Posted on 01/20/2016 12:20:48 PM PST by Citizen Zed
...But in many respects, the Trump campaign is the presidential campaign Palin herself might have aspired to run if she had the money and energy to do so. Her famous disregard for wonky facts and historical context is but a shadow of Trump's. His facility with the big and effective lie can't quite match Palin's, who after all convinced many millions of people in a Facebook post that the Affordable Care Act authorized "death panels." And both of them, of course, exemplify the demagogue's zest for flouting standards of respectable discourse and playing the table-turning triumphant victim/conqueror of privileged elites.
Conservatism for both Trump and Palin simply supplies the raw material of politics and a preassembled group of aggrieved white people ready to follow anyone purporting to protect hard-earned threatened privileges, whether it's Social Security and Medicare benefits or religious hegemony. So it's natural Palin would gravitate to Trump rather than Cruz, who's a professional ideologue but a mere amateur demagogue. The endorser and the endorsee were meant for each other.
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The thing is: she was right about the death panels.
In one day there is a whole new Journalistic Industry: explaining why Palin endorsed Trump and how it shows how bad they both are.
Of course. The only way to save Medicare and SocSec is to reduce the lifespan.
Love that the Cruzites are rushing to the habitual liars in the Leftist media to find ways attack Palin.
Read the article. Pity of the Cruzites there is not one factual statement in the thing. Just the usual foaming at the mouth, emotional hysteric ignorant personal attacks that are the Leftists sole debate tactics.
She was right about it. Now she supports a man who death panels a relative long before ACA.
If Palin had endorsed Teddy yesterday the cruzers would be elevating her to sainthood today.
The more the right of right keep attacking, the more and more the GOPe sees a opportunity to break them by supporting and electing Trump.
Tea party’s been dead for years, never did amount to anything but a way for conservatives to fight each other. Not that there’s anything wrong with that...
don’t you love how the media love to remind readers in every article they write about Palin of her wonky facts. They never do this against obama or hillary
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