Sarah Palin Supported Ron Paul In The Primaries?

[PaleoForPaul]

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat/352094/palin_on_ron_paul_right_on_campaign

In a February interview with MTV, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin lavished praise on maverick Republican presidential contender Ron Paul.

She had a few nice things to say about another GOP candidate, Mitt Romney.

But Palin made no mention of John McCain.

Now that McCain is the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, he has selected Palin as his prospective running-mate for vice president.

McCain calls Palin his political "soul-mate."

But, in February, at a point when McCain was closing in on the Republican nomination, it sure sounded like she was sweet on Paul.

The governor, who sported a Pat Buchanan pin at a 1999 rally for the renegade Republican presidential candidate (Pat says: "She's a great choice for the base ... She's a Buchananite"), described the anti-war, libertarian-leaning congressman from Texas as "cool."

"He's a good guy," she said of Paul. "He's so independent. He's independent of the party machine. I'm like, ‘Right on, so am I.'"

Paul supporters were delighted. In fact, they even began promoting Palin as a possible veep choice for the Texas congressman.

As it happens, Paul won't be picking a running-mate in St. Paul.

But the congressman will be in the Twin Cities.

Conveniently for Palin, Paul -- who refuses to endorse McCain -- will be holding an outside-the-convention "Rally for the Republic."

More than 10,000 tickets have already been sold for an event that is expected to draw thousands of Paul's most ardent supporters to the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

Perhaps Palin will join them.

Or is she now with the party machine?

 

[0zzy]

nah, not really.

 

[Kotin]

if theres no proof of her actually having voted for Paul in the primaries then this article is a slap in the face to Ron Paul supporters.



I will not be buttered up by the McCain camp.

 

[yaz]

palin sounds like a mind that can be easily manipulated

 

[Nirvikalpa]

OMG YES SHE DID. YOU DAMN OBAMACONS. DAMN YOU ALL. OMG. HOW CAN YOU BE PUTTING DOWN SOMEONE LIKE THAT WHO SUPPORTED THIS MOVEMENT!? THIS SHOULD BE CALLED THE OBAMA FORUMS!!!!!

</sarcasm> Perfectly inline with what a Palin stooge would say too.

 

[Jeremy]

no

the interviewer asked her what she thought of RP

she said she thought he was a cool guy

she mentioned romney first without anyone bringing him up

 

[josephadel_3]

Who cares. If she had the principles of Ron Paul, she would have refused to accept, but the fame, salary increase, and power opportunity were probably to hard to let down. Given, of course, she was cool to begin with, which I doubt. If McCain asked me to be his VP, I would refuse and make it public, thereby getting my fifteen minutes of fame.

 

[idiom]

She could refuse nomination tomorrow and head over to the Rally...

That would be an Epic play.

 

[Paulitical Correctness]

She could refuse nomination tomorrow and head over to the Rally...

That would be an Epic play.

LOL!

"Fine trollop, the GOP doesn't need you anyway! What say you, my friends?" - John McCain

 

[New York For Paul]

Better for her to win the election and then move to implement policies.

People tend to be creatures of habit. If she has been conservative/libertarian for years or even decades, she will probably back those policies when she has more power.

Look at how George H. W. Bush laid low for eight years of the Reagan administration before reverting back to true form of a big government republican.

He called Reaganomics voodoo economics but then supported Reagan for eight years and then raised taxes once he got into office as president.

We could hope for the reverse for Palin. She has to support McCain in public, but she can argue in private for smaller government, less laws. Once she gets elected on her own, she could start to implement Ron Paul like positions.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

Better for her to win the election and then move to implement policies.

People tend to be creatures of habit. If she has been conservative/libertarian for years or even decades, she will probably back those policies when she has more power.

Look at how George H. W. Bush laid low for eight years of the Reagan administration before reverting back to true form of a big government republican.

He called Reaganomics voodoo economics but then supported Reagan for eight years and then raised taxes once he got into office as president.

We could hope for the reverse for Palin. She has to support McCain in public, but she can argue in private for smaller government, less laws. Once she gets elected on her own, she could start to implement Ron Paul like positions.

Yes I 100% agree,

I see mccain being totally fine with that.

stfu

how stupid are people within this forum these days?

do you see the v.p. laying low until it is time to strike?

lol

ok and ron paul will be president in 2009 as well.

 

[Orgoonian]

Yes I 100% agree,

I see mccain being totally fine with that.

stfu

how stupid are people within this forum these days?

do you see the v.p. laying low until it is time to strike?

lol

ok and ron paul will be president in 2009 as well.

Anger issues?
Step back,take a deep breath,and chill.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

Anger issues?
Step back,take a deep breath,and chill.

no anger issues, just honesty issues


does it scare you if I use CAPS LOCKS also lol

BOO@!

lol

 

[Orgoonian]

no anger issues, just honesty issues


does it scare you if I use CAPS LOCKS also lol

BOO@!

lol

Haha,touche'!

 

[New York For Paul]

I had a feeling people wouldn't like this.

It would be somewhat dishonest to change political stripes while VP and then change once one is in power, but it is Machiavellian.

To do anything to gain power like sacrifice principles for several years waiting to get into power.

Look at all the politicians that reverse themselves including vice presidents.

We accuse Bush all the time of reversing positions. He wanted a humble foreign policy, no nation building, against McCain Feingold etc. Once Bush got elected he quickly changed.

People are afraid that Bob Barr will revert back to his old positions as well and has only temporarily changed his positions so he could be a nominee of a party.

She could appear to agree with McCain for the moment and hopefully go back to her positions that she held early on in her career.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

She could appear to agree with McCain for the moment and hopefully go back to her positions that she held early on in her career.

Even if she did revert what POWER would she have to enforce anything?

anything but killing the man with her own bare hands to take the presidency what could she actually accomplish even if she was that amazing patriot hiding in the shadows waiting for her time to shine?

hope and a dream is all I see with these posts.


but what if...

what about...

well she could...

blah blah blah

 

[New York For Paul]

That is about all there is. Hope.

As it stands right now, it looks like the next four years are not going to be good.

Probably either Obama wins and we start losing rights or McCain wins and we will still have problems.

 

[newyearsrevolution08]

That is about all there is. Hope.

As it stands right now, it looks like the next four years are not going to be good.

Probably either Obama wins and we start losing rights or McCain wins and we will still have problems.

So its the end of the world? we have had the same bullshit for the last 30 PLUS years. The difference is we have 4 years to FINALLY CHANGE THINGS versus living in the last 30+ not giving a shit.

I see this as a good thing, if things collapse GREAT, we get our country faster, if things end up socialistic GREAT, then maybe people can finally realize what is wrong with it. If we end up getting into a world war then maybe people will finally realize that WAR is not the answer.

this is a good thing, stop thinking that this one damn election that you were apart of is either make it or break it.

 

[Anti Federalist]

So its the end of the world? we have had the same bullshit for the last 30 PLUS years. The difference is we have 4 years to FINALLY CHANGE THINGS versus living in the last 30+ not giving a shit.

I see this as a good thing, if things collapse GREAT, we get our country faster, if things end up socialistic GREAT, then maybe people can finally realize what is wrong with it. If we end up getting into a world war then maybe people will finally realize that WAR is not the answer.

this is a good thing, stop thinking that this one damn election that you were apart of is either make it or break it.

+1

Don't be chumps, the Palin VP pick is designed to play you.

Worse is Better at this point.

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

I like Palin. There is entirely too mucy Obama support on this forum. tones