favor.
Isn't curious that he also asked her and days later JD throws his hat in the ring?
Did he have a heads up JD would make the move, or was he also reading the Tea Leaves of the Scott Brown Victory?
The Bottom Line, McCain knows he is in trouble because his encumbency is an unpopular one.
And if Scott Brown can carry Barney Frank's District, what can JD Hayworth do to him?
The bad news is IMHO Sarah will get spoils of his defeat by helping him run.....
I believe Palin would have accomplished just as much even if she hadn't been picked for VP.
She was already a popular Governor and since there wouldn't have been ankle-biters to force her to resign, she would have finished her term and prepared to run for POTUS. The only problem is, she wouldn't have been vetted and the personal attacks would have done her in while they're out of the way now. Plus there would have been no book.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
He’s a RINO for owning a union made truck!!!!
heh heh....
Uh...ahem...excuse me...
BUT the OTHER defense of Bush is...
YOU’RE STILL BREATHIN AINTCHA?
Everything else is reletive.
Of course...but I didn’t write the article posted.
Loyalty, yes.
Subservience, Hell no.
I'm not calling Palin a RINO nor will this diminish my support of her. I'm just stating that this is a bad decision for her to campaign for McCain now that Hayworth is running. If she leaves it at this, then conservatives should drop the matter and continue to support Sarah.
My fear is that if McCain loses, Palin loses her clout and her ability to endorse conservative candidates in other races.
I detest McCain's progressivist ideology. And basically think that political parties are gradually becoming irrelevant anyway. As a voter (who recently changed registration from Republican to Unenrolled), a candidate's character, "message," and track record are everything to me. I rate Sarah Palin high on these criteria; and McCain gets an "F" on all three....
Indeed, McCain was one of the main reasons I left the party. That, and all the angst about the GOP's evident "identity crisis": They seem to be puzzling over whether to be a party that "conserves" our most cherished national values, principles, and liberties, or "progresses" to a big tent philosophy and a cacaphony of different (and competing) voices.
In short, the trend seems to be the GOP is moving away from its historic core for purely pragmatic reasons. But I think, if it does, it will finally die.
I am a constitutional conservative who believes in strictly limited government. I know McCain does not share this belief; but I'd thought that Mrs. Palin does. So it seems to me McCain and Palin are "natural enemies" in the political philosophy department.... Which is why I find her support of him so perplexing.
What's your best shot, jonrick46?
She wasn’t that popular a governor, people who weren’t GOP nerds had never heard of her. She might have been able to make a stab at POTUS in 12 as one of the crowd, now she’s a front runner and if she’s smart can stay that way. McCain advanced her clock at least 3 years, that earns him a little bit of “thank you” campaigning. Anyway, campaigning, even for a slug like McCain, keeps her in the spot light and a front runner in 12.
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