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Palin supports McCain '100 percent' [Palin pushes back at TMZ 'disprespect' meme]
Politico ^
| Dec. 16, 2009
| Mike Allen
Posted on 12/16/2009 4:38:39 PM PST by Al B.
Declaring that she was honored and proud to run with him, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin pushed back hard Wednesday against a report that she had disrespected Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by blacking out his name on a sun visor she wore on vacation.
The website TMZ accused Palin of a frontal attack on Sen. John McCain during a Hawaii vacation this week: Sarah chose to wear a visor from her campaign -- a visor that was emblazoned with the former presidential candidate's name ... that is, until Palin redacted McCain's name with a black marker.
But Palin said in a statement to POLITICO that she was just trying to be incognito -- to go unrecognized and shield her children and husband, Todd, from paparazzi.
The hotel where she was staying had to chase away five photographers, a friend said.
Palin said in the statement to POLITICO: I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago. So much for trying to be incognito."
The Palins were taking a break from a three-and-a-half-week book tour for her million-copy-selling memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life. Palin has signed more than 59,000 books -- an average of 1,750 per stop -- and has traveled more than 19,000 miles by plane and bus. She has spent 115 hours -- or 4.8 days -- signing books in 33 cities in 25 states. Her stops have included five military bases.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: WVKayaker
If you don’t think it’s juvenile to defend someone for saying something that’s indefensible, simply because you’re politically infatuated with her, then there’s two things you and I disagree about.
As for you posting links to more information about her, that’s great. And if she pans out to be someone who truly does support all the things John McCain has, you’ll be the one to be able to celebrate that.
581
posted on
12/18/2009 1:05:51 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
Comment #582 Removed by Moderator
To: rabscuttle385
I wonder how much of that will fit in a tagline?
583
posted on
12/18/2009 1:06:57 PM PST
by
LowOiL
("I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection)
To: WVKayaker
584
posted on
12/18/2009 1:07:19 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
To: rabscuttle385
Just enough to get me thrown off FR. LOL
585
posted on
12/18/2009 1:07:53 PM PST
by
LowOiL
("I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection)
To: LowOiL
Lets try that one more time.
586
posted on
12/18/2009 1:09:52 PM PST
by
LowOiL
("I adore McCain, support him 100% and will do everything I can to support his reelection" S. Palin)
To: DoughtyOne
587
posted on
12/18/2009 1:10:20 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
(www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
To: WVKayaker
No, the lady herself did that.
And to be quite frank, nothing scares me more than to see blind loyalty.
Blind loyalty to political figures has caused the world too much grief.
588
posted on
12/18/2009 1:12:43 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
To: DoughtyOne
“That doesn’t mean that a poster who agrees with me cannot voice the opinion that I spoke the truth. IMO, I spoke the truth. In his opinion I spoke the truth. And in the opinions of other people, I spoke the truth. I’m still not going to sit here and watch you bend yourself in knots, to dismiss my comments being true.”
A mental masurbation if there ever was one.
You seem to think you can magically turn opinion into truth, if you or someone else believes it to be the case.
Funny stuff and thanks for the entertainment.
The crux of the matter is that you think Palin screwed up with her statement regarding McCain.
That is your opinion. Not fact. Not truth.
My opinion is that
1)it was politically savvy to not look ungrateful for such a huge political deed.
2)You and others are gullible for not seeing this.
589
posted on
12/18/2009 1:12:44 PM PST
by
rbmillerjr
(It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
To: WVKayaker
Nice glasses.
Maybe her eye doc is an optical Aleutian.
590
posted on
12/18/2009 1:13:00 PM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys: Can't fly, can't ski, can't drive, can't skipper a boat, but they know what's best.)
To: N. Theknow
To: rbmillerjr
"A mental masturbation if there ever was one..."
And this from a guy who is twisting himeslf in knots to support the idea Palin's comment were wise.
Hey, is my opinion that McCain was the Republican nominee in 2008, true or not? Come on fella, you can do it. I know you can.
No, Palin did screw up with her statement regarding McCain. It is a fact and it is also true. It's just as true as McCain being the Republican nominee in 2008.
Well, I can't help it if your opinions are not true or fact. That doesn't mean that when you judge others, the same standard applies.
It does begin to make things a lot clearer though.
