After reading up to this point, I think I have a slightly different take from various others. I didn’t like Palin, and would actually hesitate to vote for Trump if they were on the ticket together, but I like her more now.
Her endorsement shows that even though she is an orthodox conservative on many issues that Trump has not yet clarified his position on, she sees the picture clearly. Her various failings, as I see them, are not in her conservatism, anyway. But the main point is that the best conservative position is the one that conserves the United States as we know it and love it. If we don’t conserve that, there’s no point discussing all the individual issues, as there will be country to improve or defend.
It’s an existential battle (in the new meaning of that word). You might say, But what happens if the individual decisions aren’t made the right way? All I can say is that I trust that if the big decision is made the right way, the smaller ones will be also.
Palin has done the right thing. Now let’s hope that the non-traditionally conservative voters will believe Trump has done the right thing also, politically and morally, and will not be fooled by Tina Fey and other leaders of the blind.
there will be country = there will be no country
Some prescience there, the endorsement speech has taken this tack...