Posted on 03/09/2010 9:49:05 AM PST by pissant
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is helping out her former running mate with a high dollar fundraiser at the Arizona Biltmore.
Palin will be courting contributions for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) – the GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee – on March 23 as part of her swing through Arizona to aide his re-election campaign.
For $2,500, McCain donors can attend an hour-long reception with the former GOP vice presidential nominee and get a chance for a picture with Palin.
Those not attending the reception can pay $500 each for a two-hour dinner, or $1,000 for preferred seating.
Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), along with Arizona GOP Reps. Jeff Flake, Trent Franks and John Shadegg will also be at the fundraiser.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The real question for many is: What are her convictions? She has not made that clear at all on many issues, though many have make all sorts of assumptions about it. And her endorsements muddle the picture even more.
I can list stupid moves by any "good" conservative, not just Palin. You can't?
It appears we have numerous posters on this thread who didn't know she had a March 23rd fund raiser scheduled for McStain. It was scheduled several months ago and it has been mentioned frequently on FreeRepublic.
Yet, now it's new news.
LOL! Unbelievable.
Exactly the point. Endorsing Bull RINO does not seem to be consistent with the policy positions many of us thought she held.
Conservatives are the underdogs now because of Bush-Klinton-Bush. Keep electing RINOs (half Dem, pub-lite) and the blend will become pure socialism and conservatism will be a faint memory. Is this what we want for our children and grandchildren???
Obviously, many here missed the barrage of headlines you talk about. Maybe you can link to them
No, I don’t want a slate of RINOs. But we must define RINO.
Someone with a 90% ACU rating? 80%? 45%?
Because almost nobody gets 100.
Oh, don’t be so dramatic.
Juan mcCain will stab her in the back later on, as he has always done. He will show her no loyalty. And, she owed him zilch
In my book, that's two strikes.
I'm not expecting Sarah to be on my side all the time, but like The Who, "I Won't Get Fooled Again."
You didn't know about the fudraiser?
We've only being talking about it for what, about six weeks?
On numerous threads the point of contention was that Sarah was goin to support McCain by doing a fund raiser in late March. Sarah was going to do a fund raiser for McCain in late March...over and over and over this was discussed.
You should really cut the "Don't Taze Me Bro", crap.
Nobody was talking about tazing you. So why bring up the subject?
Oh, it just didn’t go into the details , like the list of AZ bigwigs and money people. Serious $$$$. McCain is a KONTROL FREAK.
SOS to Arizona Voters RESCUE US FROM JOHN S MCCAIN IN NOV! Vote HAWORTH.
No conservative and especially Sarah Palin should never support John McCain. Besides his problems of granting amnesty to illegal aliens and restricting freedom of speech, he is severely deficient in the areas of national security and integrity.
John McCain lacks leadership for the War on Terror. His leadership codified the Army interrogation manual making terrorists legal combatants. His leadership granted terrorists American citizenship rights under Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments. He thereby ensures information vital to defeat terrorists remains sacred and unobtainable. Terrorists are unresponsive to direct questioning and psychological gambits. Therefore, interrogators need all stress and coercion techniques our military encounters in survival schools. McCain embraces liberal orthodoxy considering those methods torture, but his searing experiences call forth contrary insights he must suppress.
McCain understands the impossibility of fabricating an association of terrorists with Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions, when they participate in international armed conflict, lack pacific character in regard to hostilities, and do not meet any definition of legitimate armed forces. Instead he understands that Article 13 of the First and Second Geneva Conventions and Article Three of the Fourth Convention must be consulted. McCain knows terrorists are not insurgents or freedom fighters; when captured, certainly not prisoners of war. They are not armed forces, militias, or volunteer corps of any country or authority. These killers are not members of organized resistance movements carrying arms openly. They have no distinctive identifier. Terrorists cannot even qualify as spies or saboteurs destroying infrastructure required to support military operations
McCain understands Geneva Conventions intended to isolate such forces, provide them few protections, and allow destruction with any overwhelming furies needed to crush their abominations. Knowing these factors he promised to close Guantanamo Bay, inviting terrorists into our legal system. He decided to accommodate their extraordinarily savage behavior within our country and thereby checkmate national laws intended to manage simple murder and kidnapping, and render Posse Comitatus a crumbling deception.
