Memo to McCain blabbermouths: Character is destiny
My syndicated column today takes on the cowardly character assassins in the McCain campaign who are trying to kneecap Sarah Palin. More than 10,000 people signed the petition yesterday expressing thanks to Sarah Palin for stepping up to the plate. (I had to close it off due to liberal hate trolls indulging their PDS. Their comments will be deleted.) I’ll print off the petition and send the whole thing off to the Alaska Governor’s office. The question now is whether John McCain — proud author of books on character and courage, honor and duty — will just sit on the sidelines and let this debacle continue or stand up and defend the running mate he chose.
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The cowardly character assassination of Sarah Palin
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
Sunken ships loosen bitter lips. The failed McCain campaign, for all its high-minded talk of honor, duty, and courage, is now teeming with unscrupulous gossip-mongers. Seems the dishy staffers forgot to crack open their copies of Sen. McCain’s best-seller, Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember. Rest assured: Their cowardly character assassination of Sarah Palin won’t be forgotten.
The finks turned to Newsweek and Fox News to spread petty rumors about Sarah Palin’s intellect and character. The magazine peddled anecdotes from sources horrified that Palin greeted top advisers at her hotel room – gasp! — “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.” Fox News reporter Carl Cameron breathlessly reported that his unnamed McCain sources told him Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate” because, they claimed, she didn’t know which countries were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”
Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumor-mongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they were). Who would it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need a fancy Ivy League degree to figure that one out.
In introducing her to America, John McCain praised her independence and backbone: She “stands up for what’s right and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down.” The inside snipers are now roasting her for that very attribute – redefined as “going rogue” – because she had the nerve to try and schedule media interviews on her own. The nerve of her!
Palin’s response to the campaign fragging? At a late Wednesday night airport press conference in Anchorage, immediately upon landing home after the election defeat, she smiled cheerfully. The Alaska governor shrugged off the McCain saboteurs saying “foolish things” and said simply: “It’s politics…It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.”
Hollywood savaged Sarah Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her a bigot, Bible-thumper, and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Sarah Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these back-stabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into the last three months.
Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But she vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy. And she did it all with a tirelessness and infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.
Liberty needs a virtuous people to survive; self-governance requires virtuous leaders.
“Knowledgeability” is a necessary trait in political life, but it is not sufficient. The elitist critics of Sarah Palin, so blindly enamored of Barack Obama’s ability to hold forth for hours on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, ignored the Founding Fathers’ counsel: Character counts. In times of adversity and crisis, it counts more than IQ points and instant trivia recall and bloviation skills.
“The most important thing I have learned, from my parents, from teachers, from my faith, from many good people I have been blessed to know, and from the lives of people whose stories we have included in this book,” John McCain wrote in Character is Destiny, “is to want what they had, integrity, and to feel the sting of my conscience when I have risked it for some selfish reason.”
John McCain not only failed to make that message stick with the electorate, he apparently couldn’t persuade his own staff to heed his advice and practice what he preached.
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LGM you are as cowardly as the “undocumented sources”
GGGEEESSS!!!
Thanks, Michelle. They stood out like sore thumbs and made some of us see red!
I bet the governor will be inundated with Thanksgiving and Christmas cards! She and her family are precious!
I’m sure MLK is rolling around in his grave right now. Would he have been proud? If he truly meant what he said, I doubt it.
lgm, hit the bricks you worthless troll.
Attention all Sarah Palin fans, go HERE and watch Campbell Brown tell it like it is!
I can’t believe someone from the MSM is actually pointing this out!
They need to re-vamp Fox. Get rid of Geraldo (why is still on any channel), Carl Cameron (kind of gossip), and that snit of a gal named Powers.
From change.gov:
“Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today”
From St. Louis, June, 2008
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick, and good jobs for the jobless. This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow, and our planet began to heal. This was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation, and restored our image as the last, best hope on Earth.”
Talk about minimizing expectations, LOL.
The only reason I voted for McCain was Palin. I really don’t think McCain will stop this bunch of garbage mouths until he talks it over with his good friend Teddy or his other friends on the left side of the aisle.
My sentiments, exactly. This is for everyone who has not given up:
William Ernest Henley’s
Invictus
OUT of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
We suffered a setback, let it be just that. We have to be diligent and not allow it to stop us from pursuing real changes for the BETTER, in our party, in government!
OT, Last night on Michelle’s” where in the world” thread, I left a comment regarding Obama’s intent to force community service on us. I used very intense and low class wording to express my disdain for said plan. I am ashamed that I took such a low road and wish to apologize to Michelle and to all you who read these threads. You deserve better.
geeze I can’t type today. I think I’ll quit while I’m behind.
