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Sarah Palin stands with Donald Trump, comes out swinging
CNN Politics ^ | July 31, 2015 | Jeremy Diamond

Posted on 07/31/2015 10:21:30 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Days after Donald Trump talked up the idea of putting Sarah Palin in his administration, the former Republican vice presidential candidate and tea party favorite is showing she's got Trump's back.

Palin wrote Friday on the conservative Breitbart news site that Trump's candidacy will continue to appeal to "ordinary Americans" despite what she described as a bludgeon of attacks from GOP elites, pundits and the media.

Calling Trump's candidacy "a shot in the arm for ordinary Americans fed up with the predictable poll-tested blather of squishy milquetoast career politicians," Palin argued that Trump's style and message is appealing to voters and that he is tapping into "major populist grievances."

And Palin also defended Trump from criticism that is bubbling up in certain conservative circles that Trump's flip-flops on key conservative issues prove he is not a true conservative.

"'But he changed his mind on positions!'" Palin wrote, echoing recent criticisms. "Reagan had been an FDR Democrat. Should we hold that against him or be grateful he saw the light?"

Palin also defended Trump's contributions to Democratic campaign coffers, arguing in the same way Trump has that those donations are the cost of business in the largely liberal city of New York....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: democrats; gop; palin; relevantagain; trump
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To: Bobalu

Very cool! Love it ~

Did you make that? If so, you should start signing these.


21 posted on 07/31/2015 10:39:11 AM PDT by IwaCornDogs ("There Will Be Bamboozeling" ~ Nobama 08')
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To: Bobalu

h/t...YOU ;-)

22 posted on 07/31/2015 10:39:44 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

She's no wallflower.

23 posted on 07/31/2015 10:40:05 AM PDT by McGruff (Eat a snickers...)
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To: Karl Spooner

PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome)


24 posted on 07/31/2015 10:40:31 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hated the way McCain joined with the media to label Palin stupid. She was treated horribly - talk about a war on women.


25 posted on 07/31/2015 10:40:35 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Jane Long

We need jobs - Donald has the means, the money, and the grit to help turn our economy around...if he stays on task>


26 posted on 07/31/2015 10:42:08 AM PDT by princess leah
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To: Envisioning

“Yep, in before the PDS trolls.....”

“Reagan had been an FDR Democrat. Should we hold that against him or be grateful he saw the light?” SP

This comparison gets the TDS trolls hissing like Count Dracula at Olive Garden finding garlic in his spaghetti.


27 posted on 07/31/2015 10:43:15 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

4-H.... LOL. I like that.


28 posted on 07/31/2015 10:44:45 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: Karl Spooner

I’d forgotten about Paul Shanklin.


29 posted on 07/31/2015 10:44:56 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: tennmountainman

Again why do I have this weird weird feeling they are all working together against the Establishment? =)


30 posted on 07/31/2015 10:48:33 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: IwaCornDogs

I did make it, it’s very easy..takes about 5 minutes.

I don’t want to sign them in any way as I want everyone to feel free to use them if they wish.

I make them using the free graphic viewer called Irfanview.
It has a few graphic primitives built in that make it a poor-man’s Photoshop :-)


31 posted on 07/31/2015 10:49:30 AM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Cobra64

Do you remember this parody? - Big John, big John Wong. He stood 5ft 6 and weight 145...


32 posted on 07/31/2015 10:49:56 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: EternalHope

Trump has the respective Democrat and Republican Establishment bleeps shaking in their boots, and I love it! Those bleeps need a huge shakeup!

I am hoping that the Republican conservatives take over, drive the LIEberal Establishment Republicans (i.e. RINOs!) to the Democrat party where they really belong and that the Republican Party becomes a Conservative Party!

I am opposed to a Third Party — would much rather see a rejuvenated Republican Party wage All-Out War against the Democratic LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist thugs who have very nearly destroyed America.

To do that, the Karl Rove, Johh Boehner, Mitch McConnell etc., etc. RINOs must be purged and Real American Conservatives must take over the party.

Perhaps We the People can force the 2016 election into a Conservative vs LIEberal shootout!


33 posted on 07/31/2015 10:59:16 AM PDT by Taxman (H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin on Trump.

I love that Trump is running and am pulling for him because, as Sarah says, “he has the guts to say it like it is…Trump diagnoses our problems as incompetent leadership…For everyday Americans the beauty of Trump’s candidacy is that he’s not a politician.” YES!!!

But here, Palin, and Trump, and many others, fail to identify the root cause of our economic woe. Rather than first identifying root causes, Trump offers solutions based on symptoms and his solutions in this cases is more government interference of the free market. But government interference of the free market IS the root cause of our economic problems. As Reagan said, and is as true today as it ever was, “Government isn’t the solution, government is the problem.”

Trump.

I love Trump. He’s a breath of fresh air. He seems like the guy that we want to win and the guy to beat Hillary.

