Posted on 05/06/2010 1:34:08 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
Washington (CNN) – Sarah Palin broke ranks with the conservative movement on Thursday and endorsed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina in California's Republican Senate primary, prompting a flurry of criticism from many of her loyal supporters.
After Palin announced the endorsement on her Facebook page, a number of her followers questioned why she would side with Fiorina instead of the more conservative candidate in the race, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore.
DeVore has the backing of several leading voices in the conservative movement, including Sen. Jim DeMint, RedState.com editor Erick Erickson and the Tea Party Express.
Though a handful of readers agreed with Palin's decision, most were upset.
"This is very, very disappointing," Rick Sheridan, one of her supporters, posted on Palin's page. "Sarah, you've got to be more careful. This woman does not represent conservative values. And the choice is so clear. Serious damage to your base here."
"Wow, Sarah...I'm saddened and shocked by your decision to endorse Carly Fiorina," commented another backer, Jennifer Goode. "Had you done your research, you would have found that Chuck DeVore is the ONLY true conservative in the California Senate race."
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
I voted McClintock and always vote for the most conservative in the primaries.
I will, however, not ‘cut off my nose to spite my face’ and will vote for the RINO (no matter how disappointing I know they will be)over the socialist rat liberal. I will donate my $ to real conservatives in other states during the generals
...in a conversation to with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, Fiorina affirmed that she was personally pro-life, but reiterated her support for Sotomayor, saying, “I do not believe where a potential judicial nominee stands on that issue [of abortion rights] is a qualifier or an unqualifier.”
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She then went on to characterize the entire American pro-life movement as essentially a waste of time, saying: “[M]any, many voters are going to conclude while that is a very important issue, it is frankly a decided issue. The law is clear in the state of California, where there is a constitutional guarantee to the right to an abortion. So why are we talking about a theoretical issue?”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2506615/posts
“Sen. Feinstein has been a fine senator for the state of California, and has accomplished a great deal. I would describe her as a pragmatic problem-solver,” Fiorina told Chronicle reporters and editors during an interview with the newspaper’s editorial board. “I admire her, I respect her. I like her. I think and I hope she would say the same about me.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2486345/posts
FACT CHECK ON FIORINA’S BAILOUT REVISIONISM:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2445159/posts
Carly Fiorina praises Jesse Jackson and the Rainbow Coalition:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2434527/posts
Fiorina draws ire of right with praise for Rev. Jesse Jackson, push for more women in politics
“In the past 40 years, there are very few people who have used their talent ... to achieve more things for more people in more places than Reverend Jackson,” she said in a 2003 speech posted on HP’s Web site. “And we are all better off for his leadership.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435309/posts
“Dude looks like a lady!”
Please be careful, Grunthor, she is just recovering from chemo treatments.
Well we are talking about the primary here. Right now everyone is free to throw their support behind the faction that best represents their philosophy of government.
In backing McCain over Hayworth you could make a case that Palin was putting personal obligation over conservative principle. That isn’t an issue in the CA Senate race, she has no obligation to Carly Fiorina. Those who are skeptical about Palin see a pattern where GOP power brokering trumps conservative principle.
Ya I do not understand why she endorsed her other that what I said earlier. McCain I understand (do not agree, but understand). I would love to see Hayworth beat McCain.
I have donated to both Hayworth and DeVore. Those two would make a big difference in the federal government.
I like DeVore and will go with him unless something changes.
well, would a vote for Dun Hunter changed the result? No, you would still be a loser. You might feel better but you were still a loser.
The only conservative with a chance in hell of winning is Sarah Palen and when the sanctimonious reject her for lack of purity they become sanctimonious losers
Don’t you know that all those people posting on Sarah’s facebook page aren’t really conservatives?
They are all liberal trolls.
You know she can do no wrong, right?
You know she is the next messiah, right?
When I hear this quote...and we all do at times conerning various pols, I quit listenning...
