After being censured by the Arizona Republicans, Sarah Palin rides to John McCain's defense. Oh yeah, that'll help.

"Are these your people?"                     "Hang on I'll handle it."

Palin's ghostwriter sort of waxes on in the beginning of this Facebook post, so I will spare you all of that and drop you right into the thick of the moosepoop:  

I consider Senator John McCain an American hero and a friend. He fights to remind our President that the federal government’s first priority must be strong defense of our homeland, and, like Congressman Johnson, he fights against big-spending colleagues who don’t prioritize for our military’s needs. Upon the Senator’s shoulders he’s carried part of our message of opposition to today’s “fundamental transformation” of America directly to the problem: President Obama and Harry Reid’s far left agenda. 

I appreciate Senator McCain's steadfastness in demanding truth in the White House’s Benghazi cover-up. Because of his persistence we WILL get that truth, and then more eyes will be open to see how dangerous an Obama-led retreating America is in this volatile world. (Oh yeah, that Benghazi thing is about to bust wide open. And if you believe that I have this bridge to nowhere in Alaska to sell you.) 

It goes without saying we don’t all agree on all political issues. (Yeah gotta hang onto that Tea Party cred. After all THEY are the ones pushing for this censure.) For instance, I shall keep pushing to open ANWR, I oppose letting illegal aliens cut in line and receive American benefits via “immigration reform,” and I oppose any Congressional action that allows President Obama to incur more U.S. debt. During this time of dangerous lawlessness in the executive branch, those who agree on stopping the intended transformation of our country had better unite to fight. So at this time, it's perplexing to see Senator McCain’s good efforts to uncover the Obama agenda being ignored and perhaps even hindered now by those wanting to censure the Arizona Senator. Despite our differences on some other issues, there is no questioning Senator McCain’s dedication to national security in spite of the White House’s agenda. (Hell yeah, if McCain had his way, we would be bomb, bomb, bomb. bomb, bomb, bombing Iran right this instant.)

We live in a time of diminishing virtues because of societal influence towards total self-centeredness. This is unfortunate and makes raising families, conducting business, and governing that much more challenging. I know how important the virtue of loyalty is because in politics it’s pretty much nonexistent. (That is a not so subtle message for McCain right there.) I stand on that most important virtue and answer those asking today: “Yes, I am proud to have been asked to run with him in 2008, and he is my friend.” 

One more thing, if you've met his beautiful mother you know where he gets his tenacity. Roberta McCain is one tough Mama Grizzly. (And I am sure a lady of her years and experience really appreciates being stuck with some label provided to her by the crazy bitch that helped sabotage her son's presidential campaign.)

- Sarah Palin

You know I have long believed that Palin and McCain have some sort of agreement not to stab each other in the back, and to say nice things about each other when asked.

I am not sure if this is a formal agreement, or one simply based on the fact that they each have damaging dirt on the other, but whatever the case they clearly resist the urge to kick each other when either one is down.

The thing that I find so ironic about this post is that Sarah Palin has a large share of the responsibility to the Teabagggers who are behind these attacks on any Republican who demonstrates even the hint of reasonableness or does not act as if it is their goal in politics is to destroy the government and revert the country back to a wild west mentality.

It has to gall McCain every time he suffers this kind of indignity, that it is all his own damn fault.

If he had just left the crazy AIP promoting, fake pregnancy having, lunatic back in the wilds of Alaska, his life would be SO much easier and stress free.

I have this tiny little glimmer of hope that if McCain decides not to run in the next election, that he will say "fuck it" and quietly leak the kind of information about Sarah Palin, and her many scandals, that will allow us to finally drive that silver stake through her future, and end any influence of politics that she might have left forever.