Misscheryl, I’ve stopped watching Fox News altogether. Between Brit Hume & his panel’s coverage of the election, to Carl Cameron, to O’Reilly “reporting” this garbage gossip, to Colmes’ questioning Palin’s birthing choices…
I like Megyn Kelly and Sean Hannity. But to watch Hannity, I have to watch Colmes. I think I’ll just stick to his radio show so I don’t have to here anymore of Colmes’ juvenile “points.” As for Megyn Kelly, well, if she gets her own show someday, I’ll watch that.
All I need is talk radio and the Internet.
McCain and his “mavericks” HATE us. Never forget it. I figured this out in 2000 when he ran and lost in the primaries. I would NEVER support John McCain. I will NEVER vote for RINOs again.
McCain lost because of McCain! He thought the MSM loved him. He thought Independents loved him. He thought he didn’t need the conservative, Christian base. He was wrong just as he as been on the wrong side of so many issues over the years.
I wonder if McCain or anyone of these vicious, turncoate blabbermouths on his staff got 5,000 notes from admirers yesterday?
On November 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am, lgm said:
Give it a rest – your side won! (What’s up with your constant attempts to belittle and embarrass MM on her own blog? If you don’t like her views, don’t read them!)
So what? As long as she supports NAFTA – like Obama The Experienced does in secret – what does it matter if she can name the member countries or not? If in 2012 she needs to know the NAFTA members or where S. Africa is located, she can always heed your advice to us and Google it!
You’re taking that unsubstantiated rumor completely out of context,e.g., where’s the proof or footage of Palin running amok in Barney’s? Besides, after what your side did to Governor Palin and her family, she more than earned and deserves to keep everything that was purchased for her!
It wouldn’t hurt if Obama had any values – let alone core values!
I am actually surprised that you would say this – are you feeling alright?
Trollman Try watching Neil Cavuto. He’s the clearest thinker on the network.
WarEagle82 said:
They probably did from their admirers (who voted for Obama).
Thanks, John, we couldn’t have done it without you!
miss cheryl,
Like I noted on a thread last night, 2 conservative black pastors in my area were on a radio program explaining their reasons for voting for Obama…it was all about race pride, tossing aside their own fundamental convictions.
Boy Michelle, do you know how to throw the bean ball when you have to.
this is why he lost. his campaign was not functioning with one focus in mind, the country first. it was just a slogan to them. john, apparently, was defeated or sabotaged from within his own campaign due to these very same backstabbing liars.
come on, she is a neighboring governor to one of the NAFTA partners, Canada. you really believe that she didn’t know this stuff? not only did these ruthless, vile and contemptable people backstab and sabotage the mccain campaign they determined to destroy palin for any political future by feeding into the elite media’s montra: she is a liability and she is dumb.
i hope we find out who these people are and their political careers are over, too. i hope that if they are found to be on any campaign anywhere we fight against them. these people are at the basis of what breeds corruption in our political system.
#61
No need to pull out the “R”’s – just change it to “Revolution” Party – I’m with them all the way. Our current “Republican” Party seems to be synonymous with the Dem Party anymore. We need to get back to our Conservative roots.
Some will say that the Democrats historically get the majority of black vote, and this is true. I believe with a black man as candidate, many voted for him that would have typically either not voted or voted for the republican candidate. When you see poll numbers that reflect 95% blacks voting Democrat, none voting republican, do not tell me it isn’t a race issue. Regadless, it’s done..this is old news, we must look ahead and get our ducks in a row..we have 4 years to do it! (Excuse all typing errors please.)
McCain’s reputation will be permanently tarnished if he does not step up to the plate and speak on Palin’s behalf. These aides need to be outed. If they believe all this crap, then they need to put their names on it. I find this to be very offesnive and non-Republican.
more than it already is? Mccain is going to spend the rest of his career reaching across the isle…ie bending over…for the democrats…this is the first sign of that.
Great column! Sarah Palin is the best thing in politics since Reagan. The woman is a ‘Natural‘ and not just another phony politician.
McCain and his ‘Buds’ can kiss my ‘Lily-White‘ arse…and, FOX news can join them in doing it!
Too busy lickin’ his wounds.
The least he could do is finally figure out that the MSM and liberals are NOT his friends, then take that lesson and apply it to the remaining time he has in the Senate. If he then chooses to cross that isle one more time, he’d then better plan on staying there, cause there’s no way in he** he’s going back after 2010.
