McCain brought Palin to prominence.
Like it or not they are largely joined at the hip.
It was nice knowing ya Sarah...
I’m sorry but I don’t give a fiddler’s fart what he did over 40 years ago. It’s about the “here and now.” He’s got to fudging retire! Or get voted out. Now!
Didn’t she buy a house in Arizona a few years ago? She may have plans to run for senate once he leaves. Just a thought.
For the record, here is Palin’s entire post:
On this day in 1973 the Paris Peace Accords were signed. Although controversial, this treaty resulted in the release of our American POWs in Vietnam. Among them was John McCain. Our courageous POWs had endured unimaginable punishment at the hands of enemy captors in their sacrificial service to country. Our appreciation for them cannot be adequately articulated.
So many of these vets and POWs have continued to serve our country in private life. They’re still fighting for America and showing their love of country in all they do. Some like Congressman Sam Johnson of Texas and Senator John McCain serve us in the halls of Congress today.
I consider Senator John McCain an American hero and a friend. He fights to remind our President that the federal government’s first priority must be strong defense of our homeland, and, like Congressman Johnson, he fights against big-spending colleagues who don’t prioritize for our military’s needs. Upon the Senator’s shoulders he’s carried part of our message of opposition to today’s “fundamental transformation” of America directly to the problem: President Obama and Harry Reid’s far left agenda.
I appreciate Senator McCain’s steadfastness in demanding truth in the White House’s Benghazi cover-up. Because of his persistence we WILL get that truth, and then more eyes will be open to see how dangerous an Obama-led retreating America is in this volatile world.
It goes without saying we don’t all agree on all political issues. For instance, I shall keep pushing to open ANWR, I oppose letting illegal aliens cut in line and receive American benefits via “immigration reform,” and I oppose any Congressional action that allows President Obama to incur more U.S. debt. During this time of dangerous lawlessness in the executive branch, those who agree on stopping the intended transformation of our country had better unite to fight. So at this time, it’s perplexing to see Senator McCain’s good efforts to uncover the Obama agenda being ignored and perhaps even hindered now by those wanting to censure the Arizona Senator. Despite our differences on some other issues, there is no questioning Senator McCain’s dedication to national security in spite of the White House’s agenda.
We live in a time of diminishing virtues because of societal influence towards total self-centeredness. This is unfortunate and makes raising families, conducting business, and governing that much more challenging. I know how important the virtue of loyalty is because in politics it’s pretty much nonexistent. I stand on that most important virtue and answer those asking today: “Yes, I am proud to have been asked to run with him in 2008, and he is my friend.”
One more thing, if you’ve met his beautiful mother you know where he gets his tenacity. Roberta McCain is one tough Mama Grizzly.
- Sarah Palin
I don’t see her post as “rallying to his defense” or giving him a free pass. Your mileage may vary. So be it.
I know where Palin stands on the issues that matter most and McCain’s censure isn’t of the same importance as same-sex marriage, abortion, gun control, limited government, adherence to the Constitution, judicial activism, or the preservation of individual liberty. It just isn’t.
If Palin’s position on McCain’s censure is so important to some of you that you can no longer respect Palin, then I guess you and I have very different priorities.
Sorry, but I despise McCain more than any other RINO. He is the kind who would sell his mother for keys to the executive bathroom. Maverick, undependable, kiss ass MSM, Amnesty loving jerk!
Anyone who supports him, including Palin is off my list.
McCain did not do her a favor by picking her on ticket.
She did a favor to McCain by putting some spirit in the campaign. After 6 years, on what conservative principles does she need to support him?
Apparenty it’s personal. I’ll let it go at that.
Palin’s support is a bit late. Real meaningful support came from George Soros, when his NGO paid for a good part of McCain’s legal expenses, defending him from Democrat voters who charged him with election fraud, claiming that McCain was not a Natural Born Citizen. Along that line Barack and his campaign co-chair, Clare McCaskill really went to bat for McCain in February 2008 when they sponsored Senate Bill 2678, the “Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act.” SB 2678 failed to pass.
Many of you can’t believe McCain’s parent’s citizenship and military assignment on non-sovereign territory, the Canal Zone in 1936, excluded him from natural born citizenship, but Barack, Clinton, Leahy, Menendez, McCaskill, etc, clearly disagree, and supported the bill, which they wouldn’t have done if there was settled law.
