Posted on 02/01/2010 2:34:00 PM PST by pissant
When John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate, he did the not-yet-launched Tea Party movement a hefty favor by elevating to national prominence a woman who could lead this disparate band of grassroots conservative activists and give a powerful voice to their protests and passions. ("Death panels!") And how do the Tea Partiers pay back McCain? By trying to send him to the old folk's home.
Tea Party types have rushed to support the campaign of former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, who is challenging McCain in Arizona's Republican senatorial primary. Hayworth, who years ago left the House to become a radio talk show host in Phoenix, only moved into the race last week, but some preliminary polls put him in practically a dead heat with the four-term senator. Get the new PD toolbar!
A mere 15 months earlier, McCain was the presidential nominee of his party. Now he's a target for those conservatives who are pursuing Republican moderates (or perceived Republican moderates) the way zombies chase after non-zombies in the movies. The far-right Internet chat corners are lit up with folks denouncing "Juan Amnesty McCain" for having once been a co-author of the McCain-Feingold legislation (campaign finance reform), the McCain-Lieberman bill (climate change), and the McCain-Kennedy act (immigration reform.) Some even decry him for opposing the use of torture. It's not hard to find anti-McCain crusaders slamming the guy of being "a socialist."
That's quite an accusation for a legislator who has an 82.3 percent lifetime rating from the American Conservative Union. Hayworth did achieve a higher ranking of 97.6 percent. But on this site last week, conservative writer Matt Lewis contended that Hayworth, who had been a pork-loving legislator who became too close to convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was far from a perfect conservative.
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This will be a good lesson for her even if it is close. Conservatives are not personality cultists. Our loyalty is rather tenuous. We are very loyal to those who are loyal to conservative principles. Don’t take our loyalty for granted.
Hopefully, McCain will lose to Hayworth in spite of her efforts and she will learn from the experience.
No she can’t save him.
Yes, she should put forth some effort. Loyalty is an important attribute.
I would think much less of her if she didn’t.
Score 1 for Palin on good strategic thinking.
U.Y
I think she should make one token appearance and then beg off any more.
No, and no.
She’s paid her bill to McCain and it’s time for him to face the music for all his bi-partisanship.
You are correct. She has to support him, and all of us know why. None of us would allow it to sway our opinion of McCain. I don’t understand why these old men can’t go away and retire. He’s begging to relevant.
I'll talk to her and let her know our thoughts, maybe take her fishing.
No, and no.
FWIW, IMHO from afar — you three are correct.
She should only support him AFTER his primary.
McCain and his “people” gagged and sabotaged Sarah. Even though Sarah was more than fair in her book, she hints at how McCain wronged her. After the election, the McCain campaign actually tried to ruin her. It’s all out now.
Screw im. Sarah’s best move here is cold praise, mere courtesy, carefully worded. McCain was 2008’s Bob Dole, a lousy candidate, and an albatross around conservatives’ neck.
And the GOP should NOT take advice from Mother Jones editors! That’s the sort of thing that got us McCain in the first place. Never again!
I like McCain. The problem is, he’s been in Washington for so long now, that he’s lost touch with a lot of the values that got him where he’s at. he’s starting to become more Progressive in his ways of thinking and it’s sad. It would be nice if there were term limits in Congress. That way our representatives will remain in touch with their constituents.
NO.
And, NO.
That's just my opinion. I'm not going to attempt to divine Sarah's motivations for backing McCain in this race, and I'm not going to condemn her for it, either. I respect her far too much to do that.
Having said that, I would prefer that she not sully herself by any further association with him. I would have advised her to support him privately (if she had to), but to stay far away from publicly supporting his Senate race.
The conservative base rightly despises this man, and everything he's done to undermine the conservative agenda in the last decade. Sarah ought to know that most of us voted for her in 2008, not Juan McCain.
Posting crap by leftist scumsucker David Cron now, Pissant?
Pathetic...
- JP
He’s on your side of the argument. What’s the beef?
/Imo
-JA
If she she campaigns for him to live up to a promise, I don’t have a problem with that or with her. It shows that she knows how to keep her word as opposed to the Parasite-In-Chief, who lives to break campaign promises on a daily basis. When my head will explode will be when he tries to put words in her mouth proclaiming what a true Conservative he is and tries to use her to discredit someone else’s Conservative credibility. If she allow him to do this it will be fatal for her future.
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