Posted on 01/20/2010 10:29:12 AM PST by Def Conservative
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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Sarah owes him NOTHING, IMO. What ever she owed him, she more than repaid by generating interest and excitement for the McCain/Palin ticket. If not for Sarah, John "My Good Friend, the News Media" McCain would have suffered an even worse defeat.
Please, Sarah, don't feed the dog that bites you.
Your supporters love you precisely because of all the ways you are not like John McCain!
You tell me, what’s changed?
In 2008, it was McLame or the most socialist candidate since Trotsky. If a real republican runs against McLame, then he/she deserves our support. By your reasoning, Sarah should have supported Scozzafava in NY. However, she supported the more conservative candidate over the RINO. In this case, she is supporting a RINO.
Your logic doesn’t flow at all.
She never supported Scozzafava in the past, so she’s under no obligation to support her in 2009.
Palin endorsed McCain for the HIGHEST OFFICE in the land with the strongest words possible, now she’s going to turn around 14 month later and say he’s not even a good choice for Senator? And still hope to maintain a shred of her own credibility?
If you’re going to accuse her of abandoning conservative principles, then you have to say that she abandoned them when she agreed to McCains VP ticket.
Because nothing she says about McCain now differs in anyway to what she said about him from August to November of 2008.
I wonder whos idea it was.
If McCain already had the nomination and was running against a 'rat, I could see her supporting him. But if he is running against a real republican, no way. There's not much difference between McCain and Arlen Specter, IMO.
The shackles (and the muzzles) of being a VP candidate for a progressive RINO have been removed. I think that's a mighty big change, don't you?
Now she's free to speak her mind and support causes and principles near and dear to her.
And this is what she chooses...
Palin didn’t just support McCain in 2008, she was his partner and his advocate. She put her entire credibility on the line for him, so unlike you, she can’t just go “oops, sorry, I never meant it, he actually is terrible but I was just playing along”
If she did that, then all her future endorsements, indeed any candidate or position she advocates for, will also become worthless.
The shackles have not been removed, because everything she said in 2008 is recorded and can be brought back up again. Her credibility in anything she says in the future hinges on consistency with what she’s said in the past.
She can’t say “oh, I was just kidding about what I said about McCain back in 2008, I was playing a political game, but now when I say this, I REALLY mean it.”
Since I said 2010 general election and because the thread is about Palin campaigning in the primary season of 2010, I assumed it was clear that I meant the 2010 Arizona Senate general election.
or for President in 2012?
Good Lord, NO. McCain was the 2008 mistake (and almost the mistake of 2000).
If she keeps her standards and doesn’t lie down with dogs, SHE would be a “serious conservative candidate”
If no conservative steps up in the primaries to challenge McCain in the primaries, how is Palin compromising her standards by campaigning for McCain? McCain will undoubtedly be more conservative than whoever the Democrats run for the Arizona Senate seat.
Oops. I think that I redundantly said the same thing twice. ;-)
With all due respect, Truthsearcher, you've kind of boxed yourself in here with this line of argument. If you believe that Sarah Palin is (and was) sincere in her endorsement of McCain as president -- and now as senator -- then it must follow that Sarah Palin is (and was) a Constitution-shredding, big-government-loving progressive.
On the other hand, if Sarah Palin was only spouting glib political platitudes in her support for McCain (and didn't really mean it), then she's sort of a, well, lying political hack, isn't she?
You boxed yourself in. Which is it?
Nonsense. She’s exactly where she has chosen to be.
Exactly correct. Palin is where Palin has chosen to be and is doing what she chooses now. Politics as an elective candidate I don’t think is on her radar screen even as tiny blip.
She is appearing at a Get Motivated seminar in Houston, Tx Feb 8 with Rudy Giuliani, Colin Powell, and others. It’s not a political event but Palin is doing her thing as she deems fit and I think things outside personal elective office is her thing right now.
I thought that I heard before that she would only support the Republican candidate AFTER the primary.
“although, in truth, I can’t imagine she wouldn’t be an improvement over Obambi”
Oh, goodness, no comparison. There is SO much I like about Sarah Palin. The thought of the first woman president not being a liberal democrat is very interesting. She has many qualities I like and admire. There is so much she ‘gets’. I can’t understand how she doesn’t ‘get’ McCain.
We’re past the point in history where we can afford to grease palms, etc. for political expediency. McCain and his machine beat her down, set her up, on more than one occasion. Why crawl back for more?
I have to wonder why Sarah in all this time has not committed herself to the crisis of illegal migration. Guess it's pretty clear now.
“All of them”...
JD Hayworth holding out declaring his candidacy from fear over exactly what? Sarah campaigning for McCain?
If you’re right, then JD Hayworth is right at home behind the safety of the radio mike, because it takes guts, stamina and the “fire-in-the-belly” to mount a successful campaign to defeat an incumbent in the primaries.
Yep, makes her look like all the other corrupt back slappers saying one thing and doing another for power and influence. Too bad.
Dont't underestimate Sarah's popularity which McC knows could considerably undermine any opponent's efforts.
I know very little about Haworth. Could it be that he's 'running defense' ?
I see Arizona is progressing further on enforcing Immigration.
How do they keep electing McCain? Conservatives don’t vote him in, but democrats do. It might be fun seeing Pearce challenge McCain.
Ariz. Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
PHOENIX — An Arizona Senate panel has approved a sweeping bill to strengthen immigration enforcement.
The measure passed the Republican-controlled Public Safety and Human Services Committee Wednesday on a 4-3 party-line vote.
It would ban police departments from adopting policies that prevent officers from asking people about their immigration status.
The bill also would make it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally or to transport or conceal an illegal immigrant. And it seeks to curb day-labor employment by making it illegal for an illegal immigrant to solicit work in a public place or for anyone to hire someone from a vehicle.
Mesa Republican Russell Pearce is sponsoring the measure. A similar bill passed the Senate last year but failed in the House.
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