Posted on 01/26/2010 2:17:50 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Sen. John McCain, the man who brought Sarah Palin to national prominence, is being challenged for re-election in the GOP primary by former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. Palin recently announced that she plans to travel to Arizona to campaign on McCain’s behalf, but posters on her Facebook page are not at all happy with their Sarah:
“Sarah, it was fun, but now you are done.”
“Sarah, your support of McCain shows bad judgment and brings into question the validity of your words. You can forget any political ambition if you support Amnesty – which John McCain does. Conservatives don’t forget.”
“You do know Senator McCain is a PROGRESSIVE? It is very disappointing that you are campaigning for him instead of J.D. Hayworth. McCain needs to go!”
“Sorry to hear that you are supporting McCain. Up to now, I thought you were part of the solution, but you’ve shown yourself to be part of the problem.”
“McCain!? Are you kidding me? Time to pick a side, Sarah– Are you with the people, or against them?”
“I agree with those who advise you not to campaign for Senator McCain. He really doesn’t represent the views of grassroot conservatives. He represents those in the GOP who have too often been willing to compromise on principle, or even worse, have failed to really understand basic conservative principles.”
“McCain used Palin like a cheap tool to keep from getting beat worse than Reagan did to Mondale. His staff mocked her and showed no respect. Now McCain is using her again like a cheap tool and this time she is willingly doing it under the guise of loyalty. As long as McCain is the face of the GOP, conservatives are irrelevant. Palin is playing politics and this goes against what she “supposedly” represents. She helps elect McCain, she’s done.”
“I respect your loyalty to McCain, Sarah, but he really is using you. You need to do what you are obligated to do for him, and then run as far away from him as possible. He’s widely despised in the Conservative movement, and you’ll be hurting yourself badly with your support base if you do more than offer your token support or speak on his behalf.”
“McCain is not a commonsense candidate. If you support him your future as a conservative candidate is over.”
“Another day ~ another appeal to our girl from Wasilla: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not follow through with your plan to campaign for John McCain. In the insightful words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: “Big mistake. Big. Huge.” To do so will destroy your credibility, have your enemies carping: “I told you so,” and leave your fans devastated.”
That’s just a small sampling of some 2,500 comments, and I have to admit to being surprised by the vehemence and near-unanimity of that sentiment. It makes me think that McCain might eventually have real trouble in the Arizona primary.
He's almost as much a nut job as you are.
Why Sarah Palin resigned.
Read it, then STFU
The Ethos of Ethics
When the Governor announced her decision to resign on July 3, she pointed out the then 15 frivolous ethics complaints that had been filed against her and dismissed. It was intended to explain, in part, her decision to resign as well to educate the public about the abuse of the Alaska Ethics Act through a repetitive stream of baseless partisan accusations, each one seemingly more pointless and frivolous than the next.
The Governor’s message was not intended as an invitation to run off half-cocked and file more baseless ethics complaints, but not everyone understood that message—or wanted to understand. In August 2009, largely in response to the abuse of Alaska’s Ethics Act by partisan shills and low level lackeys, the Attorney General issued an opinion recommending changes to the Ethics Act ”to prevent another potential harm—abuse of the process.
Some Alaskans have argued that the Ethics Act has been used inappropriately in some circumstances to politically damage the subject of the complaint.” (August 5, 2009 Attorney General Opinion). That argument was asserted by the Anchorage Daily News. “Our View: Abuse of Ethics Complaints Turns Good Law Into Bad Politics,” Anchorage Daily News, May 3, 2009.
The Attorney General further recommended “another safeguard to discourage habitual complaint filers who use the Ethics Act process to harass executive branch employees. Statutory amendments could provide authority to the personnel board to decline to process further complaints filed by a person who has abused the Act in this way.” Though it is encouraging to see an impartial evaluation of the problem, it is ultimately up to the Legislature to implement any of these recommended changes.
Governor Palin has been subjected to 24 ethics complaints, several lawsuits, and dozens and dozens of public information act requests, few of which raised even a scintilla of a good faith issue, and most of which were simply done to garner a headline or promote opposition research for political gain.
