Palin Stands By Fiorina Endorsement Amid Backlash From Supporters [2 Strikes Against Palin?]

FoxNews ^ | May 08th 2010

[coaltrain]

“You chew your Cuda, I’ll chew mine.”

I see what you did there.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

When Palin first came on the scene, and for quite some time thereafter I definitely would have considered voting FOR her for POTUS, smart*ss.

Then I look forward to your vote for Obama in 2012.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

I’m on the radical right, FRiend.

[Brices Crossroads]

“At this point, she is most certainly a member of the GOP clan which makes me question her willingness to do what needs to be done—soundly defeat the left!”

And how does following Chuck Devore over the cliff “soundly defeat the left.”? The Constitution Party tilts at windmills too. Join up with them.

[Boucheau]

I am done supporting half-*ss Americans for political office.

The least you could do is feign that you care somewhat about their principles and character.

As it is, the worst of RINO’s know that you, and many like you, will jump at the opportunity to vote for the letter “R”.

You seem to think that the “R’s” will fight the left, they won’t, not in any meaningful way. Your compromise, is their compromise, is the country being compromised!

It is not business as usual this time. The “lesser of evils” will only serve to delay the inevitable, if we’re lucky.

We need right-wingers now! The left is not playing—they intend on dominating, and SOMEONE WILL DOMINATE. We are one RINO POTUS away from losing the country.

If we have a chance at all of returning to our former glory we must elect a principled fighter. A GOPer WILL NOT DO!

[Boucheau]

Why the image of a Guillotine, VR?

[samtheman]

There are no strikes against Sarah Palin. If you don’t like who she backs then move on. She isn’t running for anything.

You are right. I don't give a rats patoot for anyone's evaluation of "strikes" in this matter.

Sarah has a right to speak her mind and if you disagree with her fine. Don't vote for her.

(Except she isn't running for anything.)

[samtheman]

I am tired of all the threads rerunning the same tired stories. Sarah Palin has every right to endorse who she wants. My hope is that anyone who has a problem with it would get off their ass and work for the one THEY endorse. Constant whining from so-called conservatives gets tiresome.

Very, very, very tiresome.

This entire forum threatens sometimes to be degenerating into a perpetual repetition of "I'm more conservative than you, nah, nah, nah, nah".

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Get the f* off your a$$ (not talking to you, upsdrive, but to all the Palin critics) and work for who you want to and leave Sarah alone.

I'm starting to think that at least some (and maybe many) of the More Conservative Than Thou crowd are f*ing lying leftists trying to disrupt the coming Republican victories in the fall.

[truthfreedom]

Palin insists that Carly is sufficiently conservative. I’m not in California and I really don’t know if she is or not. It seems that people are using any excuse to attack Palin. These days, especially, I vote for the person I want, and I personally don’t use “electablility” in making my decisions in the primary. I’m not going to get upset if someone else uses electability as a factor though, provided that we’re choosing between conservatives.

That said, I think we should always put up the most conservative candidate. The media has traditionally attacked the most conservative of the candidates we put up there. They don’t have the ability to make national stories out of every single republican candidate that is not acceptable to them. So we have to give them so many targets that they can’t focus on just one.

[yield 2 the right]

She’s not who FR thought she was.
There I said it and it must be true.

[BigSkyFreeper]

It's all very sad. We're pretty much down to DeMint at this point. I'm having recurring nightmares in which he announces his support for Charlie Crist for Senate.

DeMint was one of the first ones in the Senate to endorse Rubio.  He endorsed Rubio in June of 2009.  Crist can forget about getting any endorsement from DeMint.  DeMint is mining for Tea Party candidates.  Crist ain't one of 'em.

[rintense]

DeMint? The man is the biggest Romney cheerleader out there. He even had Romney raise money for him late last year. Sad.

