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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Yes, but you don’t know how her statements will pay off for conservative principles in the future yet.
Bush expanded Medicare, which is a form of Socialized health care.
And McCain *IS* the original cap-and-trade pusher.
So your argument doesn't stick at all.
RINOs are just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, than Democrats because conservatives within the Republican Party fail to oppose them with as much zeal as they oppose liberals within the Democrat Party.
This is a pro-Palin conservative site. The majority here are in agreement with me on this. You are the odd man out. Slither back to DU or the Ron Paul forums or whatever rock you crawled out from under.
No, you get lost, RINO retread.
You've been here for just over a month and have been actively attacking other Freepers as "DU trolls" left and right, which is awfully suspicious for a newbie such as yourself, considering that you regularly defend RINOs and bash conservatives. In fact, your first post on FR was an attack on Doug Hoffman.
Look, this isn’t a tough call. It’s not based on what the ramifications are. The classification is based on which category I mentioned, it belongs in.
One of the two statements is true. I realize you don’t want to admit it, but honestly, one of those statements is true. And one of the opinions expressed, represents truth.
It isn’t neither. You know that.
Thanks for arguing your position. Later...
Well I am giving her some slack at the moment. She was caught between a rock and a hard place after the flap occurred. She didn’t want to offend anyone this early before she even got going on 2012. She is carefully choosing her battles.
The problem as I see it, which I can see why it would cause the people on here to go after her, is why did she even wear a McCain visor anyways? I can understand why then she would get a backlash, especially with her statement added in afterwords.
As I figure it is the same old debate in the past year about whether it was worth voting for McCain or third party.
As you saw last year, unless you were blind, Palin did everything she could to help McCain win. She still hit the campaign hard in her book because they misused her.
But yet she was supportive of McCain. There was no other choice in the matter. He picked her as her VP and she said yes to running for him. She was not the name on the top of the ticket.
Therefore, she wouldn’t be where she was without him. But having said that McCain is a Rhino. And I sometimes have said that it might have been better for Palin if maybe she hadn’t run as VP and had not accepted. Seeing how she lost, the libs go after her, it forced her to resign as governor, and we still had Obama elected anyways.
Another reason is that then it wouldn’t have split the conservatives like it is doing now. Many conservatives, like me, voted for McCain because of Palin and then danced around the issue of McCain being a rino because we voted for Palin and we liked Palin.
Likewise there was the crowd that convinced themselves they voted for the lesser of two evils since Obama is so bad. We had to do everything to defeat him, but we still lost. To which, Glenn Beck added fuel to the fire by saying McCain was worse than Obama.
He was right in the sense that Obama mobilized us to take action. Something that might not have happened under McCain. Especially since Palin would have been the VP.
But with all that being said. Palin put herself then is a no-win situation. She will now always be tied to the 2008 campaign. And therefore, will that can be used against her.
She was hoping the change McCain’s mind on several issues had they won. We were all hoping McCain would see the light if he had won. But frankly, there in lies the problem.
Palin is going to forced to defend McCain at some point. or the rift between them.
which brings me back to the fact that if McCain had never chosen and went with say Pawlenty or Romney. Then Palin would have been better off and I am sure nobody who voted for Palin would have voted McCain.
Thus it would have made thins simpler for us all. For now it even makes us looks like hypocrites.
You mean like how offering amnesty to illegals was supposed to create a "permanent Republican majority"?
Karl Rove, is that you?
Where did I say that?
Yes. And again you would get
Sotomayor
The push for Socialized Medicine
The push for Cap And Trade
Announcing the date of the end of the War In Afghanistan to Al Qaeda and The Taliban
A pro-abortion platform
Statements confirming belief in the constitution as a living document
Blackmail...threatening to close a Nebraska military base for Nelson's non-support of the healthcare bill
Closing Guantanamo Bay
Trying terrorists in court in NYC
An 8 Trillion Dollar Bailout Plan
All of which are obviously in accordance with your "principles"
Guf-effing-faw
“I havent even said I wont support her. Yet some people have jumped to conclusions here based on their seeming neurosis.”
Exactly. I have done two things...worked my butt off for Palin during the election AND since posted HER words...HERS. Yet, I’ve been slandered, called every indecent name thinkable, threatened and lied about. I’m beginning to think Sarah’s FR fans are out to get her destroyed completely. Another thing...those who call us ‘liars’ for posting her words about immigration have mostly proven themselves to be soft on the issue, to say the least....figure that one out.
Who's the conservative? Hayworth hasn't declared.
According to Webster’s Dictionary a fact is “anything that is done or happens; anything actually existent; any statement strictly true; truth; reality.”
Three examples of facts that are concrete and that could be documented include:
1.The house was painted on November 18, 1999.
2.Today is Saturday.
3.My son had a temperature of one hundred and two degrees this morning.
Whereas an opinion is defined as “indicating a belief, view, sentiment, conception.”