“is the ONLY true conservative”
The shame is that both Hayworth and DeVore could greatly benefit from the publicity that a Palin endorsement would get them. Whereas McCain already has high public visibility, and Fiorina has high visibility in the business world where it is easy for her to raise money.
Palin could be doing a couple of conservatives a world of good, and instead she helps pull the wagon for a couple of RINOs. Backing Hayworth and DeVore wouldn’t have cost her anything, but it would have earned her some respect from conservatives who are tired of being sold out by the liberal/’moderate’ wing of the GOP.
“Why is it no one gets the benefit of the doubt?”
I’m not sure what “benefit of the doubt” has to do with anything? The question asked should be...when do her supporters begin to accept her for who and what she’s consistently showing you she IS. I’m not going to support a candidate in hopes that he is NOT who he presents himself to be.
I mean really...I’ve certainly made it clear that I’m no Palin fan and for good reason, but I keep hearing the “she’s really not what she appears to be” argument and I think it’s rather insulting to her credibility to continue to deny that the decisions she makes and the things that she says are anything less than than a completely honest and accurate reflection of who she really is.
IMO, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...take her word for it, it’s a duck.
Thank you for your post.
I also was an early Palin supporter.
But since the McCain endorsement I’m not so enthusiastic about her and now I’m now considered a liberal troll by many of the worshipers.
“I don’t agree with some of the candidates she is endorsing, but the vast majority of them will win their primaries and the general.”
And I’ll just bet you think that’s a GOOD thing.
This is EXACTLY why we are where we are today.
“california is now so far left the communists are conservative.”
I am sorry but you are incorrect. I have been shown the error of my ways and I now understand that California is as red as the reddest state!
yeah I realized that later on in the thread.
You know what Grunthor, if you would spend the same amount of time reading what people write to you and thinking about the possibility you could glean some useful information from it, as you do clinging to your well meaning but misguided notions, you might just learn something.
I provided enough information for you to understand why California doesn’t elect good solid candidates and you ignored it. And then another poster mentioned that by your logic, it could be said the whole nation was leftist since Obama is President and the Democrats are the majority in the U.S. Senate and House.
I don’t see you harping on that, and saying we can’t elect any decent candidates nationwide.
You’re just lost in space, clinging to the idea that California is a vast liberal wasteland.
It’s a barren wasteland because it has been abandoned by people who have the power to make it better. And rather than believe someone who lives here, you content yourself to accept that California can never be brought back into the group of good wholesome states.
Perhaps you should ask yourself why you have so much vested in the premise that California can’t be helped? It almost sounds as if you’re a Democrat, and don’t want to see it turn around.
And then another poster mentioned that by your logic, it could be said the whole nation was leftist since Obama is President and the Democrats are the majority in the U.S. Senate and House.
I don’t see you harping on that, and saying we can’t elect any decent candidates nationwide.
I answered that poster and in not so many words explained why the analogy was akin to comparing apples and oranges. If you had read that post you would have understood that I do “spend the same amount of time reading what people write to me and thinking about the possibility that I could glean some useful information from it, as I do clinging to my well meaning and well informed notions.”
” provided enough information for you to understand why California doesn’t elect good solid candidates and you ignored it.”
No, I rejected it out of hand.
“You’re just lost in space, clinging to the idea that California is a vast liberal wasteland.”
You are so right. California is Oklahoma politically. I stand corrected.
Wow. So I guess John McCain isn’t the only liberal she plans to endorse. I guess all the she’s-only-endorsing-liberal-McCain-because-she’s-conservative-and-loyalty-is-a-conservative-trait people need to rethink that rationale?
So she’ll be endorsing Lindsey Graham next?
You don’t “win it with conservative GOP votes.”
You BE conservative, and win it with conservative votes and other votes, because when you try to be “big tent” you get too watered down to energize anyone, and you end up just looking like a dem, and the right wing doesn’t turn out, and you’re toast.
You kind of oversimplified.
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