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“I am so sorry if people took this silly incident the wrong way. I adore John McCain, support him 100 percent and will do everything I can to support his reelection. As everyone knows, I was honored and proud to run with him. And Todd and I were with him in D.C. just a week ago. So much for trying to be incognito."

Folks, this statement was NOT made up by someone on this thread. It is a quote from Sarah Palin, and nobody is responsible for it other than her.

Lets look back at what has been taking place on Free Republic since early-2008. Many of us were aghast, that our choices in November might turn out to be Barack Obama or John McCain. Anyone who wasn't, should just trot off this thread right here. They don't have the standing to participate on this topic.

So what was our reaction to the possibility of being confronted with having to vote for John McCain. Well, some of us started early on trying to wake people up to who John McCain really was. Later on, we just acquiesced to the reality that November the 4th, 2008, would be a day in infamy, one prick or another becoming our top elected official.

TigersEye and I developed lists of things John McCain had been involved in during his life and or career. Rabscutttle389 started a "McCain Watch" of sorts, posting anything he could find on the guy daily. And then recently the owner of this forum found it important to explain this site was not going to support RINOs. And while I don't think Palin has done enough to be labeled a RINO at this point, so I'm not attempting to put words in Jim's mouth, it is quite troubling that she could say what she said, knowing McCain like we do. So that's where we find ourselves right now. We're asking folks to own up to what our Republican candidates have advocated in their past, what their statements are today, and how those things could reflect who they actually are. And if those actions or statements are bad enough, we're seeking to get people to avoid supporting them at all cost.

And we're doing it now, because we don't want to see a repeat of 2008. Does any of us want to see that? I don't think so.

Folks, Barack Obama is the embodiment of what the Leftist Democrats want in the way of a leader. He's a full blown leftist who thinks terrorists have been created by the evil deeds of the United States. And on and on it goes. He's pushing right now for every pipe dream the left has ever had.

Back on the Republican Ranch, we have folks positioning themselves for a 2012 run. Sadly, all but one of the prominent ones has so much baggage in their trunk, that we can't support them. What does that really mean? What it means, is that we recognize these people as a person who will implement leftist agenda should they become president. Is Barack Obama going to implement any of the Right's agenda during his term in office? Hell no! So why must we continually back folks who will implement the leftist agenda for them? What we wind up with is either a nation headed at 90 mph toward Leftist nervana, or a nation headed there at 60 mph. Folks, this has got to stop! The problem is, it never will unless we develop a backbone, and call a spade a spade, and quite backing people who can't even understand why John McCain is not a Conservative.

Then into this political environment came a new player, Sarah Palin. Many of us, including me, have found Palin to be a breath of fresh air. Her down home flavor and seeming alignment with our values, has enticed many of us to hope she can become president in 2012. Still, as much as we like her, we still have to see her flesh out her own agenda, before we can be absolutely certain she is supportable. But this is merely the rational approach. There is another faction of people who have self-appointed themselves to be her knights in shining armor. They have become so infatuated with her politically, that they cannot bear to see anyone say anything negative about her. Where have we seen this type of behavior before? BUSHBOTS. Anybody remember that infamous group of people who would go for the throat faster than Dracula the day after a two week fast?

Now some of you are going to read my comments about infatuation and declare I'm being very unfair with my comments about your mindset. I have only to point to this thread to shut that disagreement down. Folks, please use those links to TigersEye's list, my list, and Jim's comments on RINOs. Then try to tell us why we are wrong to think that Sarah Palin has no business backing a man like John McCain, even if he were her father or husband, which he is not. G D it, wake the hell up. Take the blinders off and get with the program.

I'm not asking you to write Palin off at this point. I am merely asking you to look at Palin realistically, and not through filtered glasses. I know some have gone further than that, but this escalated far beyond what it needed to, because our PalinBot contingent started the denial routine with dismissive and attack comments tossed in. What was that going to achieve other than to have people dig in their heels and go negative on Palin.

