Thanks Jim for bringing up the Palin supporting McCain issue. I don’t hate Sarah either, but I am incredibly disappointed in her. I know she probaly feels she owes McCain for putting her in national spotlight. BUT...McCain and his people also threw her to the wolves. McCain never came out and backed her up when his “people” (i.e. Steve Schmidt, Nicholl Wallace) bash her on the network news shows. McCain only saught her support becuase he knew he was in trouble with Hayworth throwing his hat in the ring and again would need Sarahs suppot to get some conservative support.
I’ve taken some hits for encouraging people to not donate to SarahPac becuase the money would go to support the McCain campaign. I know how much Sarah is love by conservatives, but I can’t take her Conservative credentials seriously if she is going to back the re-election of someone like John McCain.
McCain, like Obama, is toxic. If Sarah continues to support him, McCain will only take her down with him, which just might be his intention.
>If Sarah continues to support him, McCain will only take her down with him, which just might be his intention.<
Hmm. I wonder if that is the next evil scheme McCain will be involved in...
I know [Palin] probaly feels she owes McCain for putting her in national spotlight. BUT...McCain and his people also threw her to the wolves. McCain never came out and backed her up when his “people” (i.e. Steve Schmidt, Nicholl Wallace) bash her on the network news shows.In a nutshell, the lady owed him nothing. Not one damn thing. And you just enunciated the reason why. The behaviour of McCain's people---to which the senator had at best a tepid and at worst a mealymouthed response---cashed any check she might have owed for 2008 and her vault to national prominence.
Her better course might have been to say nothing, endorse no one in Arizona. She could not then be accused of anything, her silence would have been as damning to McCain as his people only thought their assaults were upon her, and she might even have been free to offer backchannel support (it's done all the time in politics, for better or worse) to Hayworth once he made a firm commitment to make the race. And it would not prevent her from throwing her support to other candidates elsewhere.
McCain has proven himself the opposite of a gentleman. Even if politics ain't beanbag, there are certain things a gentleman does not do or abet no matter whether the lady can or cannot take care of herself. And Palin with her endorsement has looked for even a short while like the battered wife who's only too ready to believe it when her louse of a husband promises he'll never, ever, ever do it again if only she'll . . .