Posted on 01/23/2010 10:19:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
I did not vote for McCain, I voted for Palin - I despised McCain, and still do. If he had not picked Sarah - he would not have gotten my vote. I think he used her then - because he knew he wouldn’t get 5 votes without someone like her on the ticket.
I think he is using her now - he’s selfish & manipulating like that. He is dispicable. I hope she sees the light pretty soon, before he drags her down. She is better than him - she worked her butt off for his campaign.
I read her book. McCain’s people wouldn’t even let her give a concession speech. That hurt her to the core. All through the book - Sarah told about people on McCain’s staff that treated her like crap. She always said it was “Headquarters”. Who, pray tell, is HEADQUARTERS?
It was McCain, that’s who it was. And if it was someone else, than McCain wasn’t in control - and what kind of president would that be? Someone that isn’t even in control of his own staff?
This is pathetic - I’m still driving around with a Sarah bumper sticker on my SUV (with McCain’s name cut off) - but if she doesn’t come out in support of a REAL conservative, after getting herself into this particular race - then I will probably take the sticker off & probably downgrade my support of her. This is disappointing to me. I thought she had more integrity than to support someone just because they did her a favor.
Our country’s future is a lot more important than paying back “favors”.
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Just the fact that she would even appear on the same ticket as Juan McCain caused me to “question the soundness of her judgement”.
Of course. Alinsky stuff. Like nazi Pelozi encouraging dems & libs to start using “progressive” (because ‘liberal’ had become too unfavorable.) Maybe RINO can be subtly changed to “rightwing progressives”, diluting conservatives some more. You don’t get the picture at all.
LOL, looks like all the Romneybots here at FR are now aligning themselves with the Paul nuts to bash Palin. Who loses? Conservatism.
For better or worse, the GOP has always tried to balance out the ticket to bring in as many voters as possible. I would have preferred Reagan / Quayle but we got Reagan / Bush instead. I think that diminished the ticket.
I planned on not voting for McCain until Palin was added to the ticket. She increased the value so McCain and his team are to be thanked for that, even though they didn’t want to add her.
I wish that she weren’t helping McCain, but I understand it and won’t consider her a RINO for doing it.
Google is your friend troll.
Go find it.
The real problem with defining RINO is that there’s no clear understanding of what a Republican is. I would say that both Arlen Specter and Jim Jeffords were RINOs.
Impossible. It was HIS name that was on top of the ticket, not hers. I would have been the McCAIN Administration, not the Palin Administration if they were elected.
IMO. if you were serious about not voting for McCain, you shoulda done what I did: vote for Pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, the LP's Bob Barr, or another candidate who believed ingutting the federal government.
She needs to come out and support Marco Rubio. If she does that, then all this McCain stuff will be forgotten.
“shoulda done what I did: vote for Pastor Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party, the LP’s Bob Barr, or another candidate who believed ingutting the federal government.”
Baldwin Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
That is something to be proud of.
Now that the smoke is clearing, that seems evident.
It will take every spectra of the Republican Party from RINO to the "guns & religion" conservatives to win back the House and Presidency, but what we don't have is the luxury of time.
Should the Republicans pull off a coup de grace and dethone the Dems from power the conservative-wing will control the RNC instead of the RINO/McCain-wing.
"We must remember that 'United we stand and divided we fall.'”
There were two reactions for many of us; To be honest the initial reflex about Palin's support of McCain was nauseousness ;-)
The second though was as you stated, one of respect for honoring a debt of friendship and loyalty, but also perhaps an effort to help bind a GOP that desperately needs to remain cohesive as the Dems are about the burst at the seams.
You want to know the truth? I'll get flamed plenty for this, but truthfully - in my heart - I voted for the McCain/Palin ticket hoping that McCain would die early into the term & she could step in as president. I admit it. If he had been a younger, more healthy man - I would really have had to wrestle with voting for that ticket.
No, I didn't vote for the other tickets - because they didn't have a chance in Hades to win! You have to be somewhat realistic about that. It's not all or nothing with me, but it's got to be a lot more than half.
However, in my state's primary - I was given few choices by the time I was able to vote - so instead of voting for McCain - I did vote for Ron Paul.
Laugh all you want. I know my conscience is clear by not supporting a globalist who seeks the elimination of our borders.
I voted for Rep. Paul in the AR primaries also. There was NOOOOOOO WAY anyone could get me to vote for Juan McCain!
I’m sorry to disappoint you, but Rep. Paul is well respected in the Tea Party movement, whether you like it or not.
I have heard Sarah Palin compliment Rep. Paul on more than one occasion, & I appreciated her doing so....but the fact that she would continue to support Juan McCain is, IMO, an embarrassment.
SHAME ON YOU, Sarah!
What policies does a person have to endorse, or not endorse, in order to a RINO?
That was basically my question. What is your definition of a RINO? Who gets to make this consensus definition and set its peramatures? Is it more of an individual thing or must it be determined on a national scale by some party, etc?
If they try to put a wedge between the different supporters, all that will do is give the Democrats power forever. Instead of going after the REAL enemy, Obama and his cronies, people are infighting. It’s ridiculous. It’s like they will never learn. Fight the ENEMY, not each other. As far as supporting Sarah, I will always support her, not always approve of every decision she makes or every candidate she endorses, but you know what, she is a human being, she is a good person, she makes mistakes, we all do. No one is perfect and she has every right to her opinion. She doesn’t have to get the approval of every single person who posts here or anyone else. No matter who she supports(for example, when she supported Doug Hoffman) some bashed her for that too, not only bashed her, but blamed her for him losing. Yet they are blaming her for McCain’s 20 point jump in the polls LOL. she had NOTHING to do with that, if I am to believe that she makes McCain surge by 20 points in one day, then Doug Hoffman should have won in a landslide. People will make up their own minds of who they want to support in Arizona, in the end, Sarah or no one else will have anything to do with the outcome, it will be the people who decide the outcome
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