Recently we learned that two more ethics complaints against Governor Palin have been dismissed—complaints that were filed after the Governor announced her plans to step down. One complaint asserted that it was unethical for the state to follow its own per diem regulations and pay per diem to the Governor as set forth by law. Of course, the complainant conveniently overlooked that the Governor and her family received less per diem than they were entitled to under State law—why let such details stand in the way of an ethics complaint? The other complaint that was dismissed asserted that the Governor, through me, supposedly violated the constitution because we informed a person who falsely implied that the Governor was “under investigation” by the FBI, that such statements are defamatory.
It is notable to watch those who agitate on all things Palin—locally and even across the Atlantic—as they Huff and puff falsehoods about Sarah Palin under the guise of free speech, which brings us to a teachable moment. All too often we hear about constitutional rights—as we should—but many forget about constitutional responsibilities. As citizens we have both rights and responsibilities.
Though we have the right to exercise free speech, we have the responsibility to exercise that right without defaming people. I like the way our Alaska Constitution describes it: “Every person may freely speak, write, and publish on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right.” Ak. Const. Art. I, Sec. 5. The irony of filing an ethics complaint because of a reminder about the constitutional parameters of free speech is no doubt lost on those consumed by irrationality when it comes to Sarah Palin; but one does not need an ethics law to know that positive political discourse depends on a robust debate about facts and the policy implications stemming from such facts. The nation is not helped by calumnious ad hominem attacks against Sarah Palin, matrilineal conspiracy theories, and aberrant notions of ethics.
- Thomas Van Flein, Personal Attorney for Sarah Palin
No need to explain Palin's decision to the haters.
It's a talking point that's about as false as the "Bush lied!" garbage a few years ago.
Careful R he might whip out those dodgy pics from the back end of his Y fronts.
You must be getting the good ones. The Palin-cult members that ping me are reading a script that tells them not to try to defend her. It says to accuse them of being closet Romney-bots or Ron Paul-bot’s. After declaring guilt with no proof the next step is to claim the non-believer’s points are invalid by default. The reason for this stategy? Infatuation has no argument.
Here's the Palin-cult calender:
December was Romney-conspiracy month, next
January is Paul
February is Huck
March is Rudy
April is Forbes
May is DeMint
...
Most appropriate. I like his campaign button best. Kind of fits the 1%ers logic here........
Since you voted for anti war, 9/11 Truther Chuck Baldwin in ‘08, and post away for Paul and anti war propaganda,
your threads on Palin are obvious.
Get real. You clowns are the ones who are hyperbolic screeching that her endorsement of McCain is all of a sudden going to be the end of her. Rational people know that she's just going on her word and it doesn't mean a thing in the long run nor a change in her conservative philosophy.
When she starts campaigning for other RINOs, then we'll talk.
Ron Paul is a loon who runs for President at the drop of a hat.
He is anti war, a 9/11 Truther and more in common with the far left. Also a basher of Israel.
some on FR think he is the second coming.
And you voted for the pro-bailout, pro-amnesty, pro-cap-and-tax, anti-Constitution, anti-free-speech, pro-al-Qaeda RINO traitor named McCain.
You gave me a rational reply. Thanks!
>pro-al-Qaeda RINO traitor named McCain>
O really, Is that why his Marine son has been over to Iraq fighting against Al-Qaeda
McCain has been in the lead and pushed for the surge
in fighting the IslamOfascists.
Or is that too cloe to home for you.
Check out the Ron Paul Blogs. One said Ron Paul 2012 or die. LOL. Who is this guy - seriously we haven’t heard of him over here! Also who is this Peter Schiff?
Ron Paul was the one who said we should cut and run from Iraq, while we were fighting Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Nice move. What a prick.
Peter Schiff is an a permanent Bear who works in the stock market.
He’s been working for about 25 years there and has missed 19 years of bull markets and lost alot of money for people. When the economic implosion happenend, Schiff declared he was a genius for calling it.
The only problem is that he’s been calling it for his whole career *a broken clock finds the correct time once aday*
There is no sign of that.
So then if it turns out that Sarah quit because she was preparing for a presidential run, you would agree she did the right thing.
He has nothing in common with Ron Paul, who is the hero of the Sarah haters on most threads, is a congressman from Texas who has run for president garnering sub 1% of the vote (he got the nut job vote, for sure). Ron Paul has said crazy stuff insinuating 9/11 was our fault, agreeing with the whole truther thing. He campaigns against earmarks, yet is one of the biggest earmarkers in congress. He does okay with a lot of domestic issues but his foreign policy stuff is just looney tunes.
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