No, and no.
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
/Imo
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.
I like Duncan Hunter. He’s a good man. But he doesn’t have the slightest change of being a presidential contender. He was in the running last time around, and never got about a few percent.
As for this conundrum, I think we all agree that Sarah has to show gratitude. She will not be campaigning hard for McCain, because she has a lot of other jobs to do as the campaign season heats up—like campaigning for conservative candidates all over the country.
She doesn’t need to badmouth the other candidate. She doesn’t even need to say that she is urging people to vote for McCain in the primary. All she has to say is that she thinks McCain is a good man and a patriot who wants to serve his country.
I probably think as little of McCain as anyone around here. But I don’t see how she can do any less. And then the voters of Arizona, who certainly must know McCain pretty well by this time, can do as they see fit. I hope they throw him out in the primary.
No
I wonder if she won’t find some politically acceptable way to get out of having to appear with him. She’s pretty astute when it comes to these things. I’m content to wait and see how she handles it.
Seems to me the only ones who advocate tossing her overboard now, because she agreed to it, are those who didn’t really support her to begin with, and would have seized on just about any excuse to slam her.
That said, people here are way overestimating J.D.'s chances. J.D. lost his House seat and he's taking on a well entrenched, relatively popular incumbent. That's an uphill fight.
Palin returned the favor Mack did her by making her his Veep. I give her points for style and grace by doing this. But I still wouldn't vote for Mack even if I could.
I sure as HECK hope not.
Since she’s already committed to helping him, she should consider staying true to her ideals. And, if she is compatible with his agenda and beliefs, then, she is also not suitable to be president. I like her a lot, and hope she can balance her belief system, and still do him a service. Even so, if he loses, it won’t bare well for her. For me, it’s more important to get him out of the Senate, than her into the White House, as much as I would love to back her.
I just don’t know how I could ever thank you, “Dave Corn.”
Your article is so indescribably brilliant, I’m on the verge of fainting. I now know that as a conservative I have to completely abandon all support for Sarah Palin.
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My two cents: Mccain is not in trouble and will win pretty handily. He has a independant image earned or not and that’s what people like right now.