Mozilla, I have stated that I find it troublesome that Palin could make the 100% statement. To me it indicated there could very easily be storm clouds ahead.
I have not said categorically that I wouldn’t support her. And the sad thing is, your inclusion of me in this post, displays a lack of understanding as to what my views really are.
I’ve made them crystal clear. I don’t know how I could have made them more clear.
As for who to vote for, if Palin really meant what she said, then who would there be to vote for? Good question isn’t it.
You better hope to hell she didn’t fully understand what the implications of that statement were.
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.