Michelle urges Palin: Don’t campaign for McCain! Update: Hayworth jumps in?
posted at 8:34 pm on January 22, 2010 by Allahpundit
In which the boss spots a sinister trend: McCain Regression Syndrome.
It’d be just my luck that Meggie Mac is reading the site tonight.
Savor the irony: After a career spent bashing the right flank of the party, Sen. McCain is now clinging to its coattails to save his incumbent hide.
And pay attention to the hidden, more troubling irony: While he runs to the right to protect his seat, McCain’s political machine is working across the country to install liberal and establishment Republicans to secure his legacy…
With all due respect to McCain’s past noble war service, it’s time to head to the pasture. As the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, he was wrong on the constitutionality of the free-speech-stifling McCain-Feingold campaign finance regulations. He was wrong to side with the junk-science global warming activists in pushing onerous carbon caps on America. He was on the wrong side of every Chicken Little-driven bailout. He was wrong in opposing enhanced CIA interrogation methods that have saved countless American lives and averted jihadi plots. And he was spectacularly wrong in teaming with the open-borders lobby to push a dangerous illegal alien amnesty.
Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision to campaign for McCain, whose entrenched incumbency and progressive views are anathema to the movement. At least she has an excuse: She’s caught between a loyalty rock and a partisan hard place. The conservative base has no such obligations – and it is imperative that they get in the game (as they did in Massachusetts) before it’s too late. The movement to restore limited government in Washington has come too far, against all odds, to succumb to McCain Regression Syndrome now.
It might be too late already. According to Rasmussen, Maverick’s up 53/31 on J.D. Hayworth and is already running attack ads against him — before he’s even gotten into the race. Proof positive that he’s worried, which only makes Sarahcuda’s “true conservative” stamp of approval that much more important in possibly warning Hayworth away.
The weirdest part of this? I don’t think anyone will be swayed by Palin’s endorsement. No one seriously believes she’d be backing him if not for her personal loyalty to him, and McCain’s sufficiently infamous for his centrism that even her support won’t scrub him clean in the eyes of tea partiers. Which means this is actually a pretty shrewd move on her part: She gets credit for being a good soldier, especially in light of the sniping at her from his former campaign aides, whereas he gets maybe a few extra votes from conservatives. In fact, someone should make a video at her rally for McCain in the same mold as that now-famous video outside Obama’s rally for Coakley, where college kids babbled about getting to see The One in person while showing no enthusiasm whatsoever for the candidate. That’s what we’re going to end up with here, I think.
We have to poll it. Do your worst.
Update: Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
JD Hayworth quits radio show. To McCain: “It’s time for you to come home.”
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I think the problem that I’m seeing on this thread is that everyone expects Palin to fight their battles for them.
Wrong!
There are times when it is necessary for the movement to pick its battles carefully.
This is a Tea Party, not the French Revolution for crying out loud.
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 9:34 AM
Just like supporting Scott Brown was stupid huh? What, did you just support him because he said he would be the 41st vote against the CURRENT health bill? Scott Brown is an Independent, and if you live in MA you are well aware of that fact. Scott Brown was the better candidate for MA period. He will assist in ushering in universal health care at some level. McCain will fight against it. I do not live in AZ, therefore cannot vote.
shar61 on January 23, 2010 at 9:36 AM
No frothing – except at McShame. I’m just saying that Palin made a bad error backing McShame. It won’t be fatal to her, but it’s bad.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM
suggest ignoring Palin’s endorsement. That’s a lot easier than frothing at the mouth.
The goal is to gently take the controls of the apparatus of the GOP over to the conservative ascension, not to flip out every time a difficult political wrestling maneuver is performed.
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Well Said
shar61 on January 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM
Pretty much. This nation is on the precipice and stopping health scare was of great importance in giving this nation even a chance of making it through The Precedent’s tenure – though we are not nearly out of the woods, yet. The national declaration of suicide on Nov 4th, 2008, is coming very quickly to fruition and is the overriding concern at this point.
If Scott Brown looks to make some sort of national health care coming from the federal powers in Washington, he’s going to find himself as unpopular as the person he was elected/supported to stop from doing the same, but, for the moment, stopping the current bill was the only point that this nation needed to concern itself with, as it was fatal legislation.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Many of you are letting your hatred of McCain override everything else. For Palin, McCain is a special case. There is a passage in Going Rogue where she describes how she ended up feeling after supporting someone other than her mother-in-law for her old job and swearing that she woudn’t turn on family again. McCain is family to her and you don’t diss family, no matter how much you may disagree with them.
She’s also campaigning for Bachmann, don’t forget. And, I would not be surprised if she ends up pubicly endorsing or even campaigning for Rubio in FL before the primary.
