Posted on 01/21/2010 7:36:39 PM PST by Josh Painter
” Do you really think it is so far-fetched that she would feel a certain obligation to him, that she can’t feel deep down in her Christian heart that without him she would still be the unknown governor of the coldest state in the Union?”
I’m sorry, the psychological and emotional needs of Sarah Palin do not trump the needs of the country nor the effort to defend the intrinsic truths of the Constitution.
You’re inclination to put the desires of Palin ahead of those of the republic are disturbing, but not wholly unexpected seeing the fervor of Palin worship among some here over the last several months.
‘If Jesus were to arrive today and announce his run for some office, there’s no doubt in my mind that there would be people here snarking against him too.........’
If Jesus were to arrive and endorse Satan for Arizona Senator, I’m sure there would be a few eyebrows raised and questions raised abour principle, consistency and method.
“...questions offwered about principle, consistency and method.”
You’re 1%ers are turning into 70%ers.
Thanks for your comment. I have no loyalty to McCain. I just tried to put myself in Palin’s spot. If for no other reason than McCain, snake in the grass he is, if denied her support might start lying to the news media just like a couple of his former campaign staff. It would be an orgasmic day for the liberal news media and many of the gullible public would believe it. Sometimes one has to bite the bullet. Without Sarah Palin on the ticket I would have still voted McCain in 2008 even if it took a large quantity of Jack Daniels to do it.
Exactly. The Michelle Malkin article was spot on. And I don’t view myself as a hypocrite. I have been a big supporter of Sarah. I have donated to SarahPAC, written supporting blog articles about her and defended her on every turn. I didn’t vote for McCain because of McCain. I voted for Sarah.
Loyalty is DC is not a rare trait. The problem with the Beltway crowd is that there is too much loyalty! They barter and cut deals with each other all the time in the cloak room of the chambers of Congress for their own self serving interest. That’s the problem. They are only loyal to their own country club crowd and to each other. I know, because I used to work there.
I am disappointed in Sarah. If you are true to principle, that does not make you a hypocrite! If her loyalty is based on ‘I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine’ then she is just another politician after all.
Moreover, this is more than one-year later. Times are different. The makeup of the Congress is different, we have the dope in the White House and Pelosi & Reid are running a fast-track radical legislation push. The establishment will try to neutralize Sarah and the Tea Party movement and McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans - in direct contrast to the Tea Party movement.
Malkin’s article was spot on. The Tea Party movement did not exist one-year ago. The mood of the country has shifted. So comparing now to then when the mood in the country and makeup of Congress and our government is different is comparing apples to oranges. If any other conservative candidate beside Sarah supported a candidate that backed ‘amnesty’ and wanted to reach across the aisle to make ‘health care’ work, no one would be throwing the word ‘hypocrite’ around, except to said candidate...
For me, country is bigger than any one politician and those that don’t walk along-side their own ‘conservative’ principles may be hypocrites themselves. I’m struggling with this one and now will fight for JD if he runs in AZ or the conservative candidate and let the chips fall where they may...
...As newfreep posted: Michelle Malkin’s column today hits the nail squarely on its’ head:
“With all due respect to McCain’s noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations. He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America. He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout. He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.”
“Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place. The conservative base has no such obligations — and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late. The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.”
I am not a scholar of the Constitution, and I don't share your feeling its 'intrinsic truths' are trumped when I make the simple statement that MAYBE she feels an obligation to John McCain, and intends to pay that debt, as it were, since he asked her to help him.
She has been pretty successful and impressive in her rise to the governorship of Alaska, and then on to be the nominee for VP. In doing so she has gone against the grain several times, so much so she's even been accused of “Going Rogue.” IMHO, she's worth considering. I don't approve of what she's doing in working with John McCain. But if I throw overboard everyone who does something that I don't agree with then I'll have a very lonely life.
If I thought coming on here and picking a fight with anyone who didn't share my opinion of her I would certainly do so. Loud and long. OTHO, in my seventy plus years of life I've learned that virtually nobody pays attention to what I say or advocate. Hopefully it will bring some comfort to you to know that my stand on deciding to wait and see will probably not change anyone's opinion about Sarah Palin. Heck, I can't even get them turn the TV up loud enough for me to hear it well.
If our country is so delicately balanced that her campaigning for John McCain makes a difference in its future, that rejecting the good for in a quest for the perfect, then we're probably already around the bend, up the creek, bought the farm, bit the big one, etc.
I tend to agree....I heard her explanation for support of McCain.....So he helps put the brakes on healthcare, but is successful at giving amnesty to millions of illegals down the road........Not a good thing.....Or we will hear him peddling an “acceptable” government healthcare plan which is what I expect him to do.....Cut the tie Sarah.....
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