McCain especially appreciates from our Constitution that laws guaranteeing civil liberties presuppose operation within an invincible society. He understands Alexander Hamilton’s words that the reality of devastating, unforeseeable perils must lead deliberations about national security. The primary responsibility of the Federal government’s three branches is to pursue Hamilton’s admonition that powers exist without limitation; providing capabilities thwarting looming dangers as well as responding to attacks. McCain understands powerful warfare capabilities require potent intelligence acquisition and exploitation before and throughout campaigns.
The framers of our Constitution and the Geneva Conventions held powerful positions throughout the darkest times of our country and the world. They were our Founding Fathers, and parents and grandparents of the Greatest Generation. Their words expressed durable morality earned in our fight for freedom, and against the ultimate bloody deluges of the 20th century. These first generations expressed principles derived from confronting shattering tragedies, and earning peace through victory.
John McCain’s actions are particularly reprehensible because he turns a blind eye to the council of these people. McCain continually seeks popular advancement on national security issues by placating those coveting luxurious, asymmetrical morality requiring shelter from perilous choices and awareness of danger. His crime is repudiating military and intelligence professionals facing hard choices when confronting shrewd, ruthless enemies obscured behind frightening uncertainties.
McCain displays a boundless absence of integrity as he follows the success of Bill Clinton, who cemented in politics for both parties the idea that character did not matter. There are no principles, but only ideas that secure possession of an office. John McCain is the most prominent Republican example of this new direction towards possession of power through careful exploitation of perceived expediency.
Politics is the art of compromise and leadership is the art of principle. Abraham Lincoln used superb political skills to implement some of the most cogent and insightful principles to guide this nation. John McCain has used political skills to implement compromises consistent with increasing his personal acclaim among liberal media and politicians. Lincoln is now dead and McCain is alive, but dead to principles unrelated to his immediate personal advancement. He is now use this aspect of his character to proclaim profound revelations concerning the value of conservative principles.
John McCain succumbed to the terrible addiction of political power. The same addiction expressed itself differently in fellow Navy officer Randy Cunningham, who was the Navy’s first Vietnam ace. Over the decades the honor and moral authority of both were gradually traded away for influence in the political arena. There is a vast, immeasurable gulf separating John McCain from the genuine people who dealt with the issues sponsoring the Geneva Conventions and our Constitution. He much more equates with the parasites now feeding upon the prosperity and security so painfully forged for their benefit. We suffer from imposters like him with such extraordinary mental athletic prowess as to scale unheard of heights of arrogance and studied ignorance to achieve unparalleled duplicity.
To me McCain is like a cadaver prepared for viewing. The removal of blood and organs equates to the trading away of honor and moral authority. The reputation that remains is like the cosmetics applied for viewing a corpse at the funeral. It is easy for anyone to get onto the same sort of gently downward sloping path. The final result is tragic, but we should not suffer such pathetic and contemptible modern day Macbeths or Hamlets as Republicans in the Senate or any other public office.
I love this.
So tell me, how would Sarah respond to the MSM attack machine when they played speach after speach of Palin telling the world that McCain would be a great president, and then refusing to support him? That’s Rush’s take, and it makes perfect sense to me. She has no choice, she supported him to be president, she has to support him know if she ever intends to run for anything...
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Or just stay home with her family...
I already know that it’s true. Sarah is not a robot. I do not program her. If she chooses to do this it does NOT nullify her own political beliefs and stands as some want us to believe. She’s been almost as villified as George Bush. Why is that? Either people are libs or they have their own candidate in mind, so it seems that they can’t support their candidate without jumping at anything against Sarah. They fear. Why? They post these hit threads, instead of being able to post any good things about their candidate.
I certainly wouldn’t want to be on the same side with Kathy Griffin. I support Sarah and what she stands for. Proudly. This old news won’t change that.
My experience here on FR is that NO "Palinista" will admit that she has ever done anything wrong, or ever needs advice. (I.e., they would give her the same advice that Obama's "yes men" give him---what he wants to hear).
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