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Four Reasons Palin's Endorsement of Trump Hurts Conservatives
Daily Wire ^ | 1/20/2016 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 01/20/2016 12:24:45 PM PST by conservativejoy

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To: conservativejoy

Everyone leaping all over Palin for endorsing Trump are just PO’d that she didn’t endorse Cruz. If she had endorsed Cruz, all the Trump supporters would be jumping all over her with negative comments.

It just goes to show that Palin still has some power left, or no one would care who she endorsed.


21 posted on 01/20/2016 12:35:15 PM PST by euram
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To: pgkdan

Stupid liberal candidate.


22 posted on 01/20/2016 12:36:15 PM PST by South40 ("One of the reasons I like Ted Cruz so much, is that he's not controversial," ~Donald Trump)
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To: conservativejoy

Bless your little heart. You have got to get rid of that hatred. Do you honestly think you are helping your cause one little bit? You are not. Vote Trump.


23 posted on 01/20/2016 12:38:58 PM PST by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Jane Long

As if things could not get worse for CRuz....he allows Beck to go on tour with him. Yikes.

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Double Yikes!

I don’t care that some TV celebrity endorsed another TV celebrity. Trump and Palin have as much to do with political realities as Beck has with mental realities.

That being true - WHY? Why would Ted give “Howard Beale” the time of day?


24 posted on 01/20/2016 12:40:02 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (PALIN. Endorsing Democrats for Alaska and the USA!)
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To: MNJohnnie
Ask yourself this. Despite giving the entire Government to the GOP under Bush, was any item on the Conservative agenda advanced?

I've been saying this for years and I couldn't agree more! But it's worse than that. Not only did nothing get advanced but Bush made things worse. His new Rx Drug entitlement, No Child Left Behind and a skyrocketing deficit that was the absolute worst in US history until the Won came along.

I've voted for the most conservative candidate in every election since 1984. I financially supported candidates all over the country since about 1996, to the tune of thousands of dollars. For what? So that they could get elected, go to Washington and spit in my eye. That's what for! To hell with them. I don't care about liberal and conservative anymore, it's all just a shell game and like every other shell game the sucker always loses and our overlords in DC see us all as the suckers. I'm voting for a true American Patriot, who can't be bought by the banks and the US Chamber of Commerce or any of the parasites on K Street, and the GOP can smear him all they want. The more they do the more determined I am to support him.

25 posted on 01/20/2016 12:42:40 PM PST by pgkdan (Trump/Cruz 2016!)
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To: MamaB

Hatred is too strong a word. The disgust I feel at so many people being completely deceived is similar to what I felt with Obama supporters.


26 posted on 01/20/2016 12:44:14 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: MNJohnnie

Cruz’s attacks are much more civil than Trump’s Jew bating Goldman Sachs angle.


27 posted on 01/20/2016 12:52:05 PM PST by hollyweed
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To: conservativejoy

Agree. It’s also hard to hear Ben Shapiro whine about Trump after turning Brietbart into the Birther rag it’s been the last couple of weeks.


28 posted on 01/20/2016 12:54:27 PM PST by hollyweed
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To: conservativejoy
Then there's the less cynical and more probable explanation: she buys into Trump's populist appeal and identifies with him as a candidate because Trump's enemies are the same folks who generally attack her. In other words, she let her quest for vengeance against the establishment trump her conservative ideals.

That is profound, and well stated.

Anger and vengeance are normal but wisdom and Christianity instruct people to put them aside. Sure, Trump appeals to me in his anger, I'm ticked off at the same things. So what?

My goal isn't to indulge my anger and desire to strike back at "the Establishment." My goal is to restore Constitutional limited government to America, which means eliminating much of government overreach.

I think Ted Cruz has a lot of the same goals. He literally stayed awake and talked for 21 hours in order to frustrate Obamacare -- the current "ultimate" of government overreach, with environmentalism in the wings for the next overreach, and he did it in the names of the people who elected him. Ethanol subsidies are environmentalist government overreach; Cruz has steadfastly maintained that they should be phased out. (Trump just came out that he thinks ethanol mandates should be increased.)

Who knows why Palin did this? Oh well. Live and learn. My tagline is a lived and learned truth.

29 posted on 01/20/2016 1:03:23 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: conservativejoy

Trump is for touchback amnesty.


30 posted on 01/20/2016 1:03:39 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: euram

Trump can have Palin. With her rambling nonsensical speeches. Her Maury Povitch family. She’s an embarrassment.


31 posted on 01/20/2016 1:05:56 PM PST by Blackirish
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To: conservativejoy
in fact, he's used eminent domain to build his empire.

In the name of truth, I believe that is false. My due diligence says that actually, he never has added to his property through it, but he tried once and failed.

32 posted on 01/20/2016 1:07:02 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Finny

Thanks for the thoughtful post, Finny. Enjoyed it as always.


33 posted on 01/20/2016 1:07:12 PM PST by conservativejoy (Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God ...We Can Elect Ted Cruz)
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To: conservativejoy
More importantly, the celebration of the establishment over Palin's endorsement springs from their incorrect belief that the Tea Party will embrace populism over conservatism. There's no evidence of that yet. But Palin opened the door to such speculation, and that's a disservice to the grassroots conservatives who have supported her.

Yup.

Good post.

34 posted on 01/20/2016 1:09:55 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: Blackirish

You’d be singing a different tune if she had endorsed Cruz.


35 posted on 01/20/2016 1:11:03 PM PST by euram
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To: MNJohnnie; conservativejoy
No Palin just gave voice to what many rank and file Conservatives have discovered. Conservatives are the Blacks on the GOP plantation.

You just described yourself -- you are looking forward to voting for a demonstrated lifelong leftist moderate, believing that you're going against the GOP.

I got off that plantation in 2012 (voted for a plurality via third party), and would have in 2008 if not for Palin. She got me to vote for a wrong guy once. This second time my vote will go to the right guy or at least the right choice. The wrong choice is to vote for leftism -- trust me, I voted for Meg Whitman and Schwarzenegger, I've done it myself. See my tagline.

36 posted on 01/20/2016 1:18:10 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: MNJohnnie
Another in a long line of foaming at the mouth personal attack pieces

Have we been reading the same thread?

37 posted on 01/20/2016 1:20:26 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: MNJohnnie
foaming at the mouth personal attack pieces

That is how you describe the subject of this thread?

Really?

38 posted on 01/20/2016 1:21:58 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: SubMareener
Trump is much better at all of this politics stuff...

The man just called for an increase in federal mandates for ethanol. You mean that kind of "politics stuff"? You think that's better???????

39 posted on 01/20/2016 1:24:08 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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To: MamaB
hatred

A word so many here cherish and caress before they fling.

40 posted on 01/20/2016 1:25:33 PM PST by Finny (Voting "against" is a wish. Be ready to own what you vote for.)
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