Posted on 01/20/2010 8:33:07 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
Washington (CNN) – As Sen. John McCain readies for a potential primary challenge from the right this fall, the Arizona Republican is playing his trump card.
Sarah Palin, McCain's former running mate and perhaps the most powerful brand in Republican politics, will stump for McCain in Arizona on March 26 and 27, a Palin adviser told CNN. The presence of Palin - and the considerable crowds and media attention she will draw - might give pause to J.D. Hayworth, the former Republican congressman and radio host who opposes McCain's position on illegal immigration and is mulling a Senate run of his own.
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This is going to hurt Sarah.
It’s priciple vs. politics and POLITICS is winning.
I am not impressed.
And February 7th she will be in Texas with Gov Perry. She will also campaign for Michelle Bachman.
Big, big mistake that may cost her a lot of support. Mine included. If she campaigns for the ultimate RINO against a real conservative in a primary challenge she’ll be toast to me. I hope she rethinks this!
Oh, oh...guess who’s going to get FRagged?
This was easy to predict.
Didn’t take long, indeed.
I will never find a politician I agree with 100% of the time. If I waste my time waiting for one, I will have just wasted time.
I will support a politician that agrees with me 80% of the time.
Gov. Palin will not hit below the 80% mark for campaigning for McCain. It does drop her a couple of points, though.
If true, Sarah has just dropped several points in my estimation. To campaign for this pathetic, limp-wristed sell out is criminal. And very, very ill advised both for Palin AND more importantly, the US!
What a big surprise...
The party groupies will rationalize this 50 different ways while at the same time calling anyone who questions their candidate supporting a liberal....A liberal!
McCain needs to step aside. His time is over. This won’t help Sarah Palin. I don’t think she will ever run for President either as there is too much going on around her. To hook up with McCain again is senseless. We need fresh faces and young blood!!!
So Sarah’s going to campaign for open borders, cap & tax, closing Gitmo and every other consession McQueeg has made to the hard left in the interest of “reaching across the aisle”. That’s just awesome. Maybe she can run a Soros-funded entitiy like McCain did, too.
I understand loyalty to some extent, but this is a career-killing blunder of epic proportions. This is almost as bad as Newt throwing down with Scozzafava. Maybe we’ve been wrong about Lady Palin all along. This is no way to spend your political capital.
Excuse me. SO you think it would be better for her to campaign for McCain’s opponent? Frist off, does he have any opponents? If not, what is she suppose to do, wait until he gets one?
Secondly, there’s something called loyalty.
I think it’s the right move.
Right now in Arizona, there is a large grassroots movement to get a real conservative -- J. D. Hayworth -- to take on McCain in the primary. If, for some reason, Hayworth decides not to take on McCain because of Palin's support for McCain, then Palin is MUD to me!
The very thought of this is infuriating...!
I have never been a McCain supporter.
I would have preferred Palin didn’t campaign for him.
But, considering that he brought her to the national stage, I can understand how she feels obligated.
Is Sarah suicidal? She shouldn’t have anything to do with any solution to the illegals other thsn sending them ALL home!
I think you're underestimating how much Sarah's base loathes John McCain. If she does this, she instantly becomes another party hack.
Quite frankly, she has to do this. If she didn’t, she’d be labeled as a backstabber and Palin critics would have a field day. If she does she’s labeled as letting politics win over principle and Palin critics have a field day. She HAS to help the guy that gave her national exposure, and she explains in her book that she still considers him a freind. The key will be in the way that this is done, especially in how she does or does not allow herself to be “managed” by the McCain campaign this time around.
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