Endorsement of McCain alienates Palin supporters
Sen. John McCain, the man who brought Sarah Palin to national prominence, is being challenged for re-election in the GOP primary by former U.S. Rep. J.D. Hayworth. Palin recently announced that she plans to travel to Arizona to campaign on McCain’s behalf, but posters on her Facebook page are not at all happy with their Sarah:
“Sarah, it was fun, but now you are done.”
“Sarah, your support of McCain shows bad judgment and brings into question the validity of your words. You can forget any political ambition if you support Amnesty – which John McCain does. Conservatives don’t forget.”
“You do know Senator McCain is a PROGRESSIVE? It is very disappointing that you are campaigning for him instead of J.D. Hayworth. McCain needs to go!”
“Sorry to hear that you are supporting McCain. Up to now, I thought you were part of the solution, but you’ve shown yourself to be part of the problem.”
“McCain!? Are you kidding me? Time to pick a side, Sarah– Are you with the people, or against them?”
“I agree with those who advise you not to campaign for Senator McCain. He really doesn’t represent the views of grassroot conservatives. He represents those in the GOP who have too often been willing to compromise on principle, or even worse, have failed to really understand basic conservative principles.”
“McCain used Palin like a cheap tool to keep from getting beat worse than Reagan did to Mondale. His staff mocked her and showed no respect. Now McCain is using her again like a cheap tool and this time she is willingly doing it under the guise of loyalty. As long as McCain is the face of the GOP, conservatives are irrelevant. Palin is playing politics and this goes against what she “supposedly” represents. She helps elect McCain, she’s done.”
“I respect your loyalty to McCain, Sarah, but he really is using you. You need to do what you are obligated to do for him, and then run as far away from him as possible. He’s widely despised in the Conservative movement, and you’ll be hurting yourself badly with your support base if you do more than offer your token support or speak on his behalf.”
“McCain is not a commonsense candidate. If you support him your future as a conservative candidate is over.”
“Another day ~ another appeal to our girl from Wasilla: PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE do not follow through with your plan to campaign for John McCain. In the insightful words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman: “Big mistake. Big. Huge.” To do so will destroy your credibility, have your enemies carping: “I told you so,” and leave your fans devastated.”
That’s just a small sampling of some 2,500 comments, and I have to admit to being surprised by the vehemence and near-unanimity of that sentiment. It makes me think that McCain might eventually have real trouble in the Arizona primary.
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Byron Mathison Kerr
January 27th, 2010
9:18 am
Sarah Palin’s future looks a lot more like Entertainment Tonight than Meet the Press. She brought “baby daddy” culture, “drill, baby, drill,” and a comical surly tone to John McCain’s presidential campaign. She was a detriment then; she is probably a detriment now. It may be a self-interest attempt to gain much needed relevance. But if it is loyalty, that would be commendable.
The Snook
January 27th, 2010
9:59 am
Sara, I thought your dropping out of the Governership was shrewd. Now you are endorsing McCain???? Didn’t you get the message that WE THE PEOPLE didn’t want him? We chose Obama over McCain and you are ENDORSING HIM???? Hasta la vista, Baby! The guy is a mini Obama!!!
No Mccain 2010
January 27th, 2010
10:02 am
Mccain is a progressive/liberal.. he just voted for the hates crime bill…The Senate gave final approval to this bill authorizing defense spending, which also contains a provision that extends the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes in which victims are targeted because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Sen. John McCain voted YES……
Sen. Jon Kyl voted NO……
Special Protection and Advantages: The liberal will single out specific races of human beings or people of a specific sex interest as worthy of special legal protection and/or advancement in a place of employment. Mccain says ACORN/SEIU is what makes America special. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ9wy2MI1NI&feature=related
http://nomccain2010.bravehost.com/index.html
Republacano1111
January 27th, 2010
10:13 am
This just goes to show that Sarah is all about the Dead Presidents – Not the principles of the Founding Fathers, but their pictures on the greenbacks. She’s only in it for the Money! Using the hopes & dreams of the people to enlarge her bank account. I have lost all respect for her.
kenn
January 27th, 2010
10:24 am
McCain is now a LOCAL politician with solutions to LOCAL problems. If you’re not from Arizona…GO HOME!
thistle
January 27th, 2010
10:51 am
Sarah: You are making a huge mistake by aligning yourself with John (open borders & amnesty) McCain! I hoped you would be the answer to our conservative movement, but evidently you are just another politician!