SCSoxFan on January 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM
This posting today and the comments are the reason why the lefties and the righties tend to get all wee weed up and have so very much in common.
shar61 on January 23, 2010 at 9:46 AM
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM
It’s not a home run, and its not an error.
Going after McCain is NOT the job of Sarah Palin. And going after Palin for this soft endorsement of McCain is NOT the right target.
McCain is.
We need to recognize when its time for the team to do the heavy lifting. Otherwise, we’re just a circular firing squad.
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 9:48 AM
I do not in any way believe McCain is “just as bad” as Obama. Such sentiment is ridiculous. He’s right on terror, and he’s been a good soldier opposing the nationalization of health care. HOWEVER, I could never support McCain over Hayworth. I don’t think I’m alone. Despite Palin’s endorsement (and she’s being a good soldier, too), if Hayworth grabs the populist label, and tars McCain with the establishment label, he’s got a genuine shot. If he goes far right purity test, he’s got no shot at all. He shouldn’t campaign against McCain’s liberalism; he should campaign against McCain’s elitism.
Rational Thought on January 23, 2010 at 9:50 AM
I never said that Palin had to “go after McShame”. She could have (and should have) just not had anything to do with his campaign, and, perhaps not done anything for JD, if she wanted to just stay neutral in that race.
And I’m not going after Palin. I’m just expressing how she has dropped, in my view, and likely the view of many others who think along the same lines that I do. I was never a Palin fanatic, but I like her and support her. I’ve always had problems with how she dances with global warming silliness, though I have no problems with her proposed “solutions” (as I liked McShame’s call to build nuke plants, though I hated his idiotic support of global warming – because he was being stupid and wrong).
All I’m saying is that no conservative can be happy with anyone who supports McShame and Palin is going to suffer in the eyes of many. I’m not fuming or spewing or being nasty, but just saying what I think the effects of her support for McShame are going to be, as they are with me.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 9:54 AM
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 9:31 AM
Well Said
shar61 on January 23, 2010 at 9:42 AM
Well apparently three of us get it, anyone else?
heshtesh on January 23, 2010 at 9:58 AM
SCFoxfan is right. And that makes sense. McCain was the one who gave her the opportunity. Maybe she feels she owes him something and if it means she has to campaign for him so be it. And it’s not out of tit-for-tat, it’s mainly out of loyalty for a man she honestly respects despite his political votes. I thought that was the point. We do not have to agree ALL the time, but we need to know a person’s character. And for all the smack directed at McCain, at least he’s been honest about who he was and where he stood.
Maybe after the first year he has had a change of opinion on some issues. But, that’s for Arizona to decide.
xax on January 23, 2010 at 9:59 AM
Well, I’ll just re-post something I said earlier in response:
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 10:00 AM
Exactly – to keep harping about this paints the Right as fanatical as the far-Left. The “off with his head” people are as scary as the left-wing loons.
Get over it- Palin is going to campaign for McCain out of loyalty. If her campaigning for McCain vice an unknown who hasn’t even declared his candidacy diminishes her in your eyes – so be it. Find someone more pure and willing to tilt at windmills if that is what you want your candidate to do.
If she bailed on McCain now it would be one more “she’s a quitter” and she’ll do anything to appease her base to add to the meme of the Left. I guess all the anti-McCain sentiment ends up giving Hayworth the nomination you won’t care if she doesn’t support him then?>
katiejane on January 23, 2010 at 10:05 AM
And, I must add. It is rare when you see me agreeing with Terrye.
Not having read all her comments on this post, I’ll say that her general disposition on this one is correct.
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 10:05 AM
Shamnesty was treason. It killed the GOP and then McShame didn’t have the integrity to pull himself out of the Presidential primary when everyone knew that he was the most despised person in the GOP and would cause millions of people to either vote for someone else or stay home. Even McShame’s mother knew it, when she said that people will just have to “hold their noses and vote for him”.
McShame’s character has been that he stabs allies in the back. Great.
There are people with some very short memories, here. ALmost as short as McShame’s memory about his own un-Constitutional POS McCain-Feingold that he couldn’t be bothered to even try to defend while the Indonesian imbecile was collecting illegal, anonymous donations on his campaign site in the hundreds of millions.
Yeah, McShame saddles the US with an Un-Constitutional law and then won’t even bother to defend the few Constitutional parts of it during one of the most important elections in American history (as it might be one of the last). And when we had put McShame on top (after Palin came on) the azzwipe took the opportunity to start going to La Raza and telling them that Shamnesty was going to be his highest priority when he got into office.
