Posted on 11/06/2008 7:01:49 AM PST by ODDITHER
To the McCain staff and Republican Party leaders:
My family has been Republicans since before the civil war. One of my ancestors lived in Arkansas and is described as a Moral Abolitionist. Originally from South Carolina he brought his Family to North West Arkansas and started a community named The Lord’s Vineyard. Here he taught both his children and the slaves he brought with him as well as the slaves he inherited or bought in South Carolina to read and write. Once they reached 21 and were able to read and write and had learned a skill, he gave them a piece of property and helped them set up a business. He once said that his children were no more prepared to live in a world without slaves than the slaves were to have freedom. He is it was his duty to ensure that both could be free and successful. He created uproar when he gave one of his slaves a business before his son, because his son had not become sufficiently humble.
I believe through my family, I have earned the right to speak as a Republican and believe my thoughts reflect many other Republicans.
The McCain staffers who did not agree with Sarah Palin, would you please just Shut Up!! You must understand that most of America loved Sarah, she energized long time Republicans who like myself was not enamored with John McCain as the candidate. When he won, I had decided to sit this election out, I would vote for him because he was the lesser of two evils but I was not going to walk the streets and volunteer my time and money. Sarah changed that for me. I worked harder to get Senator McCain elected than I worked to get George Bush elected. If you’re an example of what the insiders in Washington have become, we deserved to lose!!!!
Americans are starved for someone that can clearly articulate our agenda of lower taxes, limited government, protecting the unborn children and our personal freedoms. Sarah Palin is that person and you are trying to destroy her. We will not allow that to happen, not this time. She will not become a George W Bush because you have hurt feelings. Our message was schizophrenic at best and liberal at worst. We must get back to being the party of ideas.
We must accept the fact that when liberals wage a campaign of personal destruction they win. They not only have the backing of the press but many in Europe. People who want to see American power in the world diminished back the liberal agenda because they know that liberals are the best avenue to destroying everything we hold dear. When liberals are forced to wage a campaign of ideas they lose. American values are center right not left. Every liberal that won, did not discuss issues but instead focusing on their opponent’s personal life and distorting their values. Republican’s who wage a campaign of personal destruction always lose.
If we move to the left, Americans will keep electing Democrats, we need to unite, and start presenting our party as the party of ideas and taking our case directly to the American people. We need every Republican united in that cause.
Shut up and get to work or get out of the way.
In the next 4 years you are gonna see a lot of Romneyites bash her right here on Free Republic.
Sarah’s standing is intact, despite the efforts of serpentine staffers and Big Media.
Unfortunately not true.
Most conservatives loved Sarah. But conservatives are a minority in America.
Finley Peter Dunne said “Politics ain’t beanbag”, don’t get into it if you can’t handle it.
I supported the Republican ticket because the alternative was to see exactly what has happened, a Marxist radical in the White House, and all of the leftist trash following along behind him.
I’ll say any damn thing I want to about the failed GOP effort, and nobody is going to tell me to shut up.
Man, they are ripping her unbelievably...totally shredding her..how can other republicans do this to Palin?? And Fox News actually lead with this story yesterday!
I don’t understand it.
What assholes!
Some Republicans are beginning to eat their own. They are looking for anyone they can find to blame them for the loss of the election. But I agree.....they need to get their act together or get out of the way.
I’m with you! Sarah Rocks! We seem to have a chasm between the snot nosed elites and the gritty workers in the Republican party. Don’t know how it is going to be resolved.
the silver lining in the black cloud is as follows...Let the purge begin!!!!
Sarah Palin saved Mccain from a Landslide Humilliation....
She added to Mccain at least a couple of million Votes...
McCain lost because he tried to be some kind of Middle road maverick....He is a RINO republican who Backstabbed The Conservatives His Campaign chiefs are incompetant Boobs
Morons, and idiots.....
We cant play nice with Democrats......this is the result.
Palin is Populist and Charming, She speaks common sense, and well loved by the people. She could win in 2012.
She should go back to Alaska run the State for 4 more years and then return and take this nation Back from the Communists.
So who are the ones in the McCain camp standing up for Sarah? I don’t think I’ve seen any on TV yet.
I love how McCain was quick to condemn the South Carolina Republican Party for their ad with Jeremiah Wright, but he’s deafeningly silent on the attacks on Sarah Palin.
Then he campaigned and won their votes. She is a contender, but is going to have to fight like hell to get passed the media image of her. Unfortunately, despite the fact that I loved her debate performance, she needed to be move away from the hokie stuff and present herself as the policy expert she is on energy and reform. Instead, the memory is the 'you betcha's'. She can do it, but she has to transform into a serious candidate and be seen in the next few years as that.
You are dead on. The Romney supporters have been working behind the scenes trying to bash Sarah because she is the biggest threat to him in 2012.
Well, they can keep it up. But The more they attack my Sarah, the more i realize how the Romneyites and Beltway republicans have been laughing at my values behind my back.
Its an exchange beltway jackasses,, you get my vote, when you share my values.
Were some of the main reasons his campaign never had a chance.
I had to turn Brian and the Judge off this morning. It was titillation and lack of decorum and temper tantrums and shopping sprees and...oh, my.
They are still out destroying her.
Fox News, CNN, MSNBC knows titillation and sensationalism sells. Viewership is going to be off now that the election is over so they have to get people to the screen somehow.
It’ll be this way for awhile.
What better way to do this than have visions of her in a towel after stepping out of the shower.
Give her a break. I don’t want to see her go the way of Dan Quayle.
“”””Most conservatives loved Sarah. But conservatives are a minority in America.””””
Conservative values still represent the majority of Americans. The Marriage Amendment votes in Florida and California confirm conservative values win elections.
They got exactly the candidate they wanted. They got exactly the party platform they demanded. The campaign was run exactly the way they insisted it be run.
How'd that end up working out for us, again...?
They actually managed to lose to a one-term Senate Marxist with open and unapologetic terrorist ties. The ONLY thing I want to hear from Team McCain or any of its shrill little online apologists, from this day forward, is a meek and contrite: "We're sorry."
They have nothing else worthwhile what. so. EVER. to contribute to any meaningful discussion, re: either conservatism or winning electoral strategies.
It was the late-added presence of SARAH which energized an otherwise moribund and apathetic conservative voting base.
It was SARAH who drew record-shattering crowds, everywhere she went on behalf of a sour and ungrateful McCain campaign.
Friendly little word of warning to any/all RINOs out there reading this, and thinking about standing in the way between this woman and the conservative base that adores her, anytime during the next four years:
You're expendable to us. SHE isn't.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.