Posted on 01/23/2010 10:19:54 AM PST by rabscuttle385
Paul Streitz has decided to call Sarah Palin by her real name, because she endorsed John McCain (who is trying to win a fifth term as Senator) and said she will campaign for him. Fanatic Palinites, such as the editors of the misnamed „conservatives4palin.com” website (they should rename it „liberals4palin.com”), lambasted him and called him a “backstabber”.
“If Paul Streitz’s support of Governor Palin is contingent upon his agreeing with every decision she makes or her selling out her deeply-held values, that’s unfortunate. While all support is appreciated, the governor has never been for sale. Ask the Alaska establishment, who learned that early in her political career.”
Palin has proven that she IS for sale – if one picks her for veep. She’s endorsed a despicable traitor because he chose her as his veep.
Palin is so dishonest (or so ignorant) that she didn’t even tell the truth about why she endorsed John McLame. She claimed that:
“John McCain is on fire to kill Obama’s government takeover of healthcare and that’s what I want to see.”
Which might be incorrect, because McCain favors the SAME policy on socialized medicine as Obama – he just might vote against this particular Act. McCain favors socialized medicine, as proven by Steven Warshawsky:
“McCain’s campaign website [of 2008 – ZM] demonstrates that his thinking on this issue is much closer to Hillary Clinton than Adam Smith. For example, McCain states that “controlling costs” is his top priority, and that “nothing short of a complete reform of the culture of our health system and the way we pay for it will suffice.” This is a recipe for massive government interference in the health care industry. McCain also supports universal coverage, claiming that “we can and must provide access to health care for all our citizens.” Completing the liberal trifecta, at the January 5 ABC NEWS debate, when Romney criticized McCain for “turn[ing] the pharmaceutical companies into the big bad guys,” McCain replied, “Well, they are.” Plainly, if he were president, McCain would serve as the Democrats’ “useful idiot” for their plan to impose socialized medicine on the nation.”
Also, I’ve heard from a friend that McCain will likely now try to save the socialized medicine bill. So on socialized medicine, McCain and Obama differ only about particular bills, NOT about the merits of socialized medicine itself.
What about the task of protecting the American people? No duty is more important than that one. But on that issue, McCain is also liberal and unreliable. Palin falsely claimed that:
“And his commitment and his leadership on national security to win the war on terror, that’s what we need. (…) national security, he gets it. He understands how to win.”
Palin is flat wrong. McCain is NOT committed to the task of defending the American people, and he’s not a leader on anything except liberal policies. He „doesn’t get it”. He doesn’t understand how to win the Global War on Terrorists, nor does he understand any defense issue or foreign policy issue confronting America now. I’ve written several articles pertaining to this guy, demonstrating what McCain’s specific policies are, and why they are wrong. So I’m not going to repeat those entire articles. Let me comment again on McCain’s policy on the GWOT, though, because that’s one specific issue that Palin mentioned.
John McCain does NOT say that America should attack its enemies before they attack America. He also endorsed Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo, and he opposes “enhanced interrogation techniques”, which are absolutely necessary to gain intel information and protect America.
McCain also buys the PC propaganda about the root causes of the Islamic threat. He believes that these root causes are “poverty, tyranny and despair”, and ignores what terrorists themselves say motivates them: the Quran, which contains several explicit commandments to kill nonbelievers.
In short, McCain doesn’t recognize the real nature of the Islamic threat, and he’s not prepared to combat it effectively. Anyone who isn’t prepared to combat it effectively is a person who doesn’t belong in the Senate. If the GWOT is the most important issue for you, McCain is undisputably the worst possible Senatorial candidate from Arizona.
I did not include McCain’s cretinous, liberal, anti-American policies on foreign policy issues other than the GWOT, even though I could (foreign policy is not limited to the GWOT, although Sarah Palin, as an ignorant person, doesn’t understand that). My articles about McCain refute his idiotic policies, so I just wrote a reply to what Palin explicitly said. She did not comment on McCain’s treasonous policies like nuclear disarmament and the progressive abolition of conventional weapon programs (which are necessary to protect America against China).
The failed 2008 VP candidate also said this about McCain:
“And he is a statesman, and I don’t hesitate at all to say, no.”
Which is not true. McCain is not a statesman; anyone who calls him a statesman insults real statesmen. A genuine statesman fights for the right policies, regardless of ideology; works for his country 24/7; and retires when he should.
McCain has spent the last 9 years promoting destructive liberal policies to punish the GOP for its decision to give Bush the 2000 Republican nomination; he’s been working against the US and for his liberal ideology (together with fellow liberals like Kennedy, Obama, Russ Feingold, and Hillary Clinton); and he has refused to retire – he’s vying for his fifth term as Senator. By comparison, George Washington refused to serve as President for a 3rd term, even though as of 1797, there were no presidential term limits. McCain is running to keep his salary, not to serve the American people, whose opinions are irrelevant for him.