If you're looking for a conservative for President who hasn't endorsed a RINO, good luck:

Hunter endorsed Huckabee
Tancredo endorsed Romney
DeMint endorsed Romney
Pawlenty endorsed McCain
Thompson endorsed McCain
Newt endorsed Scozzafava
Santorum endorsed Specter
Rubio endorsed Huckabee
Santorum endorsed Romney
Scott Brown endorsed Rommey
Ann Coulter endorsed Romney
Mark Levin endorsed Romney
Dick Cheney endorsed McCain
Thune endorsed McCain
Jindahl endorsed McCain
Huckabee endorsed McCain
Bachmann endorsed McCain/Palin
Ron Paul endorsed Chuck Baldwin
Ron Paul endorsed ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney
Ron Paul endorsed Bob Barr
Paul Ryan endorsed McCain for President
Rick Perry (Governor-Texas) endorsed Rudy Guiliani
Peter King endorsed Guliani
GWB endorsed Spector
Santorum endorsed Spector
DeMint endorsed Graham
JD Haworth endorsed McCain
John Thune endorsed McCain
Sheriff Joe Arpaio endorsed Romney
Coburn endorsed McCain
McConnell endorsed McCain
Fred Thompson endorsed McCain for Senate 2010

[phothus]

Exactly correct. Devore was only getting 10% in the primary polls in Cali. He had no money and little support in his own state. Supporting him would have been a foolish move in any case.

Him going on Chris Matthews to whine about not getting the nod from Palin only showed how he wasn’t ready for the nomination in the first place. I keep reading people on hear supporting this guys and maybe he’s a good guy, but when he doesn’t poll above 10% and you blame Palin for not throwing her weight behind him.. .well, that’s just stupid.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

You make some very good points, however, I do believe that there is a powerful conservative wind blowing this year and the dynamics are much different than back in the late `70’s. We’ll see how this plays out. In the end, I stand by my argument about establishing favors to call in later. I’ve been close enough to politics all of my adult life to know that is an integral part of the game. Here’s hoping Sarah can overcome the media and other obstacles - she just needs to keep things like McCain to a minimum.

[Brices Crossroads]

I do not disagree that supporting candidates, especially if they win, creates favors, or chits, that can be called in later. I do not think they are that important, and I don’t think that is her motivation for these endorsements. I do not think the dynamics are all that different from the late 1970s. We are about to enter a period of stagflation, a weak and naive Dem has taken power and is making an absolute hash of all things foreign and domestic, and a conservative,charismatic, anti-Establishment former Western governor is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. It’s beginning to look a lot like 1980.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

I do like the way you think - and challenge others to think. THAT’s what the GOP needs much more of. Peace to you.

[Brices Crossroads]

Thanks. Same to you. Have a nice Day.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Wait a second. For your list to be meaningful we need to know who these people were running AGAINST.

When Thompson endorsed McCain, for example, the only choices left were Huckster and Romney, I believe....and maybe Rudy, I'm not sure. Now personally, of those 4 I would choose Rudy, but none of those guys are conservatives. It was a matter of the lesser of four evils.

Santorum endorsed Sphincter against a Dem. Same thing: you gotta pick one of two so you pick the least objectionable.

I don't recall the timing and details of every one one your list; but the only two that I can agree offhand were inexcusable were Newt endorsing Scozzafaza and Tancredo endorsing Romney. I was a Tancredo guy, and I thought he should have endorsed Fred Thompson who is certainly no hard right conservative but was pretty clearly the most conservative guy left in the GOP field at that point.

But hell, by your logic I “endorsed” McStain too....I sure voted for him over Obama. I don't see what that proves though. Sometimes you don't have a good choice. It's when you DO, though, and you make a bad one, that it calls your commitment into question.

Hank

[rintense]

Hank, darling, I get that. I'm directly going after the 'purists'.

DeMint endorsed Romney in January 2007- WAY before the debates and when there were other more conservative candidates. If that's the bellweather to judge and endorsement (whether there was someone more conservative in the race), then DeMint failed.

Personally, I find all this crying about endorsements tiresome. I'm more interested in what a candidate stands for and what they've accomplished- not who wins a popularity contest.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

OK, fair enough. But there's another angle here.

Many on this forum seem to think that Palin is a conservative’s conservative. She's had two chances to show real courage and demonstrate that: by endorsing JD over McStain and by endorsing DeVore over lefty Fiorina - and she's failed on both counts.

She's marketing herself as an outsider and Tea Party fellow-traveller. These endorsements are pretty stark evidence to the contrary, don't you think?

Hank