Short memories. Very short.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:06 AM
This is so idiotic. Her endorsing McCain is nothing more then a public thank you for bring her onto the national stage. The astro-turfed outrage has less to do with her endorsing McCain and everything to do with people going after Palin because she is shaking up the Republican Party.
If it wasn’t this, it would be some other concocted outrage of the day.
Damned if she does and Damned if she don’t.
Thank G*d she has the integrity to not give a sh*t.
mikkins on January 23, 2010 at 10:07 AM
This is not astro-turf, you blithering idiot. I was one of the few people who had to take AP and ed to task during Palin’s resignation announcement (after they, and most others, had declared her political impact done) to explain how she had made a very clever move and planned on staying in the public sphere.
Palin hade a mistake, here, and too many people are trying to pocket the political wins of the last week and now just play a static defense, which is why McShame is getting a pass. That is a bad strategy, just as trusting Grahamnesty is never good ground to be on. He really did wonders with Sotomayor … yep.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM
And, I must add. It is rare when you see me agreeing with Terrye.
Not having read all her comments on this post, I’ll say that her general disposition on this one is correct.
Saltysam on January 23, 2010 at 10:05 A.M.
Scary as it might seem,Terrye has been consistant on this issue from the get go of this thread.
heshtesh on January 23, 2010 at 10:13 AM
I totally agree. I was shocked at the vitriol in the comments over at Michelle site. Some over there (and perhaps here) are no better than the progressives.
Love Sarah or hate her, she did what she had to do. If you don’t like what she did, don’t support her. It’s simple as that.
Annietxgrl on January 23, 2010 at 10:15 AM
Find me a single McShame thread here, that ever appeared, that was not chock full of vitriol at McShame and then tell me, again, why you are so shocked at vitriol in a mcShame thread.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:18 AM
… except for during the campaign, when we all held our tongues pretty firmly about McShame.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM
She should do what works for her, what she feels the need to do for her own reasons. I, for one, do not intend to second guess her. I do not agree with Michelle on this one.
jeanie on January 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Wow, thanks for the link. Very telling, no wonder liberalism is promoted in our education system.
redridinghood on January 23, 2010 at 10:23 AM
Let’s see, the woman has done more to stop Obamacare than anyone else in the GOP (except for Brown, now), she has been standing up for conservative principles since her arrival on the scene, and brought more national attention to Doug Hoffman than anybody else. But, she has to be taken to the woodshed for supporting the man who brought her on the stage. Come on — everybody has a weak spot, someone they just can’t bring themselves to disavow, no matter how much they may disagree. This is hers. Just give it to her and ignore the endorsement.
And, I don’t see any of you ripping Scott Brown for making robo-calls for McCain THE DAY AFTER HE WAS ELECTED. Or giving Palin credit for going to MN to campaign for Bachmann (which AP and Michelle keep forgetting to mention, conveniently).
SCSoxFan on January 23, 2010 at 10:24 AM
She should do what works for her, what she feels the need to do for her own reasons. I, for one, do not intend to second guess her. I do not agree with Michelle on this one.
jeanie on January 23, 2010 at 10:20 AM
Generally i always agree with Michelle,this time not so much.
heshtesh on January 23, 2010 at 10:27 AM
That was a huge mistake. Worse than Palin’s endorsement. And you know that it irked quite a few people, whether they bothered to say anything about it or not.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Dude, you’re nothing but an obamabot so stfu.
Annietxgrl on January 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM
That was a huge mistake. Worse than Palin’s endorsement. And you know that it irked quite a few people, whether they bothered to say anything about it or not.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:28 AM
Would that be selective outrage?
heshtesh on January 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM
I don’t entirely disagree, but I do think he should remind voters of those lousy pieces of legislation with McCain’s name all over them.
SKYFOX on January 23, 2010 at 10:31 AM
No. That would be people happy, but drained, from an amazing week and not wanting to have to think about the problems on the horizon just this moment.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:32 AM
No, neurosculptor, it was paying back someone for supporting you when you needed it. That is what Brown did and what Palin is doing. It’s honorable, and people are letting their hatred of McCain override everything else.
SCSoxFan on January 23, 2010 at 10:38 AM
At first reaction; I say no. But, looking at it from Sarah’s position, she can get a lot of exposure at McCains expense, not necessarily endorse his policies, and bail out at the opportune time for her rise to fame.
I have to give credit to Sarah for her political savvy so far; I’ll just ride this one out. She has been very intelligent and stealth so far.
Cybergeezer on January 23, 2010 at 10:40 AM
If you say so. What support did Brown need from McShame? Did McShame schedule that idiotic Christmas Eve health scare vote – which seems to be the event that triggered the massive swing in that election?