Larry Brown
January 27th, 2010
11:20 am
When Sarah Palin goes to Arizona to campaign for Senator John McCain’s re-election to the Senate, will she support his signature issue of giving legal status or AMNESTY to 12-20 million illegal aliens?
Jo Lowe
January 27th, 2010
12:24 pm
I was for you before you decided to help John McCAIN. He is no conservative and guess we will find out if you are or not.
NJ
January 27th, 2010
12:45 pm
No conservative is a conservative once they are elected. For all of their talk about balanced budgets and small government, the rise of BIG GOVERNMENT and DEFICITS is largely Republican owned from the day the party was created.
The First Republican President, Lincoln, expanded the role of government in ways in which the United States Government did not resemble what it was before. Republican presided over the influence of huge corporations over government. The only president in history to both balance the budget and eliminate the national debt was a Democrat. Andrew Jackson. In the 20th Century, the only Presidents to put a DENT in the national debt and deficit spending relative to GDP were Democrats and those who increased the debt and deficit spending were Republicans.
Even the recovery touted as a Reagan phenomenon had nothing to do with Reagan but rather the appointment of Paul Volcker to the Fed. Volcker started an artificial recession, the largest since the Great Depression starting in 1980, which lasted 2 years and brought unemployment up to ten percent, which brought inflation down, at the cost of millions of jobs. This so infuriated Reagan that he wanted to end the Fed’s existence as an independent body and make it a government controlled agency.
Volckers actions were in total opposition to Reagan’s “Supply Side” theory and relied completely on Classical Keynesian theory. Volcker called it “monitarism” for PR reasons, and most economists today concur that Volcker’s rejection of what is now called “Reaganomics” is what saved the economy in the 1980’s. Carter’s appointee to the Fed repaired the economy in the wake of two oil embargoes.
Jimi
January 27th, 2010
1:10 pm
If she’s what the Reps think will win, they are doomed to lose again.
That party needs new blood, not re-hash. She’s not ready for Prime Time.
MN
January 27th, 2010
3:14 pm
Its time to get back to real government. It shouldn’t matter who the president is anymore. The Executive Branch has exceeded its powers long ago with undeclared wars and executive orders, and its henchmen the EPA,DOE,DOD,DOA, etc proclaim regulations enforced as “laws”. The Judiciary thinks its actually the Legislative Branch. The Senate needs to be elected by the State Legislatures again. And the House does not have the control of funding to enrich their cronies and lobbyists. Congress should not look at their positions as life time employment. No more redrawing congressional districts. Run the crooks out of Washington. With the decline of the Imperial presidency and the rest of the hooligans in Washington voted out America will become a democratic republic again. Dont get caught up in Presidential politics…that is how they divide us. Concentrate on your local elections first, then state, and change the laws there. At the same time replace your congressman and senators with patriotic Americans. That will be real American Change! Now stop talking about it and start doing!
VivaLaMigra
January 27th, 2010
9:40 pm
Palin’s parading around the country pretending to be a conservative, but support for Juan McAmnesty indicates she’s just another RINO looking to fleece the gullible. Watch out, Sarah, or you’ll be parroting McAmnesty’s characterization of illegal aliens as “God’s children.” Here’s a clue for you and the soon-to-be-ex senator: They’re first and foremost MEXICO’s children…God is a very distant ancestor! I could call myself a child of God, too, but I’m not counting on either Him or the US taxpayer to support me or a brood of my kids! I fight poverty…I WORK! And, unlike illegal aliens, I do it LEGALLY!
