Victoria, I believe Sarah’s comment was fairly straight up. I think it was a mistake and I have said so.
There is this dynamic around here at times, and I don’t necessarily think it’s either side’s fault. In fact I’d say most of us are on the same side, we’re just having a disagreement here.
At any rate, don’t you think that sometimes the defense of someone who has done something wrong, causes an exponentially larger amount of attention to be drawn to the mistake.
Seriously, don’t you think it would have been far better on this thread to just admit that the 100% comment was a mistake and move on? Instead we had people swoop in to ‘protect Sarah’, and all of a sudden it was a full highly visible defense/attack of Palin.
It should never have grown to what it did, a nearly 400 post thread. I think the defense of something that is wrong, is sometimes the worst thing a supporter can do.
How many people would have even seen this, if it had been acknowledged as a mistake, and we all could have moved on.
Thank you for your nice comments regarding my posts. I appreciate it. I appreciate your willingness to discuss the matter calmly too.
Well said sir.
Now let me ask you this: is she going to campaign for McCain, or did she just say some kind words because she feels she owes McCain something and should say something nice about him? True, she has contributed to his campaign as well as she has contributed to Hoffman's and Bachman's campaigns, and some other campaigns also.
We don't know if she really meant what she said or if she is going to take further steps to help McCain get re-elected, and because of that, I wasn't going to declare she made a mistake when no one is sure how strong her commitment is to a McCain victory in 2010.
I guess we'll find out if she made a mistake if she campaigns for him. Saying a few nice words in the political world is not in itself anything rare or unusual.
I love discussing this with you too, because you are the kind of poster who doesn't blow his top and call me RINO or something similar, and we are able to discuss the facts of the case.
Be back a bit later. Going out for lunch.