Trump and Tariffs.

He’s the right guy but when he talks about how “simple” it would be to tell Ford in Mexico, “Hey, every Ford you send us I will tax 35%”, that’s the wrong idea and the wrong message. Who suffers from that 35% tariff? THE AMERICAN CONSUMER and accordingly THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. The American consumer will have to pay 35% more to buy a Ford. People who like Ford are basically SOL. THAT IS NOT free trade and does NOT solve America’s economic woes, it make them worse.

The REAL economic root cause: the federal government.

Trump’s a good guy but economically, he’s pointing his guns in the wrong direction. The BIG PROBLEM economically in the country is the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT with their idiotic, mind-numbing, and economically disastrous regulations like minimum wage, corporate taxes, union protection, and regulatory agencies so pervasive it makes business in the U.S. almost impossible. The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is the REAL SOURCE of manufacturing and jobs going out of the U.S. Trump is never going to fix our economy by raising taxes which is what a tariff is. Tariffs are self-defeating acts that force artificially high prices upon the American consumer and the feds pocket the difference. A healthy economy, thriving businesses and thus, more jobs, will come from LOWER TAXES and a market economy FREE of government interference.

Trump should know better. Maybe he was brainwashed by Keynesian economics at the Wharton School, I don’t know. But IMO, Trump should know better by now. He should know the difference between negotiating private deals in the free market and government interference in the free market. Free-market negations, like what Trump is used to in real estate, are great for the economy and drive for the creation of business and economic expansion and wealth. But tariffs are government interference in the free market, especially those used to “punish” trading partners. Government interference, like penalizing tariffs, drives an anemic economy, creates more poverty, and stifles free trade, and it is free trade that creates wealth in America.

Again, tariffs are no answer to our economic woes because tariffs do not address our underlying economic problem which is the federal government. Tariffs only APPEAR to fix the problem the way so may fall for the minimum wage and how that “appears” to fix the problem. Neither addresses the underlying economic problem and both make matters worse.

Trump and the Trade Deficit.

What does “trade deficit” mean? Oh, it’s used as an inflammatory phrase to scare people. But what is it? It simply means we are importing more than we are exporting. Why is that per se bad? You and I run our households that way. We have trade deficits every day because we buy more stuff then we sell. So what? In the voluntary cooperation for the market economy free of government interference there’s nothing wrong with “trade deficits” as long as there is open competition. It has been shown time & again that protectionist “help” from the feds dulls our competitive edge. Fighting hard for market share in the open competition of the free market economy creates innovation, better quality at lower cost, better choices for the consumer, and more wealth.

How did Hong Kong become one of the richest centers of commerce in the world. Was it because they exported more than they imported? Hardly. It is because there were no taxes and business was allowed to grow and thrive in the free market economic environment without government interference. How did America in the 1800’s grow to become the wealthiest, most powerful country in the world? Not because of government. It was because of the voluntary cooperation of the market economy free of government interference.

The gradual buildup of the federal government and its involvement and interference in the American economy since early 1900 is the reason for our economic woes today.

The federal government is a double-barreled shotgun aimed at America and Americans. The first barrel is most of what they do, especially economically, is patently unconstitutional. Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny. The second barrel is the more the federal government interferes with the market economy, the more poverty and misery is created. Only the free market can create wealth. The government creates poverty. Every single government program designed to make America a “New Deal” or a “Great Society” has created more poverty, regulations, burdens on business driving costs higher and higher, while the federal government has become a bloated $4 trillion monster sucking productivity dry while not producing a thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zv5SiQpG6sg


34 posted on 07/31/2015 10:59:38 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin needs to stay out.


35 posted on 07/31/2015 11:06:39 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: onyx; Jim Robinson

Don’t miss this thread! It needs a big woo hoo!


36 posted on 07/31/2015 11:07:49 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam65a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?)
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To: School of Rational Thought

The First Amendment doesn’t apply to her?


37 posted on 07/31/2015 11:09:39 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: School of Rational Thought

“Palin needs to stay out.”

And why would that be?


38 posted on 07/31/2015 11:11:22 AM PDT by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: School of Rational Thought; 2ndDivisionVet
Because Palin.


39 posted on 07/31/2015 11:17:13 AM PDT by Envisioning (4.13.15 - That awkward moment in history when 53 million racists became sexists...)
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To: Patriot Babe
Again why do I have this weird weird feeling they are all working together against the Establishment? =)

It's not weird at all. Palin, Cruz, Trump, and a long list of others are trying to save the USA. One person cannot make it all happen. One person can be "Alinskyed" and removed from effectiveness. An army of people with a common objective is needed. Politics is war by other means. It is not a sporting event.

Americans (even many on FR) are stuck on the retarded sports mentality that one must pick a person to cheer on, and trash all the rest, disregarding the overall objective and the principles that are being contested.

40 posted on 07/31/2015 11:21:14 AM PDT by meadsjn
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