Leonard Remple, Abbotsford,BC.Canada
January 27th, 2010
11:00 pm
All the Christians in this town were rooting for you until you said you would work for McCain. Our church alone has a weekly atttendance of 3,200. We were praying for you. When it was learned that Mrs. McCain and her daughter Megan are fighting (in California) against the ban on gay marriage, all prayers for you ceased. Mr. McCain is obviously of the same persuasion as his wife, but he really does not have a FIRM STAND for anything. You are working against your best interests if you campaign for McCain. Supporters will dessert you. We read your book and it showed you are a conservative. If you assist McCain, you will be labeled a SOFT MODERATE. You relate better to the Tea Party conservatives. PLEASE STOP TRYING TO SUPPOSRT McCAIN. IT WILL RUIN ALL YOUR POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS AND YOU WILL BE LABELEED AS BEING NEITHER HOT NOR COLD. We need our US neighbor to have leadership with honesty and integrity, which you have. Don’t waste it.
Leonard Remple, 3940 Verdon Way, Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Monroe Allen Sherrow
January 28th, 2010
11:43 am
McCain won’t make it through the primary. He has no support…nobody likes him. He is half wimp half weasel. He’ll say anything and sell out ….He threw Sarah under the bus and sabotaged his own campain for president….. He was really afraid she would win the election. She was only hired to increase the republican vote. I voted for Sarah Palin not John McCain…. John cut it for me when he refused to call Obama a muslim stooge, born in Kenya, and wouldn’t allow his middle name, Hussein, to be used. He is a wuss and not commander-in-cheif material in a religeous war against muslim murderers…He would grant sanctuary to the enemy and be no different than Obama… Aid and comfort to the enemy is our foriegn policy and it is also the definition of TREASON….
……. for God and Country, Monroe Allen Sherrow.
Chris87654
January 28th, 2010
1:53 pm
As said before, ANY deviation from extreme right will alienate the Rovian base – eventually they’ll stay home on election day banging their highchairs and tossing cookies. It’s become a small and loud group of voters, and is insignificant to election outcome. “Normal” Republicans will (and need to) let this sector grow if they wish to win any elections – but FIRST they’ll need to provide a viable candidate, which Palin is not (she’s just a rabble rousing cheerleader to the far right [no offense to cheerleaders...]).
Chris87654
January 28th, 2010
1:56 pm
error – Republicans will need to let the Rovian Base “GO” (the Base will not “GROW”) if they wish to win elections – soon they’ll realize moderate voters far outnumber the extreme right. Rovians will eventually form their own party of dedicated followers (like Ralph Nader and Ross Perot) – they won’t matter enough to influence an election outcome.
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Monroe Allen Sherrow
January 28th, 2010
4:01 pm
Birther…….Birther ? I thought you said Bircher.. Everything they said 40 years ago has come true. God Bless the John Birch Society…they were certainly Right. I’m a jew, a Vietnam veteran and a chapter leader (HORP). I am a past commander of Jewish War Veterans, Post 45 Hartford,Ct…..If you are a christian and want to know what it feels like to be a jew, then join the John Birch Society and feel the scorn of hell….You don’t get invited to many Bar Mitzvahs, but you’ll save a fortune on gifts…….You’ll find out who really loves you and who will hide you from the nazis, commies or cops… You’ll talk to God a lot…..He’ll often be your only friend, but he will save you and yours …I’m going to be 65 on February 11, which is Sarah Palin’s birthday. What a coincidence… 1948 BCE was the year Abraham was born.and 1948AD was the year Israel was born ….Tell me God isn’t right on time…. He gave me Sarah Palin for a birthday present …My wife says I can stop preaching because “they’re all singing your song now ……. so give it a rest”.. It is so nice to hear someone else say what I’ve been saying for 40 years……on Fox no less.
