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 ...
“She was asked to endorse a candidate. In other words, who do you want to win and face Boxer. Her endorsement seems perfectly fine to me.”
She didn’t endorse the most conservative candidate, though.
I think this needs to be kept in mind when people bash other Republicans as unfit due to being not purely conservative enough compared to Palin. Truth: Palin is not much different from them.
" Don’t you dare criticize Pat Buchannon! He’s our hero!Perhaps a better take from your comment is not to expect perfection in a conservative candidate. Reality is a great deal different from the mythical world of perfection in which (apparently) a lot of conservatives live. Scott Brown is not Duncan Hunter and never will be, but as a Senator from Massachusetts sitting in "Kennedy's seat," he looks pretty darn good to me.
Don’t you dare criticize Alan Keyes! He’s our hero!
Don’t you dare criticize Newt Gingrich! He’s our hero!
Don’t you dare criticize Lindsey Graham! He’s our hero!
Don’t you dare criticize Mike Huckabee! He’s our hero!
Don’t you dare criticize Bob Barr! He’s our hero!
Don’t you dare criticize Michael Steele! He’s our hero!
Its good to look back sometimes at people that were once revered at FR only to slowly fade over time.
Former “untouchables” that today many would be embarrassed to admit that they supported them.
Hero worship is never a good thing. All politicians should be open to questions about the decisions they make. I was an early Palin supporter here (many questioned who the heck that woman was who’s picture I kept posting-lol) but I don’t like this endorsement at all."
I didn’t say I was funny. Cancer is a bad one, took both my grandparents and will likely take me as well. I hope her husband has been a pillar of support for her.
Reagan did just fine in the 1960s-1970s CA. I doubt Reagan could be elected at the state level in the CA of today.
Same BS I hear from peole like you year after year, election after election, justifying your support for the worst kind of Republicans on false promises of electability.
Often your pathetic RINO candidate loses, but even when you do succeed, we get SCREWED TIME AFTER TIME (e.g., Schwarzenegger, McCain et al.)
RINOs are CANCERS and you DON’T WIN WITH CANCERS.
Screw candidates who don’t give a damn about my constitutionmal rights and liberties; Screw candidates who fund big government givewaways and expansions.
Grunthor didn’t know.
This is indeed a sad failure of judgment. I, too, wonder why she would make this choice. It’s wrong, no matter why she made it, end I don’t believe this should result in a Conservative desrtion of Sarah. It MUST, however, make us cautious, and make us question — why? What’s she up to? What does she know that we apparently DON’T?
. . . followed by Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, George Dukmejian, Pete Wilson, Gray DAvis, and Arnold Swartzeneggar. Heck of a conservative record there Pelham . . . got one right out of the past forty years and you want to wave the “Conservative California” flag.
“She hammered the ‘status quo’ at HP and was set up for a fall.”
What a load. Carly wrecked HP despite the attempts of the HP old guard to save their company. So now let’s let her follow that act up with a shot at doing for the United States what she did to Hewlett Packard.
Actually, I posted that just to stir the pot. I have no idea if it is a smart move or not but it is Palin’s move to make. If someone wants another candidate, it is incumbent upon them to outwork the competition.
What handlers?
Do you have a specific article stating that? Did you work at HP?
At least we did produce Reagan. A hell of a lot better than your LBJ and Dubya.
Give people something to vote for instead of something to vote against. That's the problem with the modern Republican Party; we get too many nose-holding candidates and we then wonder how a person like Barack Obama gets into office.
This "strategy" of lowest common denominator is what's killing the GOP!
So why is Carly a RINO?
“I believe this may indicate Palin is serious about running for president and winning.”
You may be on to something. She may have decided that she needs to have someone with a big title who can act as her state chair and work with the state apparatus. Myth is likely going to be able to install his throne dwarf Meg Whitman as gov. If she doesn’t have ties to the senator, she’ll be frozen out of CA.
I think this might have to do with pro-life issues. Supposedly, Carly has been pushing a videotape of DeVore having a Mitt Romney moment. She convinced Right to Life that she was the pro-life candidate, and Sarah’s biggest issue is life.
Uh, Carly is endorsed by Right to Life.
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