Posted on 06/11/2010 10:44:41 AM PDT by Steelfish
Saint Sarah To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image.
Another memoirist might prefer to keep such matters private, but Sarah Palin is not another memoirist. In Going Rogue: An American Life, Palin describes, perhaps for the first time in the history of political autobiography, a furtive trip to an out-of-state drugstore to obtain a do-it-yourself pregnancy test. This was in the fall of 2007, when the 43-year-old mother of four was governor of Alaska and began to notice “some peculiar yet familiar physical symptoms, like the smell of cigarettes making me feel more nauseated than usual.” So, while on business in New Orleans—at a time and in a place where her anonymity was still possible—Palin procured the kit. In the privacy of her hotel room, she “followed the instructions on the...box. Slowly a pink image materialized on the stick.
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LakeShark, that was a nice response, but you voted for McCain.
What do you mean you haven’t voted for nutcases? ;^)
Take care...
He may have responded vigorously, but there's no way he did that to defend 'his conservatism'. He doesn't possess any.
Nice try writer...
Yes, McCain is not to be trusted.
The woman had to have something on the ball to become governor. If she does believe him now, that’s troubling. It would mean he had done a 180. Nah, no way.
I would look at the big picture. She has done many things that are right and she has done a few things that are wrong.
Even our very best conservative politicians have made a few errors. We've all been through that drill before, identifying our best conservative politicians and the mistakes that they've made.
Out of the 2 IMO McCain will give conservatives more power in DC if we elect a conservative into leadership position in the WH in 2012. McCain will once again go along with the political winds. He will be a very powerful asset in the Senate. JD will be a Jr senator form a small state. I support Gov Palin not McCain. Your trying to equate the two is beyond stupid. they are clearly different and have different policies and ideas. Your failure to grasp that speaks of your lack of logic or willful attempt to bash Palin.
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Number one I don’t support either Jd or McCain. Out of the two imo MCCain is probably the better choice for long term conservative propects if and only if we elect a conservative into a leadership position in the WH. But understanding that and making a decision based on those thoughts is not the same as supporting him. your faliure to grasp that shows your lack of critcal thinking. I can not defend a lot of McCain’s positions, I do not agree with him on a number of issues but I still understand he is the better choice for conservatives if we elect a conservative to the WH. The two are not mutally exclusive ideas.
Palin has not gifted anything. She was returning a favored owed. Its called loyalty.
Jd voted for medicare part D a trillion dollar boondoggle, he accepted money for the pay to play scheme of Jack ambromoff(sp) to name just two things.
The "It's not an amnesty", "She didn't quit", "She doesn't support what he does", "This isn't support", "It's not a gift", Soros, Kennedy, Kerry, Fiengold, Lieberman, Tides Foundation, wing of the Republican party once again rears it's ugly head.
Look, you can't say you don't support the man then explain why he's the best choice. Explaining why he is the best choice over Hayworth is support. You can't trash J.D. Hayworth then claim you're impartial. Trashing J.D. does not evidence impartiality. It evidences support or preference for someone else.
Well, I don't agree with J.D. voting for Medicare Part D. I criticized those that did in the day, and I still hold them accountable. As for Jack Abromoff, I confess to still not knowing all the particulars. It still doesn't make J.D. anything near the level of John McCain. Was J.D. prosecuted? Was he found guilty? John was the largest recipient of money amongst the Keating Five, at $100,000.00.
IMO the only reason he skated during those days, was because the Democrat leadership found it pretty darned desirable to have someone in the Republican ranks that would do their bidding.
Even in the middle of the 1980s, who was John McCain consorting with? Who were the other Keating five members? They were all Democrats. Who disagreed with Reagan's Lebanon policy? Who disagreed with Reagan's Lybia policy? The Democrats had little Johnny Boy the Maverick obediently trailing five steps behind, as he "led the way for Conservatism" in those days.
You call me a one percenter when I document and list of hundreds of things McCain has done over the years, and say I can't support him or anyone who does. Then you post two things Hayworth has done and declare him unsupportable, even though part of McCain's hundreds of things is precisely the same thing. Didn't McCain vote for TARP? Why yes he did.
McCain is the worst Repbulican in our party's history. And guess who has spent months polishing his resume in Arizona?
And look at that resume: http://www.hotr.us/data/mccainagain.html
Look, you can't say you don't support the man then explain why he's the best choice. Why not one does not mean the other. support means agreeing ng with a politician, means defending his/her positions and agreeing with them, it means offering moral, monetary, and physical support. understanding he is the better choice simply means being intelligent to come to a correct decision based on the facts presented. you failure to separate the two is most of your problem.
