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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I haven’t even said I won’t support her. Yet some people have jumped to conclusions here based on their seeming neurosis.
If she does campaign for McCain it will make it almost impossible to back her.
That is something that I want to avoid. And yes, I’m going to voice objection if she says she will support him any way she can. I don’t want her to make it impossible for me to support her. And her real supporters will be able to grasp that concept.
You mean like Chuckie Baldwin? How did that work out for you?
“I have stated that Palin made a mistake. Another person stated that she has been politically savvy and wise.”
If you wish to state, that neither of these statements is true, then be my guest.
Otherwise, one of these statements is true, and once again you have not been able to avoid reality.
Your problem is with the truth. You don't know what it is, you don't recognize it when you see it and you confuse it with opinion.
I've been taking so-called conservatives to task for stating that they "cannot in good conscience support" Sarah Palin because she supports the man who selected her to run for Veep on his ticket (currently in the absence of another candidate)...in spite of her conservative record and her stated positions on matters of national import.
I've also been calling out posters like you, who are incessant in your inane defenses of the people who make such statements.
I knew rabs was going to withhold support from Palin (and I told him so...right here on Free Republic) before he did it, because she's a Republican...he just needed an excuse. I could have just as easily predicted your gallant and chivalrous defense of his position, but you weren't around at the time. Out of sight, out of mind.
Dang it. Don’t you just hate facts.
I have a new tagline.
I am perfectly comfortable with how I voted in 2008, and I would do it again if necessary.
Oh, and by the way, newbie, winning isn't everything.
Especially if it's winning at the cost of your principles and your soul. (That's called a pyrrhic victory.)
They are both assumptions at this time, one of which may be proven true in the future.
How is the promotion of your principles going with Obama in office, rabsy?
Quite well, actually, considering there's a huge Tea Party movement underway.
Now you can go waddle off, RINO-bot.
BS. Where’s your proof for such a statement?
Because she supports "100 percent" a Vichy RINO, in spite of his left-wing, anti-conservative record and his efforts to promote amnesty, to muzzle free speech, and to impose a cap-and-tax system.
Because she supports "100 percent" a Vichy RINO, despite all the hoopla about a REAL conservative entering the primary against the aforementioned Vichy RINO.
Supporting RINOs against conservatives...isn't that something Party hacks like Newt "Scozzafava" Gingrich do?
One of them is true today. One of us is unable to admit that.
It’s impossible to know which is true at this time. Things will have to play out first.
McCain isn’t Scozzfava. How do the election in NY-23 turn out again?
I would have thrown the damned thing out Nov 6, 08. If she wanted to be incognito, why not buy a new cap?
Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”
The move was either in line with Conservative principles and those who support them, or it wasn’t in line with Conservative principles and was in line with those who oppose them.
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