Posted on 08/30/2018 4:46:22 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
I am outraged.
Sarah was always loyal to him. Showed up repeatedly to campaign for him, and would not say a negative word about him in the press no matter what outrageous thing he was doing nor how badly the rest of us were dumping on him.
He was obviously a man too arrogant and deluded to know who his real friends were.
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What a revolting family.
She didn’t go rogue, she was known to be a conservative- I am sure he chose her to throw a bone to conservatives voters that he knew were pretty cool to his Maverick actions of cozying up to the dims.
The issue was he underestimated Palin and her appeal, he also underestimated how many conservative voters there were. He meant to have her as a token to conservatives, but she took off like a rock star- she was just being herself she was not trying to upstage him. She was doing her best to get him elected.
He hired her under false pretenses and then threw her under the bus as fast as he could. The thing is, she was just a representative of conservatives- it was really we the people he threw under the bus. He had a nasty habit of doing that.
His campaign shtick every time he ran for office was to run as a conservative through and through, then when elected he scooted over to the dim side. He intended to do the same with his run for President; run as a conservative when he sure didn’t mean it. The thing is Palin did mean it.
Ignorance should be painful, willful ignorance more so.
McCain would have lost the Presidential election in the biggest landslide in history. Conservatives were already onto his RINO ways and showing no enthusiasm to vote for him. He picked Palin so conservatives would have a reason to vote for him.
I think she was brought in to get conservative votes so he did not lose in the biggest landslide in history. I do think there was a deal for him to lose, but his ego did not want it to be a huge loss.
She walked point for the "war hero."
She started believing her own headlines and broke from McCain on some topics.
I know McCain has been disparaging of Palin in the past (saying he regretted choosing her as his VP nominee, for example), but has Sarah Palin said anything disparaging of McCain? I really don’t think so, but I could be forgetting something.
I would like to, once again, apologize for ever having voted for McCain.
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Thanks: good stuff! I particularly remember Gore bellowing “he BETRAYED this country!”
It's a classic trait of leftism which is in fact a mental illness.
Sarah didn't start this push back against the mentally ill left; she simply empowered it and gave it a voice. It was already happening en mass but the left was too stupid and dense to understand it. Still is.
Trump is clearly the main enemy of the left right now. McCain and his funeral gang are going to go after him with or without nuance. I think Sarah Palin might have been part of his funeral at one time but her endorsement of Trump was the unforgivable sin from the perspective of McCain and his fellow leftists.
That Palin started the divisive extreme vitriol is a lie invented by the Dims and their media.
Actually, the era of extreme vitriol began in 2000 when the Clinton dynasty failed to elect their designated prince, Al Gore, who was suppose to reign for eight years before handing the thrown back to Hillary. The virtual state media of the Progressives never forgave the GOP for cutting off their marriage to the actual state, and they spurred the vitriol on from the Dims against the GOP.
The “obstruction” Obama recieved was the Karma-return of the obstruction the Dims gave to GWBush.
How are we "learning" this? The sources so far say "reports" have said this but I haven't heard this confirmed or commented on by Sarah. Has anyone asked HER if this is true?
Simply not true. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/09/presidential.polls/
His apologists, both abroad, and even those here on FR, are to be esteemed equally low.
"Vitriol" was the CNN commentator Jeff Zeleny's word, not something that came from McCain or his camp.
Zeleny doesn't know what he is talking about.
I don't remember anything "vitriolic" that Palin said.
She seems to have been much more attacked than attacking throughout her political career.
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But this whole "not invited" thing is hard to figure out.
Was Palin explicitly asked to stay away?
Did only people who got an invite from the McCain's attend the service?
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I also notice that McCain's top advisers in the 2008 campaign -- campaign manager Steve Schmidt, senior adviser Nicolle Wallace, and longtime strategist John Weaver -- weren't "invited" to the funeral.
That puts the Palin matter in a very different light.
McCain -- or somebody in his faction -- may have been trying to put the whole 2008 presidential campaign far behind him.
It may not have had much to do with Palin herself or anything about her personally or politically.
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