Who is the author? I don’t click on links to Redstate.
GO TRUMP!...GO SARAH!
Yup. Unfortunate if true. I’d see it as her payback to the media and GOP, which I wouldn’t really blame her for. I just won’t be along for the ride.
Leon Wolf, chief General for the TDS brigade. At least you have your rallying cry now. “Sarah Palin is in it for herself! She’s a reality star just like Trump!” Not bad. It only took the TDS’ers until 7:00 to come with this.
Sarah Palin is still just a rumor at this point, one which may very well not pan out, but Cruzbots already have the long knives out.
A comment at the site (no it’s not me or anyone I know):
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TSquared - 23 minutes ago
Leon,
I would stand up and applause, but sitting here at my desk starring at a monitor, it wouldn’t really have the desired effect.
I agree 100% about this take on Palin. I also totally agree with your sentiments about talk radio, and in particular Rush Limbaugh. They have done a great deal to create this monster. I’ve always felt that Hannity and Levin were Rush’s minion shows. If you want to know what Sean or Mark were going to be talking about and what positions they were going to take, all you had to do is tune into Rush. Levin, at least in the last few days, seems to be breaking the mold a bit. We’ll see how long that last (my bet - not long).
My question to you Leon, and the rest of your colleagues, is when are you going to start taking this issue - head on - to talk radio? This article had great commentary on the subject, but Rush’s name wasn’t in the title. Rush mentions Redstate often. And if you have listened to his show, you know that he and his staff scourer the internet searching for mentions of his name. Without that name drop in the title, it will likely be missed.
I’ve been a life long conservative and what I’ve seen over the last six months has left me a very discouraged and disillusioned one. I’ve seen the question - Ideology or ratings? - in blog post here and there. I’ve been a Rush Limbaugh listener for 25 years, and until this last year, I’ve always given him the benefit of the doubt on that question. Now, I have to say, my thinking for the last year has been largely inline with the tenor of this piece. As conservatives we’ve always found some comfort in the notion that we at least had talk radio - and a few true conservative public figures - that had our back. However, I fear that it may very well be that those that we’ve looked to as allies in this battle, really were not for the cause itself, but were only benefiting from it. This Palin deal only exacerbates the point.
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The world is upside down. Not sure it will make any difference. Sarah had a record of conservative principles. That is gone. I will never for for Trump. If he wins the nomination I will never vote for him. Sarah will not change that.
We’ve been hearing this crap about Sarah for 8 years now and the ones who hate her, still hate her, and the ones who like her, still like her.
I hear this malarkey about her self-promoting, and I immediately think of King Obama with his Greek columns, his own personal logo, lavish, phot-opp vacations, speeches at the drop of a hat...not to mention Michelle’s wardrobe, her taxpayer-funded entourage.
The entire tenure of Obama has been a long, dog-and-pony show, fraught with phoniness and illusions of grandeur.
Neither Sarah nor Trump could come close to Obie-won’s pomposity.
There is a certain dishonesty about some of you. Changing titles, leaving out authors.
Why is that?
Above and beyond whether Sarah Palin endorses anyone, why would anyone think that talk radio hosts and commentators/authors are in it for anyone but themselves? Rush is right— like your daily horoscope. That’s not a terrible thing- but to assume that people who are out there basically talking for a living- are somehow standard-bearers of conservatism is a mistake. Yesterday Rush sounded like a shill for Cruz and a different day perhaps for Trump. Everything they do is designed to get listeners, keep listeners, and make money. That’s their career.
All that comes to mind is that great George Jones and Tammy Wynette song “It’s Cryin’ Time.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPlPi9yavGQ
The best of all worlds would see a Trump/Palin ticket.
No. He’s wrong. Conservative ideas will still exist, but they won’t matter. The movement will be completely dead if Republicans nominate an open borders globalist liar like Trump. He is right that there are a lot of “political whores” you’ve been posing as conservatives.
Let’s consider Red State’s new narrative. Ban Trump, who’s main objective seems to be a border wall, a new Americanism, and protecting jobs. Marginalize Palin, who epitomizes the Tea Party, smaller government, and an end to crony capitalism.
Any questions?
If it is Palin she better clue Trump on attacking TED Cruz it is turning me off,attack him on policy fine,the personal stuff save for the democrats
PDS is expected to once again rear its ugly head at Free Republic today.
Can’t wait for author Leon Wolf and others like him to be rendered irrelevant in the Trump era of American politics. I’m sorry but this whole thing about “conservative” puritinism is just silly. It’s a variant of the crap that the GOPe has been doling out to religious voters for decades; you construct this big litmus test around a set of ideas that matters immensely supposedly in the political process, but in the end means nothing in the actual corridors of power in Washington. Let’s get real people, Ted Cruz hasn’t done any more to move the needle towards conservatism than Mitch McConnell has. It’s all Kabuki. Palin will help Trump win Iowa and if he does that, then he’ll run the table, get the nomination, win the general, close the border, deport the illegals, arrest the crooks, kill the terrorists, bring jobs back and make America great again! Leon Wolf will start an ostrich farm somewhere and Ted Cruz will become Prime Minister of Canada.