Posted on 01/23/2010 10:19:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Paul Streitz has decided to call Sarah Palin by her real name, because she endorsed John McCain (who is trying to win a fifth term as Senator) and said she will campaign for him. Fanatic Palinites, such as the editors of the misnamed „conservatives4palin.com” website (they should rename it „liberals4palin.com”), lambasted him and called him a “backstabber”.
“If Paul Streitz’s support of Governor Palin is contingent upon his agreeing with every decision she makes or her selling out her deeply-held values, that’s unfortunate. While all support is appreciated, the governor has never been for sale. Ask the Alaska establishment, who learned that early in her political career.”
Palin has proven that she IS for sale – if one picks her for veep. She’s endorsed a despicable traitor because he chose her as his veep.
Palin is so dishonest (or so ignorant) that she didn’t even tell the truth about why she endorsed John McLame. She claimed that:
“John McCain is on fire to kill Obama’s government takeover of healthcare and that’s what I want to see.”
Which might be incorrect, because McCain favors the SAME policy on socialized medicine as Obama – he just might vote against this particular Act. McCain favors socialized medicine, as proven by Steven Warshawsky:
“McCain’s campaign website [of 2008 – ZM] demonstrates that his thinking on this issue is much closer to Hillary Clinton than Adam Smith. For example, McCain states that “controlling costs” is his top priority, and that “nothing short of a complete reform of the culture of our health system and the way we pay for it will suffice.” This is a recipe for massive government interference in the health care industry. McCain also supports universal coverage, claiming that “we can and must provide access to health care for all our citizens.” Completing the liberal trifecta, at the January 5 ABC NEWS debate, when Romney criticized McCain for “turn[ing] the pharmaceutical companies into the big bad guys,” McCain replied, “Well, they are.” Plainly, if he were president, McCain would serve as the Democrats’ “useful idiot” for their plan to impose socialized medicine on the nation.”
Also, I’ve heard from a friend that McCain will likely now try to save the socialized medicine bill. So on socialized medicine, McCain and Obama differ only about particular bills, NOT about the merits of socialized medicine itself.
What about the task of protecting the American people? No duty is more important than that one. But on that issue, McCain is also liberal and unreliable. Palin falsely claimed that:
“And his commitment and his leadership on national security to win the war on terror, that’s what we need. (…) national security, he gets it. He understands how to win.”
Palin is flat wrong. McCain is NOT committed to the task of defending the American people, and he’s not a leader on anything except liberal policies. He „doesn’t get it”. He doesn’t understand how to win the Global War on Terrorists, nor does he understand any defense issue or foreign policy issue confronting America now. I’ve written several articles pertaining to this guy, demonstrating what McCain’s specific policies are, and why they are wrong. So I’m not going to repeat those entire articles. Let me comment again on McCain’s policy on the GWOT, though, because that’s one specific issue that Palin mentioned.
John McCain does NOT say that America should attack its enemies before they attack America. He also endorsed Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo, and he opposes “enhanced interrogation techniques”, which are absolutely necessary to gain intel information and protect America.
McCain also buys the PC propaganda about the root causes of the Islamic threat. He believes that these root causes are “poverty, tyranny and despair”, and ignores what terrorists themselves say motivates them: the Quran, which contains several explicit commandments to kill nonbelievers.
In short, McCain doesn’t recognize the real nature of the Islamic threat, and he’s not prepared to combat it effectively. Anyone who isn’t prepared to combat it effectively is a person who doesn’t belong in the Senate. If the GWOT is the most important issue for you, McCain is undisputably the worst possible Senatorial candidate from Arizona.
I did not include McCain’s cretinous, liberal, anti-American policies on foreign policy issues other than the GWOT, even though I could (foreign policy is not limited to the GWOT, although Sarah Palin, as an ignorant person, doesn’t understand that). My articles about McCain refute his idiotic policies, so I just wrote a reply to what Palin explicitly said. She did not comment on McCain’s treasonous policies like nuclear disarmament and the progressive abolition of conventional weapon programs (which are necessary to protect America against China).
