Posted on 03/26/2010 7:06:31 PM PDT by Buddygirl
Sarah Palin and John McCain appearing on Greta NOW on the FNC!
Michele has announced she is going to run? I did not know that.
Jim DeMint
See my link at post #374.
Sarah Palin has disappointed me. She is off the team. A true conservative would NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER campaign for a RINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has she become a media whore?
McCain is reeeeaaaaly creepy. No doubt about it.
“Best we are going to get is maximum border security and stiff penalties with no easy path to citizenship but a path of some kind. Sad but it is just reality.”
Then the country is finished.
That's entirely possible...
Maybe that James Cameron guy would buy it for a movie plot!?! Nawwww.
Just how do you repeal amnesty? Those we made US citizens now aren’t?
“Maybe that James Cameron guy would buy it for a movie plot!?! Nawwww.”
That’d actually have some semblance of a plot. Not one that made any sense, but more than Dances with Smurfs did.
I believe she owed him for helping bring her to the consciousness of the nation (her rabid fans can deny that all they like, it's true). It would have done her no good to turn her back on him when he asked for an endorsement.
But in a race between McCain and JDH, she certainly didn't owe him much more than an endorsement. What about what McCain owes HER?
I've been back and forth on Palin but seeing her in this interview, she's just another politician. This may be an isolated moment in a campaign, but all that "not the usual politician" stuff is a lie when she's on the air helping McCain, who's hurt this country so much by running a crappy campaign and then offering "bipartisan" cover for Obama until he's now threatened from the right.
Not impressed.
You really can't be yourself when stumping for someone else. We'll have to see what emerges after she's paid her debts and runs on her own platform...that is is she chooses to do so.
I didn't know that until some time after the election but I sure thought he was playing a stalking horse shortly after he withdrew. It explained all of his actions.
“I didn’t know that until some time after the election but I sure thought he was playing a stalking horse shortly after he withdrew. It explained all of his actions.”
They’ve been playing us like that for years.
You make good points, but what does this say about Palin, who we've been told all along is not one of those go-along-to-get-along politicians? I thought she was different?
I think she did the loyal thing by endorsing him, but even that is very much same-old, same-old, isn't it? Seems like she owed him for putting her on the map, but she in turn paid him back in many ways during the campaign. I don't recall him being particularly active in defending her post-campaign, and some of his team baching her.
Considering the importance of this upcoming election, she could have really been a "maverick" by coming out and saying she wasn't supporting McCain out of her ethics and values--wouldn't McCain have appreciated that, if he's supposed to be so honest and "mavericky" or whatever? She could have explicitly stated why she was supporting JDH because of the crucial issue of illegal immigration.
I'm not saying she's wrong to back McCain, but the situation you outline sure seems like the same kind of politics we've had all along. I thought she was different.
Correct. People need to accept this and not let the Dems use it as a rallying cry--"The Republicans will have CHILDREN dragged from their beds at GUNPOINT!"
Best we are going to get is maximum border security and stiff penalties with no easy path to citizenship but a path of some kind. Sad but it is just reality.
Which is why border security is so important--if it doesn't work, you can't fix the problem later--they're already here.
If McCain is the Senator from Arizona, Republicans will need 52 seats to control the Senate on the big issues of the 0bama agenda, such as illegal immigration and global warming. I’m really not sure where, if at all, McCain would differ from the Democrats on any of the major pieces of legislation coming up.
JD Hayworth has a better chance of winning in Arizona than McCain does now.
McCain has alienated too many conservatives to win a general election this time around.
Sure you can. It's disappointing that she doesn't do this.
I don't consider this some unforgivable sin, just a disappointment after all the "rebel" stuff. As you say, once she's running herself, it'll be clearer who she really is. But I'm starting to suspect she won't be running for office again.
Excellent point which is why conservatives have to be careful with what they say on the subject so that it won't be used against them.
I can't really tell but time will...
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