Sarah Palin is taking some criticism from former supporters since the announcement yesterday by Rand Paul’s campaign of her endorsement of Paul. Rand Paul, son of Ron, is running for the GOP spot in the November US Senate race. Bill Johnson, a businessman and seen as more of a ‘grass-roots’ type of candidate, is running against Paul in the primaries for the privilege for then running for the senate seat.
Johnson has become a grass-roots favorite of people who have been involved in attending and organizing Tea Parties. Rand Paul’s campaign has apparently attempted to claim that he is the “Tea Party candidate” which has apparently infuriated many of those conservative Kentuckians who are involved with Tea Parties, as they claim it’s not true.
Bottom line, yesterday Sarah Palin endorsed Rand Paul and made a $2000 donation to his campaign through her PAC. Some of her most ardent supporters have, since yesterday, deleted their Twitter accounts set up solely for supporting Palin, terminated blogs set up to support Palin, and verbally expressed their severe disappointment.
In short, they are done with her. That is their right, and I make NO judgement of them.
I only wanted to say here, today, that I remain a staunch supporter of Sarah Palin. It doesn’t mean that I can say here today that I “will vote for her for president if she runs.” Much can happen in two years and I have no idea who will decide to run in 2012.
I do know that Sarah Palin speaks out bravely on her beliefs of what the values are that serve America best. I agree with those values.
I know that Gov. Palin is a real person, and is no more perfect than I am. I probably couldn’t count the people I’ve disappointed over the years with choices and decisions I’ve made. Not because those decisions were wrong, but because they weren’t the ones others wanted me to make.
Sarah Palin is, in my maybe-not-so-humble opinion, a woman of character and moral courage. I believe that her loyalty to McCain, which also has many upset, is a product of her character, rather than any belief on her part that McCain represents all that she agrees with. She has never said a negative word about McCain, and she has certainly had ample opportunity to. She is just that type of person.
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Well I sent this to Sarah, in a e-mail.
“Sarah Palin is probably going to lose a lot of support for backing pro-Amnesty, pro-Open Borders, pro-Global Warming, pro-Gitmo closing, anti-American John McCain. Not only she is supporting an outright RINO who once thought about switching parties and running as Gores VP…..McCain and his staff has trashed Palin relentlessly since the election…..Sarah needs to develop some backbone and stand up to McCain and his staffers.
My belief that Sarah actually would be for limited government and conservative principals is shaken. I have donated to Sarah and was about to begin a monthly donation. However, now all such donations will be sent to J.D. Hayworth until after the primary. At which point I will re-evaluate whether or not Sarah is worth supporting.
A Simple Bricklayer.”
I am an honorable and real person too. And I meant every word of it. So far I have received the usual blow off reply ( “Thank you for your email. Due to the large number of responses, it may take awhile for us to fully respond. Thank you.”) from the usual business as usual politicians.
Sarah will have to re-earn my trust. I am glad I used the strategy of just sending a Jackson a month to her until I saw what see did with it.
As of now that “Jackson”.. as well as others, has a better place to go as far as I am concerned.
Fantom,
I appreciate your stating your position so eloquently. It’s clear that it’s from the heart, and I’m glad you shared it with us.
As I said above, my measurement of Palin continues to satisfy me, though I have not been enthusiastic about the support for McCain. However, I cannot judge her actions as I don’t know her, and can’t see what’s in her heart. It looks to me like loyalty, and possibly a gratitude for the service he gave our country years ago.
Thanks for coming by, and for your comment. Please come back again, anytime.
I love Sarah Palin too but she is disappointing me with her support for McCain the Rino and I do understand the loyalty aspect but the left leaning Republicans are the problem with the republican party in most true conservatives opinions. Now the support for Ran Paul who is basically his dad running all over again. I should be fair he seems very conservative but I am concerned about isolationism and not taking the butt woopin to our enemies. The islamic extremists will grow in size unlike anything we have ever experienced before if we don’t keep going after them…I fear Rand would not be proactive enough in the War on Islamic Extremists.
I love your blog by the way…very nice.
I am a follower, take care and keep up the great work!
I am one that is disappointed in her choices. They seem strange to me. I understand your point and more or less agree. I am kind of holding back. I certianly wouldn’t completely walk away, but I am going to look a little more closely.
As much as I love her, I would never vote for her in a primary, as I don’t think she can win the general.
Fortunately, while America has some remaining liberties, citizen Palin has the right to support anyone she chooses. We all have that right. And we have the right to disagree with her. Why she is supporting McCain is known only to her, though I wish she would not. Does she suffer from poor judgment? Misplaced loyalty? Who knows…? If she runs for public office in the future, these will be important questions.
Disappointing as that endorsement may be, I don’t understand why we believe we have the right to our expectations of Sarah Palin. She is not in office, has made no promises, she owes us nothing. We have our own minds, as each of these comments demonstrates. Otherwise, we’re no better than Obama’s HopenChange lemmings, IMHO.
I believe conservatives will damage their worthy cause until hell freezes over by demanding “purity.” One only needs to review the Scott Brown election: good conservatives from other regions of the country would not endorse him. Which left the question, is Coakley better? Brown is not a pure conservative and, in Blue States, those candidates will not win…ever…So I think we need to accept some differences between us, or lose our country forever.
This is a good blog, Pup. Thanks for your efforts!