Posted on 01/31/2010 6:00:38 AM PST by Patriot1259
Paul Streitz was a co-founder of the Draft Sarah 2012 movement. Ousted from the movement, Streits has now turned on Sarah Palin and accuses her of being a RINO. He is especially upset with her support of Arizona Senator John McCain.
I think a lot of former Palin supporters have become disillusioned.
So, when will Streitz be featured on GMA, Oprah, etc. and have his new book reviewed at length on 60 Minutes? Can’t wait.
Jaun Mcamnesty is a progressive, not conservative.
Mrs. Palin is calling her own wisdom into question by supporting this idiot.
It appears to me that "we the people" are on our own.
The primary complaint behind any of this is her supposed support for McCain in his next run for the Senate.
Of course McCain shouldn't be running ~ it's TIME TO RETIRE JOHN!
I have no doubt Sarah is aware of that.
Now, go dig us up a better candidate for Arizona Senator.
Not this one. If we only support someone with whom we, as individuals, agree with 100 percent of the time, then we support no one (except maybe ourselves). The same people who have turned on Sarah for supporting McCain, had no issue with her being his running mate. What nonsense! Sorry, I think some internal Sal Alinsky tactics are at play here and I'm not biting. I still admire the heck out of Sarah - her positives far out number her negatives. Is she perfect? No, but then who is?
John Shadegg.
I hope (and sincerely believe) that he will step in to the race after McCain hand Hayworth have mutually destroyed each other.
John Shadegg.
I hope (and sincerely believe) that he will step in to the race after McCain and Hayworth have mutually destroyed each other.
Count me with you on this one.
Besides, I like your car.
The issue over supporting RINOs vs. conservatives for elected office is as basic and foundational to our beliefs as they come.
This is not some minor policy haggle.
John McCain is the bane of the GOP.
And Palin has thrown her support and her credibility behind him.
We must support the policy over the politician.
Palin has failed us. It’s time to look to someone better.
Otherwise we will be stuck right where we are.
Like it or not, in order to be nominated and win the presidency Palin must get the support of the liberal wing of the Republican Party and right-leaning Democrats. McCain is the leader right now of that wing. Goldwater ran as an ideologue and failed to get the support of the Rockefeller/Scranton wing and got trounced. Reagan recognized this and named the leader of the moderate/liberal wing as his running mate. People can savage Sarah for her support of McCain but in doing so show their ignorance of political history and reality.
Shadegg works for me. Any indication that he would do that?
What a loose loose situation. She made a comittment to McCain (for what ever reason) and she is keeping it. NOW if she had backed out the RNC would call her a traiter and a liar for not honoring her word.
Yeah. He has not been shy about stating his desire to run for McCain’s seat.
I think once it becomes clear that McCain is finished (and Hayworth is too weak to win), he will jump in.
If it is to happen, it will likely be the last week or so to get in.
Palin had no obligation to back McCain in a Republican primary.
It’s not like this is the general election.
If she would have remained neutral and then endorsed McCain in the general, it would have been a different story.
What Palin has demonstrated is that she puts political favors and quid pro quo ahead of what is best for the country.
That sounds like just another politician to me.
Well, you are entitled to your opinion.
The McCain support from Palin troubles me. I like her but, this is not a good thing.
She is ruining her chances at being the 2012 candidate. I do not think she will be now.
Whoa there. Let’s back it up a bit.
What is it that made so many of us support Palin?
Was it not that we were lead to believe (falsely) that she would always put what was best for the country above what was best for her party or her personal friends, even if it meant making a tough choice?
Was it not that we were lead to believe (falsely) that her values were rock solid and non-negotiable?
Was it not that we were lead to believe (falsely) that she was forever on the side of us regular folk, not the side of political pals in Washington?
See, Palin’s betrayal of goes to the very heart of what she was supposed to be.
Or has Palin now become a self-sustaining myth that can do no wrong in the eyes of her flock?
Is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ for you now defined by what Palin does and doesn’t do?
Pull the wool back from over your eyes, my FRiend.
Palin was a manufactured myth, hyped out of necessity because we needed something — anything — to hang our hats on with the McCain ticket. And now she has, on her own volition, gone and endorsed that same old RINO that forced us to turn to her in the first place.
At the end of the day, she is just a politician. She is not worth compromising our principles on, the way she has compromised her own.
My only point here is that you do NOT know what kind of deal or promise she is honoring. So what you stated is all presumption on your part. Unless she told you all this personally.
I will wait and see. I am not a one issue voter anyway. If McCain can be beat, Sarah will not factor in much. It is still the voters who elect a Senator.
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