A kosher kaboom, from Moishe Pippik
PS My number two girl is a Sarah and she littigates in Boston….number one Is Queen Esther and she lives in Paris with her husband, and my three grandchildren. I also have a son, Samuel, my baby…Who invests my money wisely and bought silver 30 years ago …in anticipation of a currency collapse………. and it is collapsing…….time to switch over to sheckles…..
Betty
January 29th, 2010
6:13 am
Arizona is a conservative state and John Mccain is not a conservative unless of course he’s running for office. .. J.D will have no problem beating Mccain.as he is a REAL conservative . As for Palin she is done as far as I’m concerned ..
Joe
January 29th, 2010
4:17 pm
Actually it shows that Sarah Palin (even after McCain said he would not endorse her for 2012) is very dedicated to those that helped her to prominence. It shows that Sarah just does not throw people to the curb because it politically in her favor. Sarah Palin is the real deal, and I would be disappointed in her if she chose JD Hayworth over her ex running mate. It would almost be like cheating on your husband. Saying that, Hayworth is by far the better candidate and Sarah needs to come out and explain that she thinks Hayworth would make an excellent Senator and is much closer to her own politics, but that she is working for McCain because of her personal connection to him.
voltaic
January 31st, 2010
9:00 am
That’s why it’s worth reviewing this interview with Larry King to determine if Palin is serious about a presidential run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abZqN7XzOfk
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February 8th, 2010
8:15 am
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Al - FL
February 9th, 2010
8:14 pm
SARAH…..There is time to back out of your support of McCain for Senate. We thought we had a special friend, tea party advocate in you. You are in the drivers seat for 2012.
Don’t blow it by supporting McCain.
johnwk
February 11th, 2010
4:21 pm
I continually hear about the gratitude and respect Sarah owes to McCain. But the truth is, McCain is a traitor to his oath of office and we have his voting record establishing he is a progressive sympathizing RINO…a domestic enemy of our written Constitution and has repeatedly used his vote in the Senate to help progressives subvert our constitutionally limited system of government.
When will you people learn your freaken lesson how progressives work? They always say what you want to hear. I’ll bet McCain has sweet talked Sarah into believing he has finally seen his mistake in reaching across the isle and Sarah has bought it, hook line and sinker, and is why she is supporting this turncoat RINO who belongs at the end of a rope!
As to Sarah Palin, she doesn’t owe McLiar squat! Let me repeat that , Sarah Palin, she doesn’t owe the GOP’s King of progressives squat! She needs to make certain he is removed from an office of public trust he has used to help progressives overthrow our constitutionally limited “Republican Form of Government.”
Sara Palin needs to hold a press conference and make a public statement that after reviewing McCain’s voting record she now realizes she made a very poor judgment call and will withdraw her support for McCain’s reelection. And then go on to say its time to clean house of every progressive sympathizing RINO on the Hill a bring the Republican Party back to its constitutional roots! Too support an enemy of our Constitution, which McCain has proven he is, Sarah becomes the enemy herself. It’s really not that difficult to understand when one uses an obedience to our Constitution as their yardstick rather than their “hope for change“.
Wake up!
JWK
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Matt
February 19th, 2010
5:59 pm
Bye Bye Sarah. Your’re going down with McAmnesty.
J T Fowler
March 26th, 2010
5:10 pm
Maybe Sarah believes she “owes” John McCain something? She DOESN’T! McCain threw Conservative supporters to the wolves years ago when he got sucked in by the Progressive Liberals and became a turn-coat… The BEST THING Arizona voters can do is put John McCain out to retirement! Illegal Aliens cost ARIZONA TAXPAYERS well over 100 Billion Dollars annually… BUT McCain wants to legalize them so they will vote to keep him in office! TOO LATE JOHN! HIT THE ROAD! Your little subversive demonstration about Obama Health Care is only a political ploy… and ARIZONA TAXPAYERS recognize a lie and a liar when they see one.. NO MORE CAMPAIGN TRICKS McCAIN! Sarah isn’t helping you because we KNOW YOU ARE ONLY FOR YOURSELF and not Arizonians!
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