I think it’s great that people are supporting JD. I’m just saying that judging people based on endorsements, or labelling endorsements as indicative of people’s character, doesn’t always yield useful results.
Often, endorsements are given that don’t “make sense” philosophically. For example, conservatives don’t have much better friends in the Senate than DeMint and Tom Coburn, but in 2008 Coburn endorsed McCain in the primary, and DeMint endorsed Mitt Romney.
I think it is dangerous to attack people we otherwise agree with too much for making what we think are “wrong” endorsements (remember the uprising when Tom Tancredo endorsed Mitt Romney here?)
Now we are seeing it with Sarah and Fred, moreso with Fred I think because people really like Sarah and want to find excuses not to blame her, while I think nobody is looking for Fred to run anymore so he’s expendable.
“I’m just saying that judging people based on endorsements, or labelling endorsements as indicative of people’s character, doesn’t always yield useful results.”
I agree that endorsements can make strange bedfellows. However, my point is that it makes sense that a chameleon like Romney would back a “maverick” like McLame. It’s not nearly as logical that conservatives would. Nevertheless, I trust that Arizona conservatives will be able to sort out whether Hayworth or McLame is the more reliable conservative irrespective of endorsements.