Obvious indicators of opinion are when sentences include words such as:
“Generally, it is thought” , “I believe that”, “It is a sad day when.”
For example, how the three facts above can be changed to opinions would be to add a belief or view. For example:
The house was painted recently on November 18, 1999, so it looks as good as new.
Today is Saturday and Mark always sleeps in on Saturdays, so that is why he is late for the game.
There was no way for me to go to school because my son had a temperature of one hundred and two degrees this morning.
Sometimes it is challenging to tell the facts and opinions apart. For example, is the following a fact or an opinion?
“Abraham Lincoln was the most eloquent writer of all the U.S. Presidents.”
This is an opinion, but you have to know that eloquent is a descriptive word to for this to become clear. Descriptive words are subjective, or state someone’s opinion. It can become unclear how to separate fact and opinion when many people hold the same opinion. This is when it becomes important to understand what the word bias means.
A bias is an opinion or an attitude we have for or against something. A bias usually stems from our feelings rather than from rational thought. What is very important to realize is that ALL of us are biased. We are biased for or against certain people, activities, and ideas. We become biased because certain people, activities, or ideas do not appeal to us at some level. Of equal importance to realize is that we have “good biases” as well, that is we favor certain people, activities, or ideas. In these cases, our biases are still irrational, just like our negative ones. (Chapter 6: Recognizing fact, Opinion, Bias, and Propaganda, p.214)
Most of the time we keep our biases inside and use them to decide who to vote for, what to study in school, and how we want to appear in public. Other times, however, people can let their bias or opinions guide them to do dangerous acts. Issues such as racism, gun control, abortion, and patriotism provoke many people to act on their biases and do things that harm others. As long as biases are peacefully shared, there is little harm. But, when they are uncontrolled, strong biases can bring out anger and create hatred toward those who disagree. That is when facts and opinions become very challenging to separate.
Many of our biases are not based on fact or reasoned judgement but on opinions handed down to us by parents, teachers, and friends. Unfortunately, we don’t always take the time to examine the source of our biases, and many of us carry unhealthy opinions and prejudices because of it.
(Chapter 5/Distinguishing Fact and Opinion, p. 224)
Below is a list of incomplete sentences. Complete each one with the first word that comes to mind. Don’t stop to evaluate what you write or change your first response. If you can’t think of a word or phrase, skip it and go on to the next sentence.
Teachers are ___________________________________________.
Mothers are ____________________________________________.
Democrats are __________________________________________.
Communists are _________________________________________.
Babies are ______________________________________________.
Welfare recipients are _____________________________________.
Elderly people are ________________________________________.
Protestants are ___________________________________________.
My neighbors are _________________________________________.
Republicans are __________________________________________.
Lawyers are _____________________________________________.
Girl Scouts are ___________________________________________.
Football players are _______________________________________.
Jewish people are _________________________________________.
Reread what your answers. How many are based on facts and which are based on opinions? Can you tell? Do you ever wonder where you formed your biases?
The objective answer to all of them is "Screwed under Obama".
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?
As for me, just like the owner of Free Republic,
"If she decides to run, Ill be supporting her one hundred percent."
“Supporting RINOs against conservatives...isn’t that something Party hacks like Newt “Scozzafava” Gingrich do? “
The only difference is that McCain is FAR more powerful than Scozzbag. McCain is public enemy # 1 in the Republican party.
I know. It’s simply a fact of life here, these dynamics of self destruction. If someone said something about my candidate I didn’t like, I’d find out if the candidate deserved the comments or not, then forgo defending the indefensible.
“It’s unfortunate that he/she said this. I don’t agree with everything they say. I wish they hadn’t said this.”
Just how damning is that? It defuses argument. It allows people to move on. It’s based on realty.
Thanks for your comments AuntB. Hope you have a great weekend.
I have stated that Palin made a mistake. You have 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.
And as I have publicly stated, if he wants to do that, it is his right.
It is also my right to refuse, based on her flagrant support of McCain in the 2010 Arizona Senate GOP primary election.
Chunga...
Sotomayor was let out for a vote by Lindsey Graham.
Medicare Part D, aka an expansion of Socialized medicine, was pushed by Bush and the Republican Party.
Cap and trade was pushed by McCain.
Closing Guantanamo Bay was supported by McCain and Graham.
The bailout plan was pushed by McCain, Obama, and Bush.
As for the rest of the items, McCain himself said that the Democrat Party is a “fine party” and that he had no problem with any of its values.
So as far as I am concerned, you can stuff it.
YET.
He has gone on the record that he is seriously considering declaring but that no decision will be made until after the New Year.
The problem now is that Hayworth will have to consider going up against not just McCain but Palin.
The fact that you're too stupid to realize that McCain is using Palin as a political human shield (and that she appears to be willingly going along with such a despicable act) is just disgusting, but not unexpected from a knee-jerk Republicrat hack like yourself.
Sarah Palin is no John McCain. Thank God!
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