Let's look back at the "BOT"ism that has taken place on this forum, with specifics to George Bush. Early on, I complained that he wasn't a Conservative. He had tossed out big spending ways to fix education in Texas. He had telegraphed he was going to reward illegals with 'a pathway'. He had developed a catch phrase that self-portayed himself as a compassionate Conservative. From early on it was impossible to criticize him on this forum. Before he was the nominee, it was supposedly unwise to talk frankly about his actions as governor or his announced policies. It might damage his viability. Then it was unwise to talk about him frankly after he was nominated. Once he was elected, it was unwise to talk frankly about his actions. It might damage his ability to get good legislation passed. And then it was wrong to talk about him because he was running again. And then it was still wrong to talk about negative things he was doing, because he needed our support to get things done. There was NEVER a time when we could disagree with George Bush, not from the moment he first looked like he was going to run, he had his self-appointed knights in shining armor here, ready to stab folks in the front, back, side, or head if they dared to question him in any way.

What did this buy us? It bought us a leftist with nobody able to question a single move he made. Were members of his own party able to express displeasure with his actions? Well, not here they weren't. So how did we reign him in? How did we get him to move toward the right? How did we get him to swear off big spending big government actions? Well, we didn't. Who gave a damn if he was ballooning the national debt out 87% during his term in office? He was their fair haired guy. Not overspending, not new big government programs, not an amnesty plan for illegal immigrants, NOTHING was able to be addressed here, without people supporting the RINOest of it at every stage.

We came to a place in 2008, where even a guy like John McCain was considered so 'presidential' that he received the nomination to represent us in November. No matter how much people tried to explain why he wasn't qualified, there were those who thought differently. And so folks, we wound up with the second worse nominee in our nation's history, Barack Obama being the only man would could save McCain from being the worst.

Is it any wonder, why folks today have adopted a policy of jumping on anything negative someone utters, so that the McCain triumph will never happen again? Seriously, who is unable to understand why someone would take offense at the comment quoted at the beginning of this post?

There are folks here who ARE NOT going to accept a group of pinheads becoming the self-appointed defenders of RINOism. That's a reality you're going to have to come to terms with.

If Sarah is one of us, a Conservative, we're going to do everything in our power to support her, but we will never do that blindly. And if as she gets specific with her platform, and she turns out to be a person like some of the last people we have been encumbered with, there's going to be bloody hell to pay.

NO MORE RINOS. That statement shouldn't bother a single person on this forum. As long as people aren't RINOs or Democrats, they'll remain in our good graces.

So those of you who are wasting your time trashing folks who disagree with Sarah's statement, stop it. Send Sarah some objections so that she will know better than to do something like that again. Now is the time to take corrective measures. It is not the time to blast everyone who recognizes a terribly ill thought out statement for what it was.

Once again, read the lists linked above. Do you support that crap 100%?

You folks should be ashamed of yourselves, trashing folks who recognize a statement for what it is, all the while evidencing a woefully transparent case of denial.

thank you DO. Lest we forget—”United we stand, divided we fall”! And never “fall in love” with any politician; if ;you love one, then make it be Tough Love! Acknowledge their mistakes & let them know same.

“NO MORE RINOS. That statement shouldn’t bother a single person on this forum. As long as people aren’t RINOs or Democrats, they’ll remain in our good graces.

So those of you who are wasting your time trashing folks who disagree with Sarah’s statement, stop it. Send Sarah some objections so that she will know better than to do something like that again. Now is the time to take corrective measures. It is not the time to blast everyone who recognizes a terribly ill thought out statement for what it was.

Once again, read the lists linked above. Do you support that crap 100%?

You folks should be ashamed of yourselves, trashing folks who recognize a statement for what it is, all the while evidencing a woefully transparent case of denial. “

You deserve a better thread than this. The entire post is the gospel truth.

Thank you.

Where have we seen this type of behavior before? BUSHBOTS. Anybody remember that infamous group of people who would go for the throat faster than Dracula the day after a two week fast?

There are still plenty of them on FR.

So those of you who are wasting your time trashing folks who disagree with Sarah's statement, stop it.

Defend these anti-Palin cretins all you want. It won't alter my calling them what they are. Anyone who states "I cannot in good conscience support her" isn't giving her the benefit of any doubt and I in turn won't give it to him.

I know you fancy yourself the voice of reason around here. As far as I'm concerned you merely run interference for the enemy of the good.