What a way for a guy with such a storied history to flame out and burn up.
Exactly. Palin had to know what was in store for her from the rabid left and she no doubt prepared herself for it accordingly. To have to put up with this from the people ostensibly on her side is just wrong.
On Tuesday we lost every rationalization that kept us supporting the RNC as it currently is. We are thoroughly out of power and have nothing left to lose. Which means it’s time to clean house. Out with the RINOs and out with these petty little anklebiters.
McCain is already permanently tarnished. I am sure he still polls well in any of the homes he owns but the man just learned the leftists he thought were his friends want to crucify him and the conservatives, who might have helped him had he only not excoriated us at every turn, didn’t buy his last second pitch with Palin.
Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan. John McCain now knows this better than most of us.
“I dream of a day when people will be judged, not by the color of their skin, but the content of their character.”
It is just unfathomable to me that after 40 years our political, religious, and community leaders cannot grasp that racial eqaulity will only come about when people go about their daily lives living the way Dr. King described above.
All this shows me is Obama’s election means affirmative action is alive and well. That is a pity.
Dr. King was a Republican.
Let’s get one thing straight – it didn’t matter what McCain/Palin did, Obama was “their” guy no matter what. How much damning evidence can you put out there about a person’s character, I’m talking about Obama here, and still they voted for him…. unbelievable.
If I voted for the “white guy” because he was “white” even though I disagreed with virtually everything he stood for and believed in I would rightfully be called a racist.
But, the rules don’t apply the other way around. It isn’t going to get any better in the next few years.
I agree 100%.
It is a shame. I disagree strongly with much of what McCain wants as a politican. But Ive always thought him to be a man who practiced what he preached. If he doesnt chime in to defend Palin, that view of him will forever change in my eyes.
Quite frankly, we need a good, old-fashioned bloodbath to purge the party of moderates and RINOs who continue to sink our ship. Name these people by name and get them the hell out of the party, post-haste.
And do it in the primaries…
I haven’t had a chance to read all the comments here, but just want to add a few of my own. Hopefully, I won’t be repeating. John McCain, while a war hero, is an idiot. He is acting just like he did during his campaign…not responding to things he should have responded to, or responding a week later, after it’s too late. He thinks and works way too slowly to have been a good President. Sarah Palin needs to stay in Alaska and govern her state and not seek higher office. Not because she isn’t qualified, but because politics is a cutthroat, nasty, mostly corrupt business and she is too good for it!! Besides, her state has a lot of oil and she know just what to do with it. One more thing…for those who criticized her for coming to the door wrapped in a towel…just remember that Clinton sat in a chair in the Oval Office naked from the waist down. Ugh.
First, the hypocritical irony of Michelle Malkin complaining about this stuff when she and Hotair did so much to cause the defeat of Palin.
Hey, Michelle! You might start looking for your new job, for when President Obama has this shut down.
Fool.
And thanks to that attitude, Palin was defeated, and we all get a Marxist gun-banner.
Fool.
You must start at the local level.
Get involved.
Where is McCain? Why has he not issued a press release or appeard on any shows to put this bashing to a rest?
He has the ability to stop this and needs to do so NOW!
Forget McAmnesty, he is useless history, time to move forward.
You can start with Iowa. In Iowa the winner of the U.S. Senate Republican primary was not one of the fair-haired boys the party leaders wanted. As a result, Chris Reed received no support, no money in his campaign against Tom (I love the Sandanitas) Harkin, and the party leadership actively campaigned against him.
Remember this is after Iowa Republicans selected Reed. Reed is a conservative. The whole party leadership in Iowa needs to go.
One Obama campaign spokesperson doesn’t understand the basic difference between the top ordinary income tax rate (35 percent) and the capital gains tax rate (15 percent), nor how Sen. Obama’s tax plan would change them.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23907.html
Tommygun,
Based on your last post, I think your weapon is jammed.
SoCal. Agree. McCain is history. But, he has an obligation to Palin.
Guess his silence tells me my initial impression of him was accurate.
Tommygun
We use assault rifles now. Time to update your weapons systems.
It has to do with the changing of the guard. The Broken Republican agenda versus the real Republicans, which are the Conservatives. A lot can be said about why John McCain lost. Personally, I don’t think people at CPAC wanted McCain to win. If your base doesn’t support you, you can’t win. A couple years ago McCain almost became a Democrat.
They attacked Palin, which to me was stupid. She is your future. She is the future of the Republican Party and to attack her shows the many problems that exist within, and have to be solved in the next couple years, or it will be a Democratic controlled government for years to come.
