Nobody likes an ingrate.
My guess is that she is being loyal to McCain
he did pick her for VP running mate after all and brought national attention to her allowing her to have a national platform, audience and customers to buy her book
You have to save a dance for the person who brought you. This is a situation where she is damned if she does, damned if she doesn’t.
Because she owes him. She is not immune to political payback.
Reciprocity is the law of life.
After McCain loses, Sarah will be back to normal.
>> And what does this say about Sarah Palin and politics in general?
Loyalty is a virtue. Dance with the one that brung ya. If it weren’t for McCain’s nomination, Palin would be nowhere. It would be a very public slap-in-the-face for her to endorse against the indiviual most responsible for her current political positioning.
My guess is that she’d rather have Hayworth win — she’d just rather he win without her publicly embarrassing the man that jumpstarted her national political career.
SnakeDoc
I don’t think I’d have a problem w/Palin supporting McCain in the general election. But to get involved in a primary, that’s another story.
Sarah needs to approach with caution.
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Pay attention to what they DO, not what they SAY.
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Look at McCain now — he’s acting like he’s a real conservative, even pandering some to the right. If he gets re-elected, he will bust-a-gut to reach his friends across the aisle again.
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Pay attention to what they DO, not what they SAY.
Perhaps she doesn’t consider him a RINO, or she doesn’t feel the same way about it as you do?
I like Sarah, but there is really no excuse for this. McCain’s people dissed Sarah... blamed her for McCain’s loss. She owes McCain nothing. She is making a big mistake in supporting him against a true conservative. Enough of a mistake to cost her the nomination? We’ll see.
Perfection does not exist. Nothing in this world is 100% all the time. Its like judging a gorgeous woman and saying she is a 10. There are no 10’s, there is always a flaw. Let this instance play itself out. There may be more here than meets the eye.
The media and those that love to trash her at FR are all set to criticize her if: 1) she supports McCain because he's a RINO, 2) Doesn't support McCain (she's disloyal), 3) if they don't like her hairstyle today, or 4) if Piper gets a B in math (Sarah's a bad mom).
These politicians for life are the main reason we need term limits in Congress. If it’s a good thing to term limit the President then it most likely is a good thing to term limit the Senators/Representatives.
Palin is smoozing her way towards 2012 so that if she decides to jump into the primary she’ll have cut no ties to impede her chances. jmo.
She’s dumb.
Because her first loyalty is not to the U.S. Constitution.
She is catching flack for the Perry support also.
Sarah is supporting McCain because she has something the overwhelming majority of politicians lack—CLASS.
Sarah right now has got herself into two big problems concerning McCain:
1. Most of us really dislike McCain. Should McCain win his senate seat, Sarah will be perceived as culpable for his win.
2. If McCain should lose his senate seat, she will be perceived as having been weak.
I like Sarah, but I am very open to other possibilities. Right now she is not my first choice anymore.