Palin ended her statement thus:
“we do need his leadership, especially on those two fronts: Government takeover of healthcare, he wants to kill it; national security, he gets it. He understands how to win.”
See above. Her claims are false.
Whether she uttered those claims because she’s ignorant or because she knows they’re false and decided to lie for McCain, only Palin knows. Regardless of the answer to that question, she’s not qualified for the Presidency, as she has proven with these statements and other utterances. She embarrasses herself everytime she speaks. Conservatives4palin.com editors claim that she is simply behaving like a loyal person. But one’s own country is supreme to any person and any requirement for loyal individuals. When the choice is “Either the country or the person you should loyally endorse”, a real hero, a real patriot, a real statesman/stateswoman chooses the country, not the person. Palin has endorsed a strident liberal who’s trying to enrich himself with taxpayers’ money.
I was a fan of Palin myself. But I’m now convinced that she’s not a conservative, nor is she a politician qualied for the Presidency of the United States. She’s simply just another RINO endorsing another RINO. No real conservative would ever endorse McCain for the Senate.
Is she really a Republican? Hasn’t she been moving away to more of an independent status? I don’t really know because I don’t follow her that much.
Maybe she is a “Republican”..but she is not a “Republican “ that I will vote for at this point. Maybe that will change..I don’t see it on the horizon if she continues as she is right now.
Backing Steele when she didn’t have to say a word was a clincher for me - at least for now.
Mccain needs to go. Backing an incumbent..when it is a BAD incumbent..is not the way to go..at least to me.
What’s next? Snowe Collins and Graham?
We care about their opinions, why?
If McCain loses the primary, the media will run stories of a split between conservatives and Sarah. So this is lose-really lose option for Sarah here.
Anywho, her reply if McCain had asked her to campaign for him would be "...After the primary is held, I will stump for you John."
When campaigning (hopefully limited) she can choose to only talk about his positions that she herself endorses, and leave out the horse crap things like, “hands across the aisle”, “amnesty”, “campaign finance reform”.
Well we should see. If she starts taking shots at Hayworth then she jumped the salmon.
Well, that settles it! I’m going to vote for the Democrats. Obviously every single Republican is a RINO. Think about it folks, this RINO bullshit is becoming old as hell.(and stupid to boot)
So she's putting her own interests ahead of Arizonians and long-term conservatives' interests of seeing a younger, more conservative represent the Senate.
When amnesty for illegals comes up and McCain is among one of the chief sponsors, it'll be interesting to see what Sarah posts in her Facebook account.
People are responsible for their own votes, if McCain wins re-election it’s the fault of the voters not the campaigners.
Buddy, I'm one of the biggest Sarahbots here and I'm raising Hell over this.
Sarah said she would campaign on behalf of conservatives, regardless of party. John McCain is not a conservative. He is an aging abrasive turncoat Republican who has heaped praise on the likes of Obama and even considered being John Kerry's running mate.
Any loyalty that Sarah had to McCain should have ended on November 5th. She saved his candidacy from a crushing landslide ass-whooping defeat to a predictable, conventional loss to Obama, so if anything McCain should be thanking her.
It's worse than that...in 1976 Reagan promised to name Senator Richard Schweiker...the most liberal Republican in the Senate...to be his running mate if nominated as the GOPs's presidential candidate.
Hey rabs! I hope your parents' computer room is plenty warm today.
The same people who stood in line for hours getting their books signed by her will more than likely do what she says and hold their noses for McCain.
Yes, she's that influential. Her endorsement of McCain means that Hayworth doesn't have a prayer.
I know Sarah Palin has been called a lot of names but a RINO.
I would call her a Moose.
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Um, isn’t that the problem?
Smart politicians get elected; idealogues don't. Sarah Palin must be pragmatic if she hopes to govern in the future or influence those who will.
I am sure that Sarah Palin finds herself in a position of feeling some loyalty and obligation to McCain and intends to honor those feelings.
I can’t believe that the people who are calling her a RINO on FR have read Going Rogue. And I’d urge anyone who thinks she IS a RINO to read it. Read the book.
Personally I think you’re an Obama plant on FR... Palin is not going to have any affect on McCain’s chances in the primary.....
Schweiker's ACU ratings in the 2 years leading up to Reagan picking him:
1975 -- 9
1976 -- 16
I still don't know what got into Reagan on this deal...LOL.
Wow. Now that Palin, is ‘free’ to do whatever she wants and is, as some here have suggested, no longer under the McCain thumb, has she ever stated why she isn’t supporting J.D. instead? Does she more closely align herself with McCain?
What about NY-23?
I was quite surprised to see that Sarah once again holds elective office. That’s the ONLY WAY you can be a RINO ~ you must be elected first and be holding office.
Anyone see what she ran for? I missed it fur shur.
JD Hayworth was not in the race at the time Palin said she would campaign for McCain.
To quote Ayn Rand: There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
What about VA?
Wha about NJ?
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