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Where have you gone, Sarah Palin? The woman who just endorsed Donald Trump is not the rogue...
NY Daily News ^ | Tuesday, January 19, 2016 | S.E. Cupp

Posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:42 PM PST by Isara

Where have you gone, Sarah Palin? The woman who just endorsed Donald Trump is not the rogue conservative I knew in 2008

Back in December, I was at a small event in a Las Vegas bar; CNN's Jake Tapper was interviewing Sarah Palin. He asked which candidate she'd most like to grab a beer with. Her answer? Donald Trump.

Trump, of course, has been sober his whole life. But the moment perfectly encapsulates the Palin-Trump romance. Because in addition to endorsing a beer run with a man who doesn't drink, she also just endorsed for the presidency a man who is neither a committed conservative nor an anti-establishment rogue.

Trump's long history of liberalism is well known. He was once a registered Democrat who supported Democratic candidates, from Bill de Blasio to Hillary Clinton. He has said publicly that the economy usually does better under Democrats. At times he's supported legalizing drugs, raising taxes on the wealthy and embracing isolationist foreign policies.

But what's most jarring is the positions he's held on a number of issues that are particularly important to Palin.

In the past, he called himself "very pro-choice." Yet Palin - who made the very courageous and compassionate decision to have a baby she knew would be disabled - is unbothered.

On guns, he once supported a ban on so-called assault weapons and longer waiting periods to purchase a firearm. That should be deeply disconcerting to Palin, a Second Amendment firebrand who once said, "If you control arms, you control the people."

And Trump has supported universal health care - expressing admiration for Scotland's single-payer system as recently as last year. Palin spent years denouncing Obamacare, which is many steps short of a single-payer plan, as "socialized medicine."

These aren't minor policy differences. The beliefs long embraced by Palin and long eschewed by Trump are fundamental to conservatism. That Trump has suddenly gotten religion - on issue after issue - should be met by Palin with suspicion.

If his world-view weren't enough to make Palin cringe, Trump's inauthenticity as an anti-establishment candidate should be. Palin admirably took on what she called the "good old boy network" to become Alaska's first female governor. Now, she leaps to support a guy who helped create that network and who thrives in it. In what bizarre world is a billionaire real estate mogul who donates money to Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid "anti-establishment"?

Over the past eight years, Palin's influence within the Tea Party has remained strong, but her favorability rating among all Americans has dropped 40 points. Worse, her rating among Republicans has declined more than 55 points.

But despite that waning influence, I've supported and admired Palin for defending life, religious liberty and gun rights, and for being a strong mother to a disabled son and another serving overseas.

The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008 - the one who campaigned tirelessly and many times thanklessly for John McCain, a war veteran Trump has openly mocked - would have seen through Trump's charlatan candidacy. The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008, a devout Christian whose faith was constantly scrutinized by the secular left, would have no affection for a man who is constantly scrutinizing the devout Christian faiths of other conservative candidates.

The Sarah Palin I knew in 2008, who was a passionate and fearless voice for hockey moms, mama grizzlies and women everywhere, all while enduring patently sexist attacks from the left, wouldn't have supported a man who calls other women bimbos and slobs, thinks women who breast-feed and go to the bathroom are "disgusting," and criticizes another candidate for her looks.

That Sarah Palin is gone. Maybe one day, over a beer, she'll tell me why.


TOPICS: Alaska; New York; Campaign News
KEYWORDS: 1stcanadiansenator; 2016election; alaska; election2016; palin; palinendorsestrump; pds; pdsandtds; sarahpalin; shecanseecanada; tds; thepeedeeess; theteedeeess; trump; usualsuspect
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"That Sarah Palin is gone."
1 posted on 01/19/2016 7:59:42 PM PST by Isara
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To: Isara

Not unlike many of the Trump supporters on here...


2 posted on 01/19/2016 8:02:04 PM PST by sam_whiskey (Peace through Strength)
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To: Isara

SE Cupp? Bwhahaha!


3 posted on 01/19/2016 8:02:29 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Isara

SE Cupp?

The Left-wing plant?


4 posted on 01/19/2016 8:03:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("The goal of socialism is communism." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Isara

SE Cupp is a big nincompoop. Isn’t she attached to Crybaby Beck?

She is po abort and pro gay


5 posted on 01/19/2016 8:04:26 PM PST by dforest
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To: Isara

I’ve heard of a B, C, and D Cupp but what’s an SE Cupp?


6 posted on 01/19/2016 8:05:09 PM PST by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Isara

whe Sarah Palin was being hounded out of office by leftists Trump was funding leftists no where to be seen defending her


7 posted on 01/19/2016 8:05:54 PM PST by RginTN
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And she’s writing for the NY Daily News too, to boot. Who is like the mentally-challenged younger brother of the NY Times.


8 posted on 01/19/2016 8:06:41 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Isara

S E Cupp used to be somebody. Now she’s another nobody on CNN.


9 posted on 01/19/2016 8:06:43 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: dforest

Trump, pro-abort pro-gay. His own words.


10 posted on 01/19/2016 8:07:10 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Isara

I will bite my tongue, you ...


11 posted on 01/19/2016 8:07:18 PM PST by deweyfrank
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John McCain, a war veteran Trump has openly mocked

She says that likes it's a bad thing. /snicker

12 posted on 01/19/2016 8:07:36 PM PST by The Iceman Cometh (Trumpbots Vs. Cruznadians - the struggle is real.)
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To: Isara
He asked which candidate she'd most like to grab a beer with. Her answer? Donald Trump. Trump, of course, has been sober his whole life.

Biden: Chuck, stand up, let the people see you

13 posted on 01/19/2016 8:07:37 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: sam_whiskey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=bPx0OOIM6W0#t=5109

Sarah on those who use the word “trumpeters”


15 posted on 01/19/2016 8:07:49 PM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Isara
"Son, never trust a man who doesn't drink because he's probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time.
Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world.
They're the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk.
They're usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they're a coward or a fool or mean and violent.
You can't trust a man who's afraid of himself.
But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet.
The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself.
It's damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he's heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl." - James Crumley

16 posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:28 PM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: Isara

Can you make a Twister board meme with endorsee pictures?


17 posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:29 PM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject")
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To: jazusamo

Surely not a T Party Cup.


18 posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:33 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Get Ready)
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To: Isara; sam_whiskey
"That Sarah Palin is gone."

Sarah Palin knows better than anyone else the power of the Media DeathStar, and that Donald Trump is the only one who has felt its "gentle caress", and stood up to the blast.

Not only stood up to it, but gained strength from it.

Conservatism will NOT advance until the Media is dealt with.

You apparently don't understand that.

19 posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:34 PM PST by kiryandil ("When Muslims in the White House are outlawed, only Barack Obama will be an outlaw")
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To: jazusamo

Isn’t Cupp related to SE Hinton, who wrote The Outsiders?


20 posted on 01/19/2016 8:08:38 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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