Supporting someone whose policies are death for the US is not honorable. And, my hate of McShame’s policies far overrides any feelings I have about his personality. I like his prickly, combative and stubborn way. McShame’s problem is that he turns taht on for all the wrong policies – deadly wrong policies.
Palin made a mistake with this endorsement. I think that’s clear. I don’t see why anyone would find that view harsh or offensive. It’s just a fact. Most of the people who support Palin despise McShame. Despise. This doesn’t make them hate Sarah, only that she drops a few rungs because of it.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:46 AM
If you say so. What support did Brown need from McShame? Did McShame schedule that idiotic Christmas Eve health scare vote – which seems to be the event that triggered the massive swing in that election?
Supporting someone whose policies are death for the US is not honorable. And, my hate of McShame’s policies far overrides any feelings I have about his personality. I like his pr!ckly, combative and stubborn way. McShame’s problem is that he turns taht on for all the wrong policies – deadly wrong policies.
Palin made a mistake with this endorsement. I think that’s clear. I don’t see why anyone would find that view harsh or offensive. It’s just a fact. Most of the people who support Palin despise McShame. Despise. This doesn’t make them hate Sarah, only that she drops a few rungs because of it.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Evidently, “pr!ckly” sets off moderation, too.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM
As Lynden B. Johnson said;
“Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in.”
The only problem is; It’s a lady doing the peeing!
Cybergeezer on January 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM
“Tea Party activists are rightly outraged by Sarah Palin’s decision…”
People seem genuinely surprised to find out that Palin is very independent and be no more owned by the “Tea Party” activists than she was by McCain advisers. Good for her.
Also, she is showing admirable loyalty to the man who introduced her to the national stage. While some of his people are jerks, she has always expressed deep respect and admiration for McCain. Again, this speaks well of Sarah Palin.
The Opinionator on January 23, 2010 at 10:48 AM
From what I was reading about J.D. Hayworth, it appears that AZ will be trying to vote for the lesser of the two evils. Their choices are a RINO or a scandal ridden politician. Hmmm, that’s a tough one.
mizflame98 on January 23, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Oddly enough, if Michelle M. were making this kind of decision, she would be the first to choose her own path for her own reasons. She might do well to respect this sense of ‘person’ in Sarah.
jeanie on January 23, 2010 at 10:59 AM
As long as McCain is the FACE of the GOP, the liberals win. If Palin campaigns for that to happen, she is as stupid as the liberals say she is. Period.
volsense on January 23, 2010 at 11:03 AM
I am also disappointed that Sarah is campaigning for McCain. However, I understand her position and she is damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t.
What we can do, to avoid having an amnesty advocate in the Senate, is send as many $$ as we can to JD Hayworth.
Another thing we can do is to support Rubio and others in other states that are running against the squishy RINOs that will ally with McCain in the Senate. That way, we can isolate the damage that McCain is able to inflict on the country and the party by making sure sympathetic allies are not elected in the primary in their respective states.
We should all be focusing on putting the best candidates against 10 vulnerable Dems in the Senate. I belive, with effort, we can take the Senate this year. I think taking the House is a foregone conclusion. Congress is so out of touch, as is their national party election strategists, that they are all going to be surprised at the tsunami coming in November.
karenhasfreedom on January 23, 2010 at 11:04 AM
What scandal is JD Hayworth involved in?
karenhasfreedom on January 23, 2010 at 11:05 AM
mccain has a huge money machine here…don’t know if JD has a chance, but I’m sure gonna do what I can here to help him out
cmsinaz on January 23, 2010 at 11:16 AM
Yes.
Barnestormer on January 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM
I do LIVE in Arizona and am dead set against another McCain term. I wrote Gov Palin 4 days ago and urged her not to waste political capital on a RINO. My wife and I will support J.D. Hayworth in words and deeds. We are also supporting Jesse Kelly against Gabrielle Giffords (mini-Pelosi).
usarmyretired on January 23, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Palin endorses McCain.
Words. Just words.
This isn’t aimed at the Tea Party folks, this is aimed at the gutless D.C. weasels who went after Palin – by playing nice with McCain she blunts the knives they want to bury in her back.
“But she backed McCain, so it can’t have been campaign policy. Must be a rogue staffer.”
Besides, she’s not “The Voice Of The Tea Party” any more than Michelle Malkin is. (IMO, Michelle has more claim – she provided lunch and coverage…)
Mew
acat on January 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM
Michelle makes a lot of good points but this is the one guy I will make an exception for.
Hw was right on the Iraq surge, he was right on paying off the deficit, right on porkbarrel spending, right on the Afghan surge, right on corruption involving government contracts, right on the right to life, right in voting against Sotomayor and right in giving us Sarah Palin.
