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I’m not going to participate in a grand scale put-down of Sarah Palin. If she starts supporting flawed policy, I’ll have to address it. If she starts supporting the likes of McCain, I’ll have to address it.

I’ve seen people take on McCain, but McCain has spent the better part of the last 26 years grinding his own name into the ground. (most of his life, if you really get down to it)

So I don’t mind so much a guy like John getting skewered. Palin hasn’t been in the position to harm this nation that McCain has. So if she goes south, I won’t be able to support her. I won’t be trying to destroy her. I will be trying to let folks know, if that’s my take on it though, and that we shouldn’t support here. I’m along ways away from that, I can assure you.

I don’t like the pack mentality, although every member of this forum is to one extent a member of a pack. We absolutely detest the policies of the left here. We’re of a mind on that.

You and I share an aversion to watching folks swarm here. I try to fight my own battles and refrain from calling others in. I actually prefer that I be left alone to fend for myself. It bothers me when people swarm to support my position. A kind word is one thing, but going after folks who are disagreeing with me is not something I appreciate.

We don’t need to get nasty with one another here. We don’t need to travel in groups.

I will say that if by referencing the 1%er mentality, that you think Rabscuttle is too tough on McCain, I’ll have to come down on the side that he’s not tough enough on him.

McCain has sold us out more times than McDonalds has sold quarter-pounders.

I don’t expect total purity, but when it comes to core principles, more of our party needs to get it. That’s not leveled at you at all. It’s just the recognition that we as a party are not being true to our calling.

That really has to stop.

I think Rabscuttle knows I appreciate his posting here. I also think he probably knows I want him to respect others the way I wish I always did.

I thank you for your comments. We’re on the same team here. We need to pull together. We’re not always going to completely agree, but we have a lot more to gain by pulling together towards a return to a Constitutional Republic than we do fighting each other instead of the left.

Fwiw, I am not a McCain supporter at all, I probably dislike him as much as you do. I was really distraught by our candidates last year, very upset to the point of derangement at times. I never lost sight of how evil Obama was, and the damage he would bring, in spite of McCain's idiocy.

The only good thing Mccain did in the past decade was bring Sarah into the limelight.

I think she's the real thing, but like you, if she doesn't truly represent conservatism, I'll see it, and I'll change my mind. Her fealty to the one who brought her into the limelight doesn't bother me like it does you. We'll see where that goes, I'll be watching too.

Finally, someone talking about core principles.

I think Rabscuttle knows I appreciate his posting here. I also think he probably knows I want him to respect others the way I wish I always did.

D1, I generally try to show respect for others here, but I will not suffer fools--including those who evade legitimate questions I may put forth and instead choose to start hurling invectives--lightly, and I will call things as I see them.