Give it a rest! Do NOT discount what Sarah and Herman are doing FOR this great country. They are interested, not for themselves for the lust for power - IMHO they are in this for the betterment of “We The People”.
Ron Paul is a loose cannon. He has threatened to go 3rd party. Can you imagine a Ross Perot type of syphoning of even a few percentage votes from the nutcase young punk college students - new breed from the 2008 hopey changy bunch, that now want legalized weed? Get a grip here folks - Sarah is doing what Sarah does best. Get ahead of the game and gently pull us together for the greater good.
She went against the establishment GOP in Alaska. She won. She got hammered in the 2008 election cycle by the very people that McCain / Romney have running their campaign and letting them run that show. Remember the “clothes in the belly of the plane” gimmick that so many folks fell for? Now we all know she is not a clothes fashionista. Remember the set up interview by a McCain (former Romney) activist with Perky Katie? That gal on McCain’s campaign used to work for Katie C. All a set up by the Romney-bots who are now pounding on Newt, Cain et al. Romney cannot be trusted, nor can McCain.
Trust what Sarah is doing here - she is walking a fine line, quite nicely IMHO that will slowly draw the votes from nutcase Paul over to our side (whomever that may be). She is too classy a lady to hammer McCain or Romney head on. Are you getting all this?
Palin knows exactly what she’s doing, and that’s trying to steer the Republican Party away from Big Government Republicans and see the good in a group of otherwise nutty (and wrong) people.
Some Ron Paul supporters are simply nuts. They are anti-Semites, anti-American Truthers. These people will never be happy and have nothing to contribute.
Many Ron Paul supporters just want a smaller Federal Government. Frankly, I don’t see any small government candidates running except Rick Perry (rhetorically) and Ron Paul, which is one reason Paul pulled 23% in Iowa. I will *never* support Paul because of his ridiculous foreign policy positions.
So I’ve decided, barring some crazy event, I will not support any of the Republican candidates running, although I am currently leaning Perry. Sure, I’ll vote in the general election for the not Obama RINO, but I’m not going to be any more pleased with voting for any of these morons than I was for voting for McCain. Some who are just as frustrated *will* vote 3rd party . . . if the GOP doesn’t figure out it can get a lot of support from these folks. The GOP must stop pimping Big Government “solutions” to every problem imaginable.
I still have hope, though. Cain injected the idea of radical tax reform. Perry injected the idea of a part-time congress (which will play very well with Paultards). Paul has been pushing the field to support radically fewer government “solutions” to problems. The rest of the field has added *nothing* in terms of ideas.
If by, ‘getting all this’ you mean did I read your post.
I did.
I still respect Sarah. She is a sensible woman with the right instincts. But she’s lost much of her influence by her last minute decision not to run after building up the hopes of so many people.
As far as Cain goes, I admit I’ve disliked the man from the beginning, never saw any good reason for the adoration given him here, and he was forced to leave — not because of attacks but because of his own past behavior.
There were huge numbers of people ready to fight for him, but he knew darn well he’d been a bad boy and left while he still had a chance at some respect.
And I don’t know why you are posting to me about this as I’ve already said I agree with Sarah about not alienating any possible conservatives.