Hayworth rubs people the wrong way and will have difficulty pulling it off in Arizona, especially with all the blue that has spilled into that state from California recently. McCain, who seems to have a found a new purpose in opposing Obama and his policies, is practically a sure thing. Pick your battles wisely, I don’t think this is a good one.
Daemonocracy on January 23, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Time to start filling JD’s coffers! Where’s MadisonConservative?
stvnscott on January 23, 2010 at 11:37 AM
Michelle Malkin’s article is spot on.
Who was more loyal to Sarah Palin when she was getting trashed post 2008 election, conservatives or John McCain? For someone like John McCain to stay silent when a “friend” was getting hammered in the MSM says a lot about him. Loyalty is a two way street and John McCain is loyal only to himself.
Sarah Palin can support John McCain if she wants, it’s her right. John McCain is the “Ted Kennedy” of the Republican Party and needs to go.
Read this article on how John McCain treated his first wife and see if you can still come away thinking that he is an honorable man.
RedRobin145 on January 23, 2010 at 11:39 AM
Right, the Tea Party has no singular voice and it should stay that way. As a movement where the only face you can put on it are the faces of everyday harmless looking Americans just trying to be heard, any attacks against it will utterly fail. The liberal media tried to paint them as a mob and failed because people saw grandma in those crowds. If the tea party were to ever have one man or woman as their voice and face, then it will be much easier to demonize that one person and the whole movement would suffer as a result.
Daemonocracy on January 23, 2010 at 11:41 AM
DID ANYONE HEAR OBAMBI SPEAK IN OHIO??? HE WAS HUSTLING THE H1N1 VACCINE, HE REALLY DID SOUND LIKE THE VOODOO SNAKE OIL SALESMAN HE IS!!!
AMERICAN VETERAN on January 23, 2010 at 11:44 AM
that maybe true, but I’m gonna try my darndest during the primaries…I think there are enough conservatives here in AZ who are tired of McCain…there was a straw poll at a recent county GOP meeting and JD won by a landslide and mccain was considered the least acceptable candidate…
time will tell
cmsinaz on January 23, 2010 at 11:50 AM
I’ve heard the McCain ads against Hayworth and, they are laughable.
I’m sure that Mccain NEVER voted for a bill with earmarks in it…
/s for those who can’t tell.
Jeff2161 on January 23, 2010 at 12:03 PM
First off, that’s a blanket statement that disallows independent thought. I don’t know if I can be called a Tea Partier, I’ve been to a couple of rallys but haven’t officially joined anything but this is how I look at it. Palin is intensely loyal. mccain picked her for vice-president, continuosly backed his decision and admits the positive effect she had on the campaign. Palin has continuously said that she has a great relationship with mccain. Though subtly, he has sided with her against the rediculous charges by the sleazy washington campaign activists he hired to run his campaign and are showing their true colors by attacking her. Make no mistake, they are attacking her for two reasons; they are deflecting the blame from themselves for the amateur campaign they ran and because these “professional campaign advisors” hate her because she is a conservative. Everyone needs to take a breath, wait and see the extent of Palin’s “endorsement” and then make their decisions about Palin. This Tea Party deal is supposed to be about policy and ideas, not about personality. If somehow it deteriorates into a cult of personality situation about any one person then it will be no better then the phenomena that elected the incompetent idiot that we are now burdened with. The Tea Partiers should not be “enraged” by the actions of Palin. They should respect her decision and loyalty and then support the candidate who best communicates and commits to the ideas and policies the Tea Party movement is all about. The whole idea is that we don’t march in lockstep with any personality but are committed to the Constitution and the principles that made this the greatest nation state in history.
peacenprosperity on January 23, 2010 at 12:35 PM
No, they’re not. I question how many are outraged in the first place, and I see no reason they should be “rightly” outraged.
Palin is campaigning for him for personal reasons, and because she has always been a reasonable moderate conservative. McCain is lacking as a conservative, but not actively evil.
Though I would agree McCain should have retired about 6 years ago.
There Goes The Neighborhood on January 23, 2010 at 12:56 PM
She has no other choice. ITA with this post. That guy Hayworth’s got all against him. I only hope Arizona pulls a MA and send the maverick home.
This will hurt Sarah’s street cred, whoever she campaigns for.
ProudPalinFan on January 23, 2010 at 1:08 PM
Primary/Politics Calendar here. Arizona primary August 24th. Plenty of time to remind sane voters what a craven fool McCain truly is.
Western_Civ on January 23, 2010 at 1:13 PM
I posted the other day that Palin could endorse McCain if she chose, for whatever reason, but that I’m rooting for JD Hayworth!
