Posted on 03/23/2010 11:54:48 AM PDT by Palmetto Patriot
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin rolled out a list of Democratic members of Congress she intends to target for defeat this year, announcing that she'll go after lawmakers who voted for health care reform and hail from districts she and Arizona Sen. John McCain won in the 2008 presidential election. Forty-eight Democrats represent districts that voted for McCain.
“With the president signing this unwanted and ‘transformative’ government takeover of our health care system today with promises impossible to keep, let’s not get discouraged,” Palin wrote in a post on her Facebook wall, urging supporters not to “get demoralized.”
“We’re going to hold them accountable for this disastrous Obamacare vote,” she continued.
The Democratic members she listed were: Ann Kirkpatrick (Ariz.), Harry Mitchell (Ariz.), Gabrielle Giffords (Ariz.), John Salazar (Colo.), Betsy Markey (Colo.). Allen Boyd (Fla.), Suzanne M. Kosmas (Fla.), Baron P. Hill (Ind.), Earl Pomeroy (N.D.), Charlie Wilson (Ohio), John Boccieri (Ohio), Kathy Dahlkemper (Pa.), Christopher Carney (Pa.), John M. Spratt, Jr. (S.C.), Tom Perriello (Va.), Alan B. Mollohan (W.Va.), and Nick J. Rahall II (W.Va.).
“We’ll aim for these races and many others,” she wrote. “This is just the first salvo in a fight to elect people across the nation who will bring common sense to Washington.”
Another example why Palin is so dangerous to the Far Left:
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Saul Alinsky
Turning the tables against Obama, the Democrats and the Leftists using their own tactics.
Unlike most of the GOP who is still trying to catch up to the Left in political tactics and strategy, Sarah Palin has consistently been in the game lobbing full frontal assaults against Obama and his radical socialist agenda for the last 9 months and proving she deserves to be viewed as a political genius and of the best tacticians and strategists the GOP has ever had in its ranks.
Yes, he is a poofter.(england)
Sorry, Bub. You got it wrong.
This is a thread about Sarah, and my comments are quite on-topic for it. No hijacking here.
She still campaigns for McCain, so I'm still not happy about it.
TChris you are the Mormon, Mitt Romney romneybot aren’t you?
Yes, I'm Mormon. What does that have to do with anything?
No, I don't support Mitt Romney.
Any more questions?
Fine, but no more donations for Graham. He stands against everything we stand for. He is one of the biggest headaches conservatives have right now.
Any day you want to be marched to jail for assault.
Take your pick.
Who is a better candidate than Sarah Palin?
Well, it was either those two or Huckabee. OTOH, was there really a need to endorse anyone? The answer is, in DC, its the reality of the situation. It sucks. But it is what it is. And that’s why I post that list. There are some fine conservatives on that list- all endorsing a RINO at one time or another. And some already regret it.
This is a very serious, conservative activism topic on this thread about reshaping congress and the woman that can best effect that, yet you feel the need to change the topic to the Arizona Senate race and hijack the thread, why is that?
Do you think that anyone here does not know that Palin endorsed McCain?, Do you think that we are going to get her to retract that endorsement?
Do you still show up to protect Mitt Romney here at freerepublic like the old romneybot that you are, Yes.
What part of loyalty don’t you understand?
You expect her to go out and actively support JD Hayworth?
She is in this position of making a difference thanks to john McCain.
I will vote for Hayworth in the primary but for the R in the general.
We MUST get rid of as many D’s as possible in order to take back the senat and the house and change the leadership in those two houses.
But some here would never forget it, and continue to use it as the stick to beat her with- which gets back to why I posted that list.
If you listen closely to the words Sarah uses about McCain, she talks about his military service, his service to his country as a 'public servant', and his commitment to the WoT (minus Gitmo). That's it. And in terms of an endorsement, that's pretty light (very much in line with the 2008 campaign).
Why? Because Sarah's support of John McCain causes me to question her sincerity. That support doesn't fit the rest of what she says and does.
Yes, it is a very serious topic, and Sarah is in the center of them both. I seriously want to know why she's acting in opposition to her own stated beliefs.
Do you think that anyone here does not know that Palin endorsed McCain?
Silly question. Should we stop discussing every subject that FReepers all know about? ...like the Obamacare bill?
