printWhat is National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre doing with the Senator from Nevada, Harry Reid? More importantly, what is Sarah Palin doing campaigning for Sen. John McCain? How like a people-pleasing woman! Isn’t it time Palin stuck to a principled set of political prescriptions, and got over her gratitude to McCain for supposedly turning her into a supernova?
Palin rushed to McMussolini’s rescue in Tuscon, Arizona, mouthing the offal she repeated on their first campaign trail: “‘Before there were protests on Main Street and marches on Capitol Hill, there was the maverick of the Senate, fighting for us.'”
On the other hand, McCain’s primary challenger, J.D. Hayworth, is a run-of-the-mill Republican, only slightly better than McCain is some respects, and worse in others.
Perhaps because there is not much of a philosophical divide between the man she supposedly owes and his challenger that Palin is doing the friendly thing for a friend. Still, the effect of endorsing Rand Paul this year, Doug Hoffman last year, and now McCain again—makes Palin seem a little flaky.
The media loves McCain (and his mindless daughter) too much to fault Palin for stumping for him.
Sarah marches to her own drummer. I think it was a mistake for her to support McCain. He stands for practically nothing Sarah’s supporters do. However, as you said, she is paying back for her great opportunity. Now she owes him nothing. Of course I can just see the media vultures crowding around as with a carcass on the African plains about Sarah refusing to back John when she recently consented to be his running mate. I believe this is her way of putting McCain behind her.
McCain is a corrupt political hack (a redundancy?). His only abiding principle is to get re-elected, which makes him just like every other lifetime politician.
And how does one stay in office decade after decade while convincing the voters that he’s a “maverick”? A maverick goes against the grain. Does something unconventional. Overturns prevailing wisdoms. McCain is none of these things.
I wish he’d just go away and stop being a nuisance.
“makes Palin seem a little flaky.” like a Pillsbury biscuit.
Well, she owes him (personally for elevating her) so some loyalty is not out of line.
Nevertheless, I warn against anyone mistaking her for Aristotle. She is no philosopher and mostly acts from instinct (some sound). Still, “conservatives” are NOT libertarians even though they share some economic ideas (like lower taxes being a good thing).
Flaky? How about ‘philosophically adrift’?
In my judgment, Palin paid her “debt” to McCain in 2008 by energizing the conservative base and delivering their vote, preventing a humiliating loss by the old “maverick.” It’s great that she endorsed Rand Paul, in particular, but what did that cost her? Why didn’t she endorse Debra Medina in Texas, rather than Perry? Now that would have truly been “going rogue.” And why does she insist that tea-partiers much choose a party (presumably, the Republican Party)?
I don’t see her actions as evidence of a philosophical disconnect; rather, they are consistent with what I perceive to be her current role as Republican party hack< /a>, stumping for established, “safe” Republican candidates like McCain and Perry, while giving the occasional nod to a Paul or a Hoffman running against insignificant opponents. I think she is consolidating her position in the Republican Party, never straying too far from the main chance. What has she to lose, for example, by stumping for liberal McCain in very liberal Tucson?
Don’t much like Sarah Palin, she seems nice enough but only mouths platitudes, minus the undergirding philosophy. When she ran with McCain she said she believed in man-caused global warming, is a big supporter of Title IV, which was totally destructive of men’s collegiate sports, and then decides “out of loyalty” to campaign for John McCain in these perilous times. What is she thinking? Many conservatives support her, the way many liberals support Obama; blindly! She is simply not fit to be president. On top of everything else she is a big war supporter, how does she think we can keep funding useless wars all over the worldwhen we are broke. It is just nutty treating her like some sort of Republican savior…
Good article about Palin with some good reader comment as well in today’s Daily Bell:
http://thedailybell.com/928/Sarah-Palin-Still-Endorses-McCain.html