PJ: The campaign slogan for the McCain presidential run was "Country First". After chosing the woefully unprepared Palin for his VP running mate, many questioned his desire to put party before country in his blind ambition to win the White House. Now Palin has come out with her non-endorsement but full-on support for Newt Gingrich in the GOP presidential contest by saying "vote for Newt; annoy a liberal". She has now gone beyond the party over country meme as her distaste for more than half the population of the United States is put on full display. The President of a country is meant to govern for the whole and not simply for the 'chosen' ones. In Palin's world, a President need only support and answer to those of the selected conservative ranks...all others be damned.
Irish Central
Sarah Palin says vote Newt Gingrich and annoy the liberals
Infighting tests the mettle and patience of the GOP
By
DARA KELLY
Poll after poll are showing that Mitt Romney has a commanding lock on the Florida vote count today. But don't count Newt Gingrich out just yet says the thiriller from Wasilla, Sarah Palin.
Gingrich was bolstered, if that's the right word, with an unexpected weekend endorsement from another former front-runner with documented marital issues of his own, Herman Cain, and the Florida Tea Party.
But pundits were astounded to see 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin appear on Fox News on Sunday to endorse the former Republican House Speaker: 'If for no other reason, rage against the machine, vote for Newt; annoy a liberal, vote Newt. Keep this vetting process going, keep the debate going,' she enthused.
And her unexpected challenge might yet have an impact. A recent poll shaved Romney's lead down to just five points and another suggested his front-runner's position was ebbing.
Gingrich is the unlikely favorite with with traditional values Evangelicals, Tea Partiers, and those voters who describe themselves as 'very conservative.' Unfortunately his margins with these conservative groups are not as large as they were in South Carolina.
By throwing her lot in with Gingrich we will learn a great deal about the political clout of Sarah Palin tonight.
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Sarah-Palin-says-vote-Newt-Gingrich-and-annoy-the-liberals-138388104.html
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