Posted on 04/03/2010 3:58:32 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Late last month, at a dusty fairground outside Tucson, John McCain stood behind the person who is, at least for the next few years, surely his most important legacy to American politics. And speaking to the adoring mob, Sarah Palin stood behind John McCain, repaying his inestimable gift to her in the most compelling possible fashion: by helping him to survive.
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Many, many years ago she'd competed in a beauty pageant, Palin declared, as women howled (and a few men growled) approvingly. McCain would surely win the talent and debate portions of any such contest, she went on, but no way would the Washington elite and "pundints" and "lame-stream media" ever crown him "Miss Congeniality"! "He's never been a company man, he's never been one to just 'go with the flow,'?" she crowed.
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...Palin had apparently missed the real message this electoral season in Arizona: for his three decades in Congress, McCain hadn't gone with the flow enough, at least not enough to satisfy many Arizona Republicans. Why else would his rival, former congressman J.D. Hayworth, be billing himself as "the consistent conservative"? Many of the GOP's most faithful, the kind who vote in primaries despite 115-degree heat, tired long ago of McCain the Maverick, the man who had crossed the aisle to work with Democrats on issues like immigration reform, global warming, and restricting campaign contributions. "Maverick" is a mantle McCain no longer claims; in fact, he now denies he ever was one. "I never considered myself a maverick," he told me. "I consider myself a person who serves the people of Arizona to the best of his abilities." Yet here was Palin, urging her fans four times in 15 minutes to send McCain the Maverick back to Washington.
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But for whatever reason, you can't grasp it, let alone understand that even though we all hate it, this is politics.
As is evident by the list I posted.
You're right.
Sarah shouldn't have endorsed McCain.
There's still nobody that you can name who is better than Sarah.
lol.
Pretty good list. The only one that is new data to me is Mark Levin consistent or inconsistent I dont consider him an faux conservative. The rest pretty much are . In fairness Coulter, Levin are not pols and mccain/palin is an forgivable exception given the alternative. Also I dont thing Cheney is endorsing anyone in the AZ senate race. GWB wasnt even good enough to be a faux conservative he was a compassionate statist more likely.
Ron Paul doesnt make it on my to be taken seriously list
Of the whole list I think Bachman and Hayworth are the only ones that get passing grades on imigration and Sheriff Joe of course.
Ryan has sponsored several amnesty bills.
Michelle Bachmann - brains, beauty and a fighter
Bachmann is a big Sarah fan.
Way to ignore the point. No one cares about Ron Paul.
What many of us care about is McStain:
- Supporting amnesty for illegals
- Opposing Bush’s tax cuts, calling them “tax cuts for the rich” in true leftist fashion
- Participating in the Gang of 14
- Supporting Cap-and-Trade and being an adherent of the GlobalWarmingist cult
- Saying Obama would be a “fine President” and acting all lovey-dovey with every left winger on Capitol Hill from Teddy Kennedy to Hilary Clinton
- Opposing waterboarding
- Engaging in a personal vendetta with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in time of war
- Opposing Bush’s Social Security privatization plan
- Generally mnaking life difficult for any conservatives trying to advance a conservative agenda and being the favorite “go-to” guy for leftwingers in the media looking for a good anti-conservative quote
I appreciate that its easier to talk about a strawman like the terminally irrelevant Ron Paul than to defend the above, but the fact remains that McStain is a Stain on the body politic and on the Republican party.
Hank
My reaction to Palin was a result of a Fox interview last week where she said in simple when asked if she supported McCains immigration plan/proposals she said basically yes. That is not ok by me or she wasnt thinking. I was hugely disappointed and went into mourning for days.
I sent money to JD as well. And I worked for John McCain’s campaign. Done with RINOs...
Nice summary. Worth repeating.
“What many of us care about is McStain:
- Supporting amnesty for illegals
- Opposing Bushs tax cuts, calling them tax cuts for the rich in true leftist fashion
- Participating in the Gang of 14
- Supporting Cap-and-Trade and being an adherent of the GlobalWarmingist cult
- Saying Obama would be a fine President and acting all lovey-dovey with every left winger on Capitol Hill from Teddy Kennedy to Hilary Clinton
- Opposing waterboarding
- Engaging in a personal vendetta with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld in time of war
- Opposing Bushs Social Security privatization plan
- Generally mnaking life difficult for any conservatives trying to advance a conservative agenda and being the favorite go-to guy for leftwingers in the media looking for a good anti-conservative quote”
His FR waterboys don’t know what to say when faced with the facts regarding this liberal GOP country-club POS.
So they call you names. Like Democrats. That’s how you know you’ve won. Juan might as well change parties.
Most of these threads are started by PaulBots.
The same Ron Paul who refused to vote to condemn
the IslamOfascist dictator, Ahmadinejad.
Ron Paul who states Iran and North Korea are not a threat.
If you think the Mexican Border is a problem, you don’t know problems.
Ahmadinejad and Putin who is in Venezuela with the Marxist dictator, Hugo Chavez 9oil rich country)
Iran and Russia are arming and training the Marxists in Venezuela along with Nuclear weapons.
Hugo Chavez is sucking in other South and Latin American Countries and his weapons aimed at America.
Since we receive much of our oil from Mexico and Hugo takes
over an unstable Mexico, this is only a short time away.
To: goldstategop
I still think Mitt would be a good President. I work with a moderate lifetime Dem lady who hates Obama. She said she would love to see Mitt run in 2012. She likes Sarah but is not crazy about her. She really likes Mitt as I do. She hated Rudy and now she really likes him after his speech at the convention.
12 posted on Sunday, November 02, 2008 11:50:39 AM by Frantzie
Or Rudy Giuliani
"To: Frantzie
To clarify - watching young Rudy I got sick because he is good man and would have been a pretty good POTUS. My sickness is seing Rudy not POTUS and the POS marxist destroying this country.
17 posted on Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:50:27 PM by Frantzie
Hey, I voted for this piece of garbage! Had to custom-order an industrial strength clothespin for my nose, but I voted for him. I went from being a Tancredo guy to a Fred Thomspson guy, then - God forbid - a Mitt Romney guy in the hope that one of them could spare us the ignominy of a McStain candidacy.
Then the only consolation I had in Obummer’s election was that maybe, just maybe, McStain go away and I'd never have to hear him talk about how mean real conservatives are again.
But like those monsters in the bad horror movies, he just never seems to go away.
And oh yeah, in my litany against him I forgot that he was THE vote that prevented ANWR drilling....we could be getting millions of barrels from there today if it wasn't for this vile conservative poseur.
BLECCH.
Hank
Sarah supports slimy MCCain and is a big supporter. Keep it going then You must be a McCain supporter. Sarah is a stooge for MCCain. Did she support McCain Feingold which gave the Dems Congress in 2006 + 2008 and the White House in 2008? I guess she did cause she is a McCain stooge.
Oh I get it. You’re just going to ignore everything else he’s done to conservatives...just pretend I’m not bringing them up.
ANWR drilling?
Taxes?
Global Warming BS?
Opposing SS privatization?
Gang of 14?
Opposing waterboarding?
And you think illegals aren’t a problem? Is your name Lindsay Graham by any chance?
You sound like a McCainbot to me.
Hank
These McCainiacs keep bringing up Ron Paul, Romney. They are idiots. McCain is a Soros stooge.
Juan lost his soul years ago.
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