They must do a lot of institutional sales -- hospitals, doctor's offices, airlines, gyms, schools, libraries.
People who don't actually read the thing automatically resubscribe -- or maybe they get it for free.
If you know somebody whose job involves ordering magazines for some firm or institution, you might suggest a better magazine to order.
This is your logic trail.
1. I don’t support McCain
2. McCain would be the better choice
3. Hayworth is unfit to have the office
4. Intellectually, I think McCain is the clear choice
5. I did not support McCain
6. I do not support McCain
7. You are an idiot because you can’t grasp this
Oh, I think I’ve got a pretty good handle on it.
Honestly, ridiculing you is not required. Just replaying your argument suffices.
McCain is no conservative and no defender of Liberty or the constitution. McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, Gang of 14, TARP, etc, is proof of that.
3) I never said JD is unfit for the office.
and way to leave out the central theme of my augment. That being with a conservative leadership in the WH McCain would be the better choice to advance the conservative agenda.
your logic seems to be tear down the national conservative leadership in order to elect someone in a senate seat that will at the end of the day not vote much different from the present guy in that seat and have no power to advance the conservative agenda.
but i do agree with your point number 7
Absolutely Jim.
You’re a full blooming idiot. F Traitor McCain.
He proved this was an incorrect assumption with Reagan, Bush, and Bush again.
bush 1 and bush 2 were no conservatives. They were not as big a liberals as say Obama or Clinton but they were and are still liberals esp when it comes to governmental spending.
In fact McCain's actions as well as JD's action in 2000-2006 prove my point. when the liberal bush was in office both Men acted like RINO's. I find it amusing that you spend so much effort in supporting one RINO over the other and attacking the only conservative on the national stage. but small minds tend to not see the big picture.
You’re still an idiot.
“I assure you if Hunter gathered enough national backing to threaten Obama, you clowns would turn against him in a heartbeat. “
I assure you we wouldn’t, brain surgeon ;-)
Your group are the fake conservatives, not ours.
” I find it amusing that you spend so much effort in supporting one RINO over the other and attacking the only conservative on the national stage. but small minds tend to not see the big picture. “
Hayworth has a 98% lifetime ACU rating, and you are a bare-faced liar.
To: unseen1
You’re still an idiot.
434 posted on Saturday, June 12, 2010 1:44:00 PM by Jim Robinson
Oh yeah, and this too ;-)
Rock on Miss Sarah!
baically your argument comes done to immigration JD is better on immigration that McCain. which I agree with. but I don't think that is the issue that matters. one senator form AZ can not change the immigration policy of the federal government. For that we need to get conservative leadership in the WH.
I really do not care who wins that race. both will be the same type of big government pol that AZ always sends to Washington.
however by using the McCain endorsement as a club to attack Palin the strongest anti-illegal politican on the national stage those that say illegal immigration is there number 1 concern is doing more harm to their cause.
Attack McCain all you want I don't care, don't really like him. Jd in my book isn't much better and I certainly wouldn't pin my anti-illegal hopes on him. I want the illegal immigration to stop not just in Az but in Tx, CA, NM all 50 states. I understand to do that we need to elect a president that wants to stop it not some Jr. Senator from AZ.
Palin has publicly stated this. No other national politician has. no need to respond. Your responses so far have been "you are an idiot so that doesn't leave much room to have a debate.
“Jd has been part of DC since 1994. He has voted for trillions in spending. He was one of the biggest pork spenders in congress. “
WRONG. JD has NEVER been on the list of big porkbarrelers. You’re buying McCain’s crappola! Get some facts and stop helping McCain spread his lies.
Indians, Lobbyists and Arizona Politics...OH MY!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2440173/posts
McCain Received $100,000 From Firm Of Abramoff Notoriety
A review of campaign finance filings shows that the Arizona Republican has accepted more than $100,000 in donations from employees of Greenberg Traurig, the very firm where Abramoff once reigned.
And while the report pushed for greater transparency and accountability, towards the end, McCain and the other authors seemingly put the onus for change not on Congress itself, but on the tribes that Abramoff bilked.
Those donations include several thousand dollars from registered lobbyists who represent, or have represented, businesses such as NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire; Spi Spirits, a Cyprus based company that has fought with the Russian government for the rights to the Stolichnaya vodka brand name; El Paso Corp, a major energy company; General Motors; and the Essential Worker Immigration Coalition, a group of businesses and trade associations “concerned” about the shortage of lesser skilled and unskilled labor.