Do you think that we are going to get her to retract that endorsement?
I would love that! She doesn't need him, IMO. That would cast her anti-Washington rhetoric in stone.
Do you still show up to protect Mitt Romney here at freerepublic like the old romneybot that you are, Yes.
Cool! You'll just answer for me, huh? That should save me a lot of time.
(P.S. The only "protecting" I do when it comes to Mitt is to attempt to "protect" some degree of truth and sanity now and then on Mitt threads. He's a RINO, and I don't support him.)
Okay, Palin has endorsed McCain and is going to campaign for him later this week. She then goes on to the Tea Party rally at Searchlight, Nevada to support efforts to take down Harry Reid.
The question I ask, so what? What does that have to do with this most recent Facebook post? Are you trying to imply that Palin is not sincere, that she is a wolf in sheep’s clothing, that she is a charlatan, or that she is a RINO? If you are, please come out and say it and then move on.
You are the like the posters who are trick ponies who cannot move on from the Katie Couric interview, acting as if one sub-par performance forever defines Palin and makes her somehow politically inept or electoral poison.
Look I am a Palinista, and I don’t support McCain and never did. But McCain did bring Palin out of the wilderness and give her a platform in which she has benefitted greatly from. Some people call it loyalty; I call it payback. Six of one, half a dozen of another. Either way, my support for Palin remains undiminished. I know who she is and what she believes. An endorsement of somebody I do not support will not change that.
Having said that if Palin ever came out herself for cap-and-trade or amnesty for illegals, that might change my mind, but nothing McCain does or says will change my mind about Palin. You have to separate the politician and her beliefs from who she endorses and the beliefs of that person she endorses.
I’d go with the flip-flopping technocrat Romney over McCain in a minute, and McCain over Obama in a microsecond.
Honestly, does it really matter whether John McCain is in the Senate or J.D. Hayworth? I don’t think so.
Thanks for this post. Gives folks a positive feeling instead of sitting around talking negatively about things that didn’t go our way.
Remember how the Demoncrats cried forever after the 2000 election? I don’t want to see us doing that.
Let’s move onward and upward toward making some positive changes in DC.
No more negative remarks about people who are trying to lift us up!
Watch for the leftards to get their panties in a wad, complaining that the markers on that map look too much like crosshairs in a rifle scope.
I HOPE for SOMEONE to come along just ONCE who feels a greater LOYALTY to timeless principles of conservatism than they do to fellow politicians!!! THAT is the loyalty I want!
You expect her to go out and actively support JD Hayworth?
If his beliefs and principles more closely match her own, then ABSOLUTELY YES!
She is in this position of making a difference thanks to john McCain.
Yes, and she more than repaid that debt by being his running mate, raising millions of $$ for him and campaigning for him in the general election.
He has done NOTHING positive for her since that time. She owes him NOTHING further at this point, IMO.
I will vote for Hayworth in the primary but for the R in the general.
Agreed. I would do the same, were I a resident of Arizona.
We MUST get rid of as many D’s as possible in order to take back the senat and the house and change the leadership in those two houses.
Absolutely.
Lets just take back congress in 2010 and worry about Sarah for President in 2011...she may not even run..as for McCain send money to J.D. and if he wins the primary McCain is gone..McCain would have lost but 20 points without Sarah!!We have to primary out the rinos...
Did you ignore my question on purpose?
Who do you think is a better presidential candidate than Sarah Palin? I’m just curious.
I think that it’s great that her plan is to name and shame. Here is why:
1. Once you define your goal, when you achieve it, you get bragging rights.
2. It shows what many of us have long known about her - she’s an empiricist with instincts, a strategist. There’s no Ivy league education that can compare with that.
3. She’s quick and linear.
If she only manages to oust half those on her list, she already comes out ahead. These are the times that try men’s souls. She understands that the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Starting with a list seems, to me, an optimal way to go.
Quit trying to hijack every Palin thread you Bob J troll.
"To: Bob J
I love Palin’s conservatism and patriotism! She may very well support McCain out of loyalty and I have no problem with that. And I have no problem with whom she supports with her PAC. There is nothing written that says she has to do everything (or anything at all) according to JIM.
