Posted on 02/01/2016 6:46:09 AM PST by Rustybucket
So proud of Sarah Palin this morning on Good Morning America, where the media (Mat Lauer) tried to corner her on her son, the issue of PTSD and his behaviour. She rightly called him out on TV saying that she was told this was about the Iowa caucus and her support for Donald Trump. Lauer tried several times to steer her towards his aganda, and she called him out, and admonished him that this was not what she was promised by the producers would be the topic of conversation. Rather she commented on the military being allowed to do what they were trained to do, and not become political fodder...Good for you Sarah Palin!!!
Sure it does. It was one of the few one on one media appearances she has made since the endorsement. She made it public fodder. A follow up is not out of the ordinary. We would expect the same if the child was Chelsea and the person was Hillary. Or if Al Gore has endoresed Hillary and one of his kids had an issue and it was blamed on Bush and PTSD.
I agree with you. I don’t dislike Sarah Palin, but I do not respect her as I once did. She, and her family, have put themselves in situations that have shown poor judgment. I do not necessarily hold the actions of her children against her, but after a while you start wondering about her parenting skills. One of the situations she was even present and it was pure redneck Jerry Springer material. You would think her grown children would have more respect her as a public figure.
She simply should have said that charges of a domestic altercation were made, we don’t know the whole story and it will come out in time. PTSD did not have to be part of the comments.
Actually, I think he’d be best as AG; after it’s been fumigated and the roaches FIRED
I’d LOVE to see the GOP(e) spinning on their eyebrows where, just months/years earlier, they were spouting, “I think the President deserves an up/down vote on any of the nominations”.
I don’t know who’s going to win the the primaries and become the candidate, and I could vote for either Trump or Cruz, but wouldn’t it funny, after the way the most vehement supporters of each have gone after each other on FR, if whichever one wins was to choose the other as his running mate? Don’t know how likely that would be, but politics are funny that way, we’ve seen it happen before, plenty of times.
Though if Cruz doesn’t win, I’d rather see him on the Supreme Court.
I laugh at FReepers who are suddenly for liberalism.
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You mean like the FReepers who support the candidate who supports H1B Visas, passed out teddy bears and soccer balls to illegals at the Southern Border with Glenn Beck, worked with Paul Ryan to drum up support for TPA, and sent out those slimy mailers in Iowa with his “supporters” voting history and grades on them??
Sorry, but you Cruz supporters are abject hypocrites!
good to hear
I will simply remind you, that the topic of conversation was spelled out (Promised) BEFORE the interview happened. That promise was broken and she called them on it. If this topic had been told to her before the interview, I suspect she would have not given the interview, Laure knew this, and she called him on it. Proof is the second interview, where he was nowhere to be found. He was going for SHOCK journalism, and making a name for himself. IMO he failed. And he should have failed.
Trump has taught them all that the press is vulnerable and weak kneed.
Its also about vilifying Ted Cruz because his wife works for Goldman Sachs, because he took out a loan from Goldman (against his own investment account),
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Its because he did not declare the first loan, required by law, and did not even mention the second one. Whereas Trump listed ALL his.
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“Ted Cruz was a Canadian anchor baby†when Trump knows (or should know) that, using his originalist definition of natural born, an American Indian will never be eligible to run for the presidency.
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Ted Cruz father was Cuban, he was born in the US...that is a definition of “anchor baby”.
As I described in detail previously. No second generation indian born to Naturalized parents is not Natural born.
Your arguments are specious IMO.
“Cruz supporters here will be insufferable”
Trump supporters are already insufferable, arrogant and just plain insulting. If I were going to support Trump I wouldn’t after some of the things I have seen said on here about other candidates by Trump supporters.
So a child born to an American citizen is an anchor baby? I don’t think so.
She was a breath of fresh air to a campaign that smelled like dead meat.
Sarah Palin has given her support to a man who wants to destroy good conservatives like Ted Cruz and Antonin Scalia. That is plenty of reason to question her judgement.
This is nothing new for her. She endorsed John McCain over the Tea Party candidate in Arizona. I realize that was a payback for political favors, but it was very harmful to the conservative cause.
Her son Track was arrested because he was threatening to commit suicide. He has PTSD. She was right to explain to the Trump crowd that he has PTSD and she was right to give a “no comment” on national TV this morning.
She is one brave woman in my estimation to be able to continue to fight for America and not slither away into a cozy private life as she well could.
God bless her for supporting our military.
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That would be something...Cruz would be great on the Supreme Court, but if he took that job, it would handicap him running for president in 2024...
That would be another possibility.
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