The Hill runs a report crediting Sarah Palin for her many Republican primary victories. Before conservatives take too much pleasure in such news, read how she is credited with helping sweep John McCain to victory. Palin traveled to Arizona and made numerous campaign appearances with McCain, bringing him the Tea Party creds he so desperately needed to undercut the fact that he is a nearly three-decades-long, left-leaning Washington insider.
That Palin chose to conveniently back McCain over conservative former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth is a truth that should not soon be forgotten. Her help, McCain’s falsely running to the right, taking positions adverse to his established ones and $21 million dollars in attack ads did the trick.
Sarah Palin is all about expediency. She is no conservative.
I wouldn’t vote for Sarah Palin for dog-catcher. She is a self promoter extraordinaire. McCain, his family and his staffers trashed her during and after the 2008 campaign. But he represents power to her and that is all that matters. She is so disconnected from her family that daughter Bristol didn’t even tell her she and her punk boyfriend Levi were getting married — before they called it off. Sarah Palin heard about it on the news. She ought to go home and care for her young children and visit her husband occasionally..
As a conservative Republican, I really hope Palin doesn’t decide to run for President.
Democrats are licking their chops at the idea of going after her. Obama will get an easy second term if he goes up against Palin.
I don’t for a minute doubt that she is a true conservative, but she’s absolutely unelectable.
Well apparently she felt she “owed” her “patron.”
Rephrased, she’s not above patronage, which means TA DA, SHE AINT A PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVE.
No kidding! Palin is a sell out. She bypassed the true conservative to support the “Maverick” who has bucked the principles of the Republican Party at every turn.
If the Republicans run Palin they deserve to lose the White House. Her support of McStain nailed it for me. BHO is vulnerable and likely to get more so. The GOP cannot afford to keep running old men who have “paid their dues” and get their turn at running for President.
The next candidate needs a killer instinct rather than the hands off approach taken by McStain. We are past the Dems being able to use race. BHO is incompetent and just happens to be black. The next GOP candidate had better be super vetted and come out ready to rumble because he will be going up against really dirty tactics. What they did to Palin shows that.
Sherri-As always, RIGHT ON POINT! But…we’d best be finding a legitimate candidate or th’ 1 term, muslim squatter’ll be extending his stay. So far, all I see is R.I.N.O.’s
Sarah Palin was a sellout the moment she agreed to run for Vice President with John McCain. The only reason she has any perceived credibility is because of how easily most people are deceived…
John McCain’s victory this week is more evidence that the United States, the State of Arizona, and many who voted in the Republican primary (I dislike the open primaries, btw, and find it hard to believe so many Republicans really voted for him) is content to stick to a path of self-destruction.
If you haven’t yet seen this article which itemizes many of John McCain’s failures to uphold his oath of office, I think many readers here might appreciate this: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=2127
Sadly conservatives are their own worst enemies, ready to throw anyone under the bus when they don’t do what they want.
Palin supports one candidate you don’t like, well CLEARLY she’s not conservative. Even if the Democrats say she’s a cross between Hitler and Satan. Even if her positions are truly pro-life and truly conservative, one single candidate you don’t like and that’s it.
That kind of thing is exactly why the Democrats win, divide and conquer. In fact, that’s their hope for November. Good to play into their hands.
Palin is exactly what they hate, a REAL woman, unabashedly pro-life, strong, and able to actually think outside of the NOW position. She has my respect greatly.
most of us understand that Mrs. Palin did owe McCain
for bringing her into the limelight by choosing her
to be his vice pres. As we say, we understand that
and assume that most conservatives also undeerstand
that.
If you are honest with yourselves you too will know
that Mrs. Palin is conservative through and through.
She has held up her end of Republicanism and the only
ones to claim she was a negative force are the Liberal
Force in America. Give the woman the credit she does
deserve.
As for the Tea Parties – we are for her choices and
know that she is someone to be a contender
Selling out is not conservative, Tess. Sarah Palin is all about one thing, Sarah Palin. Give me a break!!
Paying back a debt to McCain who plucked her from obscurity and propelled her to the national stage is NOT selling out.
Sarah Palin is far more conservative than McCain. She is the real deal. Why would the Rats and the drive by media expend this much time and energy on discrediting her unless they were scared shitless of her. She is able to connect with people on a level BHO only wishes he could.
That’s because BHO really doesn’t like this country or it’s people but he can talk a good line. Sarah Palin has a true love of country and the people and can bring us back from the brink of socialism run amok.