She can also endorse Rick Perry vs. Hutchison for TX Gov. if she likes. If the GOP conservative race were limited to those two, I would, as well. But there’s a maverick conservative running who deserves serious attention, standing up against the similar mistakes that Perry and Hutchison share in their own particular ways (kick-backs). A practical Texan more informed on personal issues than either of the big names, Ms. Medina is not corrupted.
maverick muse on January 23, 2010 at 2:12 PM
Palin sharing her friendship with McCain “proves” no hard feelings, that she has thick skin, and she’s not a bitter loser and that she doesn’t whine.
But she doesn’t need to put herself out for McCain. Beyond putting her on his ticket and giving her an education of a lifetime on how politics work nationally, like it or not, he never put himself out for her. He put her out for himself.
maverick muse on January 23, 2010 at 2:15 PM
McCain is better than Haysworth on a few fiscal issues, but McCain is also bad on a few important issues.
However, I’d still like to see McCain and Palin lose again.
Spathi on January 23, 2010 at 2:20 PM
I’d say McCain is responsible for at least a 1/5 of the Ron Paul movement’s anger at the GOP. Bush is responsible for maybe 2/5 or more.
And the rest just hate the GOP in general.
Spathi on January 23, 2010 at 2:23 PM
Guess Michelle Malkin wont be happy until there are no republicans in office. By the way, thanks again for helping to elect Obama to peruse your vendetta against John McCain.
Some patriot.
Boxy_Brown on January 23, 2010 at 2:24 PM
How hard is it to figure out that Sarah Palin does what she wants, without reading a poll, or calling Michelle or Rush or Glenn or anybody else to see if it’s the right political “play” in the jargon of political strategy?
She’s never wavered or changed in her statements or actions with respect to John McCain. She genuinely likes him and thinks he’s a fine person.
That’s what she thinks.
That’s what she’s going to say.
That’s the way she is.
And has always been.
And a word: If you turn on Sarah Palin, you’ve lost your minds.
IndieDogg on January 23, 2010 at 2:33 PM
Oh dear. Great minds. . .
Opinionator on January 23, 2010 at 2:40 PM
Where’s the box that says “who cares what palin does”?
Flag Gazer on January 23, 2010 at 2:41 PM
Yep. If JD runs on a conservative platform, small gov’t, fiscal responsibility, lower taxes and closing that damn border and going after illegal alien employers and stopping entitlements, he’ll get the vote.
Regardless of what Palin does~many will go to see her, but AZ KNOWS what maverick is.
*Start up the glue factory~we gotta a maverick coming in*
HornetSting on January 23, 2010 at 2:45 PM
“My friends…today I’m suspending my campaign so that I can go sit on my lazy ass in Washington and try to make it look like I’m doing something about the economic meltdown over which I presided. I ask Senator Obama to join me at the trough – er, I mean “table” – so that I don’t look like a ch!ckensh!t who is trying to avoid yet another beatdown in the next scheduled presidential debate.”
jay12 on January 23, 2010 at 3:01 PM
Why speculate on her motivations? Being a team player is more viable for her. Palin staying viable means we all have more choices going forward. She shows amazing talent at the whole politics thing, which I couldn’t do for 5 minutes.
I’m a Tea Party person, I’m not outraged. Sure, we must have standards, but you can define your standards to a point that no human being will ever match them. I’d love a candidate that absolutely matches all my dream criterion, but I’d vote for somebody that matches my most important criterion, say the top 3.
jodetoad on January 23, 2010 at 3:07 PM
What in the HELL are you talking about? Malkin was as loud as anyone trying to warn people about the Marxist Obama is.
Thank yourself and thousands of other idiots who voted in their primaries for someone who didn’t even try to win.
Shay on January 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM
Pushing someone to ensure that she’s viewed as nothing BUT a fringe element is pretty ridiculous.
Guess that is the source of the anti-Palin vibe here.
My only comment, really, is that Romney isn’t the answer. LOL*
AnninCA on January 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM
The people voting for McCain aren’t voting for conservatism anyway. They’re voting for seniority. Goodies. Bennies. Largess.
One side of mouth: Less government!
Other side of mouth: Except in my state!
That is why conservatism dies a thousand deaths every election cycle.
spmat on January 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Not to me. It’s quite consistent with the posting policy here.
AnninCA on January 23, 2010 at 3:48 PM
Sarah hasn’t been a Teaparty anything. She was asked to give a motivational speech at a convention. Period.
AnninCA on January 23, 2010 at 3:49 PM
Sarah understands her challenge now. She has to be true to her base, but she also now must start expanding her voter reach.
