Posted on 03/23/2010 8:12:27 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
should we wear Ferengi ears to Mr. Earmark’s rally.
(not one earmark for a physical fence)
Turds can float too.
Rush Limbaugh and Jim Robinson of freerepublic, both nationally known figures that revile John McCain and seem fond of and supportive of Governor Palin, both know that she had little choice and have given reasons for understanding her support for McCain.
Without question, they both accept her support of McCain and have defended her for it.
“both know that she had little choice and have given reasons for understanding her support for McCain.”
The appropriate response from Palin would have been “I will support the winner of the primary”. She doesn’t have to attack McCain and that is as far as it has to go. Loyalty to a traitor is misplaced.
As it stands, actively supporting McCain damages her credibility. Doubt that all you wish, but if McCain wins the primary, this will be remembered.
Rush Limbaugh pretty much laid that naive notion to rest when he described that she had no choice. You do remember that Palin, as the nation's leading conservative politician, that the media would never have let things happen in the simple way that you fantasize.
“Rush Limbaugh pretty much laid that naive notion to rest when he described that she had no choice. “
When I require a celebrity to make my opinions for me, I’ll be a Democrat.
“You do remember that Palin, as the nation’s leading conservative politician, that the media would never have let things happen in the simple way that you fantasize.”
Choosing to go against everything you claim you support for the sake of avoiding media attacks that will happen anyway is INDEED the actions of a politician, but not a leader or a statesman.
Your read of it lacks logic and reason.
Double bump.
Torpedo McCain.
You are welcome to your opinion anonymous poster, but when you dismiss Rush Limbaugh as merely a "celebrity" then your opinion becomes very easy to ignore, I notice that you left out Jim Robinson completely, he seems unworthy of even a mention to you.
“You are welcome to your opinion anonymous poster, but when you dismiss Rush Limbaugh as merely a “celebrity” then your opinion becomes very easy to ignore, “
When you hold up a commentator as a sage, your opinion is easy to ignore. Remember, it was Limbaugh who pushed the “crossover vote for Obama to defeat Hillary” tactic. Probably helped his ratings, but if anyone actually did that and it affected the Dem primary, he gave the GOP a harder to defeat opponent.
“I notice that you left out Jim Robinson completely, he seems unworthy of even a mention to you.”
The line I replied to referred to Rush Limbaugh. Are you having trouble keeping track?
“She’s not going to run for president.”
Nope.
This is NOT a Hunter thread (although you already admitted on the Hunter thread that you did ask him if he'd run thrid party.)
I actually see the good and not so good in the candidate that I like. You...not so much. It's weird.
A couple of things wrong with that, one, no one has 'gone against everything they claim to support', that is one of those hyperbolic statements.
The most childish thing of all is that a politician can be a statesman without politics, if you want to lead the United States as President then you better be one of the top politicians in the world, if you are a conservative destined to become a "statesman" then you better be as good a politician as the greatest Republican politician of all time, Ronald Reagan.
If you want a "statesman" that isn't a "politician" then come to my house, or the house of the many freepers that are pure in their views but have no power, or results to show for it. To change the world, you have to win the politics to hold the office, and then you have to be a master politician to herd the cats that are competing with and are opposed to your goals, Palin did that well in Alaska.
Reagan accomplished what he did, not because he made the wrong decision and ended his "political" career somewhere along the way like an Alan Keyes, or a Ron Paul, or a Pat Buchannon, or the guy that never even got onto the local city council, Reagan got his "statesmen" like accomplishments because he won at "politics".
Lying through your teeth yet again.
I notice that you ignored JR again.
Rush is one of the, if not the leading conservative political analyst in America, he is sage in his political views, interesting that you denigrate him as well.
So, she supports McCain's politics and Establishment business as usual?
“Reagan got his “statesmen” like accomplishments because he won at “politics”.”
Orthogonal argument. Let me rephrase: if you side with your opposition because you are afraid of the media, you are a politician ONLY. Of course a statesman has to be good at politics, among other things. A politician, as opposed to a leader, merely has to be good at expediency. Romney is a politician. McCain is a politician. You would have us accept Palin as a leader? Show she's more.
“I notice that you ignored JR again.”
I wasn’t talking about him. You are.
“Rush is one of the, if not the leading conservative political analyst in America, he is sage in his political views, interesting that you denigrate him as well.”
He’s a former sportscaster who carried water for liberal Republicans for years. He’s a smart guy, but I don’t look to him for analysis. Certainly not “conservative” analysis. If I want to know what Republicans, as opposed to Conservatives, think, I might tune in.
So she simultaneously supports, Jim DeMints, Rand Paul's, Michele Bachman's, Doug Hoffman's, John Thune's, Bob McDonnell's and John McCain's "politics and Establishment business as usual?"?
Romney can support 15 different positions at once. It's a politician's skill.
I don't care that you think the view that supporting a traitor out of misplaced personal loyalty is wrong is childish. It's still wrong. It's usually the spinners who throw “childish” and other slights at people for refusing to give passes on things that are inexcusable.
If McCain wins the primary, We WILL remember Palin’s involvement.
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