I skipped the petition after I saw the trolls, and sent an e-mail of support directly to the Alaska governor’s office. I also TRIED to call or fax McCain’s senate office in Phoenix. Nothing but busy, busy, busy signals. Finally got through on the fax at the Tucson office. Told him that I expect him to step up and deplore the behavior of his campaign staff. Has anybody heard him make a statement yet?
Tommygun, there is foolishness here but it is in your comments. McCain’s policies are nearly as bad as Obama’s. McCain is a big-government, big-spending RINO even more than Bush. That you can’t see it means you are wearing blinders. RINOs are the slow route to socialism. This country needs a conservative alternative and not two socialist parties.
I voted for a true conservative alternative along with 178,000 people who share my beliefs. You evidently voted for the guy who things the bailout was a great idea and we should throw open the borders, grant amnesty to 20 million illegals and destroy the Republic. Who is the fool?
Character does count and conservatives need more character.
Go to Youtube and look at the comments on the Peggy the Moocher video. The number of racist put downs is enormous. This is inexcusable for people with conservative principles. Peggy the moocher undoubtedly comes from a culture of poverty and entitlement and due to earlier realities in America and misguided efforts to address them this culture of poverty is widely (but not exclusively) seen in blacks. Blacks dominate the culture of poverty in percentages of blacks but in actual numbers I am relatively sure that there are more whites who line up politically and culturally here.
However true this may be culture isn’t an immutable function of race. We are correct to criticize this culture and to call on individuals to take responsibility for their lives. But we must not tolerate criticisms that are race linked. We must admonish conservatives who make such criticisms. These people need to change their hearts on race while staying true to the culture of personal accountability that defines the character of a conservative.
If these so-called “advisors” think they’re doing themselves a favor by blaming Sarah Palin for the election loss, they’re not.
I would never in a million years hire these people, knowing their loyalty lies only with themselves and can never be trusted. Ever.
They just shot themselves in the foot. They didn’t ruin Palin’s career, they ruined their own.
Michelle, Amen on your column. It’s astonishing to see not only the way Palin got savaged during the campaign, but it seems like the Obamedia was sent from the divine leader to destroy the notion of Palin 2012.
It’s insane that the same media who’d willfully bury the khalidi tape (as one of many examples of interfering with the news rather than reporting it) and the “bankrupting” coal statements to DENY the public access to pertinent info would publish and spread the scurrilous rumors and allegations by “unnamed” individuals.
I say NAME THEM, and they can stand by their words if they really mean it.
And McCain’s showing no great leadership by not sending a STHU order or backing her hup. If he wanted to, he could end this.
Misscheryl said:
Don’t forget, while blacks typically vote for Democrats around 90% of the time, that still doesn’t explain why Obama received 90% of the vote against fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton.
There was no real policy distinction between Hillary and Obama. And Hillary had more of a track record, and was the wife of a president who was very popular among blacks. Didn’t matter. Why? Just listen to Obama’s church, they’ll tell you why:
“Hillary ain’t never been called a n*gga!”
I think Ms. Sarah has the cajones (sp?) to handle the press. She has been polite in mentioning the press’ inability/unwillingness to correct their “facts” when reporting on her. She is the primary reason I put my support behind McCain. I thought 4 years of McCain/Palin was better than 1 day of O’Boy. I was and still am a Fred Thompson voter. McCain should be thanking God for what Ms. Palin brought to his campaign–he would have been disgraced if she hadn’t been there. I am disappointed in him. Never, never hire liberals to run your political campaign as you will eventually learn they are all jackals.
Yeah, we are better than that. Don’t talk bad about these people. Don’t mention Reverend Wright, don’t say “illegal aliens”, don’t speak the truth… we are better then that. We lost the election big time, but we can be proud, as the liberals crush us under their welfare-entitlement fat butts, that we are better than that… We have CHARACTER!
Michelle
Thanks for the petition effort. It filled up fast.
Maybe this popularity and the current momentum can be turned into something tangible.
What if her name (and maybe yours) were associted with a PAC dedicated to raising funds for candidates (especially primary candidates) that share similar social conservative views for the 2010 election cycle?
Many of us would be willing to contribute in small amounts now — and a new appeal could go out each time the new administration makes a major policy decision that riles us!
because Hillary is white….and that makes her a RAAAAAACCCCIIIISSSTT!!
Governor Palin scares the pi** out of the RINO’s and McCain’s campaign team. She is a staunch conservative who is unafraid to let people know it. The base loves her and the Blue Bloods and RINO’s can’t stand that. They feel they are entitled to the base’ support and get outraged when they don’t get it. Their going after Sarahcuda is only going to help her and diminish them.
