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Empire editorial: Palin/Trump in 2012 - a marketing dream team (Bucket required!)
The Juneau Empire ^ | December 25, 2011 | The Editors

Posted on 12/25/2011 4:47:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump delivered a special Christmas gift to editorial cartoonists, comedians and the late-night talk show hosts they write for when news broke Friday that The Donald is leaving the Grand Old Party to keep his options open for an independent Republican presidential bid in 2012.

This also, or course, would be a gift for the Democratic Party due to the loss of a juicy target like Herman Cain, the self-destruction of Michele Bachmann and the increasing marginalization of contenders like Ron Paul, John Huntsman and that guy from Texas who forgets things and falls asleep during debates.

Facing a Newt Gingrich or a Mitt Romney becomes ever-easier for the president when the birthers — who think Barack Obama is our modern Manchurian Candidate — have to decide whether to follow a candidate with at least one clue or rush like lemmings off a philosophical cliff behind a tea party flavor-of-the-week like Trump.

Every candidate needs a sidekick, and we have the perfect choice. Who has the scruffiness of a soccer mom and the lipstick of a pitbull, all wrapped up in the mystique that comes from living next to a biologically-dead lake in the wilds of urban Wasilla? Who has the experience of trekking down the national campaign trail, with the added benefit of several months as governor of an oil-producing state?

Donald Trump and Sarah Palin will be a dream team. They should be the next big Alaska-based reality show. More dirt than “Gold Rush Alaska,” more hard landings than “Flying Wild Alaska” and far more dangerous to America’s political future than “The Deadliest Catch” is to the boat crews — it’s Discovery’s “Trump/Palin in 2012.”

Pairing up a man who can’t stop talking with a woman who mangles the English language as well as history — it’s a natural choice and rife with possibilities. Will the Donald debate himself? Will Sarah read a newspaper and remember its name, much less the contents?

Please, Mr. Trump, the next Alaska tourism season will start just as your next season of “The Apprentice” ends. It’s perfect timing. Extra attention never hurts Alaska’s economy, and Palin can probably deliver whichever state she spends the most time in, unless that state is Alaska.

We appreciate your spirit of sharing, Mr. Trump. You are a guy whose lawyer says has pledged to use his personal wealth to “level the playing field” against incumbent Obama. (You might want to watch “Citizen Kane,” and then check the real history of William Randolph Hearst first, though. They say the smartest politicos use other people’s money.)

Should you take our sound advice, Mr. Trump, and take on our former governor, we caution you to also take a step Sen. John McCain apparently gave little attention to during his last run with Palin — check her references.


TOPICS: Alaska; New York; Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; palin; trump; trumppalin
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These guys probably filed some frivilous ethics complaints against her a few years ago.
1 posted on 12/25/2011 4:47:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The writing was mediocre. The humor was poor. The facts were inconsistent. The tone was mean. What was the point again?


2 posted on 12/25/2011 4:51:51 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What idiots.


3 posted on 12/25/2011 4:51:51 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

The point is that some jerks had nothing better to do on Christmas that write and publish this drivel.


4 posted on 12/25/2011 4:53:32 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

Don’t misunderstand, I was not slamming the poster. I was slamming the drivel itself. My question was what was the point of them publishing....


5 posted on 12/25/2011 4:55:26 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: C. Edmund Wright

I wan not slamming the poster either.


6 posted on 12/25/2011 4:56:49 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No thanks to Donald Trump, who didn’t know the difference between Obama, Pelosi, and Reid in his 2010 support for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.


7 posted on 12/25/2011 4:57:22 PM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
These guys probably filed some frivilous ethics complaints against her a few years ago.

Apparently it worked like a charm on her too.

Drove her right out. How would you like a president like that?

Couple of strongly worded "frivolous" letters from the U.N. and poof!

8 posted on 12/25/2011 4:57:40 PM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: humblegunner
I'm still puzzled why she folded so easily to the liberal scum.

Man up, Sarah! ;^)

9 posted on 12/25/2011 5:00:19 PM PST by CainConservative (Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy Newt Year!)
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To: humblegunner; onyx; Lakeshark; Sarabaracuda; sarah fan UK; Friendofgeorge; CAluvdubya; ...

Too bad she didn’t have “humblegunner” and his ilk there to pay her seven digit legal bills, then maybe she’d still be governor of Alaska, huh?


10 posted on 12/25/2011 5:03:46 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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2ndDivisionVet


Comments on the practice of posting leftist propaganda withheld due to the nature of the holiday.

HAVE A COOL YULE, 2DV!

CLICK HERE FOR GIFT


11 posted on 12/25/2011 5:03:46 PM PST by I see my hands (The old sod ne'er shall be forgot.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whine all you like about the reasons for it.

It happened, and was made to happen by her enemies.

It was a defeat.

How was it not?


12 posted on 12/25/2011 5:08:52 PM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Come on everyone! Trump is never going to run for President. He is making noise for his Apprentice Show and pitching a book. The more he is in the news the more his brands retain their value. He can’t run. He has a contract with ABC that runs through May 2013, when his show ends. Now, unless we have a brokered convention the choices for President and Veep will be known around then. Also, about that time, Trump will have another book or he will be all over the airways extolling the success of his show(It’ll be #1 in its time slot), He will tell everyone how successful he was in writing the most read business book...Ehvuh(The Art of the Deal) and then he will tell you how “fabulous” his latest book is.

This will be interspersed with talk about Mara Lago(The most beautiful home in America), his gold courses and that he is a very good and competitive player(Anyone who plays at these places wants to come back in a “Have to” way. From there it will close about his casinos in AC, his fabulous properties around the world and talk will be about his latest building project(WhoreAldo!  We build the most Beautiful properties in the Wohld!) IT’S YOOGE! A little smattering about his cash position and how he is buying properties....... Yada, Yada Yada..... 

Trump is not running and has never been serious about the Presidency. Besides, anyone think he’d be chosen in a brokered convention? 

Anyone? Baloney? Anyone?


13 posted on 12/25/2011 5:12:50 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: humblegunner

So you blame the victims of 9/11, Pearl Harbor, the Holocaust, the Bataan Death March and the Obama economy too? Those are all “defeats” as you say.


14 posted on 12/25/2011 5:16:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: Vendome
The Donald would take the Ambassador to China job in a New York minute.

"China, you're %&*#!"

15 posted on 12/25/2011 5:16:58 PM PST by CainConservative (Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy Newt Year!)
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To: humblegunner

I am glad to see you take time out from all the family fun, to post your usual drivel about a woman that has a little more class than you.


16 posted on 12/25/2011 5:17:08 PM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Oh, and pinging all your backup squad only underlines the weakness of your position.

If and when you feel able to defend your position by yourself
I’ll be happy to participate.


17 posted on 12/25/2011 5:18:12 PM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: Vendome

You’ve got to give him credit for getting millions of dollars of free publicity at the drop of a hat. Not many other businessmen could pull that off.


18 posted on 12/25/2011 5:20:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.~Admiral Yamamoto)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did all of those victims, like Sarah Palin, quit their jobs right after being smeared by liberal lies, too?


19 posted on 12/25/2011 5:21:04 PM PST by CainConservative (Merry CHRISTmas and a Happy Newt Year!)
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To: itsahoot

Drivel?
I’m sorry, am I somehow misinformed?

She completed her term as Governor?
She was not driven out by frivolous lawsuits?


20 posted on 12/25/2011 5:23:33 PM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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