Those of us that believe Sarah is a sellout or unelectable have bought into the Dem and MSM propaganda. I urge you to re-examine your beliefs about Sarah Palin.
Palin for President in 2012
I can see a recall movement from my house!
I hate McCain as much as anyone – and with much more reason than nearly all. McCain won because of many factors, one of the least being Palin.
1. An open primary that we should not have if the Party leadership would do its job and file the suit, as promised, to close the primary as the Libertarians did – and won.
2. Twenty one million dollars – much of it from his Presidential campaign leftover funds.
3. The endorsement of “conservative” ARIZONANS, not Alaskans, like Trent Franks, John Shadegg, Jeff Flake, Jan Brewer, Bob Stump, Kirk Adams, Sheriff Babeu, Sheriff Dever, AZ Right to Life, and the list goes on.
4. Twenty one million dollars – much of it from his Presidential campaign leftover funds.
5, JD’s campaign that started too late and responded too slowly to the ebb and flow.
If you look at Palin’s work across the country, it is for candidates that nearly everyone would agree are 95% strong conservatives. While I hate the McCain endorsement, it is the anomaly to her track record.
All of us need at least one “mulligan” for making a wrong choice. If we are to win the war, we must look forward with passion AND wisdom.
#1 on your list – HEAR HEAR!!!
No vote for Palin here
Although promoting herself as a hokey, small town, moose shooting gal with a commercial fisherman husband, Sarah Palin and her family live a much different lifestyle compared to their 7,000 neighbors in Wasilla. Their 2008 combined income of nearly a quarter-million dollars was five times the median household income for Wasilla’s residents. At the time they owned a single-engine plane, two boats, two personal watercraft and a half-million-dollar, custom-built home on a lake that is worth many times the average of other homes in town. This drop-out governor is no amateur. She knows exactly what she is doing and revels in the limelight. McCain is part of that limelight.
Since resigning as Alaska governor, she has made more than $12 million, received a a $1.25 million advance for her memoir Going Rogue: An American Life, and demands and routinely receives $100,000 as a speaking fee. The Palin’s also received $1 million for each episode of their reality television show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska.
I’m a capitalist and don’t begrudge them whatever they can rake in, but let’s keep Sarah in perspective. She ain’t one of us, and Mccain was no “mulligan.”
A few observations:
For Maggie:The odds are not in your favor that Palin will be running for dogcatcher and if she did, she wouldn’t need your vote to win.
To Holly: You might profit by reading “Henry V”. The french, the night before the battle of Agincourt were gloating in their tents having outnumbered the English 5-1.
To Sherriaz: See “For Maggie”.
To Eileen H and Jarnor 23: Toy BOTH might profit from cracking open a book on American history and looking at the parallels between 1854 and 2010. The dems placed James Buchanon in office–considered to be the perfect guy to bring accord between the pro-slavery and anti-slavery movements. The result: his intervention only made matters worse and the dems went down big time, Lincoln was catapulted into office, and the stranglehold democrats had on government was broken. Buchanon’s self-inflicted mortal wound was his inability to read and heed the feelings of the majority ofAmericans concerning the Kansas-Nebraska act; Obama has Obamacare and his death-by-papercut ignorance about economics.
And BLACKBEARD: Who is one of you Blackbeard? A Harvard-educated lawyer who uses Air Force 1 to fly a short distance that could have been flown in Marine 1 just as quickly?
Mitt Romney with his mega fortune?
I should rephrase the question? What makes you think you speak for “us”. I know already I’m not like you–or one of you–whatever that connotes.
Are you hispanic? Latino? Asian? Native American? Eskimo? Catholic? A Druid?
Before you presume to speak for “us”, how about shedding some light on who (pardon the awkward wording) “us” is.
I’m reminded of the old saw, “70% of something is better than 100% of nothing.”
Can someone, anyone, come up with the name of another candidate who represents truly conservative policy positions, stands a snowball’s chance of getting the nod, and can raise the money needed to compete?
Anyone?
And please don’t hand me the whole, “But the media hates her!” line. That should be reason #1 for your vote.
ref John Q: yes – this is true “perspective”, and conservative types would do well to take note
also, no doubt jdh would probably be a “reliable conservative” (ok, a very low bar set by jm), but he was too self-evidently flawed… conservatives have the ideology and the principles, why no matching candidates in serious matters such as the AZ repub primary?
ref Blackbeard – “I’m a capitalist and don’t begrudge them whatever they can rake in…” – lie
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