Posted on 02/19/2010 2:47:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I disagree with Rush. This backscratching is what is WRONG with Washigton D.C., political pay-back at the expense of WE THE PEOPLE! Palin mistakenly thought she owed McCain, but in actuality, McCai owes her for making the 2008 election even that close! She does not owe him anything, but she owes WE THE PEOPLE!
But I vote my conscience,thats what matters now.Whats the difference between 4 years till the people`s utopia or 24?A progressive lite is still a progressive.
Or do you say that the Republicrats have been pulling us back to a Republic? If so,then tell me how?
We are a republic.
You say you won’t, but I can only judge you by your actions. You say you will never do it again, but you actually did do it.
See how this logic of purity works? Now that you have voted for John McCain, you can never be the perfect Conservative. Ever. Your mistake will follow you for the rest of your life.
Sucks, huh? That’s why I try to never be a purist in thought, words or actions. Allows me to forgive other’s mistakes and allows me to live with mine.
McCain didn’t break her arm. Sarah Palin said he was supporting because she wanted too.
Really?When have they been limited by our Constitution lately?
Then we have at least one point of agreement between us.
I would encourage you to see this from Sarah's viewpoint for a moment. As Rush said, the left-wing press would have torn Sarah to pieces from here to eternity if she had NOT endorsed John McCain in this Senate race.
Even many of her more morally grounded supporters would have seen it as a betrayal on her part, despite McCain's toxicity as a politician.
If she had NOT endorsed McCain, it would have put a permanent cloud of doubt about her in the minds of mainstream Republicans and Independents. Even many Palin Democrats (they're out there) would have been puzzled by her apparent lack of integrity.
If Sarah intends to ever have any future in politics, she had to do this. Besides, Sarah is about the most honorable political personality on the national stage today. No one had to tell her what to do in this situation. You can be sure that she never hesitated when McCain asked for her support, because he "brung her to the dance".
Most conservatives (and others) who support Sarah Palin don't do so blindly. We conservatives don't do rock stars, like the liberals do. We need to know that our candidates stand for the timeless ideals that we subscribe to - and that is why we support Sarah. She is the personification of those ideals.
It's also why we understand what she's doing, and why it will not diminish our support for her one iota.
I'd bet 98pc of those dubbed "Palin haters" will gladly vote for her if she gets the nod. The other 2pc going third party or write-in.
Well that’s why our founders put in place the executive and judicial branches.
Here is the latest disaster McCain is trying to push on us: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2453565/posts
ASB: "The hell you did, you voted for John McCain. And if John McCain was good enough to get your vote for President, why isn't he good enough to be Senator?"
ASB, I don't know about Nomad, but if McCain's running mate had been Romney, for the first time in three-plus decades of voting, I'd have declined pulling the lever for the Republican candidate. But his running mate was Palin, and that's the ONLY reason I voted "for" McCain. It was a calculated gamble: I figured that if the ticket won, there was a pretty good chance that ol' Nutsy McCain, who I believe is seriously mentally unbalanced, would be carried out in a straightjacket before the end of his term and Palin would be president. Technically, I voted for McCain; in all other ways, I voted for Palin.
McCain wasn't good enough to be president, and he isn't good enough to be Senator. But on the presidential ticket, I felt that his running mate, Palin, WAS good enough to be president and that there was a decent chance she'd be stepping in as such in short order.
McCain got my vote by default; my vote as cast was for Palin. If not for Palin, that vote would have gone to a different candidate.
And is Obama obeying that concept? What about all those executive orders?Hell,what about Bush`s or ALL the other orders handed down in the 30 or so years? What about the Ninth or Tenth Amendments?Hey,the list goes on,should they even be telling us how to live our lives, smoking, transfats, obesity, ObamaCare, would the Founding Fathers agree with that?
No, but luckily the USSC is.
The evil you assume is the greater may very well be the lesser one. Has it occurred to you that voting the way you advise here, which is how I have been voting for decades and why I consider myself partly responsible for the dangerously and profoundly leftward drift of the Republican party, is what made Obama not only possible, but inevitable?
You assume, as I used to, that the liberal Republican was the lesser of two evils when put up against a Democrat. I now think that in long-term reality, victory by the Democrat poses the lesser long-term evil because guaranteed, the Democrat's liberal policies will fail, just as the Republican's liberal policies will fail.
The Democrat is the lesser evil because folks who grow sick of liberal policies can then -- and WILL then -- move to the Republican party for a serious alternative, and they will GET one there. The liberal Republican is the greater evil because he sabotages the Republican party as a serious alternative; voters who grow sick of liberal policies become cynical and defeatist. Why do you think so many forfeit their franchise altogehter on the premise that "there's not a dime's bit of difference between the two parties"?
THAT is the greatest evil, and it came about by you, me, and others voting for what we wrongly assumed was the lesser evil. I have no problem voting for the lesser of two evils -- the problem is WRONGLY IDENTIFYING WHICH IS THE LESSER EVIL.
Maybe I just have more faith in the American people than you do.
Great post.
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