I was one of those.
Palin was the only thing about the campaign that excited the base. McCain’s campaign managers have wrecked the party and are trying to pin the blame on a VP?
Weak.
#147…WELL SAID!
The Thompson M1928 submachinegun (”tommygun”) fires the .45 ACP 230gr hardball. Designed in an era before plastic and aluminum it is solid enough to use in hand-to-hand combat should you run out of ammo, which the 50 round drum magazine makes unlikely.
I disagree with both the content and the tone of Tommygun’s post, but I assure you his weapon of choice needs no updating.
McCain was given three resuscitating gifts during his campaign – 1.) Governor Sarah Palin; 2.) a flamboyant chance to denounce the bailout;3.) and an opponent whose past would have rendered him unelectable had it been used against him – McCain squandered all three!
It is shameful for McCain’s staffers to behave this way towards the woman who saved their hides when they needed it most and will be our nominee in 2012 -
So glad one of our favorite trolls is still around providing us with buffoon (way, way past comic) relief.
Now that I’ve picked myself up off the floor, and stopped laughing, I’ll ask:
Anyone else see that last comment as a combination of supreme projection and irony?
Imagine, after the trillions wasted on socialists/collectivists/statists’ programs over the past 40+ years; and after our society/nation/culture has been coarsened, corroded, and dragged into the cesspool in large part because of those very same programs, and for a litany of other statist/collectivist/socialist-caused reasons we discuss from time to time;
a socialist/statist/collectivist has the clueless effrontery to lecture us, and to tell us that:
Fool.
Agreed!
Charles Johnson and Michael Medved agree- The Republicans aren’t Democrat Enough…
Charles Johnson:
Note the Royal WE. I didn’t spot it at first either, my attention was called to it.
Should the GOP Double Down on Social Conservatism
One of Charles’ biggest admirers:
I stopped listening to Medved, on the air in the same time spot as Hannity, after he used what sounded like awfully specious arguments in favor of the Bush-McCain-Kennedy amnesty act. He also endorsed McCain back in January or February.
Hannity tends to cheerlead a bit much for the GOP, but he is a pretty good guy, not as funny or insiteful as Rush, but anyway, post-loss, I decide to listen to Medved for an afternoon.
He was telling a caller the GOP must tack further to the middle. Says McCain did better than the more conservative McConnell in Kentucky because voters like centrists. I wanted to reach through my radio and slap him. McCain did better because his opponent was a Marxist, and I’d bet money Mitch’s opponent, as Texas Dems do, run from their liberal views at election time and campaign as moderates, sometimes even conservatives. (Note- found out Mitch’s opponent was a former Republican who has donated to Mitch before)
Anyway, same Rx from Doctor Chuckles and Michael Medved: The GOP should be the Democrats, but with lower taxes.
Dead-on correct.
Even during the campaign, McCain seemed more interested in again poking his own side in the eye, rather than in winning the G**D*** election.
You simply cannot blame the bottom of the ticket for the loss. McCain doesn’t, but some loose cannons are.
I just realized the other day that Gov. Palin’s resume is all about fiscal and political courage, and not much about social conservatism. The detractors are digging those things out…
And on the subject, it is the liberal side who display unhinged social liberalism more than the right. I will not be quiet about my own social conservatism – that’s for sure!
Oh, I heard something disheartening yesterday on FOXNews. Someone (I can’t remember who) said that they hoped Palin comes back someday as a more “moderate” candidate.
People just don’t learn, do they. That’s what is screwing us in the first place. Being a moderate and leaning left is NOT WORKING.
Can’t anyone get a clue?
Someone MUST run against McCain!
Is there anyone in Arizona willing to toss in on the GOP primaries for 2010?
The primaries can’t be far away – late 2009 or so?
Please Arizona, get that jerk out of the senate!
The way this anti-Palin crusade seems to keep going, it wouldn’t surprise me if conservatives leave the GOP (because you can’t trust them). Stuff like this is only going to force conservatives to just leave the GOP and form a new 3rd party or join an existing one.
The focus of such effort must concentrate on winning legislative races first. This is the way independents and Libertarians have got any foothold in congress.
Keep in mind Michael Medved is an ex-democrat…but I to won’t listen to him anymore. The things got the GOP killed or winning by shaky margins was :
1. going moderate, like Gordon Smith.