She can do that best by simply sticking to principles. Nothing John McCain is saying is contrary to her principles.
The “opinions” of some here? That’s irrelevant. John McCain is conservative. He may not meet “purity tests” by some here, but that’s not the test of the voters she now needs to start attracting.
AnninCA on January 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Whatever…….
You can yap and stammer all you want, pat yourself on the back to make yourself feel good. I will say it again, I believe most of this “outrage” has more to do with people who support Palin’s possible primary opponents then anything else. I attended Tea Parties, was pissed at how I was left voting for McCain and only did so because of Palin.
If she didnt stump for McCain half of you pinheads would be “outraged” that she wasn’t and would be bitching calling her an opportunist with no loyalty.
So right back at ya there scooter.
mikkins on January 23, 2010 at 4:31 PM
Whatever…….
You can yap and stammer all you want, pat yourself on the back to make yourself feel good. I will say it again, I believe most of this “outrage” has more to do with people who support Palin’s possible primary opponents then anything else. I attended Tea Parties, was not happy at how I was left voting for McCain and only did so because of Palin.
If she didnt stump for McCain half of you pinheads would be “outraged” that she wasn’t and would be whining calling her an opportunist with no loyalty.
So right back at ya there scooter.
mikkins on January 23, 2010 at 4:32 PM
Amazingly, I can support Sarah and support McCain’s opponent at the same time. That’s the beauty of the American system, and I happen to think that the two positions are not in conflict.
Ideological consistency is only useful if it takes reality into account: the REALITY is that a social conservative wouldn’t have won in Massachusetts; the REALITY is that Sarah does more damage to herself and “the Cause” by not supporting McCain than by supporting him, and the REALITY is that McCain is no more conservative now than he was in 2008 or before. Time for Mac to go home, and for Sarah to continue to show good judgment in where her involvement is useful, and where it is not.
Animator Girl on January 23, 2010 at 4:35 PM
Shay, You gave a great response to the Box. I know that Michelle has done great things for the conservative movement, and she has also exposed corruption. Keep up the good work, Michelle.
mobydutch on January 23, 2010 at 4:56 PM
As for McCain, don’t forget, he considered switching to the Democrat party, and I think he nearly endorsed Obama for President. It was unbelievable!!!!
mobydutch on January 23, 2010 at 4:59 PM
That’s about as idiotic a statement as I have seen. If you think that anyone at Hotair would be mad at Palin for not compaigning for McShame, then you are totally lost in a delusional world. Even the rabid McCainiacs here (the few) would probably not care if Palin didn’t stump for McCain, as they wouldn’t have expected her to.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 5:03 PM
That’s about as idiotic a statement as I have seen. If you think that anyone at Hotair would be mad at Palin for not compaigning for McShame, then you are totally lost in a delusional world. Even the rabid McCainiacs here (the few) would probably not care if Palin didn’t stump for McCain, as they wouldn’t have expected her to.
neurosculptor on January 23, 2010 at 5:04 PM
I’ve been saying it for days. Don’t have much else to say but right on those who aren’t succumbing to being “outraged”.
KittyLowrey on January 23, 2010 at 6:30 PM
RE Shay.
Michelle Malkin trashed McCain through the primaries and the election itself. Every day, EVERY DAY you could go to her blog and see the latest shrill, hysterical bit of trumped up outrage that
MccainMcShaaaaaamnisty was supposedly guilty of. When most conservatives had the sense to recognize that the perfect shouldn’t be the enemy of the acceptable Michelle Malkin was pouring scorn on every aspect of his campaign and the man himself in one unfair rant after another.One would have thought that the year that the United States has had under Obama and McCains efforts to slow or stop the Obama agenda would have demonstrated clearly to all that she was dead wrong. If she had any class she would apologized or at the very least called off the vendetta. No such luck I see.
Was that Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson.. It’s been a while.
I didn’t vote for McCain during the primaries but when he won the nomination I recognized that Obama and his agenda represented an existential threat to the USA. I didn’t have an hysterical hissy fit and glom on to IDIOTIC and borderline seditious ideas like “you got to go through Carter to get to Reagen” or “If I can’t get everything I want I am going to let the communists bankrupt us and lose the wars.”
I find it ironic how these blogs have been pimping for Scott Brown (rightly so) but did their best to bury McCain who is RIGHT of Brown through the presidential election. Brown represented a chance to stop Obama… Who was elected in part because vilification of someone who is more conservative then Brown who could have actually prevented Obama from being elected in the first place.
Great strategy you have been sold, real good for the country.