All told, McCain has received more than $400,000 from lobbying firms, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. And among his major fundraisers (”bundlers”) 59 have been identified as lobbyists by the non-profit organization Public Citizen.
[snips] McCain portrays himself as a Washington maverick unswayed by special interests, referring recently to lobbyists as “birds of prey.” Yet in his current campaign, more than 40 fund-raisers and top advisers have lobbied or worked for an array of gambling interests - including tribal and Las Vegas casinos, lottery companies, and online poker purveyors.
When rules being considered by Congress threatened a California tribe’s planned casino in 2005, McCain helped spare the tribe. Its lobbyist, who had no prior experience in the gambling industry, had a nearly 20-year friendship with McCain.”
McCain has been chair of the Indian affairs committee since 2005, having served on it for many years prior. He used this position to bring down Abramoff, who was second only to handing out tribe dollars to McCain’s man Scott Reed. Some have speculated the move was not so much to rid politics of the likes of Abramoff, but to gain a monopoly on tribe campaign dollars. There’s even a book, ‘The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Jack Abramoff’ speculating McCain’s motives.
In one such article, Chuck Muth writes:
“When stories of Jack Abramoff taking various Indian tribes to the cleaners first hit the press, McCain - Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and author of the un-American, anti-free speech McCain-Feingold campaign censorship law - decided this would be an excellent opportunity to settle some old scores, help out some old pals, and do what Sen. McCain does best...get media attention for Sen. McCain.
As the Washington insider newspaper The Hill reported in March 2004, McCain wrote at least one letter on Senate letterhead praising Reed to one of Abramoff’s clients, the Saginaw Chippewa. Five days later, Abramoff was fired and the Saginaw Chippewa tribe retained Reed. In addition, columnist Bob Novak reported last December that on the eve of the investigation’s hearings, Reed handed some $200,000 in bundled contributions to McCain. Does this smell, or what?
The thing is, this McCain “investigation” looks like a real scandal in and of itself. If there are/were actual crimes involved, that’s what the Justice Department is for, not the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. Instead, McCain appears to be using his committee and his position to (a) grandstand for his 2008 presidential campaign, (b) pay back conservatives who opposed him in 2000, and (c) scratch the back of a well-heeled lobbyist who is scratching right back. “
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An interesting note. McCain, as head of Indian Affairs in congress, refused to work on any issues except Abramoff (not really that committee’s venue to start with) and has irritated many of the tribal people over this.
http://64.38.12.138/News/2005/010493.asp
top individual recipient of Indian gaming money during election 2000 was none other than anti-soft money crusader Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who sits on the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs.
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John McCain, Indian Agent
I thought the days of Indian Agents deceptively crafting words to steal land and resulting in forced relocation were long gone, but now there’s a republican presidential candidate running sliming for the highest office in the land,who’s done just that. McCain introduced legislation (S1973-1 and S.1003) and claimed that legislation was justified by a non-existent range war between the Dineh and the Hopi.
http://www.nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/87/
Among other Bush-era priorities, Hayworth supported and McCain opposed the 2003 Medicare prescription-drug benefit that is estimated to saddle taxpayers with between $8 trillion and $11 trillion in unfunded liabilities over 75 years.
Hayworth, who won six terms in the House before losing his seat to Democrat Harry Mitchell in 2006, counters that McCain is the real profligate spender.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/02/15/20100215bigspenders0215.html#ixzz0qg2sPTFr
To me they both suck. Jd is no Sharon angle or Nikki Haley.
In my book any “conservative” that could vote for medicare part D is akin to those that supported TARP. in fact medicare part D will cost about 8 times more than TARP in the long run.
If I lived in Az I would vote for neither on the ballot on primary day and rouse my self to vote for the winner of the contest against the dem. No matter their faults both McCain and JD would be better than any dem on the ticket. Because the dem leadership is controlled by Marxists thus the most conservative dem in Congress is going to vote for the Marxist plan.
Just like the biggest RINO in congress will vote for the conservative agenda if the GOP leadership were conservative.
My fight isn't about the AZ primary I DO NOT CARE WHO WINS. My fight is to get the most conservative candidate on the national scene to win the whitehouse. It would also be nice that when that person wins the WH she has loyal friends to help push her conservative agenda through the halls of congress.
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