Posted on 01/19/2016 4:41:32 PM PST by Mariner
I just finished watching Sarah Palin's endorsement of Donald Trump and I have some observations.
Sarah Palin is a rhetorical genius. Like her or not, she's really good at political rhetoric.
And, I hope Trump is PAYING her, she's worth $5mil a month during the primaries so hopefully he'll be paying her at least $3mil/month.
This endorsement matters. She bring more "blue collar" credibility and conservative "good enough" to put all other GOP challengers back on their heels looking for life support.
This endorsement likely is the death knell for the Cruz campaign. I think it now means Trump will win Iowa, something I was sure he had locked up. I even contended aggressively with fellow Freepers on this matter. I considered it an illusion that anyone besides Cruz could win Iowa, but now I believe it will be Trump.
And Sarah Palin will be the reason.
Without Iowa, Cruz has no campaign.
Flame away, but do as well as you can to keep it civil.
Their (Iowa) governor is a corrupt politician that believes we should lose a bit of our freedom everyday with his manipulation of the energy marketplace. Trump (who had some support from me) just sucked up to the ethanol lobby so big that he cannot get the fuel pump hose out of his innards.
Trumpster just made clear he will be a good fit for the DC whores who will be feeding him. Expect no change in DC.
(former Iowan)
Boy are you screwed up!
You are exactly right...I will never trust or support her EVER AGAIN.
Trump was relying on blue collar Democrats to get him over the hump. They all just bailed.
Seriously? There are Democrats who want AMERICA to be Great again which is what attracts us all to Trump’s message.
Your hypothesis lends itself to what we are seeing here with people bailing on Trump over semantics and who is religious enough.
Don’t mistake the Cruz or Nothing bunch for blue collar Democrats energized for Trump.
We ARE IN THE Winning Camp.
So sorry, wrote that to the wrong person.
“I take it you are a Cruz supporter?”
Yup. I am also a Trump supporter as well as a Rubio supporter. What bothered me about Trump was the following:
“The Eleventh Commandment was a phrase used by late President of the United States Ronald Reagan during his 1966 campaign for Governor of California. The Commandment reads:
“Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”
Trump violated that commandment and people are praising him for going after Cruz. It’s a freaking shame.
You have my attention.
BDIY: Baltic Dry Index (BDI) -6 363
http://www.dryships.com/pages/report.php
“Asian Stocks Resume Declines as Japan Drops, Energy Shares Slide”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-20/asian-stocks-resume-declines-as-japan-drops-energy-shares-slide
Bank stocks are also lower, of course.
Sanders tax ‘plan’: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/01/18/here-list-bernie-sanders-16-trillion-in-tax-hikes.html
IF Trump is elected, I don’t know whether the US will revive, but, for that matter, if Sanders is, we all know it won’t.
God bless you Mariner. yes, Sarah’s endorsement is the BEST news. If I hadn’t been listening to Levin at the moment I heard about it, I would have been even more excited. Levin really put a damper on it, talking about Ethenol and all that.
I love Sarah. I support Trump. Everybody doesn’t love Sarah, though. (But nobody doesn’t love Sara Lee!) I hope this doesn’t hurt Trump’s campaign, as she’s a magnet for MSM attacks. They’ll be on her like white on rice and it could be divisive for his campaign.
I pray her endorsement is a huge plus for him, and his polling will go up even more. So far, he’s made good choices. Go Trump!
Supporting the same ol’ same ol’ in ethanol subsidies is a good decision if selling out by pandering for Iowa votes.
Trump is standard DC business as usual.
Shud up, nOOb.../S
Everyone partys hard in AK.
Well I did.
So you can’t see beyond the end of your nose. Destroy an entire state’s economy in a TIME when the US Economy is in the tank? Add to the problems and add to the economic drain by putting even MORE people out of work? It’s just your kind of non thinking that is destroying this nation. I don’t particularly care about ethanol either but AT THIS time don’t ADD to the problems willfully. Trump is AGAINST Climate Change. That is a far greater issue. Focus on that. Trump is AGAINST Common Core, so that’s another issue more important in the balance of things. Trump is FOR REBUILDING the MILITARY. That’s a winner in anybody’s book who believes in America.
Sarah Palin Endorsing Trump for president doesn’t make Trump any less of a liberal.
I did kind of throw it all out there with that post, I guess. But the honest truth is that until a few days ago, I was fairly unsure where I landed on Trump. I was very happy to see him challenge PC foolishness, and I do dislike the GOPe. But seeing him banking toward the establishment and dinging Cruz has solidified my belief that I can’t vote for him any more than I could Romney.
I suppose I like Cruz, though he’s not perfect.
As far as who’s paying me to write one post, I’ll allow you to fill in whichever shadowy group you’d prefer. Some sort of purist conservative group, if you don’t mind.
I think Palins endowment is great. one of the things that is great about it is that it hits straight at political correctness. with a lot of liberals it is politically correct to criticize Palin for thing she has never said or done. this criticizem can get so deranged by the extreme left to the point of making them look like partisan fools. I have heard leftist say just about everything they could getaway with about her juvenile kids during the last 10 years and when ever they say something they loose credibility with most people.
god bless Palin and every one pray for her family because that is the mode of attack that the liberal Hollywood elite will go after.
Trump’s support for ethanol and eminent domain are two of many reasons I won’t support Trump. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a politician that panders as much as Trump. How can you tell if he’s pandering, patronizing, lying or telling the truth when he’s making his DeBlasio endorsement?
Leave kids out of it. Sarah Palin has been let down badly by her kids. I must add, The Donald seems to have lovely, dependable kids.
I don’t know much about the Governor except he has been voted into the office for years.
Somebody in Iowa might like him, huh?
Might take his advice?
Losing Team Cruz is so desperate.
BTW my car runs on good ol Unleaded Gasoline. Don need no steenken Ethanol
It’s a fight to the finish. I think people are just upset because Trump fights better than anyone else in the race.
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