Sarah is unabashedly pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Liberty, pro-family, pro-America, pro-constitution, pro-gun, pro-limited government and so am I. And she’s wildly popular among the God-loving, Liberty-loving folks with whom I choose to associate. In short, she’s a refreshing breath of clean fresh air in an otherwise putrid failure of a RINO infested party.
She represents my interests better than any other viable wannabe at this point and if she decides to run, she will have my undivided support!!
Romney, the draft-dodging, Big Government, lying statist political whore can KMA!!
And your picture does say a 1,000 words, but Bob, unfortunately they’re all about YOU and political whores like you and the results and likely outcome of your slavish, cultish RINOism!!
So you can shove your picture and your RINOs where the sun don’t shine.
Sarah has more guts, talent, ability, patriotism, and sheer determination and love for America and our God-given Liberty than you and Romney and a thousand other RINOS will ever have!
It’s been more than obvious for several years that our pro-Life & Liberty Free Republic has become an embarrassment for you, so why the hell don’t you just take a fricken hike already!!
Shove it, pal.
GET THE HELL OFF FR if you don’t like it, but whatever you do quit your damn whining and pestering good conservative FReepers about your hatred for Sarah Palin!! It’s beyond sickening.
394 posted on Saturday, January 09, 2010 12:05:07 PM by Jim Robinson
Did you read what I wrote?
It causes me to question her sincerity.
It causes me to question how serious she is about being against "business as usual" in Washington.
No, I'm not throwing her out, but this support makes me seriously and honestly ask "WHY!?"
Her support of McCain weakens, but does not eliminate, my support and enthusiasm for Sarah Palin.
Seriously?
Ever hear of "McCain-Feingold"?
Elections have consequences. They often have serious consequences.
So glad we agree on so many points.
Sooooooooo, let’s look forward and defeat as many Demoncrats as possible.
John McCain will either adjust to our requirements or he will fade away into a nice retirement.
I have been calling and emailing him for over 10 years over one thing or another.
It is time for him to retire but not to be replaced by a demoncrat who will have a vote for majority leader. IMHO, that is what is the most important now.
Does anyone know what in the hell Michael Steele is doing right now??????
I think most of us here have posed the same questions to TChris. At this time, I think it’s just something that he needs to talk about. If it were about a personal struggle with conscience, he would be doing it privately. That he needs to engage us all in his philosophical dilemma is proof that he just needs something that I cannot identify.
It is likely that he has a spine of steel and a rhetorical gift and personal charm that would enable him to navigate the minefield that Palin is in (vis-a-vis her former candidacy w/McCain) with more skill and deflect all criticism that she was for him just because she wanted to get to the WH. Good for him. We’ll score TChris higher than Palin then and support his candidacy for anything at any time.
Dear Sarah:
Please add to your mid-term hit list Senor John McPain for his past support for McCain-Feingold and open-borders amnesty.
Let’s have a comprehensive clean-up while we’re about this task.
Plus, she’s *never* where he is. I suspect she’ll do 1-2 appearances and call it a day.
Who do you think is a better presidential candidate than Sarah Palin? I’m just curious.
No, I didn't ignore it. I missed it amongst the rest of the pings. (I'm getting a few, as you have probably noticed.) :-)
No, I don't think there is a better candidate than Sarah at this point.
The Left (including the MSM) absolutely despises her, which both endears her to conservatives and suggests that she will be difficult to elect.
As I have written above, her support for McCain causes me to question her and it dampens, but does not eliminate, my enthusiasm for her.
She went up against the good ol' boys' club of her own party in AK to great effect. Loyalty did not stop her. I'm not sure why she seems to be doing the opposite now.
I’m with you on this one. John McCain chose Sarah Palin for only one reason, to help John McCain, which she most certainly did. But if she helps McCain beat Hayworth, she has lost any interest I may have had in her. She owes McCain exactly bupkis. Oh, and Lindsay Graham makes my skinn crawl.
And Sarah, how about also adding Ron Kind from Wisconsin's 3rd district to your list? Kind was actually quoted in our local paper, "that this isn't a government takeover plot...we're not even talking about a single payer system...we're not even talking about a public option."
How can Ron Kind be so ill informed? How did he miss Dennis Kucinich's ride with the president on Air Force One?
..Ron Kind has been our representative for 12 years....it's time for him to go. We can elect Dan Kapanke to represent us in the US Congress.
