Posted on 04/29/2014 10:14:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In 2010, Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul for U.S. Senate in Kentucky. Most other reliable Republican hawks — Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, Rick Santorum — endorsed his primary opponent.
Three years later, when Chris Christie criticized Paul’s stand on warrantless surveillance, Palin endorsed him again. “I’m on Team Rand,” she said. “Rand Paul understands, he gets the whole notion of ‘Don’t tread on me, government,’ whereas Chris Christie is for big government and, you know, trying to go along to get along in so many respects.”
In a North Carolina congressional primary, however, Sarah Palin is on the side of the hawks. Palin endorsed Taylor Griffin, a former George W. Bush aide running against Walter Jones, a 10-term incumbent who has emerged as one of the strongest anti-war Republicans in Congress.
“In Washington, we need you to stay true to your beliefs of smaller government, protecting life and furthering conservative principles,” Palin wrote to Griffin in a statement that doesn’t mention foreign policy or civil liberties. Neither does she ever mention Jones.
Palin’s endorsement against Jones comes on the heels of an NRA speech in which she said, “[W]aterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
The former Alaska governor’s sacrilegious defense of torture has already been dissected endlessly. The American Conservative‘s Rod Dreher complained that Palin “makes Archie Bunker sound like Cicero.”
She was John McCain’s running mate, after all. (Though McCain disagrees with her about waterboarding.)
More interesting is how someone can move seamlessly from Team Rand to Team Bush depending on the circumstances. Palin is representative of large swathes of the Republican base....
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Make that a Foursome. We can reserve a Tee-time whenever you guys are ready.
The Sarah Palin primary? To have a primary don’t you need to have competition?
Love that pic!
Sarah is our Esther...the only one brave enough to consistently take on the evil that is destroying this nation - in every form that such evil presents.
The only one who comes close to her is my Sen Ted Cruz. (If not for Sarah, there’d likely be no Sen Ted Cruz.) May He keep and protect them, both.
As for Kerry....His remarks generally mean little to me as I see him for what he is....his additional remark says more about him than anything else...as follows:
Kerry...”I will not allow my commitment to Israel to be questioned by anyone”...............That’s another way of saying ‘he was for Israel before he was against it’ ....(Same tune as always).
But his arrogance that ‘he won’t allow’ speaks volumes!
I liked Pat better when he was skeptical about Russian leadership.
Sarah Palin says she only considers endorsing a candidate if she is asked. Has Bevin asked for her endorsement?
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