It’s your team that keeps bringing this up. LOL
Anyone trying to get McCain reelected is not my friend. He has caused incredible damage. McCain-Feingold gave use the Dem 2006/2008 Congress and Obama 2008.
Ping!
Loyalty can also be a vice.
Nicely written, I’m hot and cold on McCain but see the Palin endorsement for what it is, a acknowledgement of a campaign partner.
As an aside, without McCain would Palin and Brown be national GOP figures today if he had not either selected nor supported them?
There is a lesson in there, McCain for his many flaws, is one of the precious few Republicans who...recognizes young talent..the GOP needs more of that ability moving forwards, not that McCain is “that” guy, but if we ever dissected how the Dhimmis are running everything in DC, lied to do so, and got away with it, perhaps we can offer a counter message?
Naah...let the bashing begin..JD Hayworth huzzah! huzzah!..
As I’ve posted before we must ignore the situation that necessitates Sarah Palin’s involvement with John McCain at this point in time, and concentrate upon his defeat in spite of her obligation to him. It is her obligation, not ours.
We must all say sorry Sarah, but ol’ John’s gotta go, wish her well, and bid John McPain buh bye.
It isn’t that I don’t wish her well. I really do like the woman.
I just believe she isn’t fit for the office of the presidency. She obviously couldn’t handle being governor of Alaska(I could be governor of Alaska), because she quit even before serving a full term.
If shoe DOES have hopes for being president, it disturbs me a little that she thinks quitting governor, going on a book tour, and hitting the talk show scene is a better path to the presidency. Sure 0bama has been a mockery for who can be president, but his shouldn’t be a baseline for future candidates.
Stop apologizing for Vichy RINOs. It's conduct unbecoming of a FReeper and a conservative in good standing.
McCain is a nightmare for those of us who are conservatives but he is a master poltician — he will destroy Hayworth in the primary and Palin’s role will be negligible.
On the other hand, had she NOT endorsed him the MSM would be killing her for reocmmending him as prez in ‘08 but not senator in ‘10.
By 2012, this will all be meaningless and mainly forgotten. Palin is the only one who can beat Obamsky and if we fail to nominate her we lose.
P.S. The opposition to Palin here at FR is mainly people who cling to the notion that either Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter will get the 2012 nomination and win. God bless ‘em but what can you say to that?
You’re on the right track but our fitful reasoning is immaterial; God will annoint a leader if we are to have one.
He once selected a shepherd boy to lead his nation when no man of stature was up to the task.
Nicely done and well written.
Attacks on Sarah Palin for her support of her former running mate are “now” made by people who trying to keep her out election 2012 because they support someone else, and want to do everything they can do tarnish Sarah Palin.
Ron Paultards, Mitt Romneybots and maybe a couple of Hucksters.
Open minded and honest conservatives do not trash other conservative candidates or potential candidates just because we’re for someone else. You won’t find me trashing Jim DeMint, for example. In fact, I have defended his ‘08 endorsement of Romney, which I saw as a whack at McCain.
No policitian is perfect and no politician will ever make all of us 100% happy, but the bashing of Sarah Palin for her endorsement and fundraiser for McCain has run its course and then some. There’s more of an agenda in play here than “defeat McCain.”
Thank you for your essay!!!
I don’t much care that she endorsed McCain, he’s not the devil in my mind like, say Arlen Specter.
But then again, I’m not the purity police, while most of Palin’s supporters are.
I do think she is wrong, and I think the “loyalty” argument is weak. Strong leaders put loyalty in it’s proper place. Remember that one of Bush’s flaws was to be too loyal, to put that loyalty above doing what was best.
The biger problem for the Palin fans who argue “loyalty” is that Palin has never mention “loyalty” as the reason for her endorsement. Instead, she has said many positive things about McCain. She has argued, forcefully, that she truly believes McCain is the best candidate for the job.
Now, I guess you could argue that loyalty would cause someone to lie about another candidate. But then the problem isn’t whether Palin is “loyal”, but whether she is lying about her opinion of McCain.
I don’t think she is. I think she really believes that McCain is a good man, and would be good for the country. I think she really supported him in the election last year, and wouldn’t have accepted the VP slot if she didn’t.
I’ve listened to most of her book now, and everything she says about McCain makes it clear she admires him, trusts him, and thinks he is a good and honorable man who deserved to be president, and deserves to be re-elected as Senator.
And her supporters who insist she is lying out of loyalty do her a great disservice. I think some of her supporters treat her more condescendingly than her adversaries. For example, see the ones who insisted that she didn’t say her family went to Canada for treatment when she was a child, because “that would be stupid politically”.
Palin doesn’t speak politically, she speaks what is in her heart. If she says she supports McCain, it’s because she really supports McCain.
Your essay is very meaningful and spot on.
Mark, check out Brices’s gread read.
McCain is bad enough. But her endorsement of Rand Paul frankly stinks. And that stench is going to extremely hard to just wash off.
can anyone tell me what happened to drill baby drill....?
I wonder....of all those Conservatives who are pissed at Sarah for endorsing McCain, how many of them voted for McCain in the ‘08 Presidential Election. Or did they vote for Obama?
If they voted for McCain, then they need to SHUT UP!!! To keep running their mouth makes them hypocrites.
Very good working theory. Here I thought the people bashing Palin for endorsing McCain in Arizona were simply incapable of rational thought. Now I see they could very well be people who are incapable of rational thought AND have an ulterior motive (push Palin aside for Paul or someone else).