Don’t blame Michael Steele for the passage of Obamacare. I was a critic of Steele when he criticized Rush Limbaugh on Feb. 28/2009 after his CPAC speech but to be fair Steele was not the RNC chairman when Obama and his fellow House and Senate Dems were elected in 2008-Mike Duncan was.
If there is one man who should get more of the blame for the losses in 2006 and 2008 it is Mr. Duncan. He is very fortunate that most people on our side don’t even know who the hell he is because he kept such a low profile but Mr. Duncan you are a POS for not defending Sarah Palin over the $150,000 wardrobe controversy by issuing a press release that the RNC paid for the clothes and Palin had no say except in providing her measurements to the actual decision to provide the clothes for Palin and her family.
Again it is not Steele’s fault that our side did not have the votes to stop Obamacare. Please stop being disingenuous and implying he could have single-handed changed the result.
And by the way why have you not brought up the 3 GOP victories in Virginia, NJ, and Massachusetts? That happened under Steele’s tenure as well.
The thing you must remember is ANY candidate that wins the Republican Primary will be vilified by the left. Why not go one that has a proven ability to withstand the onslaught? A few years ago I thought George Allen would be a good candidate. One word took him out of contention.
The left hated RR too. We didn’t let that stop us from electing him. He had a personal carisma and charm that made people like him and trust his judgement.
Sound familiar?
I'm asking on FR, because this is where I will find an answer, if there is one to be found.
Loyalty?
As I have posted above, she has already done everything he asked of her during his presidential campaign. She gave that campaign far more than he did! She brought in huge, cheering crowds, raised money by the truckload and elevated what was destined to be another anemic and boring campaign into rock-star territory.
DEBT PAID IN FULL.
He is no friend to her, that much is clear. The is no real camaraderie evident between them. His daughter continues to trash her, just as his people have since the campaign.
Their policy positions are frequently in diametric opposition to one another.
What does she hope to gain by this support?
I still support her despite all this.
I hope it's the end of what I see as misplaced loyalties.
The 3 victories happened DESPITE Steele’s being head of the GOP.
He supported Browns PRIMARY opponent, and he only gave him funding after it was obvious he was going to win.
I said nothing about Steele’s involvement in the last presidential election - so where do you get off saying I am being “disingenuous”
All I said was WHERE IS HE NOW???!!!
Why is he not doing what Palin is doing?
The reality is that you are one of the most dedicated romneybots on freerepublic, like many of them you have muted, not ended, but muted your support for him to avoid banishment. That would explain your stealth campaign against Palin, why you would have wanted to hijack this important thread to say nothing of importance, is beyond me.
If anyone looks at your recent posting history they will find you still offering constant pro Romney work here at FR.
If they go back farther they will see the more open, rabid Romney devotion that you guys give him.
Maybe because I don't care what he thinks at this point.
I care about what Sarah thinks, says and does because I want her to WIN when she runs. I think this support is harmful to that future.
He's endorsed McCain and is campaigning for him.
Yeah, no surprise there. Sarah's support IS a surprise.
You tell more about yourself about what you don't say (and post) then everything else.
Interpretation: I can infer anything I like about what you've written, or not.
Sure, make up whatever you want. Knock yourself out.
I voted for/endorsed Romney in the primary here in OK.....( An anti-McCain vote...as the outcome was known..)
And I voted for/endorsed McCain in the POTUS election...As he was a much better choice than Obama...( Although it doesn't take much to do that...)
So I guess I'm in great company....Levin, Ryan, Cheney, Coulter, Thune, etc..
“Ever hear of “McCain-Feingold”?”
Yes, that was signed into law by George W. Bush, I believe.
I want Sarah to win. I REALLY want her to win.
The McCain stuff does damage to that future, and that's why I care. It seems to give ammo to the opposition, when it will be difficult enough to win as it is.
I would suggest that she not give to the likes of McCain, Graham, Hatch, Grassley.....I don’t like it, but I understand it.
....k. ...and?
(Reminder: You were posting about why it doesn't matter whether McCain or Hayworth is in the Senate.)
thinking up the next “Send us yo money” TV ad.
Dang, I didn’t see that originally. He gave him both barrels, didn’t he. LOL
No kidding.
That was a keeper, for sure!!
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