Posted on 09/02/2008 8:02:54 AM PDT by jmc813
In a February interview with MTV, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lavished praise on maverick Republican presidential contender Ron Paul.
She had a few nice things to say about another GOP candidate, Mitt Romney.
But Palin made no mention of John McCain.
Now that McCain is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, he has selected Palin as his prospective running-mate for vice president.
McCain calls Palin his political "soul-mate."
But, in February, at a point when McCain was closing in on the Republican nomination, it sure sounded like she was sweet on Paul.
The governor, who sported a Pat Buchanan pin at a 1999 rally for the renegade Republican presidential candidate (Pat says: "She's a great choice for the base ... She's a Buchananite"), described the anti-war, libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas as "cool."
"He's a good guy," she said of Paul. "He's so independent. He's independent of the party machine. I'm like, ‘Right on, so am I.'"
Paul supporters were delighted. In fact, they even began promoting Palin as a possible veep choice for the Texas congressman.
As it happens, Paul won't be picking a running-mate in St. Paul.
But the congressman will be in the Twin Cities.
Conveniently for Palin, Paul -- who refuses to endorse McCain -- will be holding an outside-the-convention "Rally for the Republic."
More than 10,000 tickets have already been sold for an event that is expected to draw thousands of Paul's most ardent supporters to the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
Perhaps Palin will join them.
Or is she now with the party machine?
I'm thinking you are correct, but I think those powerful people where the Conservative voters who hammered all of his offices and the RNC demanding a Conservative pick and making him realize his election was at great risk if he chose one of his pals like Lieberman. If you look at all the names that where floated, Palin was the most Conservative, second only to Eric Cantor, but she had the executive experience and kick ass/take names attitude that Cantor hasn't shown yet. This choice really proved he chose (or was forced to choose) from the Right, not the middle.
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Both are decent, capable men . .
Where the mirror image falls apart is how each is perceived by party leadership.
Democrats don't particularly care for Lieberman, who left their party over differences on the Iraq war.
Yet the Republicans have invited him to speak at their convention. A senator whose overall voting record is about on par with Biden's gets a featured spot on tonight's convention program as reward for being a McCain backer.
How many invitations do you suppose Ron Paul has received to speak at any Democrat gathering?
LOL! I didn't know congressmen got to select VPs. When will Ron Paul admit that he has made himself a laughing stock to everyone except those who have no humour?
It’s always good to see what the Communist party thinks about stuff. The Nation also can be used for toilet paper.
“The governor, who sported a Pat Buchanan pin “
I thought I read here yesterday that she attended the rally and wore the pin to be polite. And, that she actually was supporting and campaigning for Steve Forbes.
I like Palin. Unlike you Rudy-bots, most people on FR will see her agreeing with Paul on these things as a good thing.
Cool, she just went up another notch in my book.
Just in case you missed it, Ron Paul was on the ballot in the early primaries, and got about 20% of the vote in North Dakota, where there was a 5 way split.
As a Presidential Candidate, certainly choosing a vice presidential candidate might have been within his purview.
Free Mojo, baby.
Please note that the media that picks our presidents is owned in part by foreign governments and foreign corporations. We can thank Al Gore’s ‘reinventing’ government to allow foreign investment in what should be wholly domestic institutions with the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Foreign governments and foreign corporations do not care for the American Culture of Independence and individual rights(which includes representation for individuals in our government). Therefore they pick the candidates who promote the internationalist agenda— which gives us Obama the global citizen and McCain the king of Amnesty and corporate dominance in campaign finance.
And your point is?
Amen!!
Well said, and deserves repeating.
Palin, as an elected official, seems to have been good at saying nice things about republicans.
If it wasn’t for Paul’s incorrect views on the war, he’d be an OK guy who couldn’t get elected President.
I can say a lot of good things about Ron Paul. Doesn’t mean I’d vote for him.
Buchanon of course is psychotic as always. Palin humored him by wearing his button at his rally when he visited her town. She then worked for one of his opponents, Steve Forbes.
And she is a conservative, so of course she was happier with Romney than she was with McCain. But now that McCain is our nominee, she’ll be there with him, praising him for what is good about him, and pushing him more on drilling in ANWR and dropping the global warming nonsense.
We all know that for a conservative to be the VP pick, that conservative had to enthusiastically back the McCain presidency. It’s just how things are.
BTW< don’t ping the anti-Mitt people here, they will have a conniption fit, and their heads will explode trying to figure out how to blame Romney for Palin saying nice things about him.
I'm an anti-Mitt person and I posted the stinkin' thing.
It isn't that he is against the war, it is why he is against it- the why that represents a fundamental difference between him and Conservatives. He is against it because he believes the US is not a force for good, but a force for evil. He is against it because he places the problems of the world at our footsteps- instead of the solutions being in democracy and freedom. He is against it because he doesn't believe our interests extend beyond our borders and we can just hole up and everything will be all right. He is against it because he doesn't believe we should honor our treaties.
No, the GOP is exploding.
My head's just fine and it's not morning; it's almost 8 p.m. ;-)
You guys bring a ray of sunshine to my eyes. Thank God for a little comic relief. ;-)
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