J.D. and McCain were statistically tied in the polls (source) until Palin showed up to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory for Arizona Tea Partiers.
To make matters worse, she...
Cloaked McCain in the robes of Tea Partiers by saying that the Tea Party supported McCain (source).
Stated in public that she agrees with McCain "on the big picture, where it is that the country needs to go" (source).
Stated in an op-ed piece for The Arizona Republic that she had admired McCain long before 2008 and that she was "inspired by his willingness to buck his political party - and even his president - to do what he believed was right for this country" (source). Considering that McCain spent the bulk of the eight years leading up to the 2008 elections attacking conservatives and kissing up to Marxists like Ted Kennedy, Russ Feingold, and Barack Obama on nearly every issue imaginable, I question why she felt the need to praise him for such contemptible and treacherous conduct.
To date, not a single word of hers concerning her support for the bastard McCain in the 2010 Arizona primary - after the 2008 elections had ended and when she was supposedly a free individual not bound to the RINO McCain - has been repudiated. Not...one...word.
Just two years ago, one FReeper, who has been pinged to this post, wrote:
"John McCain, and anybody who dares to defend him, are enemies to our Republic and our civil rights and liberties."
Palin went all out for the most dangerous RINO in the United States today, and she gets a free pass from people like you...at the same time as people like you are savaging Bachmann, Hayworth, and other good conservatives merely because they posed threat to the ascendancy (or fantasy thereof) of Palin.
That is, if Palin even decides to run. I think she won't, or if she does, she will be a Fred Thompson déjà vu: lots of sizzle, lots of fizzle, and a subsequent endorsement for the RINO du jour - i.e., Romney.
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Entire thread, too.
I don’t remember ever having done this before, but you left one thing out of your post, and I think this is called for.
Those of you that are trashing Bachmann’s actions on flimsy grounds, please realize there is a wealth of things we could say in return.
Please read these Bible verses:
http://bible.cc/matthew/7-3.htm
http://bible.cc/luke/6-41.htm
She has also not repudiated the majority of AZ GOP primary voters who proudly rejected JD and his Government Free Money infomercial by 30 percentage points 59-29.
Good post
...and I was going to say “good post” before I even saw my quote included. :-)