2. voting for the BAILOUT, like Saxby Chambliss, (and Gordon Smith?-I don’t remember)
Medved basically said anyone who opposed the McCain-Kennedy amnesty was motivated by racism. He didn’t go quite as far as Chris Buckley and Peggy Noonan and endorse Obama, but endorsing McCain for the primaries (his second choice- the Huckster) shows he did the next best thing.
I am in agreement with #58.
Fox News has been going downhill for a long time.
Keeping Geraldo on after his remarks about Michelle was extremely bad. Fox doesn’t get it, we don’t want to see Geraldo. Michelle should have been apologized to.
They have been leaning more left, not fair and balanced. Liberals seem to get the last word on the show and more air time.
But this Carl Cameron “scoop” made me sick. I felt like I was watching an entertainment gossip show but no, they were licking their lips putting down Sarah Palin. How low can you go?
We need a real conservative station.
Michelle, I thank you for the petition, great idea. You have to be thick skinned to put up with this. I hope McCain loses his senate seat. He’s my senator and never answers. Jon Kyle is great.
Heck when Obama said there were 57 states he didn’t get this ridiculous treatment. But our own party gives it to her, go figure–creeps.
Have a good day.
I had a weird dream last night and this morning my wife helped me decipher it. It fits perfectly with what Mcbackstabbing is doing. Please bear with me.
I woke up to see a pipe rising out of the middle of my bed. Suddenly a very large (gigantic) spider stated to crawl out the top of the pipe. Very creepy and slow like. I started to scream (like a sissy) for my wife to bring a stick so as to kill it. I started to hit it and it ran back down the pipe. Jumping out of bed, I noticed that the pipe ran through my bed and exited underneath it to the floor. Suddenly the spider popped out of the pipe and started to run around beneath the bed. I beat it with a stick. I beat it to death. Only then did I notice that it wasn’t a spider after all. It was a cute little orange and white stripped kitten. That’s when I woke up.
My wife immediately came up with this. I went to bed upset about how McCain and his staff is treating Sarah Palin. This manifested itself into this nightmare in which the spider is McCain and the kitten is McCain. This dream was exposing both sides of him and when I recognized how deceitful he really is, I put him down.
Thanks for being patient.
If there is a good conservative in Arizona willing to run against McCain in 2010…I would be MORE THAN HAPPY to contribute to MCCAIN’S CHALLENGER.
As I recall there was a recall movement against McCain back in 2001,but it was shelved after the 9/11 attack (source: Ken Hamblin show)
I heard Sarah doesn’t know the first names of the Beatles.
I heard Sarah can’t name the Capital cities of every State.
I heard Sarah doesn’t know the Education ranking of the State of Arkansas.
I heard that her sons real name is Trigonometry but she couldn’t spell it so she calls him Trig.
I heard she never watched American Idol.
I heard she thinks Scandinavia is about a scandal involving someones navel.
/stupidity off
John McCain, welcome to the dust bin of history.
He was irrelevent in the party to many of us before the nomination.
Now in loss he has been all but shown the door.
That will come in the next election for his seat.
We must primary him out with a conservative Arizonan.
The search has begun and floor is open.
Move the party left and watch the conservative base come running home… It worked out so well for McCain who wouldn’t want to try it again?
McCain refused to use
1. Wright
2. Ayers
3. Alinsky
4. Rezko
5. Rashidi
6. Freddie/Fannie
He has shown “integrity” to his opponent a marxist black liberationist but not his own running mate. The more you add up all he has done and not done it looks to me like he threw election and spiked conservatism one more time.
Funny how all his betrayals of conservatism seem to date from his Soros funded Reform Institute period. His latest actions are just more of the same.
* From One of MM’s Previous posts
Meet the open borders family: McCain, Hernandez, Soros, and the “Reform Institute”
By Michelle Malkin • January 25, 2008 03:50 PM
Follow the bouncing ball with me:
Shamnesty peddler John McCain taps former Mexican government official/shamnesty advocate Juan Hernandez as his presidential campaign Hispanic Outreach Director.
Hernandez is a fellow at McCain’s “Reform Institute.” What has he been working on there for the past year?
“Dr. Juan Hernandez serves as a Senior Fellow of the Institute’s Comprehensive Immigration Reform Initiative.”
That is: Shamnesty.
Among the immigration projects at McCain’s Reform Institute: An art contest in which students depicted their protests against a southern border fence.
The winner on the American side of the border?
Here:
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The grand prize winner incorporated the specious open-borders propaganda comparing our fence to keep trespassers out to the Berlin Wall designed to wall people in:
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Is this what McCain believes in his heart, too? No wonder he cursed the “goddamned fence.”
