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.
Yep still waiting. Maybe those Jonestown pics will get an airing eh?
Touche!
You are the partial birth (state rights), largely indifferent to abortion guy that admits to doing a little trolling here, of course you like BobJ’s troll like efforts.
I believe that's your job to do that. What has she said besides :”Obama is bad, abortion is bad, drilling is good, tax cuts are good....McCain is good” ??. She really says nothing that she hasnt heard on Rush's show. That is just parrot. Show me something unique.
Who signed amnesty into law in 1986?
Who joined McStain’s campaign knowing full well he is a professional backstabber and destroyer of conservatives - or was she so unimformed on McAmnesty, she did not know this abou him? With the knives still in her back from her campaign with McNutso, who decided to join him in another campaign against the conservative candidate her supporters are backing? Real savvy, there. Sharp as a bread knife.
Who picked Richard Schweiker, and GHW Bush as his VP candidates?
What California Governor signed into law a liberal abortion law?
I think that Ronald Reagan even though he made mistakes was still our greatest president.
From your post, I would guess that you think Ronald Reagan was not politically savvy enough to be president.
I have said it before, and I’ll say it again: John McCain is not the Devil. We do not measure right and wrong based on whether or not John McCain supports something or not.
We also do not measure whether or not someone is an acceptable Conservative based SOLELY and ONLY on whether or not they believe John McCain still belongs in the Senate. If that is the only measuring stick, we are basically left with J.D. Hayworth as our only remaining acceptable Conservative seeking higher office.
Sarah Palin is supporting her friend, John McCain. That is perhaps the biggest sin any Freeper can attribute to her otherwise remarkably Conservative record, and for that matter, life. One year ago, almost every Freeper on this board was praying to God Almightly that John McCain would become President of the United States. I promise, my Freeper friends, I will never hold this against you.
If Sarah Palin isn’t a reliable enough Conservative, FRiends, then we’re pretty much out of candidates for higher office. The purity test - in that case - has gotten a little too unreasonable.
Get over it. One million threads on this nonsense. Seriously.
And that’s the standard rebuttal from the Palin haters. They hate her, but offer no alternative. Not surprised.
What has she said besides :”Obama is bad, abortion is bad, drilling is good, tax cuts are good....McCain is good” ??
Are you back on A? Yes, states rights. Killing is not in the US constitution, born or unborn.
Jeeze, it’s like you want Bush as King and Palin as queen to run our lives. Don’t you vote in state elections?
I applaud you for your well-reasoned post. Unfortunately, it will be lost by a great many on this thread, and the other repetitive, dead horse threads as well.
>> Without McCain....Palin would be UNKNOWN!
Nonsense.
Because of McCain, Palin suffered the greatest undeserved media assault I’ve ever seen. Her family paid for it too.
And she owes him more?
Sarah Palin’s recent comments on Obama
Mr. President: Please Try, “I’m Listening, People,” Instead of “Listen Up, People!”
January 25, 2010
We’ve no, seen three landslide Republican victories in three states that President Obama carried in 2008. From the tea parties to the town halls to the Massachusetts Miracle, Americans have tried to make their opposition to Washington’s big government agenda loud and clear.
But the President has decided that this current discontent isn’t his fault, it’s ours. He seems to think we just don’t understand what’s going on because he hasn’t had the chance – in his 411 speeches and 158 interviews last year – to adequately explain his policies to us.
Instead of sensibly telling the American people, “I’m listening,” the president is saying, “Listen up, people!” This approach is precisely the reason people are upset with Washington. Americans understand the president’s policies. We just don’t agree with them.
But the president has refused to shift focus and come around to the center from the far left. Instead he and his old campaign advisers are regrouping to put a new spin on the same old agenda for 2010.
Americans aren’t looking for more political strategists. We’re looking for real leadership that listens and delivers results. The president’s former campaign adviser is now calling on supporters to “get on the same page,” but what’s on that page? He claims that the president is “resolved” to “keep fighting for” his agenda, but we’ve already seen what that government-growth agenda involves, and frankly the hype doesn’t give us much hope.
Real health care reform requires a free market approach; real job creation involves incentivizing, not punishing, the job-creators; reining in the “big banks” means ending bailouts; and stopping “the undue influence of lobbyists” means not cutting deals with them behind closed doors.
Instead of real leadership, though, we’ve had broken promises and backroom deals. One of the worst: candidate Obama promised to go through the federal budget “with a scalpel,” but President Obama spent four times more than his predecessor.
Want more? Candidate Obama promised that lobbyists “won’t find a job in my White House,” but President Obama gave at least a dozen former lobbyists top administration jobs. Candidate Obama promised us that we could view his health care deliberations openly and honestly on C-SPAN, but President Obama cut deals behind closed doors with industry lobbyists. Candidate Obama promised us that we would have at least five days to read all major legislation, but President Obama rushed through bills before members of Congress could even read them.
Candidate Obama promised us that his economic stimulus package would be targeted and pork-free, but President Obama signed a stimulus bill loaded with pork and goodies for corporate cronies. Candidate Obama railed against Wall Street greed, but President Obama cozied up to bankers as he extended and expanded their bailouts.
Candidate Obama promised us that for “Every dollar that I’ve proposed [in spending], I’ve proposed an additional cut so that it matches.” We’re still waiting to see how President Obama will cut spending to match the trillion he’s spent.
More than anything, Americans were promised jobs, but the president’s stimulus package has failed to stem our rising unemployment rate. Maybe it was unfair to expect that an administration with so little private sector experience would understand something about job creation.
How many Obama Administration officials have ever had to make a payroll or craft a business plan in the private sector? How many have had to worry about not having the resources to invest and expand? The president’s big government policies have made hiring a new employee a difficult commitment for employers to make. Ask yourself if the Obama Administration has done anything to make it easier for employers to hire.
Have they given us any reassurance that the president will keep taxes low and not impose expensive new regulations?
Candidate Obama over-promised; President Obama has under-delivered. We understand you, Mr. President. We’ve listened to you again and again. We ask that you now listen to the American people.
- Sarah Palin
Still, thinking that partial birth abortion should be a state rights issue, is a little hard to grasp.
If you work at it hard enough, maybe you can persuade freerepublic to lighten up on the whole, “partial birth” hangup.
If Roe v. Wade was overturned would you be for a law in your state probhibiting abortion? (Yes or No)
It doesn’t matter how many facts you muster or how many times you post them some people will support the guy with an “R” by his name even if he’s raping their mother.
You can think that, but there are people out there who want to see Sarah destroyed, and what better way than to make it seem like it's her own supporters who are doing it. There is a real sophisticated manipulation going on here, and all you guys are falling right into their hands!
>> Last I checked, McCain is the only reason anyone outside of Alaska even knows who Palin is.
BS. Palin was building up her political career well before McCain made the decision to invite Palin for 2008. She was no secret. She had a good gig.
As far as I’m concerned, these are sexist demands made on Sarah to support McCain in his Senate reelection campaign.
If it were VP Romney or Huck, we wouldn’t be saying they should be campaigning for McCain.
Partial birth was a great political issue but it ,like Roe flushes the constitution down the toilet. It validates Roe by pro-lifers.
Ladies and Gents. Palin-bot 'FreeReign' see’s a ‘?’ at the end of a specific question starting with 'What' and reports that the questioner says he ‘knowledgable and knows’ the question he is asking about....check out #344 for the question.
This is the best you Palin-bots can do? This is pathetic!
It is still a tough position for your side to be in, defending partial birth abortion as something that should be legal in states where 50% plus one voter choose it.
Legalized partial birth abortion is a tough thing to swallow just to sign up with you guys.
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