Posted on 01/28/2014 1:41:28 AM PST by South40
Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin defended her 2008 running mate Sen. John McCain Monday, after the Arizona Republican Party censured the Senator, saying he was not conservative enough.
In a Facebook post Monday night, Palin touted McCain’s national security bona fides and his role in the investigation into Benghazi. She said that while she did not agree with him on everything, Republicans should all stand on the same side against the Obama administration.
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What a shame. She can’t see the destruction the McCain has visited on the right and continues with glee. Will she still back him when he switches parties? Her day as a politician has passed. She is now another TV and print media pundit.
Never put your faith in the man. Put your faith in their ideas, but never in the man. The man will ALWAYS disappoint you.
Look Sarah, this man has never been a conservative and only used you to burnish his none existing conservative credentials. You can be nice if you want but the sooner he retires to an old folks home the better, maybe not for the old folks home though.
I’m disappointed in Palin. RINO Jaun McCain is all washed up.I still think he folded up at Hanoi Hilton.
The gratitude towards McCain can end now, Sarah. You really need to take the blinders off.
This disappoints me. She needs to cut him loose.
One of my best friends is a somewhat liberal. I say somewhat because she leans toward conservative values on some issues and liberal - on others. She is and has been my friend for over 12 years and we strongly disagree with each other on many issues, but we remain friends. I can understand where Sarah is coming from.
Now? He may be a war hero, but after seeing him in action all the YEARS in DC, I'm not sure which side he's a hero for and how long that's been true.
Sarah got a pass for earlier McCain defenses, since I attributed that to class and good upbringing and her being smart enough not to pee in the tent she'd been loaned, despite the public appearance of standing alone against the incoming fire with no help from Johnny. He is what he is, after all.
But, we're a lot farther down this road now and so I no longer trust her judgment regarding McCain, which makes me question the rest.
Sarah Palin? We'll just have to wait and see, otherwise maybe with this I've seen enough.
Sarah,
McCain has stabbed you repeatedly in the back.
Stop supporting him.
You should be horsewhipped for that. LOL!
But you're right.
“A self promoting phony”...Are you sure you want to describe Sarah that way?
She supported McCain to get him reelected against a Tea Party candidate and now she went out of way, after McCain was rebuked by his own State Party, to defend him.
McCain is a bum and everyone knows it except it appears her.
Your assessment is reasonable, but it also shows that you don't understand the new protocol advocated by these folks. For one thing you are ABSOLUTELY not allowed to be friends with a RINO, or saying anything good about them in any context whatsoever.
Secondly, rather than try to advance the Conservative cause by finding points on which you can agree with a guy like McCain, you're supposed to unzip your pants and urinate on him whenever he walks into the same room as you. Anything less in unconservative!
Thankfully, these same people will surely be naming their candidate of choice soon - the candidate who absolutely won't ever work with RINOs at all, and who will only refer to them publicly by name for the sake of insulting them.
Any day now, they will show us this candidate who'll publicly call McCain a RINO. Any day now..........
IBTZ
Now you had to go and ruin my morning.. sorry to see this. Sorry for seeing this so late too. I have been busy. Loved her book “Scorpions for Breakfast.” Met her at two National Conventions. Gees. *bows head and walks away*..sulking
Sorry ‘bout that.
I have always liked Gov. Brewer too.
Seems they get themselves in a spot and Washington waves a few billion dollars at them and they throw in the towel.
Same thing happened in my home state.
A billion here, a billion there, as they say....
Palin was nominated for Vice President, by McCain.
He almost single-handedly pulled her out of Alaska, and introduced her to America.
McCain will always be supported by Palin, for this reason. I long ago realized McCain forever earned Palin’s support when he nominated her as Vice President.
That is just a fact. It may be considered a flaw, or not, but Palin won’t turn on McCain.
I support Palin 100%.
Yesterday Governor Palin penned a post on her Facebook page expressing her support of Senator McCain in the face of censure by his own party in Arizona. In many ways, it echoed the op-ed she wrote for the Arizona Central when she endorsed Senator McCain’s re-election nearly four years ago. Governor Palin’s support of Senator McCain shows far more of her character than of his merit. As Governor Palin wrote last night:
We live in a time of diminishing virtues because of societal influence towards total self-centeredness. This is unfortunate and makes raising families, conducting business, and governing that much more challenging. I know how important the virtue of loyalty is because in politics it’s pretty much nonexistent. I stand on that most important virtue and answer those asking today: “Yes, I am proud to have been asked to run with him in 2008, and he is my friend.”
If loyalty is essentially nonexistent in politics as Governor Palin notes, how would anyone know what it looks like? One needs to look no further than Governor Palin’s own character and action over the years. Governor Palin has stood by Senator McCain’s side since 2008, in spite of his often tepid support for her and his nonexistent defense of her when she was more or less accused of murdering his Arizona constituents in Tucson three years ago. Governor Palin’s loyalty has been noted by many. For example, Governor Nikki Haley noted in her book about Governor Palin’s continued support in the midst of allegations during Haley’s gubernatorial campaign that she had an affair:
When allegations from Folks first surfaced, Haley remembers having Palin in her corner after just one phone call – a contrast to the way another supporter, Romney, had handled the news.
“Sarah goes with her gut, and I love her for that,” she writes. “Mitt’s team [said] they were going to have a ‘Nikki Haley meeting’ the next morning to decide what to do next.”
Governor Palin again stood with Haley in May of 2012 when a South Carolina union leader beat a pinata with a picture of Governor Haley’s face on it. This came even after Haley’s silence when Governor Palin and the Tea Party was blamed for the Tucson shooting. Suffice it to say, Governor Palin’s loyalty is because of who she is (her character), not because of who the others are.
Support differs from complete agreement, however. Governor Palin has expressed disagreement with McCain either implicitly or explicitly multiple times. As she noted in her Facebook post, Governor Palin parts ways with Senator McCain on ANWR and immigration. She has parted ways with him implicitly too. Her "Let Allah sort it out" approach to Syria is 180 degrees different than Senator McCain’s neocon approach to Syria. In her vintage speech to a Tea Party rally in Iowa in September 2011, Governor Palin mocked Senator McCain, although not in name, for his reference to Tea Partiers as hobbits.
To be sure, Governor Palin has her share of disagreements with Senator McCain, just as some supporters may disagree with her for supporting Senator McCain in this manner. That is the beauty of independence of thought–difference of opinion does negate support. As Governor Palin’s brother Chuck Heath Jr. noted on his Facebook page today:
If I turned my back on every friend and family member who didn’t agree with me 100% of the time, I’d have no friends or family members.
It can’t be said much better than that. We don’t have to always agree, but we all can learn a lesson in loyalty from the one political figure who personifies it.
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