The Reform Institute is a tax-exempt, supposedly independent 501(c)(3) group, as Ed Morrissey noted two years ago, “that employs Rick Davis, who also works on McCain’s staff as his chief political advisor, and they pay him $110,000 per year. The Reform Institute has often supported McCain, paid for events highlighting him and his agenda, presumably including campaign finance reform.” The Reform Institute received $200,000 in donations from Cablevision…and McCain basically tried to intervene on Cablevision’s behalf by writing a letter to the FCC supporting its regulatory agenda. Morrissey noted at the time: “[T]he Reform Institute helps keep McCain’s staff gainfully employed between campaigns, allowing McCain to do less fundraising while retaining the best of the available talent. For instance, Carl Hulse and Ann Kornblut note that Rick Davis managed McCain’s presidential campaign in 2000 before founding Reform Institute. Now its president, he gets over $100,000 a year from RI for “consulting services”. That money allows Davis to remain available for McCain’s future campaigns, and the funding he raises for RI gives him inroads for building support.”
Yep. Which is exactly how it worked out. Davis is now McCain’s campaign manager.
Here’s the 990 form for the Reform Institute, filed in 2003, listing Davis and his “consulting fees:”
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Who funded the Reform Institute, which boasts Juan “Think Mexico First” Hernandez as its resident amnesty fellow? The donor list is a who’s who of ultra left-wing, open borders elites. Again, via Ed Morrissey’s research:
* The Tides Foundation, which heavily promotes “reproductive justice”, giving over $500,000 to pro-abortion efforts. They also actively oppose the death penalty (so do I, FYI). John McCain opposes abortion and supports the death penalty, so why is his chief political advisor getting so much support from those who ostensibly oppose him?
* Educational Foundation Of America, which also supports abortion. EFA also opposes drilling in ANWR, an issue on which McCain has an ambivalent record. It also supports euthanasia and assisted suicide through the Death With Dignity National Center, a group which it gave $45,000. It gave $100,000 to the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, which opposed the Yucca Mountain nuclear depository (McCain supported it), and opposes development of low-yield nuclear “bunker buster” bombs, which McCain supports.
In fact, EFA appears to contribute to just about every left-wing cause imaginable, as well as a number of noncontriversial charities and outreach efforts.
* The Proteus Fund, which also opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, spending $75K to stop it. That pales in comparison to the $935K they spent on supporting gay marriage initiatives, which McCain strongly opposes. They have also spent over $800,000 funding nuclear-disarmament and antiwar causes in each of the last two years. Their Security Policy Working Group contains nothing but left-of-center groups like Project on Defense Alternatives, which calls the Iraqi elections “faulty” and predicted disaster for the Bush administration’s “program of coercive transformation throughout the region.”
* OSI (Open Society Institute), founded and funded by George Soros. Among a litany of left-wing causes supported by OSI are People For The American Way, to support their Supreme Court Project. (Hint: It isn’t intended on assisting Bush get his nominees confirmed.) They also gave $150,000 to the Campaign Legal Center, which will be important shortly.
* David Geffen Foundation also shows up on the list, although not in the top tier. David Geffen is an entertainment-industry mogul who supports Democrats and left-wing causes. They do not have a website I could find, but Activistcash.com notes that in 2002, most of the grants Geffen gave went to environmental activists and the Tides Foundation and Tides Center.
Via Discover the Networks, you’ll see that Soros’s OSI is a key open borders funder–providing support to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; the Immigrant Legal Resource Center; the National Immigration Law Center; the National Immigration Forum; the National Council of La Raza; and the American Immigration Law Foundation.
Remind me again which party’s presidential nomination John McCain is running for?
Yeah, it’s started already. It will center on his Catholic faith, and the fact he was involved in an exorcism. The neo-bigots will try and run that into the ground. They will also try and make an argument around Creationism, but he has an honors degree in biology from Brown, so that will be trickier.
McCain is toast, and we should retire him in his next Senate race.
Look on the bright side. Had things gone “our way”, these backstabbers would be planning a new government.
