McCain, Palin to campaign together in Arizona

AP ^ | 2010-03-15

[rabscuttle385]

PHOENIX (AP) — John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to campaign together in Arizona next week for the first time since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008.

Palin and McCain will be at a rally and picnic in Tucson on March 26, followed the next day by a rally in the Phoenix suburb of Mesa.

[stephenjohnbanker]

I’m looking forward to the transcript from both of them.

[pallis]

McCain brought Sarah to the party, so she has to dance with him, but once he drags his tired, old butt home, she will be free to dance with the prince, J.D. Hayworth.

[allmendream]

Let us not forget that two years ago 47% of Americans who voted, voted for McCain and Palin.

To repudiate Palin two years after for supporting McCain's Senatorial campaign doesn't speak well of the loyalty, cohesiveness and strength of the Republican ‘brand’.

Much of the blame goes to McCain, who seems a bit to keep his powder dry for friendly fire, and was a poor choice and a lousy campaigner.... but sheesh.

[HiTech RedNeck]

If politicking in a liberal area she might actually lessen his draw. Hint?

[DrewsDad]

Maybe folks should show up with Palin/Hayworth 2012 posters.

[presently no screen name]

The game isn’t over yet. Besides everyone is entitled to make one mistake. The media is yet to get one thing right - so what could they possibly know about ‘smart’.

[stephenjohnbanker]

This will be a shock to Sarah. From what I read, there are about 2 illegal immigrants in Alaska.

[presently no screen name]

Great idea!!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Well, he’s running again for a 6-year Senate term. Given that he had been talking about wanting to be President for only 4 years because of his age, people would have understood if he said he was retiring now.

[allmendream]

LOL, yeah, but people worry about a Presidents health, Strom showed that you can turn the Senate into your nursing home.

[presently no screen name]

Rain storm, lightening/thunder - let the skies open those two days! And the only ones that show are those with JD banners!

[Rebelbase]

As I was scrolling through the headlines I read “McCain, Palin camping together in Arizona”

Whoa.

[Horusra]

I’m wondering why this is “breaking news”.

Sideshow.

[Frantzie]

McCain sickens me. Sarah is sure going out of her way and looks like a sell out. McCain is a nightmare.

[Outlaw Woman]

Palin should be careful...sounds like a set-up to me. You know pics exclusively of her with a sea of immigrants. Forever captured on film only to resurface at a more convenient time.
Nah....McCain wouldn’t do something that sleazy would he? He did such a great job of defending her I could just kick myself for thinking such tactics would be used. /s

[Doofer]

John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to campaign together...

Palin supporting a Rino over a true conservative is very troubling for me!

[stephenjohnbanker]

I wasn’t crazy about Sarah before this(parsing and equivocating repeatedly over amnesty).

After this, I’m done with her.

[Parley Baer]

From the different threads today I see the McCain supporters are hitting Free Republic a little harder than usual.

Go JD Hayworth. No RINOS.

[Diogenesis]

Your bringing up of Romney makes sense.

ROMNEY NEVER HAD LOYALTY
JUST DIRTY TRICKS

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online: The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

[stephenjohnbanker]

“Nah....McCain wouldn’t do something that sleazy would he? “

Rule # 1 N O T H I N G is beneath McCain.