Posted on 02/02/2016 9:14:14 AM PST by conservativejoy
First Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump at a time she had negative 11% favorables with the GOP.
Then she missed the first event of the day following her endorsement.
Then she blamed her son being involved in a domestic incident on Barack Obama's treatment of veterans, turning off a lot of veterans in the process by suggesting those who came back from overseas were no longer able to control themselves and were not culpable for their actions.
Then she went to a Trump rally the day of the election with tons of undecided voters and started attacking Congressman Steve King, one of the most popular politicians in Iowa.
It was really an amazing spectacle. Sarah Palin then turning on Ted Cruz pretty rapidly and attacking him as unlikable, etc. was almost as pathetic as Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum showing up at Trump's rally.
Sarah Palin did a huge favor for both Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. She should really be thanked for leading the carnival barker wing of the party to Donald Trump.
Erick Erickson is a bloated GOPe troll who has no clue. He’s lucky he still has his radio show.
1976 (January 19): Gerald Ford (45%) and Ronald Reagan (43%)
GOP Winner - Reagan
1980 (January 21): George H. W. Bush (32%), Ronald Reagan (30%), Howard Baker (15%), John Connally (9%), Phil Crane (7%), John B. Anderson (4%), and Bob Dole (2%)
GOP Winner - Reagan
1984 (February 20): Ronald Reagan (unopposed)
1988 (February 8): Bob Dole (37%), Pat Robertson (25%), George H. W. Bush (19%), Jack Kemp (11%), and Pete DuPont (7%)
GOP Winner - Bush 1992 (February 10): George H. W. Bush (unopposed)
1996 (February 12): Bob Dole (26%), Pat Buchanan (23%), Lamar Alexander (18%), Steve Forbes (10%), Phil Gramm (9%), Alan Keyes (7%), Richard Lugar (4%), and Morry Taylor (1%)
GOP Winner - Dole
2000 (January 24): George W. Bush (41%), Steve Forbes (31%), Alan Keyes (14%), Gary Bauer (9%), John McCain (5%), and Orrin Hatch (1%)
GOP Winner - W
2004 (January 19): George W. Bush (unopposed)
2008 (January 3): Mike Huckabee (34%), Mitt Romney (25%), Fred Thompson (13%), John McCain (13%), Ron Paul (10%), Rudy Giuliani (4%), and Duncan Hunter (1%)
GOP Winner - McCain
2012 (January 3): Rick Santorum (25%), Mitt Romney (25%), Ron Paul (21%), Newt Gingrich (13%), Rick Perry (10%), Michele Bachmann (5%), and Jon Huntsman (0.6%)[22]
GOP Winner - Romney
2016 (February 1): Ted Cruz (27.7%), Donald Trump (24.3%), Marco Rubio (23.1%), Ben Carson (9.3%), Rand Paul (4.5%), Jeb Bush (2.8%) [28]
Not counting the times where the incumbent was unopposed, they have a success rate of 29% (since 1980) of picking the eventual GOP winner. Not saying that Cruz's win was bad, I'm just saying that Iowa is nothing more than the opening kickoff.
You expect to unite the party to defeat Hillary with your smarmy attitudes?
Because it’s bad when conservatives win, right?
Buck up, buttercup. Your moderate will probably do better in New Hampshire.
Erik has a drive-time show in Atlanta. Belive me, he isn’t for Cruz either. Total establishment tool.
Nice try, that was Tina Fey who said that.
But he's a conservative on paper. Shouldn't that count for something? It's not like he voted for the Corker Ammendment, or TPA or wanted to increase H1Bs. Oh wait, .... nevermind
They don’t want us unless were PURE, PURE, PURE.
At least Trump got the same number of delegates as Kid Rubio.
It really is rich to see Erick Erickson calling people “carnival barkers.”
The man is not a journalist. He’s a professional troll.
I like Palin, don't care of Tina Fey, but I have to admit Fey is spot-on with looks, accent & mannerism.
Since Nixon is largely, if not entirely, responsible for destroying the US I and many many others grew up in, comparing your candidate to him does not look good.
“How about you tell us what in Ted Cruz’s background makes him qualified to be commander in chief. Winning debates and court cases doesn’t count.’
Sure it does. He argued constitutional cases in front of the Supreme Court. And won.. And since the biggest issue we have seen over the last 8 years is the total disregard for the Constitution, I would say that makes Cruz just as qualified as any candidate.
I played that for our kids who were here visiting this last weekend. If you just listen, you’d swear it was Sarah. Super funny narrative, “Quoth the Lorax”. “He commands Fire!” :):)
Take your vile dragon breathing fatty Erik and try hard to get the laughs in while you can. It’s going to be Rubio, or haven’t you figured that out yet?
Really smart also. When he bathes.
Go Canada!
>> this era’s most-influential conservative voice
I don’t buy your premise. Palin is not in the top 10 most influential conservative voices of “this era” (whatever *that* means, which is another problem with your premise).
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