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.
This changes nothing.
Considering you are a main proponent here of opposing the Republican party, it seems you would be cheering that.
“So speaketh the cult of Ron Paul, the biggest RINO in existence.”
Ron Paul, Who said that the “CIA needs to be destroyed” just a few weeks after the Taliban Killed 8 Americans including several CIA personel...
BTT
I'm afraid you're right. Scott Brown made that clear in his acceptance speech when he specifically thanked the independents. Not a word to conservatives across the country who donated and helped him get elected.
Arizona is going to dump McCain. If Sarah wants to hitch her wagon to a train wreck, so what?
If she can support McCain and not know about the rotten ads McCain has been running against JD Hayworth for weeks, she’s dumb as a rock.
At every level, except one, it's a game. And that would be street level.
Exactly! I seriously doubt that Palin is a RINO. I am not terribly fond of McCain myself but, given the alternative, I might just support him. 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.
These are the people who stayed home last year a got 0 elected.
McCain is the one who introduced her to America - in a big way. - pay-back time??
She’s not a RINO. She is simply returning a favor. For all of McCain’s faults, McCain will be remembered best for bring Sarah Palin out of obscurity into the spotlight.
Where’s the barf alert?
If you show me a republican who is NO a RINO, then I submit that the person is simply a Conservative posing as a Republican.
If Ronald Reagan were running today, he would be labeled a "RINO" by many on Free Republic... LOL...
That term has gotten to be an idiotic term anymore... and only used for argument when someone doesn't like your candidate... :-)
who died and let you and this other person decide who the RINOs are in the first place?
Republican is a party affiliation. Conservative is a philosophy or ideology. When people say RINO, they mean he is no conservative, but I think you know that.
Where’s the barf alert?
He's posted this so much... there's "no more barf left".... LOL....
If Palin's a RINO, then I guess all Republicans are RINOs then. Because people like DeMint endorsed Romney, Reagan chose Bush, Duncan Hunter endorsed Huckabee, and Palin was McCain's friggin' VP choice.
Why is she, who self-identifies as a constitutional/social conservative, helping a RINO big-government progressive? McCain's old news. It's time to turn the page. It seems to me she'd do better to support his primary challenger, J. D. Hayworth. Given her political philosophy, she's closer to Hayworth than McCain anyway.
This is the first time I've had reason to question Mrs. Palin's judgment.
Sarah would have to do a lot worse than this before she would lose my support. So far I agree with her far more than I disagree with her.
“Where’s the barf alert?”
Permanently tattoo’d onto Ron Paul and this 16 yr. old Paulist.
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