Honestly, these “McCain ‘Top Advisors’” need to do two things, and only two things, and then be gone. (1.) They need to say a big “Thank You!” to Gov. Palin, because without her, Sen. McCain would have lost BY A LANDSLIDE! Rassmussen reports that 69% of Republicans say Gov. Palin HELPED McCain, and 93% have a favorable view of her. Now, imagine, if you will, “Top Advisors”, where your boy McCain would have been WITHOUT those 69% of Republicans?!? The percentage loss wasn’t much, but without the Governor, it could have been, and would have been, worse — FAAAAAAAAAAAAR WORSE!!!! (2.) Get out of the way — Gov. Palin’s way — and stay out. We don’t want to see you all, and neither does the Governor. you not only failed McCain, you failed Gov. Palin, the gOP Base, and the US of A, so, please, get out of the way. You’re done.
lgm, you prove this in nearly every one of your posts…
Regarding Fox News, Carl Cameron was awfully petty with his tattle tale reporting over the last few days. And Geraldo Rivera is impossible to watch with his endless name dropping (especially when he bragged about “my friend” Yasser Arafat) and listening to Judge Napolitano whine about the loss of civil liberties is a little hard to take. But if you have a station where in the space of about two hours you get to see Megan Kelly, Michelle Malkin and Juliet Huddy, well to me that is more than enough to make up for Geraldo and Carl and Napolitano.
lgm said:
No they aren’t, but it would sure help if your side at least had that much.
Great piece MM, not surprising as always., TY.
I’m with you, with Odumbo(a Marxist) being elected I feel I have been released from ever having to vote for the LOTE ever again. I don’t see how I would ever have to make that type of sacrifice again…referring to voting against my morals and values.
I seriously doubt we’ve seen the last of Gov. Palin…I would expect her to stay in Alaska for the next yr or yr and 1/2 before seeing her on the campaign trail. She is one great fund raiser, not to mention a solid old school Republican. She will be a motivating factor in rebuilding the inept, left swinging republican party.
And now where the hell is Mr. Courageous, the soldier of Country First, looking for another conservative to throw under the bus. I didn’t like him before he was anointed with the GOP candidacy and I like him even less now. It really is no wonder he lost, inept, inadequate and no fight in him.
Fixed.
Forget McAmnesty, he is a broken horse, and has been for a long time. The MSM wanted him, they got him, and we need to forget him. Time for some CONSERVATIVES to pick up the tattered mantle.
Isn’t expecting integrity out of political hacks kinda stupid?
McCain is a lousy turncoat as we all thought he was.So many of us had to hold our noses at the thought of voting McCain,remembering how he called us all racists for not wanting amnesty and often telling members of his own party **** you! Sarah Palin was the only reason we started to get excited,thinking maybe she would hold his feet to the fire and he wouldn’t be so willing to run over to the Dems and the adoring media.I see I was very wrong about that.I really think he wanted to lose.It’s like he was paid to take a dive.How quick he was to start fawning all over Obama and once again stab his own party in the back.It seems he only has guts when facing his own party.For those that said many of us had MDS can you now see why? I’m not talking about anyone here,but people like Michael Medved.
I need a break from the back-stabbers, and invite you all to join me in a short refection on Italian Conservatives…
OK, I’m better now.
Thanks.
On November 7th, 2008 at 12:05 pm, Conservatives R Us said:
You’re in Arizona? Then give us a name of someone who will run against McCain! Even someone that you think would be a good choice and might be persuaded! We’ll send money or letters or emails or even candy!
STAT!
Somebody set up a “Purge McCain” website and a 501(c) STAT!
It’s strange, but at one point during the bailout mess, it was Huckabee who was on TV hammering on the issues. (I know, I know, but that’s what it seemed like to me.)
What more can be added except that the RNC NEEDS to learn that a moderate will not win on the conservative ticket. History has – again – repeated itself.
The other death blow McCain did to himself was to even consider a pro-death candidate. Proof he needed to go.
RNC – if you are watching and paying attention – this was NOT how to run a successful campaign. ARE YOU FREAKING GETTING THIS YET???
Sadly, probably not.
I don’t have a problem with this cowardice stuff being reported. I have a problem with how Cameron of Fox News breathlessly reported it. His tone said “here’s the real deal” He sounded like Liz Smith fer gawds sake!
I was annoyed after watching it on O’Reilly… but O’Reilly’s explanation of why he reported it, I have to say, was pretty much right on. He has to report it. He can’t cherry pick like MSNBC. But he should have ditched Cameron and read the piece himself. That would have given the slanderous allegations the credence they deserved… which is zilch.
In response to reporters using “anonymous sources” I’d like anonymous reporters to reveal some anonymous sources. A little payback for the crisis queens afraid to give their names.
Another slap-down of the Republican base by the “Maverick”? Well, he’s had nothing to say about the trashing of Palin and was heard to have approved of Obama’s victory, and looked forward to getting back to the Senate to
do the Emperor’s biddingwork across the aisles again. What does that tell ya.