Posted on 01/20/2016 7:09:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With 13 days until the Iowa caucuses, Donald J. Trump and Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas, are deploying different surrogates but similar playbooks in the state, where the Republican electorate is conservative and where each is trying hard to win.
Mr. Trump's closing argument began on Tuesday night with the endorsement of Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2008, who built a grass-roots following from the ashes of defeat that year. Mrs. Palin could be a significant help to Mr. Trump, certainly in terms of news media attention.
But much of the coverage of her endorsement speech was negative. Pundits and reporters took note of her rambling, edgy-seeming, sometimes-rhyming presentation in Iowa, with Mr. Trump standing nearby, occasionally looking as if he wished it would wrap up.
That may not matter much, since Mrs. Palin's supporters are mistrustful of the "lamestream media," as she has described the press in recent years. And Mr. Cruz's team was mindful enough of the potential impact of her endorsement that he clarified a negative comment from his spokesman about her support for Mr. Trump.
But some Republicans see an upside for Mr. Cruz in the performance of Mrs. Palin, who, like Mr. Trump, has reality television star as a line on her résumé and who has been absent from the national scene for many months.
Those Republicans argue that Mrs. Palin and Mr. Trump could make Mr. Cruz look more presidential....
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
... Trump was an establishment candidate from the start.
Yes, they have given him probably hundreds of million dollars in free air time. Let him call in and tell lies especially FNC.
Reminds me of a movie:
“A Face in the Crowd” charts the rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
LOL. Guaranteed. Trump did not pay Palin. You don’t seem to understand integrity and friendship.
Obviously way past 5 o’clock, somewhere ;-)
Oh yes.
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I now fully understand Palin.
I doubt it.
“Comments?”
Yes, it is the nyt. They dispise both Trump and Palin. I am surprised they did a hit piece on Hillary today.
If Palin endorsed Cruz, they still be trashing Palin and saying how much it will hurt Cruz. They hate Palin more than they hate Cruz
Hatred order of leftist/gopE
Palin > Cruz > Trump
WOW!!!!!!...JUST WOWW!!!!
Thank-you entropy 12!!!
This keeps getting more and more encouraging!!
There are three significant downsides to Palin.
First a lot of her supporters also like Cruz. She’s now at least disappointed them, if not angered them.
Second she’s tied herself to Trump. She has a reputation of picking and winning horses, like Cruz during his Senate race. If Trump loses that reputation is diminished.
Third, she was well positioned to step in as a unifying force to bridge the gap between the winning and losing camps. Which will be necessary if the winner if this fight is going to win in November. Now that she’s picked sides it’s much harder if not impossible for her to do that.
The problem isn’t that she endorsed Trump. It’s that she endorsed someone at all. She would have done more for the movement, and herself, by doing a series of speeches or a bus tour or something in Iowa promoting Conservatism and the need for all Consrvatives to support the eventual nominee, be it Trump or Cruz.
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