Obama, Leahy, all Democrat and all Republican senators did what they could, cobbling together a follow-on bill to SB 2678 in April 2008, Senate Resolution 511, the “Senator John McCain Natural Born Citizen Resolution”. Resolutions, of course, don’t make law, but they all agreed, in effect, that whatever the law, McCain was deserving of a run for the presidency, if only he were eligible. Former Judge Michael Chertoff asserted that because he was born to two citizen parents, McCain was eligible, ignoring the dozen or so Supreme Court Cases also requiring being born on US soil.
A rationale was made that being born on our soil was not necessary because of a 1790 Citizenship Act, this claim by Obama’s Constitutional Law professor, Larry Tribe (whose admitted plagiarism Elena Kagan covered for a couple of years earlier). Tribe and Olson deployed a little sophistry, but it had no legal relevance, even if it had been true - it wasn’t since the 1790 Citizenship Act Tribe cited was completely rescinded in 1795, and was the last time Congress ever mentioned natural born citizenship, constitutionally limited as Congress is by Article 1 Section 8, to creating an Uniform Rule for NATURALIZATION.
Without John McCain’s cover, Barack would have had his eligibility challenged by more than only Georgia Congressman Nathan Deal. Deal’s open letter asking for confirmation of Obama’s eligibility was answered by a letter from the Congressional Ethics Committee informing him of an IRS investigation of his tax returns, a clear promise of impending bankruptcy. Deal resigned Congress and became governor of Georgia.
Had any one of the eight Article II Section 1 amendment attempts between 2000 and 2007 passed, both Obama and McCain would have been eligible. Because of McCain, both major parties have chosen to ignore the Constitution, which intentionally does not itself contain definitions of any term save one, and that, a restriction on “Treason”, a term used too liberally by the Crown.
They all know, but will all cover their perfidy, given the effectiveness of the “birther” campaign, and the promise of retribution from the militant progressives surrounding the Obama administration. The birther was probably launched by Democrat operative and Hillary campaign official, Phillip Berg, to cover the real issue. Berg claimed proof of a Kenyan birth certificate, which, of course, never materialized. The certificate was a distraction, just as Chester Arthur employed a journalist to write a book claiming Arthur was foreign born: Arthur was born in Vermont, but his father was not a citizen. Arthur created the smokescreen, just as Obama’s supporters have. No one ever questioned the citizenship of Arthur’s father, which made Arthur ineligible had it been revealed.
Palin’s Christian goodness may have inspired her kindness to McCain, but Democrats at the top deserve most of the credit for McCain’s last opportunity at immortality. Without Democrats, the failure of two Conyers, one Frank and one Menendez natural born citizen amendment, made McCain the political buffer allowing Obama to run unchallenged, even while he honestly told us all he was a naturalized, and not a natural-born citizen. Lest there be any doubt about Republican complicity, had Rohrabacher, Nickles, or Orin Hatch’s amendment attempts, to make Schwarzenegger eligible succeeded. both Obama and McCain would have been eligible. But no amendment got out of congress, confirming two points: both parties understand the Constitutional requirement from the clear exposition in many Supreme Court Cases, and by the author of the 14th Amendment, John Bingham, including the precedent-making Minor v. Happersett, and the relevant Wong Kim Ark, in which Minor was cited, and native-born Wong Kim was made a citizen, naturalized at birth, but not natural-born. Both parties participated in suppressing the constitution. This is why we need Tea Parties.
I would still love to see Palin, and or Bachmann in most any leadership position, or Allen West, or Suzanna Martinez, or Mike Lee, or Rand Paul, or Ted Cruz if we can make him eligible. It is past time that the bill, halfheartedly sponsored by Obama and McCaskill, be turned into an amendment to make the foreign-born children of military citizens natural born. Our framers had good reason to require that our most powerful citizen, our president, have been raised by parents of undoubted allegiance to our republic. We are seeing the wisdom of their prescience. But citizens protecting our nation are likely to have children who are born into respect for nation, though some constraints must be considered for where the foreign-born children are raised. Today, foreign born children are considered natural born if born in an Embassy, or on other territory over which the US has sovereignty. The Canal Zone was made sovereign territory by Congress in 1937, the year after McCain was born. It was unfortunate, but is the law.
Whatever
I’ve moved on....
Ted Cruz is a far better candidate