Of Course Sarah Palin Is Endorsing Donald Trump: If You're Surprised By This, You Shouldn't

National Review ^ | 01/20/2016 | Charles C.W. Cooke

[newgeezer]

Columnist Matt Walsh's comments yesterday pretty much echo my own opinions over the years regarding Mrs. Palin:

There was about a month back in 2008 when I liked Sarah Palin. She had first come onto the scene with the VP nomination, and I went along with the idea that she was some kind of conservative sensation because that's what everyone told me.

But it only took a few weeks for me to see the truth. She didn't have much to say, and when she spoke she sounded like she was spewing slogans from t-shirts she bought on Sean Hannity's website. I found it irritating.

Then, after riding McCain's coat tails into prominence, she promptly abandoned her governorship to become a Fox pundit. Over the ensuing years, she did what she could to remain in the headlines, published a few books ghostwritten by someone else, all while the tabloids ate up the various soap operas involving her family. Then her daughter suddenly became a conservative spokesman for reasons that have always escaped me.

I suspected all along that she was in it more for the attention and the money than the principles. Today my suspicions are confirmed. She betrayed the grassroots and stuck a dagger in the back of Ted Cruz. Before endorsing Trump tonight, both her and her daughter viciously attacked him. There is not one conceivable legitimate reason for her to endorse Donald Trump while there are actual grassroots conservatives still in the race. This is a betrayal, plain and simple. But it's not a surprising one.

The Palins are hoping to ride Trump back into the headlines at the expense of the conservative movement, like they did with McCain. It's looks like they've succeeded.

It disgusts me, frankly, and I am damned sick and tired of alleged "conservative" champions throwing principle and values overboard all for the sake of staying in the limelight.

I'm done with these frauds, and I've held my tongue about many of them until now. That's over. Sarah Palin has stabbed you in the back, and she knows it. And she's not the only one.

[Shery]

You could see it coming in 2014, when Palin supported establishment candidates over Tea Party candidates. It was a little shocking then, but I’d have to say that some of her comments over the past couple years has given me a lot of pause. Then this last spring, asked by some reporter, she stated she’d taken up Yoga. This is a totally different world view than Christianity. Right then I felt that she was now totally in decline.

She has tried a little of everything since 2008, and I felt she was still conservative through 2012. Then she started to come undone personally. It has shown on the “world stage”. She is coming undone and probably doesn’t even understand it.

[Albion Wilde]

Reductio ad absurdum.

[JewishRighter]

Are you being intentionally obtuse or are you actually intellectually challenged?

[napscoordinator]

You are free to think that, but my problem with you is that the only contribution to this site that you give is insults. I haven’t seem you give any positive information at all. I mean it makes you look shallow and uninformed. You are again free to present yourself that way but I would want to be seen as at least trying to give some reasons for why you don’t agree with something. But if insults is your kick, go for it. It doesn’t hurt my feelings a bit. Perhaps if I knew you in real life, I might give it pause, but since you are some anonymous nobody, what do I care?

[napscoordinator]

No talking in those pictures, but not the point. Did you see that sad video of Cruz trying to talk to his Dad, Mom, children, trying to figure out how to pray. Could say I love you to him Mom without being prompted. It was the saddest video I ever saw. I always thought regardless of his many shortcomings that he at least loved his parents.

[VanDeKoik]

No, but it is clear you are just looking to be an ass over this Palin endorsement, and are incapable of remotely understanding what I was saying.

[JohnBovenmyer]

No, it started in 2011 with her long, "there's still plenty of time to decide" faux Presidential run. Maybe there was time for her, but she kept it up long enough to prevent any less well known good conservative from getting a decent start against Romney.

[newgeezer]

Did you see that sad video of Cruz trying to talk to his Dad, Mom, children, trying to figure out how to pray. Could say I love you to him Mom without being prompted. It was the saddest video I ever saw.

? Did you mean he couldn't say it to his mom without being prompted?

I'd like to see that video. Maybe I'd ask him about it when I (along with a hundred others) have lunch with him next week.

[newgeezer]

LOL!

[Dagnabitt]

She could have become a House member or a Senator.

She might even have served half her term.

[dforest]

Yeah, like Ted.

[Dagnabitt]

Touche!

FWIW - I’ve only given money to one candidate - Cruz.

[dforest]

I never give any of them my money. Big donors have money to lose. I do not. LOL

Politicians get plenty for selling us out. I don’t want to pay them to screw me.

[JewishRighter]

Hey brainiac: I haven’t been talking about the Palin endorsement at all. I merely posted a sharp comment from an article, neither endorsing nor rejecting the conclusions. Try to keep up.

You spout some drivel that Kanye West is just as eligible as Ronald Reagan to run for President. And you’re calling me an ass and saying I can’t understand you! Oh, I understood you all right. Your the perfect Trumpbot: an anal retentive moron. The desperate question of the hour for you is: did you understand you?