Posted on 03/27/2010 5:51:59 AM PDT by raybbr
Two years ago, John McCain transformed Sarah Palin overnight from an obscure first-term Alaska governor into a national celebrity when he picked her as his vice presidential running mate.
Now Palin is repaying the favor, putting her prestige on the line in an effort to help the four-term Arizona senator overcome his toughest re-election challenge ever.
The two campaigned together Friday for the first time since they lost the presidential race in 2008.
At the first of two rallies this weekend, Palin pumped up Tea Partiers, invoking the cause of the first Tea Party in 1773.
"Remember it was the Freedom Fighters and those who protested tyranny and big government," she said. "And that's what we're doing today."
"And when you think about that first Tea Party, shoot, some may claim that John was there, at the first Tea Party," she said with a laugh, poking fun at McCain's age. McCain, who is 73, grinned widely beside her.
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“In a way she didn’t support him - he was supporting her”
So you’re saying your criticism of Palin now is consistent with your failure to criticize her back then when she joined the McCain ticket, because when she joined his ticket she did it without supporting him?
Not working.
No, I'm saying you are trying to equate two completely different things and you refuse to see it.
“McCain had changed his position to an extreme leftist it might be different”
“Extreme leftist” is his position.
Actually, I’m the one who said McCain is the standard.
In fact, you’re the one using Alinsky tactics by turning it around (see your last line of post #420).
So I’ll use your Alinsky tactics to re-defeat your argument:
If McCain’s RINO status is the standard now, it should have been the standard then.
If you didn’t object to Palin’s joining the ticket then, you are not being honest now and all of your posts on this topic are meaningless.
In summary:
If McCain’s RINO status is the standard now, it should have been the standard then.
If you didn’t object to Palin’s joining the ticket then, you are not being honest now and all of your posts on this topic are worthless.
They’re not different.
McCain now is exactly the same as McCain in 2008.
No one on the right berated her for it then.
Well, I guess we can agree then 'cause I see your posts the same way.
Although, you will notice that I tried to use reason whereas the "Alinsky tactic" of "destroying the opposition" by name calling comes from you.
Good day.
It’s convuluted, all right—because you are desperately trying to rationalize your support and infatuation for a tarnished conservative, who has entangled herself with a socialist who belongs in the Dem Party. McCain is a Republican however so this is all the worse, he not only enables the enemy, but he drags her down too. What does she stand for? Can she speak out clearly against amnesty and cite the numbers of illegals here and what they are doing to our country, what will happen if allowed to go on? When she does remark about drilling for oil here at home (ANWR), it has a hollow ring since her man has sided with GW theory and voted against it, supports Cap & Tax.
Sorry...should say So if you say that then you say Palin SUPPORTED an extreme leftist...
Sorry, I didn't know McCain was running for president again.
You have totally bought into the illusion. And McCain is quite far Left.
“No one on the right berated her for it then.”
She was moderating a leftwards ticket. Now, she’s supporting a continuation of that leftism.
What difference does it make to YOU - who conservatives support?
You’ve gotten your diapers all wee wee’d up with YOUR AGENDA!
Conservatives WILL vote for Sarah IF she runs. Reading that will give you another diaper change. DEAL with IT!
That is actually funny.
She may be tarnished but it’s very brief and wipes away with her ongoing record of conservatism.
She might have stumbled, but only because while running under constant fire, she dodged an even larger pothole—the one where she potentially didn’t uphold her promise to McCain and would have been tarnished even worse.
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