The failed 2008 VP candidate also said this about McCain:
“And he is a statesman, and I don’t hesitate at all to say, no.”
Which is not true. McCain is not a statesman; anyone who calls him a statesman insults real statesmen. A genuine statesman fights for the right policies, regardless of ideology; works for his country 24/7; and retires when he should.
McCain has spent the last 9 years promoting destructive liberal policies to punish the GOP for its decision to give Bush the 2000 Republican nomination; he’s been working against the US and for his liberal ideology (together with fellow liberals like Kennedy, Obama, Russ Feingold, and Hillary Clinton); and he has refused to retire – he’s vying for his fifth term as Senator. By comparison, George Washington refused to serve as President for a 3rd term, even though as of 1797, there were no presidential term limits. McCain is running to keep his salary, not to serve the American people, whose opinions are irrelevant for him.
Palin ended her statement thus:
“we do need his leadership, especially on those two fronts: Government takeover of healthcare, he wants to kill it; national security, he gets it. He understands how to win.”
See above. Her claims are false.
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.
If I see some proof I'll send an email to his office asking why.
In his endorsement letter, DeMint called Romneycare "innovative health care reforms".
Palin would really made a lot of points over here if she hadn't. I can understand blind loyalty, but ticking off your base is another matter.
I admit, I don't like seeing this, but this is also January 2007. I wonder what he would say now?
Don't have a clue but unfortunately I expect DeMint to support Romney again. Romney was in SC in Oct. collecting more chits by rasing money for DeMint.
I was speaking of Fred’s endorsement of McCain in the primary even when such conservative stalwarts as Rush and Ann Coulter were telling everyone to support McCain. I wasn’t around her then, but I think most Freepers were supporting Romney over McCain at that point.
How long before certain someones around here brand DeMint as a RINO because he returns a political favor to Romney?
Here is another link to DeMint’s letter to his colleagues asking them to support and ask Romney to run.
See the post above. Your reaction?
Tom Coburn recently endorsed Carly Fiorina in CA. Not a peep from the purists around here that I saw.
I do use the word RINO when the shoe fits.
But to suggest Palin and DeMint are RINO’s is ridiculous.
None can pass the litmus tests of some of the purists here on FR. I’m petty hard line conservative and I have called McCain RINO many times...Snowe, Specter, Collins....even the leadership when they give in to media’s pushing to be PC.
But when we start calling our best conservatives RINO’s because you support another...it’s getting out of hand and assinine.
HAS JD HAYWORTH BASHED SARAH PALIN OR CALLED HER A RINO?
Not that I know about.
It’s likely that JD plans to run on the issues.
Why not let him?
He can handidly win by remaining POSITIVE.
HAS JD HAYWORTH BASHED SARAH PALIN OR CALLED HER A RINO?
Not that I know about.
It’s likely that JD plans to run on the issues.
Why not let him?
He can handily win by remaining POSITIVE.
HAS JD HAYWORTH BASHED SARAH PALIN OR CALLED HER A RINO?
Not that I know about.
It’s likely that JD plans to run on the issues.
Why not let him?
He can handily win by remaining POSITIVE.
As I see it, the problem with the term RINO is that it is so poorly defined that it is becoming meaningless. I mean is there an actual consensus by anyone on what policies a person has to advocate in order to be a RINO?
Another one to be confined to the the RINO reservation by Team Pure no doubt. Yet, I don’t hear anywhere near the venom being spewed towards Coburn as I do Sarah.
LOL, let’s talk about it on another thread, it’s getting late. But I think it is safe to say that Rep. in name only is pretty descriptive, assuming that the conservative plank of the Rep. Party is assumed.
I think a general acceptance of the the three pillars of accepted conservatism on economic, social and natsecurity are required. I think also that the tone and manner in which a Rep. goes after his own is also a pass to rino land lol.
Please clarify. I don't understand what your point is.
Post #396 absolutely well said.
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