Brown can support the RINO McCain because Brown isn't conservative.
DeMint can support the RINO Romney because RomneyDeMint is conservative.
Palin can't support the RINO McCain because um, because ah, because what???
Because your analogy is false and misleading, that's why. DeMint, for instance, endorsed Romney early in 2007, when there were basically no credible Republican candidates in the race - all you had at that point was, well, McCain, who had basically been running for President nonstop since 2000.
Wrong.
You ignored what I said. DeMint was a ground floor organizer and fund raiser for Mitt in 2006 while Mitt was still testing the waters and while there was NO announced candidates in the race and several years before the presidential election.
Your potrayal of DeMint's support of Romney is misleading and my above question to you still stands.
Your potrayal of DeMint's support of Romney is misleading and my above question to you still stands.
This just makes my case, however. Given what has been said above, exactly which conservative candidate do you expect DeMint to rally behind, since there were none in the race?
Further, we all know that McCain was running for President. He'd been doing so nonstop since he lost the primary in SC to Bush. To pretend otherwise is simply willful ignorance.
Sorry, but the Palin situation is completely different. In the AZ Senate primary, there are two clearly differentiated candidates - McCain the RINO and JD the real conservative. Palin has actively chosen the RINO, even though there's a conservative in the race that she, the supposed Tea Party Goddess, could easily have stood with. By not doing so, she's betraying the movement whose "convention" (which, btw, wasn't a legitimate grassroot Tea Party event, it was a $500-a-plate fundraiser organised by political insiders) she just spoke at.
Face it, Palin made a very stupid choice in supporting McCain over Hayworth.