Boxy_Brown on January 23, 2010 at 6:57 PM
Would that be the record where Reagan increased our military spending to the part where the Soviets had to fold, leading to the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reduction of the threat of nuclear destruction, and the so-called Peace Dividend, while simultaneously turning around the horrible Jimmy Carter economy that many were assuming would be the permanent future of our nation, actually destroying inflation and high interest rates, and putting our economy back on a sound footing, for both of which the only price we had to pay was a temporary increase in the deficit until the economy grew enough to wipe it out completely?
If that’s the record you’re referring to, then I’ll certainly agree that it speaks for itself. I don’t think we have quite the same opinion about what that record is saying, though.
No, Reagan wasn’t perfect. But what he accomplished as president was amazing. That’s why nobody can now claim to be another Reagan, until they can claim a similar record. But we can look for those who follow in the steps of Reagan.
And I’m sorry, but for all the outrage directed against Palin, I’m quite sure that Reagan would have campaigned for McCain in any similar circumstances.
I greatly appreciate Michelle Malkin, and Sarah Palin, and I agree that McCain is past his expiration date. But I’ll have to hold with Palin on this one.
Palin was never the extreme-right ideologue that she’s been labeled. If you’re really shocked that she would campaign for McCain for his Senate race after campaigning for him for President, then I doubt you’re really paying attention.
There Goes The Neighborhood on January 23, 2010 at 7:39 PM
At this point Palin ought to be genuine and outspoken. There is absolutely no reason to come out in support of McCain. This is an unforced error. McCain is an idiot.
PD Quig on January 23, 2010 at 7:45 PM
McCain talks a good Conservative talk, but can’t walk it. If the voters of AZ are serious about injecting opponents into the Liberal DC culture, McCain can’t be allowed to return to Washington. Hayworth has the Conservative cred on all points, while McCain is a deal-making fence-sitter when he thinks no one is watching.
Wilbur on January 23, 2010 at 8:03 PM
I have a feeling Sarah will do whatever she thinks is right, in spite of the “advice”. Nice try tho.
kg598301 on January 23, 2010 at 8:59 PM
Ummm, no, I’m not. :-|
Narutoboy on January 23, 2010 at 9:48 PM
AWW…DAMN! I thought she was real, that she truly believed! Now she decides to campaign for a RINO. There’s only only point she can make…that she’s a politician, willing to tell the “unwashed masses” what she thinks they want to hear. She will lose BIG.
Jakefut on January 23, 2010 at 10:44 PM
Without McCain, there would be no national Palin…it’s that simple, she knows she owes a lot to McCain.
The honorable thing to do is to not turn her back on him…the dishonorable thing would be to turn her back on him for her own purposes.
Whether it hurts her or not, she is going to do what she feels is the right thing.
When was the last time you saw Ed or Allah turn their back on Michelle?
The fact is, loyalty does exist, as well a friendship…
right2bright on January 23, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Sarah Palin would not be a national figure without McCain, that is admirable loyalty on her part.
I think there is more to it than meets the eye but I’ll hold off on my speculation for now. (It’s not what you think)
I still think Sarah wasn’t/isn’t qualified to be President, probably for at least another couple elections if ever.
scotash on January 23, 2010 at 10:59 PM
I’ve encountered this idea twice today. I have yet to meet any conservative or republican who voted for Obama. Are you saying Malkin voted for Obama? Who exactly are you accusing of doing this? I don’t know a single soul who didn’t think that voting for Obama, or not voting at all, would be anything other than suicide. I don’t believe you. I know people who were not happy but I don’t believe for one minute that any conservative or republican did anything remotely like that.
I am also frankly amazed that people who don’t live in Arizona and haven’t been dealing with McCain, Hayworth and Arizona issues are writing as if they were expert authorities on Arizona politics.
Shay on January 23, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Sorry, but I would be disappointed if she turned her back on the man that gave her all the opportunity that she has enjoyed…do you honestly think that she would have had a national best seller if not for McCain, that she would be idolized by people if not for McCain? Thousands of people standing in line to hear her speak, without the help from McCain? She wouldn’t even had gotten a spot on Oprah without McCain…She never has said anything but words of respect for McCain, so why would it be a surprise that she will help his election, he sure helped her…
right2bright on January 23, 2010 at 11:05 PM
She ran on this supposed “Rino’s” presidential ticket, so spare us the phony outrage. If you are seriously outraged, shocked at her supporting McCain, then you don’t pay much attention to things.
Narutoboy on January 23, 2010 at 11:31 PM
Why can’t we all just get along. Do we really have to agree about everything to think someone is a capable and noble person? I guess some people would be happier if the world was filled with clones who all think exactly the same.
petunia on January 24, 2010 at 1:05 AM
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