592
posted on
12/18/2009 1:20:31 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
To: WVKayaker
To: N. Theknow; rbmillerjr
594
posted on
12/18/2009 1:21:49 PM PST
by
WVKayaker
(www.wherezobama.org / Obama's Excellent Adventure ...)
To: rabscuttle385
1) Hayworth hasn't declared. rabs: "Yet."
Should Palin, a Republican, have based her endorsement or non-endorsement of McCain, the de facto Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, on the as-of-yet non-declaration for the office by an as-of-yet non-candidate?
Or should she have supported the Democrat?
2) Palin is a Republican.
rabs: "So was Scozzafava.
And Specter, before he went home to the Democrat mother ship."
Are you insinuating that Palin is a liberal Republican akin to Dede and pre-GOP-defection Arlen?
3) Palin was asked by McCain to run for Vice President. Under these circumstances, a failure to support McCain would display ingratitude, lack of good political judgment and indecisiveness unbecoming of any conservative.
rabs: "Then she has put Party over principle."
It's an idiotic statement.
The woman has come out against Cap And Trade and Nationalized Health Care, she's for drilling, she's anti-abortion, pro-second amendment, she rejects the notion of man-made global warming, she's against gay marriage...but she's not worthy of your support...she backs a guy who asked her to be on his presidential ticket...and you can't "in good conscience support her."
I knew you'd come out against this woman, and I told you so. You're a predictable drone.
"And so have you."
Your principles amount to electing Democrats. Piss off.
595
posted on
12/18/2009 1:22:51 PM PST
by
Chunga
(Any IDIOT who says Obama would be better for the country than McCain is a disgrace - Mark Levin)
To: DoughtyOne
“Hey, is my opinion that McCain was the Republican nominee in 2008, true or not?”
That is a factual statement dummy.
lmao.
I mean come on.
596
posted on
12/18/2009 1:23:46 PM PST
by
rbmillerjr
(It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
To: rbmillerjr; DoughtyOne; sickoflibs; stephenjohnbanker; mkjessup
Go F yourself you little punk.Building a "national organization"--i.e., as Lindsey Graham puts it, being "relevant"--is pointless if you have to sell your soul to the political devil in order to do it.
Who in the F are you to tell me what to do...
The majority of the present U.S. public debt, on-balance-sheet and off-balance-sheet, was created during the past fifty or so years.
I'd say your generation--Republicans and Democrats--is the one telling mine what to do, seeing as it has committed folks like me, without our consent, to work off its own debts. In previous centuries, such a thing might be called "involuntary servitude" or a thinly disguised version of slavery.
Now go to your room and do your homework.
I already did.
And I found that the last Republican executive to actually downsize the Federal government and pay off its debts while facing a Republican Congress was that of Calvin Coolidge, which ended just over eighty years ago.
In sharp contrast, the most recent Republican executive and the most recent Republican Congress completely screwed up by squandering a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to downsize the Federal government.
As a consequence, I will stand by my earlier statement, which you seem to have problems with:
Either support libertarian conservatives, or get lost.
since the United States today stands at a critical point in its history.
The debts are mounting, the government is getting TOO big for its britches (and not all of the increase in girth is Obama's fault), and the United States is effectively insolvent.
If this trend is not reversed--or if the United States has already crossed the Rubicon, so to speak--then all is lost, and it's every man (or woman) for himself (or herself).
597
posted on
12/18/2009 1:25:36 PM PST
by
rabscuttle385
(Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
To: WVKayaker
Would this be the dismissive verbiage you're referring to?
I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago. So much for trying to be incognito."
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
With every link to her Facebook forum you provide, you tie this comment to Palin even more.
598
posted on
12/18/2009 1:26:16 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
To: rabscuttle385
I said go to your room and do your homework.
...and eat your peas first.
599
posted on
12/18/2009 1:28:43 PM PST
by
rbmillerjr
(It's us against them...the Establishment RINOs vs rank and file...Sarah Palin or bust)
To: rbmillerjr
As was my opinion regarding Palin’s comments.
And Palin’s comments are also a factual reality. And my comments regarding them were also factual, and true.
LYAO all you like sparky.
I mean come on...
600
posted on
12/18/2009 1:28:54 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Obamanism, Communism, Fascism, Marxism, Socialism, Capitalism, Americanism w/founding principles)
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