Endorsement of McCain alienates Palin supporters

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 2010-01-26 | Jay Bookman

[rabscuttle385]

Sen. John McCain, the man who brought Sarah Palin to national prominence, is being challenged for re-election in the GOP primary by former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. Palin recently announced that she plans to travel to Arizona to campaign on McCain’s behalf, but posters on her Facebook page are not at all happy with their Sarah:

“Sarah, it was fun, but now you are done.”

“Sarah, your support of McCain shows bad judgment and brings into question the validity of your words. You can forget any political ambition if you support Amnesty – which John McCain does. Conservatives don’t forget.”

“You do know Senator McCain is a PROGRESSIVE? It is very disappointing that you are campaigning for him instead of J.D. Hayworth. McCain needs to go!”

“Sorry to hear that you are supporting McCain. Up to now, I thought you were part of the solution, but you’ve shown yourself to be part of the problem.”

“McCain!? Are you kidding me? Time to pick a side, Sarah– Are you with the people, or against them?”

“I agree with those who advise you not to campaign for Senator McCain. He really doesn’t represent the views of grassroot conservatives. He represents those in the GOP who have too often been willing to compromise on principle, or even worse, have failed to really understand basic conservative principles.”

“McCain used Palin like a cheap tool to keep from getting beat worse than Reagan did to Mondale. His staff mocked her and showed no respect. Now McCain is using her again like a cheap tool and this time she is willingly doing it under the guise of loyalty. As long as McCain is the face of the GOP, conservatives are irrelevant. Palin is playing politics and this goes against what she “supposedly” represents. She helps elect McCain, she’s done.”

“I respect your loyalty to McCain, Sarah, but he really is using you. You need to do what you are obligated to do for him, and then run as far away from him as possible. He’s widely despised in the Conservative movement, and you’ll be hurting yourself badly with your support base if you do more than offer your token support or speak on his behalf.”

“McCain is not a commonsense candidate. If you support him your future as a conservative candidate is over.”

“Another day ~ another appeal to our girl from Wasilla: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not follow through with your plan to campaign for John McCain. In the insightful words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: “Big mistake. Big. Huge.” To do so will destroy your credibility, have your enemies carping: “I told you so,” and leave your fans devastated.”

That’s just a small sampling of some 2,500 comments, and I have to admit to being surprised by the vehemence and near-unanimity of that sentiment. It makes me think that McCain might eventually have real trouble in the Arizona primary.

[Man50D]

Also who is this Peter Schiff?

Schiff is a successful stockbroker and a Republican Senatorial candidate from Connecticut.

[sickoflibs]

That was a GREAT post by Bob J, but you left out #8 :”She has good legs”

That thread was not locked and Bob j is still here.

[rbmillerjr]

Well, you got three answers on Schiff. lol

Mine is the right one ehehehe.

[rabscuttle385]

McCain has been in the lead and pushed for the surge in fighting the IslamOfascists.

Yeah right.

He's been in the lead fighting FOR the "Islamofascists".

"He (McCain) did everything that we asked of him, including arming the KLA", said Albanian lobbyist Joe DioGuardi.

John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists

John McCain armed the KLA, Politika

Group tied to al-Qaida backs McCain for prez

KLA members suspected of 1998 war crime

Kosovo Albanian drug-boss admits friendship with al Qaeda leader

NATO Transported KLA Terrorists by Helicopter During Kosovo War

Kosovo Extremists Suspected in Attacks on Macedonian Police Stations

UN Discovers Human Remains in Kosovo Cave ("Non-Albanians" mass grave after NATO's takeover)

Normally, giving aid and comfort to al-Qaeda is considered an act of treason, but you seem to want to let McCain's actions slide based on the actions of his son.

I prefer to judge people based on the merits of their actions and their actions alone.

[rbmillerjr]

FYI on Ron Paul

“In 1988 Ron Paul was nominated by the Libertarian Party for president and ran against the Reagan agenda, at one point telling the Dallas Morning News, Reagan was a “dramatic failure” as President. Paul also said, “I want to totally disassociate myself from the Reagan Administration”, Reagan was “a failure, yes, in, in many ways”.

...Transcript of Paul’s remarks on Meet the Press.

[Lakeshark]

He's been in the lead fighting FOR the "Islamofascists"..

I understand your dislike for McCain, but that's just a dumb thing to say.

[Friendofgeorge]

Rabs gets a thrill up his leg posting this kind of crapola!

[rabscuttle385]

I understand your dislike for McCain, but that's just a dumb thing to say.

Do you not consider KLA and Albanian terrorists, narco-smugglers, and war criminals to be "Islamofascists"?

[editor-surveyor]

"Peter Schiff is a big financial guy, fairly spot on with his investor advice prior to the sell off of 08."

Do you have any idea how many articles he has written for the New American?

[SaraJohnson]

Her political savvy?

Hmmm...who signed the anti-corruption law that was pitifully designed so that Demo radicals could file false complaint after false complaint until it put the Gov. in the poor house with lawyer bills and paraylized her staff with work on responding to the never ending flow of complaints?

Who joined McStain’s campaign knowing full well he is a professional backstabber and destroyer of conservatives - or was she so unimformed on McAmnesty, she did not know this abou him? With the knives still in her back from her campaign with McNutso, who decided to join him in another campaign against the conservative candidate her supporters are backing?

Real savvy, there. Sharp as a bread knife.

[Theodore R.]

There is McPain, and there are the Republican primary voters of AZ. They agree on nearly everything.

[FreeReign]

That was a GREAT post by Bob J

On the same thread, did you like post?

Bob J | Jan. 8: If she comes out for him I will applaud her standing by the man who catapulted her into the national limelight.

[Lakeshark]

No, mine was the best....

:-)

[rintense]

I laugh at this undermining effort, really. As I said before, it isn't any different than what the MSM, the WH, and th kook bloggers in Alaska are doing. It just seems more (allegedly) intellectually 'honest' coming from conservatives.

But what's even more laughable are the alternates they've chosen to push: Romney, Huckabee or 'I don't know yet'.

[Lakeshark]

Another thread, and we'll discuss that. For now, what you said was a broad brush and pretty dumb.

Nuff said.

[SoCalPol]

Ron Paul runs the gamut of Neo Left groups to the
Neo Nazi Storm Front loons.

I have delt with your type face to face over the years.

You might do well to study American History and appreciate the country your family came to even though recently.

[rabscuttle385]

Fair enough.

[rintense]

Infatuation? Tell me, sickofconservatives, I mean sickoflibs, give me a line by line, policy by policy comparison between Palin and any other national leading republican, and prove who is more conservative. And by national leading republican, I mean who is on the stage now, with a national, MSM name, that the majority of Americans would know. I’m waiting...

[Friendofgeorge]

BREAKING NEWS....Pajama Blogger does not like Sarah Palin!

[ansel12]

especially considering that SOME of them were so quick to rush to attack one Mark Sanford for going "hiking in the Appalachians" last year. (Nevermind the fact that infidelity in marriage, though disgusting, is not necessarily an indicator of "bad" future political performance;

Sanford was about much more than being a cheat, if you read my posts on it you realize that a sitting Governor eluded state security, his personal staff and his family and sneaked out of the country to Latin America without security or transferring power. He thought that he could pull off a James Bond stunt and he left the state government in confusion and even panic when they found his abandoned car at the airport and discovered that his own Chief of Staff was wrong about his location.

The man is a nut case that we can be thankful never made it close to the Presidency.