Posted on 01/19/2016 7:15:13 AM PST by Isara
A Sarah Palin endorsement of Donald Trump would do more damage to Palin's conservative credentials than it would to Ted Cruz, the candidate's communications director said Tuesday, remarking that he would be "deeply disappointed."
Trump has teased a "major announcement" and a "very special guest" at a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa, later in the afternoon, leading to speculation that it could be an endorsement from evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. (whose Liberty University hosted Trump on Monday) or from Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential candidate.
"I think it'd be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who's held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion," Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN's "New Day," adding that the Manhattan businessman supported the TARP bailout.
While acknowledging that Trump has signaled a shift in his more liberal views, Tyler said that "if it was Sarah Palin, let me just say I'd be deeply disappointed."
A source close to the Palins told POLITICO that it is "unfortunate to see some of Sen. Cruz's new Washington staff trying to drive a wedge in the media between two solid conservative allies."
"Gov. Palin has been a staunch supporter of Sen. Cruz - long before any of them came along, and will remain one long after they are gone," the source said.
Palin backed Cruz for Senate in 2012 and has offered praise for both him and Trump during the primary campaign. The trio appeared at a Capitol Hill rally in September denouncing the nuclear deal with Iran.
In November, Palin told a North Carolina radio station that Trump becoming president is "a very real possibility." A month later, she told CNN's Jake Tapper, "I'm not going to pick one right now, but what a nice problem to have if it came down to Cruz and Trump."
The relationship between Trump and Palin extends back to 2011, when the two ate pizza with a fork in Times Square during a stop on Palin's bus tour.
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That is exactly what it means
Thanks, I bookmarked that for future reference.
“A Sarah Palin endorsement of Donald Trump would do more damage to Palin’s conservative credentials than it would to Ted Cruz.”
Yeh right. Have another glass of Kool Aid. LOL!
Sadly if you follow Bristol’s life it seems the family is already there. Two out of wedlock kids is not exactly solid conservative values in my book. Maybe rather than being paid to fly around the country lecturing others on conservatism she should have spent more time lecturing her daughter.
You think first of all the Donald will care what Palin says after be is elected, and what makes you think that for a few bucks Sarah won’t give him cover with her peeps regardless of how far off the conservative reservation DT strays. If her endorsement can be bought so can her loyalty.
[I have enough faith in Sarahâs character]
In the past, Palin endorsed congressional candidates in Illinois districts against true conservatives.
I take no stock in her endorsements. She is an opportunist.
I would be more concerned if he was against it and then flipped his opinion to support it. He was absolutely wrong in 2011 when he said that the Constitution granted birthright citizenship. It does not, and anyone with an IQ greater than 70 should understand this. I would be curious to see if there is more to that interview than what the video clip shows. Candidates can, and have, been taken out of context with selective editing of audio and video.
I am not a Cruz, nor a Trump, Kool-Aid drinker. I like both candidates and would vote for either of them if they were the nominee. What I really want is a president with a pair of balls to stand up to the establishment and leftists and defend the Constitution, protect America and restore us to our greatness. We need a crusader, not a pandering pussy.
I have said this before on Free Republic, let us not get caught up in distractions from the destruction that Obama has and continues to cause. And the devastation that would arise from a Hillary presidency. The left and the establishment want nothing more than for conservatives to keep killing each other with bickering and derangement.
This campaign has received too much inappropriate advice of late, but it’s kind of late in the day to be firing staff. I hope Cruz survives to enter the fray in another election cycle, if he doesn’t win this time.
Some of Cruz’s and some of Trump’s followers do their man no favors with their mindless attacks. I keep thinking how wonderful any Dem would find these threads.
Well, a strong disavowal of the “blow to Palin” statement might do. Combined with praise of Palin.
I’d fire him if he isn’t usually exceptionally good, it’s late in the day for the campaign to be arguing with itself.
Maybe in some alternate universe.
Go Trump!
Very well said. I will gladly work to help Cruz defeat the Dems should he win the nomination.
Need some cheese with that whine? Perhaps a tissue?
How clever!
2009?!? The fact that you had to go back 6 years makes a bigger point than the one you wanted to make.
That comment and the one you made about Sarah not being conservative because of Bristol's kids tell me you are one judgmental pr*ck.
Ditto's
In a word, yes. They will slam and smear anyone who doesn't suck up to Cruz big time. And that's their evangelical wing of that group it would seem.
Me too. No wonder I like him!
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